Your worst performing stock?

There is a common theme with most of these: bar one or two they are all dividend-focused.

When I started investing, this was one of the earliest and biggest mistakes I made.

Dividends are great but you shouldn’t chase yield at the expense of capital – total return is what matters.

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Mine is Ageagle Aeriel bought them in March and seen them quiet low and though I’ll just risk it. Yet I’m down so I’d possibly get more of them since they are even lower.

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Superdry
Down 95%
Again superdry down 95%!!
Bought in 2019.
It was a bet that Dunkerton, who had left to make cider and open a restraunt would not get back as CEO (very good cider although an over emphasis that the trees had not been sprayed for over 30years)He got back in by a tiny margin.
Then covid.
£1,000 bet. Nearly all my small purchases end up like this (well not quite as bad!).
A small purchase by me, I should take as warning to myself!

Patience Allan, the market winds will change :grin:

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Surely that’s a risky view (in general).
Unless you think they will recover, is that what your research tells you?
There appears to be a view, not just on freetrade that’s it’s a good thing to average down?
I think it’s good thing to average up. The shares are going up buy more.

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Good observation and I agree with you mostly. The reason I like dividends is twofold: firstly because it is something measurable and also a good motivation during times when the value of your investments is going down (such as now) and secondly because I unfortunately don’t have much I can contribute towards investments per month, dividends give me a lot more money to invest with than I could with contributions alone.

I accept that total return is the most important and I will most likely prioritise that a much more once I’m able to increase my learning enough to be more competent at judging which stocks are most likely to increase in value within a certain timeframe. I started investing last year and am still very new to it, however it may feel otherwise at times. At least for now I can be happy that I’m a much better dividend and modest growth investor than I was about 16 months ago and that (fingers crossed) my worst mistakes are behind me. I feel I am now able to judge stocks far better using quite a long set of criteria which companies combine stablity, track record and yield so that I can definitely avoid future Evraz failures and most likely Synthomer ones too.

I’m trying to learn from and emulate Warren Buffet as much as possible (a guy who also loves dividends although he doesn’t pay them himself :laughing:)

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Worth reading about dividend aristocrats.

Dividend per share growth is more important than dividend yield imo.

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This ones taken a dive today too. I also hold Cellular Good and Kanabo

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Frc, -98%, cineworld -89%, and arrival… small punts just 2 watch. Not sold anything.

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Yeah I got Cineworld too they didn’t do as well as my AMC shares :joy:

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Luckily, it’s just a small position - my fun money portfolio :roll_eyes:

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It got worse its now 99.99% Loss :rofl::joy::rofl:

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Mine is no longer Harland &Wolff which has gone from -47% to -24% in the last week or so.

Worst performer now is VOD at -24.32%.

Sigh.

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How is it not 100%

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For it to be 100% loss the share price whould have to go to 0.

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Say’s the current value is £0.00

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Oh yeah! :rofl:

I mean it’s still trading at $0.0030 OTC, sooooo… still room to go down. :+1:

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Could go up

FT probably using the value of the last trade as many quotes do.

Everything haha accept Rolls Royce goooo Rolls Royce send me to the moon

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