National Grid Share Discussion Threads

[bountyhunter] 06/7/2017 08:07

to post the link directly just capitalise the first 'h'

[utyinv] 05/7/2017 21:52

Mj19,

Directors share sales are listed on the Hargreaves Lansdown website. They give reasons for all the Directors sales ie they all sold part of their recent allocation for 'Tax Reasons'.

www.hl.co.uk/shares/shares-search-results/n/national-grid-ord-12,-204473p?tab=how-to-invest

Cut and paste the above and look for the Director Deals tab

[mj19] 05/7/2017 18:30

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[bountyhunter] 05/7/2017 17:34

unlike NG. SSE will be repurchasing shares for cancellation (from tomorrow until 31 August '17)

[septimus quaid] 05/7/2017 16:26

At least with the buy back they seem to be getting the shares on the cheap.

I am hoping for no more of the recent shenanigans for a while but NG still have the balance of the gas to think about.

[utyinv] 05/7/2017 14:55

I do believe the dividend policy is partly responsible though. As I have said, apart from the interim divi of 15.8p in Jan there isn't any reason for Institutions to keep their investments in NG. Ignoring the interim, money can be taken out of NG and reinvested elsewhere until June '18, ready to qualify for the Aug divi.

Many Companies around the world have adopted 4 equal quarterly divi payments which appear to limit the volatility of stock!

IMO the Board need to re-evaluate their divi policy.

I would also like to see JP work as hard as Steve Holliday did in wooing the 'City Analysts' trying to promote the image of NG as a great investment.

[utyinv] 05/7/2017 14:44

Justice,

NG might not be on the disclosure list but Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank are shorting this stock for sure!

Both companies are corrupt anti British shysters!

[justiceforthemany] 05/7/2017 11:23

Can't blame shorters for this one either. <0.5% positions so not showing.

[justiceforthemany] 05/7/2017 11:14

May 19th share price = 1160

20% fall in just over a month. Not very defensive!
It is in the company's interest to buy back shares at a low share price but you have to question how the share price has collapsed and the mechanics behind it.

Labour will not be getting in power any time soon so no that is not the reason.

As soon as the buy backs end the share price will probably rise. It happened before.

In the meantime why don't you guys contact Investor Relations and find out what the hell is going on?

[action] 05/7/2017 10:30

This one can go ad low as 9.11.I have experienced it last year

[ringer12] 05/7/2017 10:20

Wouldn't it would be nice to see a plus in the share price just once in a while!

Perhaps I should sell out.That usually does the trick!

[ianood] 05/7/2017 10:07

Greatest problem - Corbyn& McDonnell!

Remove that issue and back to £11+

[utyinv] 05/7/2017 09:56

From nearly £11 to £9.37 in little over 3 weeks whilst still under a buy-back programme is ridiculous and clearly manipulated.

However, I do not like the idea that the buy-back shares are kept in Treasury rather than cancelled out. NG always had a mandate to buy-back shares for the purpose of catering for the scrip issue for normal dividends but that should be seperate from the Buy-Back as a result of the sale of the Gas Distn business.

This is a CON!

If NG allocate shares instead of dividends in Aug (Scrip) and the shares allocated are from those held in Treasury, bought back as per the £1billion share buy-back then they are effectively not paying a final dividend.

This business is not being very transparent and honourable to its owners, the shareholders!

[utyinv] 04/7/2017 16:36

The saving grace in this scenario is that with the share price being so low the final divi paid next moth should allow us to buy at a reasonable price.

Also, JP is a different animal to Steve Holliday, where Steve would always engage and answer questions from shareholders direct, whilst JP prefers to forward questions from Investors to the Investor Relations dept, ie Aarti Singhal, who doesn't understand some of the questions raised nor have the answers and consequently responds with a standard polite superficial answer. Well that may work for JP for most of the time but not on the 31st of this month!

Will be very entertaining at the ICC unless something significant happens in three and a half weeks.

[utyinv] 04/7/2017 16:03

Oh yes I know thanks. Just having a senior moment even though I have years to go before I am at retirement age LOL !!

I do read Motley Fool if only to gauge the clueless, irrational articles that are written without factual reality. It makes me laugh how many times an article has been published on behalf of the Fool only for AN Other to write a contradicting statement a day or two later. Or even when they say shares are flying and people should jump on-board only for the shares to crash or vice-versa.

[dstorey1] 04/7/2017 15:56

Anyone who takes investment advice from TMF should not be in the Market.

[pierre oreilly] 04/7/2017 15:52

The motley fool.

If you don't know about it don't bother to find out. It has terrible policies.

[utyinv] 04/7/2017 15:50

Pierre,

Sorry tmf?

[pierre oreilly] 04/7/2017 15:40

4984

I think it's pretty bad of tmf to allow favoured posters to ramp/deramp under the cover of tmf's own qualifications (and that applies whether pushing or talking down shares). The author is welcome to his view, but his view is worth the same as posts on here - no more and no less. It isn't tmf's view, it's a poster's view.

I'd be more impressed if he had told us two months ago that this was going down, instead of telling us it's going down after it's already gone down.

To my mind, NG. is just acting and moving like a gilt, as it has done for years now. It's down (i.e. the yield is up) due to expectations of rising interest rates. As usual, moves tend to overshoot, and i'd expect that rate rises will be delayed several months yet, and when one comes, it will be one increment (possibly 0.125%) and stable after that for probably t least a year.

[ringer12] 04/7/2017 15:31

The share buy back seems to doing the share price a load of good

I have read somewhere that share buybacks actually give big shareholders the chance to offload large numbers of shares resulting in the share price going down instead of up. Seems to be happening with NG. Or can we believe that without the share buyback the fall in the share price would be even worse.

And there was I thinking NG was supposed to be a so called defensive share!

[mj19] 04/7/2017 15:31

Political noisesNational Grid is the only company whose shares are significantly lower today than this time last year. At 952p, they're over 10% down on the 1,061p of my July 2016 review. The P/E is 15 compared with 17 and the yield has moved up to 4.8% from 4.2%.Political noises haven't helped investor sentiment towards utilities in recent months and National Grid has suffered alongside consumer-facing peers SSE and British Gas owner Centrica. Nevertheless, as the UK's principal operator of the country's vital electricity infrastructure, National Grid remains one of the most defensive and stable businesses around.With the shares down over 10% since last year, the P/E correspondingly lower and the dividend yield correspondingly higher, I view National Grid as an attractive 'buy' today.

[mj19] 04/7/2017 15:29

National Grid plc logoNational Grid plc (LON:NG) insider Andrew R. J. Bonfield sold 22,191 shares of the company's stock in a transaction dated Monday, June 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of GBX 1,021 ($12.99), for a total transaction of £226,570.11 ($288,183.81).

[redips2] 04/7/2017 13:50

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