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Why these stocks have just hit all-time highs
Thursday 07 May 2020Despite the wider stock market’s recovery still leaving it some way below its pre-crisis levels, some stocks in the FTSE 350 have hit record highs over the past month, especially in the healthcare and food sectors. The largest company to hit this milestone is pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca ( AZN...
Orbis seeing ‘most exceptional discounts’ since the credit crunch
Thursday 07 May 2020Value-oriented fund manager Orbis Investments says it is capitalising on ‘the most exceptional discounts’ it has seen since the bottom of the global financial crisis, with concerns over the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy having been ‘swiftly reflected in stock prices’. Alec Cutler...
Could we see a return of M&A due to the crisis?
Thursday 07 May 2020We usually associate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) with bull markets and high levels of corporate cash flows, but could the coronavirus crisis force companies to huddle together for survival instead? With share prices in some sectors – particularly smaller-cap, domestically-facing business...
Berkshire Hathaway builds cash to record levels, sell airline stocks
Thursday 07 May 2020Investment sage Warren Buffett has sold his airline holdings and doesn’t see any bargains in the market at present. Those were the key headlines from a remotely streamed AGM hosted by Buffett after the global pandemic forced Berkshire Hathaway to cancel the annual pilgrimage to Omaha which usually...
Byotrol sees huge surge in demand and Tristel could be next
Thursday 30 Apr 2020Shares in specialist infection prevention and control firm Byotrol ( BYOT:AIM ) are up 360% so far in 2020, reflecting the exceptional demand seen for the company’s technologies in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The company recently (27 April) reported a trading update for the financial year...
Will dividends and share buybacks ever return to historic levels?
Thursday 30 Apr 2020The widespread destruction of dividend income has been one of the biggest changes to investors this year aside from the significant upheaval to how we live our lives as result of the coronavirus pandemic. The big question is whether the lack of dividends among a large number of companies is a...
Relisted microchip designers could revamp UK tech sector
Thursday 30 Apr 2020The threadbare UK semiconductors sector could be revitalised if the mooted stock market return of Imagination Technologies and ARM goes to plan. This would be good news for the diversity and health of the UK stock market. There are reports that former FTSE 100 UK chip designs champion ARM is...
BP joins group of FTSE 100 firms maintaining dividends
Thursday 30 Apr 2020Oil and gas giant BP ( BP. ) has shown there are still some dividend payers on the FTSE 100 after committing to a $2bn payout despite reporting a $4.37bn loss for the first three months of 2020. Increasing numbers of companies are cutting dividends as more and more look to preserve cash to survive...
Investors might have to take dividends in new shares not cash
Thursday 23 Apr 2020The pressure on dividends from UK stocks continues to build amid the coronavirus crisis – at our last count 274 London-listed companies have cut, deferred or cancelled payouts totalling some £20.5bn. This includes 34 FTSE 100 firms. On the other side of the ledger, 82 firms have retained £4.4bn...
Deliveroo ‘saved’ by CMA and Amazon with implications for Just Eat Takeaway.com
Thursday 23 Apr 2020Takeaway app Deliveroo has had its investment from Amazon effectively greenlit by regulators in a move which will have implications for listed rival Just Eat Takeaway.com ( JET ) . The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo after the...