Image source: Getty Images Barclays‘ (LSE: BARC) share price dipped following the publication of its 2024 results on Thursday (13 February), but the numbers look fairly good to me. With the stock still trading well below its book value, should investors consider buying the dip? Solid results provide support Barclays’ pre-tax profit rose by 24% to £8,108m last year, slightly above broker forecasts. Shareholders get a 5% dividend increase and have also benefited from £1.8bn of share buybacks over the last year. I’m not always a fan of buybacks, but Barclays has been buying back its shares below their book…
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Few fans would associate Formula 1 racing with sustainability, but perhaps incongruously for a sport that glorifies combustion, the league has a goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. For F1 teams, it’s not as simple as burning sustainable fuels in their race cars’ engines. In fact, the cars are responsible for less than 1% of a team’s carbon footprint. The vast majority comes from everything else, including race-oriented logistics, business travel, office space, computers and so on. To offset some of the more challenging sources, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas team is buying 5,500 metric tons worth of carbon credits…
Bitauto News, according to relevant media reports, BYD is forming a carbon emission alliance with European automobile manufacturers, selling them carbon credits to help them avoid huge fines imposed by the European Union for emissions in 2025. According to regulations, automobile manufacturers are required to declare their carbon credit trading agreements to the European Commission before December 31st each year. The European Commission may request additional information disclosure but will not interfere with the commercial terms of the agreements. Previously, several car companies announced the establishment of two carbon credit pools. One is composed of Tesla, Stellantis, Toyota, Ford, Mazda…
Image source: Getty Images Scottish Mortgage (LSE: SMT) shares are having a good run at the moment. Year to date, they’re up about 15% versus a gain of 8% for the FTSE 100 index. My prediction (and of course, it’s just my opinion) is that this year, returns from the growth-focused investment trust will beat those from the Footsie. Here’s my investment thesis. A play on AI One reason I’m bullish on Scottish Mortgage right now is that the trust has plenty of exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. I expect this area of the stock market to continue performing…
Image source: Getty Images The appeal of Vodafone (LSE: VOD) shares baffles me. I just don’t get it. Yet plenty do. At The Motley Fool, we have complete freedom to name the shares we love and the ones we hate. We think debate and disagreement makes us better investors. Plenty of my fellow writers have admired Vodafone over the years. I admire their judgement, but I’m sorry, I still don’t get it. I didn’t get it 10 years ago, when the Vodafone share price stood at 232p. And I didn’t get it five years ago, when it traded at 155p.…
Image source: British American Tobacco British American Tobacco (LSE: BATS) shares plunged 8% in early morning trading (13 February) after the company posted mixed results for the year ending 31 December 2024. The tobacco giant reported revenue of £25.87bn and an adjusted profit of 362.5p per share. The results slightly missed expectations for revenue of £26.11bn but exceeded the anticipated profit of 362.2p per share. Overall profitability was impacted by a £6.2bn charge related to a long-standing lawsuit in Canada. The company expects further regulatory challenges in Bangladesh and Australia this year, affecting its combustible tobacco products. Despite these headwinds,…
Image source: Getty Images I’ve been underwhelmed by my Unilever (LSE: ULVR) shares since buying them in 2023 and 2024. Last night, I was sitting on a modest 12% gain and wondering whether I’d find more excitement elsewhere. When I discovered the Unilever share price had fallen 6.6% this morning I was even less impressed. I’ve got no cash in my trading account. Is dumping Unilever the best way to raise it? On checking, today’s full-year results weren’t quite as bad as I feared. The FTSE 100 consumer goods giant reported a 12.6% rise in annual profit to €11.2bn, plus…
Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Treasury Department after it was reported billionaire Elon Musk has gained access to Treasury’s federal payments system that sends out more than $6 trillion per year in payments on behalf of federal agencies and contains the personal information of millions of Americans, in Washington, U.S., Feb. 4, 2025. Kent Nishimura | ReutersA federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump ‘s plan to downsize the federal workforce with a deferred resignation program.It was a significant legal victory for the Republican president after a string of courtroom setbacks.”This goes to show that lawfare will not ultimately prevail…
Quantum Commodity Intelligence – The fall-out from the Trump administration’s anti-climate agenda is extending beyond simply exiting the Paris Agreement, with the suspension of development aid hitting several initiatives and potentially many more. Since coming to office on January 20, the Trump administration has suspended all non-critical finance for programmes of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers the country’s civilian foreign aid and overseas development assistance (ODA). The suspension is initially for 90 days, but many watchers are expecting the suspension to become permanent. The USAID website was unavailable over the first weekend of February, but then…
Quantum Commodity Intelligence – The voluntary carbon market (VCM) had received strong support under the previous US president Joe Biden, with his administration backing several initiatives aimed at the sector. These included releasing last May a code of principles that companies should deploy to allay longstanding integrity concerns in VCMs and unlock investment in domestic schemes and international projects. Then in September the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved its final guidance regarding the listing for trading of voluntary carbon credit derivative contracts. Reference to the code of principles has now vanished from the White House website, while earlier this…