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MRCH Merchants Trust Plc

532.00
3.00 (0.57%)
28 Mar 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Merchants Trust Plc LSE:MRCH London Ordinary Share GB0005800072 ORD 25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  3.00 0.57% 532.00 533.00 536.00 534.00 531.00 532.00 360,093 16:35:21
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Trust,ex Ed,religious,charty 48.86M 40.19M 0.2699 19.75 793.52M
Merchants Trust Plc is listed in the Trust,ex Ed,religious,charty sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker MRCH. The last closing price for Merchants was 529p. Over the last year, Merchants shares have traded in a share price range of 477.00p to 588.00p.

Merchants currently has 148,877,887 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Merchants is £793.52 million. Merchants has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 19.75.

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DateSubjectAuthorDiscuss
11/5/2020
07:37
RDSB was their #1 holding in the previous listing - unfortunately ;) Luckily GSK is doing well
mister md
05/5/2020
12:36
For information - New top10 listing: GSK 5.92%, Imperial Brands 5.22%, BAT 4.81%, RDSB 3.53%, IG Group 3.18%, Tate & Lyle 3.13%, Barclays 3.07%, Land Securities 3.03%, BAE 2.95%, BHP 2.88%.
Top10 now accounts for around 38% of total portfolio as against 46% previously.

zac0_4
04/5/2020
09:29
Well, with FTSE at the same level as 21 years ago, I think (also relative to the US markets) anyone buying now will do ok over the next few years
mister md
03/5/2020
16:20
At no point in any of my posts have I stated anything is as safe as houses. And as for your comment around us history quoters . . . well it's interesting that you use history to try to make your point! So, welcome to the club!!
zac0_4
03/5/2020
15:51
Zac04. You should have put your money into the Bernie Madoff fund. That yielded 10 odd per cent. He was the kingpin of wall Street. Nothing could go wrong there. Security of dividend etc. A little warning sign for you history quoters. One of your biggest holdings hasn't cut its dividend since the 1940s . Safe as houses . Quids in !
Houses now there's another thing, I see them dropping 30 percent over the next 4 years.
Enjoy your falling share prices and ultimately the slashed dividend.

superiorshares
03/5/2020
14:17
For clarity 5% of my initial investment annually so 1.25% per quarter
zac0_4
03/5/2020
14:16
Hi CT2000. You are absolutely correct regarding your comment on profits! One of the reasons I hold MRCH, HHI & HFEL investment trusts is the security of the dividends (we're now facing a real test in that department!!!). I like the Fundsmith equity fund not only for it's overall performance but for the fact you can buy it directly from Fundsmith, so no additional platform fees to pay. Also, they offer a facility were you can set up a payment to be made on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis from the capital value of your holding. So, in my case I have an fixed amount paid quarterly that equates to 5% of my initial investment. So, regular income and growing capital. I'm in the accumulation fund. so far, so good. GL.
zac0_4
03/5/2020
13:32
Just for clarity, my example yesterday referred to the Fundsmith Equity Fund, accumulation version. This fund has performed excellently over many years in various market conditions. I realise this is the Merchants trust board but was simply trying to put the case for using total returns and releasing capital for income as opposed to relying on just dividends for income. I hold both Fundsmith and Merchants trust.
zac0_4
03/5/2020
12:37
Yes compounding theory lesson . Thankyou
You fail to mention in your example what those shares were purchased for and what they were sold for.
Back To MRCH looking at the 10 year chart . I am thinking anyone who has purchased these from 2013 onwards . Have re-invested their dividend and made a loss. Unless they can hold .
So the majority of those purchasers from 2013 onwards have had their money in this for up too 7 years and have lost . Is this correct ?

superiorshares
03/5/2020
12:28
Ok all who invested at 5 pound in 2013 . Have they made money at todays price 7 years later having re-invested their dividends ?.
A percentage of those will only lose if they sell. The fact remains if they hold long enough they cant lose ???
The fact remains not all people can do that. They catch cancer.. get divorced. have needy adult children.. Get a huge tax bill.. die of corona .. die of old age.
Investment is timing and as someone has said on here Total Return.
Its no good holding a Trust for 67 years unless you start investing in it about 20 years before you are born.
Looking at the 10 year chart . I would say anyone selling today having invested in this from 2013 onward, will make a loss. If they make a profit it will be incredibly small. That's with all the divi re-invested !

superiorshares
03/5/2020
09:54
Another thought to take in to account when quoting returns over the last twenty years
2000-2020 has involved the most massive amounts of money printing ever !
That money has been tipped into markets by these incredibly brilliant Central Banks

Pretty much all and sundry now tell you this does nothing but maintain asset prices artificially high.
so to get times 4 for your money over those 20 years isn't that great.

Again all that is being talked about is historical. Its easy to pick out performance after the event.
Hypothetically you purchased Alliance at £8.70 in Jan 2020. £1000 pound worth. what will that be worth in 20 years time ? £ 4000 possibly, possibly not ?
Those Central Banks are digitally printing money like never before, that trick has worked in the past with Financial issues. We are talking disease here. The brilliance of the Central Banks have zero control of it

Printing money .. even to address financial calamity does not work forever. use a favoured subject History and Check out Argentina , Rwanda, Uganda etc on that one.

superiorshares
03/5/2020
09:21
Charttrader2000.
Thankyou for the lesson in einsteins compounding theory.
What would a £1000 pound investment in Alliance in 2007 be worth today please.

superiorshares
02/5/2020
16:48
Chart Trader. Yes, Polar Capital Technology Trust has delivered an excellent overall return. However, it doesn't pay a dividend. And that's my point! Total return, whilst taking a proportion of the capital on an annual basis, can deliver first class results, in some cases far better than simply relying on an income from dividends, as you have clearly demonstrated!
zac0_4
02/5/2020
16:32
Chart trader
It is not a stupid question !
You can't answer it. All you are doing with your fancy posts is quoting history. It's like someone telling you , you should have bet on a horse after it had won at 33/1.
The fact remains anyone who has put their money into this over the last year or so at 5 pound plus, it is highly debatable that they won't be sitting on a big loss in 6 years time.
Please carry on telling us what gains we would have made if we had bought in 2010

superiorshares
02/5/2020
16:25
Hello poikka.
A most recent example is the Woodford mess. When I say bust I mean make such chronic mistakes they are basically wound up. They don't have to be too exotic !. Rutland trust I had some shares in years ago. They weren't to bright.
So corruption/ excessive charges. Bad stock selection. I obviously don't think a trusts entire holdings can go bankrupt.
However if you had a trust heavily skewed to banks prior to the 2008 financial crisis and invested a year or two before that Unlikely you would ever get all your money back ?
If you read some of these posts on here, it's as if you can't lose money on trust ?.
High yielders are a great example of a potential big hit in turmoil. All of these trusts basically pick the highest yielding blue chips for their top ten holdings.
ANY MUGG could do that even me :-)
So of the top ten here both Shell and Land have cancelled or slashed their Divi. I haven't looked at the rest.
Now I'm not saying they will go bust but their is a high chance they will not recoup their initial investment s from both of these.
Instead of bankruptcy I should have used the term wound up.
It's basically the same . You don't get all of your money back and in some cases none at all.

superiorshares
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