You must of bought in pandemic to get a gain like that haha 
It’s a 3% gain, so means a lot of shares were bought rather than a large jump in share price
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Anyone interested in banking stocks may be interested in reading a Bloomberg opinion piece.
Investors haven’t much fancied shares of the biggest UK lenders all year and they sold them …
But brokers have steadily lifted earnings forecasts …
But I would guess that domestic earnings forecasts for UK banks are going to be cut in the months ahead. Investors have it more right than the analysts.
Was hoping it would drop today so I could buy more 
better not get cocky though, seen plenty of good and bad days recently
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That’ll be some dividend with them amounts 
Interesting BOE announces an interest rate increase and the sp raises slightly.
I guess this one was pretty much expected.
The Bank of England (BoE) recently raised interest rates to 3%. This should be positive for bank shares such as Lloyds, but its stock is down 8% this year. With that in mind, I’m deciding whether to buy Lloyds shares.
Was wondering if anybody would be willing to discuss whether Lloyds has exited the Goldilocks zone when it comes to rates. I think they might have.
well, it seems the majority of you folks have tons of Lloyds shares, and here I am with a lowly 704. has anyone held these for a number of years and is it worth just building up a position where it potentially pays a decent dividend?
I sold all my LLOY shares recently. I changed my view on the investment.
It can pay a good dividend, but only pays it twice a year and the growth prospects are very low (at glacier speed). You can see the share price is basically flat for more than 10 years. For me there are other opportunities out there where I can put my money right now.
Not financial advice, just my view on the company.
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I do have other shares on the platform so just the old diversification thing going on. Having read the figures for the past couple of years, your right, they do seem to be sluggish. Maybe just worth me getting to a percentage state of my portfolio then not an amount in shares for the old balanced approach.
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Prudential Regulation Authority (B of E) have suggested but not told the banks to consider more buy banks rather than raise dividends as much. The aim being in the future if there are any problems in the banking system they can just cancel buy backs and continue to pay dividends.
Buy backs are very popular in the US in all sections of the stockmarket. Far less dividend cuts or cancellation during covid. Very noticeable in my north American Income trust. Raised dividends substantially (relative to other income investment trusts) and never used any reserves.
Don’t forget that no dividend tax either! But cyclical investors will cry for dividends.
I don’t think it follows that a company is doing particular well because it pays dividends.
One reason for paying high dividends is a lack of profitable reinvestment.
Also reducing the amount of shares results in a reduction in supply which should result in an increase in the price of the remaining shares and in the dividends over time.
PS “spunk it out” ?
That’s not really the definition of spam. I am sure you could find fault with @Jthejellybean postings but the post you are referring to is hardly spam
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Hi,
Not had my didvidend payment yet, anyone else in same boat? Thought pay day was end of november…
Where did you find that? Lloyds pays twice a year and this year’s dates have already passed imo.
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Yeah LBG pay twice yearly - May and September as things stand.
They were going to move to quarterly in 2019/2020 but they decided to keep as was in the end.
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Im just going off of what dividendmax.com is saying…ex date was 3/11 pay date on 30/11, of 4.25p per share, i received nothing in september either if that was supposed to be the pay date…