Image source: Getty Images The easyJet (LSE: EZJ) share price has been idling on the tarmac since the pandemic. By contrast, British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines Group (LSE: IAG) has flown, smashing its budget rival. IAG, as it’s known, has climbed 134% over the last year. For easyJet, it’s just 12% (following a 9% drop in the past month). I expected better, but for contrarian investors, easyJet’s underperformance could present an opportunity. Dirt cheap FTSE 100 valuations At first glance, easyJet looks super-cheap, with a price-to-earnings ratio of just 7.89. But after checking, IAG trades at a similar P/E of 7.7 despite its…
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Image source: Getty Images So there’s still life in the BP (LSE: BP) share price. After a dismal run, which has seen the FTSE 100 stock fall almost 10% in the last year, and 17% over two, investors finally have something positive to look at. Today’s (5 August) Q2 results are stronger than expected, with underlying replacement cost profit rising to $2.4bn, up from $1.4bn in Q1. That’s comfortably ahead of the $1.8bn analysts had forecast. It’s a big jump given the backdrop of falling energy prices, and a much-needed bit of momentum for a company that’s lost its way lately. As…
Image source: Getty Images. The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 are packed with world-class investment trusts. It means UK share investors have a wealth of opportunities to target huge returns while staying protected from individual stock shocks. Here are three top picks that I think are worth further research. Growth share exposure Polar Capital Technology Trust (LSE:PCT) has been one of the London stock market’s top three best-performing trusts since August 2020, delivering an average annual return of 12.2%. Given its focus on growth stocks, this perhaps isn’t a surprise — technology shares continue to rocket in value as the…
Kubix Digital Asset Co., Ltd. (Kubix) has partnered with InterOpera, the platform provider of OperaX for carbon credit trading in Singapore, to explore new approaches to developing infrastructure that will enhance the issuance and trading of tokenized carbon credits. The collaboration aims to leverage this knowledge to develop and elevate its system infrastructure, covering the tokenization of carbon credits, the offering platform, and settlement and custody processes. This will ensure that the system can fully support the trading of Thailand’s tokenized carbon credits and align with the growth of the global carbon credit market. Mr. Pathomchai Taengnoi, Acting Managing Director…
Image source: Getty Images The Diageo (LSE: DGE) share price is doing an unusual thing today. It’s actually rising. Yes, shares in the FTSE 100 spirits maker are finally pointing the right way. That hasn’t happened much lately. The stock is still down 25% over 12 months and more than 50% over three years. That’s a dreadful run for what used to be one of the UK’s most solid and reliable blue-chips. Diageo has been on the ropes for a while, battered by a string of profit warnings, cost pressures, shifting drinking habits and worries about the impact of weight loss drugs. Even the…
Image source: Rolls-Royce plc One of the big investment themes for 2025 has been the increase in defence spending. And beyond the obvious names, there’s a FTSE 250 stock that’s showing positive signs. Senior (LSE:SNR) designs and manufactures fluid conveyance and thermal management (FCTM) components. And I think its latest results look very encouraging. A stock in transition At the moment, Senior is a firm in transition. It’s in the process of selling off its aerostructures unit (which makes structural parts for aircraft) and has agreed a price of up to £200m. That leaves behind the FCTM business, which makes…
Image source: Getty Images For the first time since 2022, Vodafone (LSE:VOD) shares are now back in bullish territory, climbing by over 20% since the start of the year. This upward trajectory comes off the back of continued progress in the telecommunication giant’s restructuring under CEO Margherita Della Valle. But unlike previous turnaround attempts, Vodafone’s starting to show some long-awaited signs of life. So with an underlying price-to-earnings ratio of just 14, could now be a good opportunity to invest in Vodafone shares? And if analyst projections are correct, how much money could investors potentially make? Encouraging progress Last month,…
Image source: Getty Images M&G (LSE: MNG) might just be my favourite high-yield FTSE 100 dividend share. I’ve done pretty well since loading up on the wealth manager in July, September and November 2023. My trading account shows a capital return of about 30%. Not exactly stellar, but certainly not bad for a traditional blue-chip. Once I add in the dividends, all reinvested, my total return tops 56%. Not bad for a supposedly steady-as-she-goes stock, albeit one with a monster yield. At one point, the income was nudging 10%. Today, it’s a still-generous 7.75%. The dividend hasn’t been cut, it’s just that the…
Kubix Digital Asset Co., Ltd. (Kubix) has partnered with InterOpera, the platform provider of OperaX for carbon credit trading in Singapore, to explore new approaches to developing infrastructure that will enhance the issuance and trading of tokenized carbon credits. The collaboration aims to leverage this knowledge to develop and elevate its system infrastructure, covering the tokenization of carbon credits, the offering platform, and settlement and custody processes. This will ensure that the system can fully support the trading of Thailand’s tokenized carbon credits and align with the growth of the global carbon credit market. Mr. Pathomchai Taengnoi, Acting Managing Director…
President Trump is laying the groundwork for replacing real economic data with his own numbers. It’s a terrible idea that will blow up in his face if he tries it — and cause the Trump presidency more damage than any legitimate numbers could. Trump fired the economist in charge of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Aug. 1 after the latest employment report showed a sharp slowdown in hiring. The problem isn’t the data or the economists who produce it. The problem is that, right on schedule, Trump’s disruptive policies are messing up the economy. His tariffs are raising costs…