Excellent Results - a nice surprise on the dividend - have added a few more, It looks as though recent aquisitions are taking effect!

dikytree.

Not sure about that, but the name may have changed.

"The directors are recommending a final dividend of 17.5p per share (2007: 15.6p) a 12% increase over last year. Subject to approval, this will be paid on 8 July 2008 to shareholders on the register on 6 June 2008."
At the current share price that represents 7.5%, which is not too bad, but how much further will the sp fall in the meantime?

Yes they used to own Home Farm Hampers which was a Christmas savings club.

Apart from a slight blip in 2003, FDL has not dropped below 200p since 2000, so this may be worth watching for a possible recovery. I confess I have done very little research in the fundamentals of this company, but the chart is certainly worth a look, imo.
Current brokers forecast consensus is 'Overweight' with a target price of 437p.

Halifax: Findel had nothing to do with that Christmas club scandal. I only know them from the education supply side. At one time they had huge problems integrating a couple of companies and their quirky computer systems, but things have moved on since then. Still, glad they're no longer responsible for sending me my royalty cheques - looks like they could be struggling!

farepak was the name for the hamper scandel which was owned by kleeneze,
the co went bust but findel brought kleeneze home shopping from the liquidators leaving farepak with the liquidators.

is this worth buying into from collapse?

This one going from strength to strength now. ;-0

170p anyone?

Sneaky little breakout going on? ;-)

Nice UT. ;-))

Volume speaks voulmes. ;-))

Interesting morning

this is a dog of a share!!!

It is this morning, but it wasn't yesterday or for many weeks prior. ;-))

and what about previous year.......err, most people buy shares and then have a life......they dont watch a screen all day.......virtualy everyone barring last few weeks then or 2 or so months has made a big loss on this one

as i said, this is a dog of a share, thankfully i dont have it

Most people makes losses then, don't they? ;-))

I look for the news most mornings and sold my holding in the SIPP at just over 134p for a very handsome profit (no it didn't show on the trades). I'll not divulge what I did next, but suffice to say there was more money to be made Friday. ;-)))))

You don't need to watch all day, but you do need to keep an eye on things otherwise you'll get screwed. Buy and hold is NOT the way to go. ;-)))

i dont know about averages between long term holds but when company goes up then the trend stays for long time usually.....look for good management which is hard thing in any walk of life.

friday was a good day for most i think as even i made a bit on my holdings.
buy and hold was fine until gordon got into power in 1997, oops tony. from 1984 to 1999 it was long bull run more or less apart from 1987

Buy and hold has never been the way to maximise profits, marni, since markets first began.

I think you might find the bull run did very well in the 2-3 years after Blair, BTW. ;-)))

yes i pointed that out up to 1999 i said......but that was cos it takes a coule of years to stuff up the economy for it to come through......now been in a bear market for last decade.........things wont improve till conservatives get into power but it will be 2 years after so markets wont improve lots till 2012 at least

Just dipped my toe hoping that this is the bottom...