Image source: Getty Images At a massive 13%, Ashmore Group (LSE: ASHM) has the second-highest yield on the FTSE 250. A yield like that could make a great addition to a passive income portfolio. Yet the stock has tanked more than 64% over the past five years. That’s concerning but also means the current price looks notably cheap. At 127p, it’s near the lowest it’s been in over 15 years. But before diving in, I need to assess its prospects. If it recovers, it could be a great opportunity for value investors to secure lucrative returns. If it keeps dipping,…
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Image source: Getty Images The J Sainsbury (LSE: SBRY) share price remains steady, even though the UK supermarket giant is the latest to report pressure from escalating price wars. With full-year results for the year to March 2025, the company said it expects no growth in retail underlying operating profit in the 2025-26 year. The year just ended brought in £1,036m. But Sainsbury only expects to report about the same again for the coming year. Price wars In March Asda launched a new campaign cutting the prices of around 1,500 lines to try to win back falling sales. Since then…
(Bloomberg) — Stock futures signaled a rebound on Wall Street as positive signals from initial US-Japan trade talks stirred optimism agreements can be reached to avoid higher levies on American trading partners. Most Read from Bloomberg S&P 500 contracts climbed 0.9%, indicating a bounce back after Wednesday’s 2.2% slide. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index declined ahead of the European Central Bank’s interest rates decision on a busy day of corporate earnings. Listen to the Stock Movers podcast on Apple, Spotify or anywhere you listen. President Donald Trump said there was “big progress” in talks to strike a deal for Japan. The…
Image source: Getty Images Things haven’t been easy for holders of Greggs (LSE: GRG) shares for a while now. Year-to-date, the company’s value has dropped by over a third. For comparison, the FTSE 250 index in which the company features is down ‘only’ 7%. But is the fall in the food-on-the-go operator now overdone? Here’s my take. What’s gone so wrong? Back in January, Greggs reported that sales growth had slowed to 2.5% over the Christmas quarter. In the previous three-month period, growth had been at 5%. Consumer caution was blamed with CEO Roisin Currie adding that a challenging second…
Image source: Getty Images The Vodafone (LSE:VOD) share price continues to lag the FTSE 100 as a whole. But if analysts are to be believed, the telecoms group’s currently undervalued by approximately 24%. That’s because the average of their 12-month price targets is 87p, with a range of 54.4p-142p. However, the consensus view disguises a difference of opinion. Of the 16 ‘experts’ covering the stock, five are advising their clients to Buy, nine are Neutral and two are suggesting shareholders’ Sell. Obviously, they can’t all be right. Financial performance On 20 May, the group will report is results for the…
Quantum Commodity Intelligence – US forest carbon project developer Chestnut Carbon has grown rapidly in three years of existence. Already in 2025 the company has concluded a second offtake deal with Microsoft covering 7 million ARR credits, raised $160 million in Series B funding, announced a partnership a major Formula One racing team and issued and sold the first credits from its IFM membership programme. Quantum spoke with the company’s chief financial officer, Greg Adams. What’s the secret of Chestnut’s apparent success in a sector where some other developers have struggled in recent years? Chestnut was founded in 2022, backed…
Image source: Getty Images FTSE 250 investment firm aberdeen (LSE: ABDN) has dropped 25% from its 4 March one-year traded high of £1.86. A stock’s yield moves in the opposite direction to its price, given the same annual dividend. The fall in aberdeen’s share price means its yield has now been pushed up to a stellar 10.4%. By comparison, the current average yield of the FTSE 250 is 3.4% and of the FTSE 100 3.6%. Moreover, the firm has paid the same 14.6p every year since 2020. And consensus analysts’ projections are that it will continue to do so in…
Image source: Getty Images Lloyds (LSE: LLOY) shares are down 6% from their 6 March one-year high of 74p. This largely resulted from the market rout following the US tariffs announcement on 2 April. As a former senior investment bank trader and longtime private investor, I always look for bargains following such shocks. Experience has taught me that major stock markets always recover from these events over time. So, could Lloyds be such a bargain and if so will I buy it? How do the relative valuations look? Lloyds trades at a price-to-earnings ratio of 10.8 against a competitor average…
Image source: Getty Images Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) stock peaked at over $153 in January and looked like it could do no wrong. But in the fallout from President Trump’s tariff war, it’s slumped more than 30% to $105 as I write on 17 April. It was even lower in the immediate aftermath of the president’s so-called ‘Liberation day’ announcement, slumping to under $87 for a 43% fall. We’re now looking at the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) chip maker on a forward price-to-earnings (P/E) of just 26 (dropping to 20 by 2027). That’s at a time when Tesla, which has crashed…
Image source: Getty Images The FTSE 100‘s packed with compelling income stocks to choose from, but sometimes it’s best to keep things simple. This is particularly true for beginner investors, as too many options can lead to bad choices. I’ve identified five of the best UK dividend stocks and calculated what kind of returns they could deliver. To maximise returns, UK residents can invest up to £20k a year via a Stocks and Shares ISA and benefit from a tax break on the gains. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be…