Foresight Solar Share Discussion Threads

[boystown] 08/1/2025 13:21

Thanks all - and I also hold SEIT already. I may go 50-50, but thanks again (three weeks to wait anyway).

[the deacon] 08/1/2025 12:30

Same. BSIF has usually enjoyed better dividend cover too.

[gateside] 08/1/2025 12:16

I prefer BSIF as I feel it has better management But the whole sector is so out of favour at the moment

[2wild] 08/1/2025 11:48

Definitely currently prefer FSFL due to greater yield and geographical exposure. SEIT also worth a look.

[boystown] 08/1/2025 11:29

Does anyone have an idea whether FSFL or BSIF is safer for my ROOF proceeds at the end of the month (I already hold quite a lot of NESF)? I could, of course, go half and half.

FSFL is on a bigger discount with bigger yield and slightly lower geared AFAICS.

[2wild] 08/1/2025 11:14

As they say make hay while the sun shines. We know sunshine in the UK is fairly rubbish. Daylight hours extremely poor during late autumn to early spring. However we can generate plenty of solar energy during overcast days. Despite generally poor UK weather, dividend is well covered. Also have exposures to Sunny Australia and Spain.

[cwa1] 08/1/2025 09:53

Ironically that comment comes as I've just had to pull my blinds down to avoid being dazzled by the sun! PS: I know, weak Winter sun at the wrong angle, gone in 10 minutes, etc, etc!

[adam] 08/1/2025 09:08

The issue with solar in the uk is.. there’s hardly any sun. Apart from that, it’s great.

[chucko1] 08/1/2025 08:20

"sync" or "sink"? Not "swim", though.

Not sure it's going to get too much calmer in the near term, but absent of clear fundamental issues with solar (i.e. future power prices) then do your shopping with the dividends.

[2wild] 08/1/2025 00:57

Almost closed down to my 73.9p purchase price, as noted on my post 22nd December. After rising 5% in the Santa Claus rally. Amazing how a small rise in 5 Year UK government bond yields can sync renewable share prices.

[brwo349] 06/1/2025 10:59

Foresight Solar is pleased to announce the third interim dividend, for the period 1 July 2024 to 30 September 2024, of 2.00 pence per ordinary share. The shares will go ex-dividend on 23 January 2025 and the payment will be made on 21 February 2025 to shareholders on the register as at the close of business on 24 January 2025.

The Board confirms its annual dividend target of 8.00 pence per ordinary share for the 2024 financial year.


Loving this yield!

[yump] 04/1/2025 12:34

Always thought it bizarre if not hypocritical, that Emirates paid footballers took the knee for one issue while the whole club turned a blind eye to the other issues associated with their employer.

[dr biotech] 03/1/2025 17:17

And whilst renewables aren’t them complete answer yet, the less we have to deal with the dubious petro states the better.

[yump] 03/1/2025 16:10

O&G isn’t and has not been lobbying for years based on principle.

At least the original motives for renewables were based on something other than maintaining a profit making business.

The idea of burning resources seems silly in the first place, considering what useful stuff we can make from oil and fossil fuel derivatives.

[markth] 03/1/2025 12:24

Just started buying infrastructure and renewables again. Seems to be on the turn. Rates headed lower. Europe even shorter of gas after Putin turned the supply off.

Solar is now confirmed to be the cheapest source of power, according to a press report the other day. With the cost of panels coming down rapidly, less than £100 per kw, efficiency trending up to over 33%, the economics are even more compelling.

Finally this govt are acolytes of green energy and decarbonisation.

[spectoacc] 28/12/2024 07:23

Keep up the day job @Popit, which I'm guessing is posting on Substack etc.

[popit] 27/12/2024 21:45

Masses of "science" tho

lol

so called “science”; that is all financed and controlled by the globalists, UN, WHO, WEF, who want to completely control the masses

Again - little of any of it relevant to investing

So wind and solar are completely uneconomic and inefficient when compared to oil and gas, but that has no relevance to investing in wind and solar! lol

[spectoacc] 27/12/2024 07:09

None of the self-appointed "experts" are all that - plenty of blogs/podcasts, TV shows where they interview each other, plenty of half-truths and much earnestness, but rarely any counter-arguments.

Masses of "science" tho.

Covid/vaccines the prime example, but anti-renewables/climate change denial has the advantage of big money from Big Oil behind it.

Again - little of any of it relevant to investing, except when you get to an anti-vaxxer being appointed DOH head.

[dr biotech] 26/12/2024 23:19

David turver posts regularly on advfn, he can’t tell the difference between a heat map and a weather map. Also doesn’t appear to know the difference between annual prices and inflation adjusted prices etc. Not a horse I’d back tbh.

[spectoacc] 26/12/2024 16:48

It isn't "proof", whatever you think of the wisdom or otherwise of a net zero drive in the UK vs rest of the world (climate being global).

It's also largely irrelevant to investing, and ignores the flipside of subsidy to fossil fuels.

There's a heavily-funded fightback going on from Big Oil, not least in the US.

From a sociological point of view, interesting to see the Toby Youngs, David Turvers, Neil Olivers etc.

[popit] 26/12/2024 14:38

The analysis done by David Turver on Substack is proof that Renewable Energy is vastly more expensive than oil and gas and that it is completely uneconomic without receiving the vast subsidies that cost UK taxpayers and UK industry billions of pounds in wasted expense every year.

Eventually the UK will have to face the economic reality of this huge Renewable Energy scam and return to the only available sources of energy that are economic and efficient. And that is hydrocarbons and nuclear.

If this economic reality is not faced, the UK economy will continue to stagnate and eventually collapse through excessive “green” energy costs and excessive taxation.

There is nothing to be gained from virtue signalling to the rest of the world about how “green” the UK is, if the economy is stagnating and eventually collapsing.

China and India and the rest of the world must be laughing as the UK intentionally destroys its own economy.

[2wild] 22/12/2024 14:04

Brought FSFL at 73.9p on Friday, given me a yield of 10.8%. Paid quarterly and set to rise roughly in line with inflation. No stamp duty either, bonus. Why anybody is selling down here is beyond my comprehension, they can't all be forced sellers.

[gemlotte55] 20/12/2024 18:09

Yes a nice bump

[melton john] 20/12/2024 17:47

Any of you high rollers admit to the £657,522.36 uncrossing trade at the close tonight. Might be an overhang cleared.