GSK buys a small pharma company for lots of cash

[jackdaww]

having somehow amassed a pile of these at around £11.50 and pocketed loads of divis since 2003 , glaxo must be my most successful HYP type pick. so as long as they keep paying out and the SP holds up i'll be happy.

[idpickering]

having somehow amassed a pile of these at around £11.50 and pocketed loads of divis since 2003 , glaxo must be my most successful HYP type pick. so as long as they keep paying out and the SP holds up i'll be happy.

Spot on jackdaw! That's how a HYPer should be thinking, and a reminder of how we here should all be thinking. I've held since 8 Jan 2007, and regard them as a solid mainstay of my HYP. Have a rec sir.

Ian.

[Bouleversee]

That said Ian, this is probably the same group of senior managers that agreed to the purchase of Sirtris in 2008

Sirtris was closed 5 years after a $720m buyout - despite serious internal scientific opposition due to shoddy data.
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/a ... ess_really

At least with this purchase comes a marketed product!

I hear you Horsey. I guess even senior managers are likely to be errorsome at times. Nothing’s certain in investing.

Ian.

"Errorsome", Ian? Will that be another new word for the OED, along with pickering, replacing boring old fallible?

[idpickering]

"Errorsome", Ian? Will that be another new word for the OED, along with pickering, replacing boring old fallible?

Not at all Lorna, see;

errorsome (comparative more errorsome, superlative most errorsome)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/errorsome

I'm not as daft as I look.

Ian.

[richfool]

I couldn't find "errorsome" in either the Oxford English dictionary or the Collins English dictionary. I could however find the word erroneous.

[kempiejon]

errorsome
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From error +‎ -some.
Adjective[edit]
errorsome (comparative more errorsome, superlative most errorsome)
1.(neologism) Characterised or marked by error(s) [quotations

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Neologisms

[Bouleversee]

I also looked in my large Collins dictionary (which was part of my prize when I won a Times crossword competition some years ago so may be out of date now) and it wasn't there. You had me worried for a moment, Ian, but I did suggest it might find its way into the OED, along with many other words which some of us find unappealing and a corruption of the English language. I don't know whether invite (as a noun not verb) and attendee have got there yet but anything that becomes common parlance will do so eventually. I'm sure you don't look at all daft and it was clever of you to find it; I wouldn't have known where to look, although I daresay it would come up if one Googled. Is Wiktionary from the same stable as Wikipedia where I believe anyone can alter entries to their own liking?

Apologies to the mods. for the diversion but we need a little light relief in these brexious, I mean anxious, times.

[richfool]

Well GSK's SP has carried on down in today's falls, so I have taken the opportunity to top up @14.70, a 5.44% yield. I just hope it wasn't an errorsome decision, or even a prematuresome one.