Standard Life Share Discussion Threads

[sicker] 08/4/2017 11:50

F1araway, I may be wrong but I have ex-div date as 13th April?

[f1araway] 08/4/2017 11:04

Yes fenners66 that's my point re the setting of the scrip price. However, the Times reports it was up after upgrades by RBC Capital. It goes ex dividend on 17th April.

[chinese investor] 07/4/2017 20:51

Great Day !

[fenners66] 07/4/2017 20:25

That's easy to remedy then . huge increase in share price then dividends become small.

[stewart64] 07/4/2017 17:21

You would have thought the 3.6% dividend was already priced in and for sure the stock will fall by that on 13th April.

Also a four percenter coming up on Legal and General at the end of the month.

If Lloyds Bank and Kier are anything to go by ( recent ex divs) the price of both will be all over the place. Big dividends cause chaos and an inefficient market price.

[f1araway] 07/4/2017 16:20

Increase might be due to the setting of the scrip dividend price. It normally does this particularly for the, "final".

[stewart64] 07/4/2017 09:43

This seems to back up my earlier point about Standard Life's one billion pension surplus, the third best funded.

hxxp://www.actuarialpost.co.uk/article/royal-mail-pension-scheme-is-best-funded-of-ftse-100-6207.htm

Old companies, Prudential excepted, rarely have a pension surplus (Royal mail has been bailed by the Government). Usually it is a trade off between good dividends and low p/e with a BT style seven billion pension deficit that might explode in your face. Only new companies have no pension deficit by and large with a pie in the sky dividend in ten years time if you are lucky.

To have assured dividends that are not precariously balanced on a mountain of liabilities is rare indeed.

If the Bears have another a go, I will sit on the stock anyway. Fundamentals will win out in the end.

[stewart64] 07/4/2017 08:58

Perhaps my protests yesterday that the fundamentals stats were to die for were heard. You do wonder whether brokers read accounts. The most concerning fact is probably cash flow, but a lot of that was down to one off transfers, I haven't looked into those tbf.There is a positive flow otherwise

Nothing wrong eith Aberdeen stats either.

[chinese investor] 07/4/2017 08:18

Thanks CWA1.

[cwa1] 07/4/2017 08:16

Standard Life Raised to Sector Perform at RBC, PT 370p

[dmf] 07/4/2017 08:14

Sold a few - 4000

[andyadvfn1] 07/4/2017 08:14

Any story behind this mornings share price jump?

[essentialinvestor] 07/4/2017 08:08

Took a quick profit.

[chinese investor] 07/4/2017 08:06

Looking Good !

[dmf] 06/4/2017 21:57

Stewart64 presumably those states are just based on sl ? Would it look so good including Aberdeen ?

[essentialinvestor] 06/4/2017 15:15

Had a few near the open.

[stewart64] 06/4/2017 14:53

Just done a spread sheet on my 11 share holdings and tbh Standard Life comes out best on fundamentals. It should be a screaming buy but the brokers don't like it with a neutral ratings by and large.

Anyway these are the stats that I believe are correct but have sourced from elsewhere so needs verification.

Fwd p/e 11.9, fwd div 6.0, fwd PEG 0.2, fwd EPS growth, 57% and a pension surplus of one billion ( 1/7 of market cap).

Too good to be true?

[uppompeii] 04/4/2017 22:13

Waveney..if you met her in The Locks Inn you're most probably right...

[essentialinvestor] 04/4/2017 16:55

Hoping for a pop over 3.60.

[waveneygnome] 04/4/2017 12:29

I once dated a Boudicca from Norfolk.....she was scary......I much prefer Sturgeon.

[essentialinvestor] 04/4/2017 12:16

Better day atm.

[fenners66] 03/4/2017 09:20

I can't say I like the woman, (not Boadiccea) fitting that she has a surname Sturgeon , when she reminds me of something that has been known to smell of fish.

[waddy] 02/4/2017 11:33

Good point Pineside, but I was joking really. I like to think that I am sensible enough not to use such a broad brush seriously, even if there were a 'perfect' parallel. However, I admit to being somewhat irked by the agenda, given what I see as the principle off having strength in numbers and all the two way business that goes with it.

[pineside] 01/4/2017 13:33

Boadiccea was from Norfolk not Scotland. Just saying.

[essentialinvestor] 31/3/2017 11:56

May be an opportunity lower if we have a few weaker market days here.