Friday Email: 16 October 2015

Every Friday morning our lead analyst Mark Riding sends out his weekly run-down and upcoming events in the investor calendar, like this one:

The past week saw the FTSE 100 give up a modest amount of the recent gains. It has fallen about 20 points this week. We saw another very good set of results from Bellway who we highlighted a while back. It is now up around 50% since then and with it came a 48% increase in the dividend this week. Three of the new additions to DividendMax this week produced very good dividend increases with Dot Digital up by 80%, Next Fifteen up by 20% and Walker Greenbank up by 25.7%. WH Smith carried on their very good track record with a 13% increase and the announcement of further buybacks very simliar to the Next model.

The week ahead sees Whitbread, Development Securities, Home retail and Stobart Group reporting to the market.

We have decided to go for full coverage of all UK dividend paying stocks so we are looking at all declared results and if we do not cover them, we are adding them into DividendMax if they pay a dividend with the usual careful analysis. As a result new into DividendMax this week we have Dot Digital Group, Proactis Holdings, Next Fifteen Communications, Animalcare Group, Walker Greenbank, Game Digital and today Volution Group. This process should take about 6 months to complete and then we will provide the most comprehensive forward dividend service to the retail investor on the market today (This will put the retail investor on a par with the Institutional Investors which is something we are very proud of. This was one of the objectives of the firm when we set it up and it will have taken us four and a half years before we finally achieve it) For investment trusts we will continue with the current strategy of adding them in at the request of members.

This email was originally sent on Friday 16 October 2015

The Friday email is delivered to over 20,000 subscriber’s every week, and remains a widely read run-down of recent events and what investors can expect in the week ahead written by our chief analyst Mark Riding.

It’s included as part of the free DividendMax trial.