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SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 7:48 am
by idpickering
Interim dividend in line with five-year dividend plan to 2023:
• Interim dividend: 24 pence, down 18% reflecting dividend policy outlined in May 2018
• Intention to recommend full-year dividend of 80 pence, with annual RPI growth in the three subsequent years
https://sse.com/investors/reportsandres ... tfinal.pdf
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 8:25 am
by daveh
Investor Timetable
Interim ex-dividend date 16 January 2020
Record date 17 January 2020
Scrip reference pricing days 16 – 22 January 2020
Scrip reference price confirmed and released via RNS 23 January 2020
Final date for receipt of scrip elections 13 February 2020
Interim dividend payment date 13 March 2020
Q3 Trading Statement 31 January 2020
Notification of Closed Period By 31 March 2020
Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 March 2020 20 May 2020
AGM (Perth) and Q1 Trading Statement 16 July 2020
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 10:59 am
by kempiejon
I hold SSE and this reduction in dividend is an annoyance but a promise "to recommend full-year dividend of 80 pence, with annual RPI growth in the three subsequent years" gives 6% yield and growing so that's better than a lot on offer.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 11:20 am
by IanTHughes
kempiejon wrote:I hold SSE and this reduction in dividend is an annoyance but a promise "to recommend full-year dividend of 80 pence, with annual RPI growth in the three subsequent years" gives 6% yield and growing so that's better than a lot on offer.
I had this reduced dividend amount already noted in my records, together with the intended annual total of 80.00p. I only amend such records from the previous year value when indicated by the company in question, so this information must have been advised before, although I cannot remember when exactly.
Ian
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 11:26 am
by kempiejon
IanTHughes wrote:kempiejon wrote:I hold SSE and this reduction in dividend is an annoyance but a promise "to recommend full-year dividend of 80 pence, with annual RPI growth in the three subsequent years" gives 6% yield and growing so that's better than a lot on offer.
I had this reduced dividend amount already noted in my records, together with the intended annual total of 80.00p. I only amend such records from the previous year value when indicated by the company in question, so this information must have been advised before, although I cannot remember when exactly.
Ian
You're right this cut has been known for a while, did it come out of the talk of merging retail with Npower, and wasn't that a year ago? I like companies that commit to a certain level of dividend increases, the utes have been quite good at that.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 11:38 am
by tjh290633
Odd that this RNS did not make it to Investegate, but was picked up by ADVFN, see
https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/londo ... t/81130485You do need to have your wits about you. Also DigitalLook were a bit late in picking up both VOD's interim date and BLND's Q2 report.
TJH
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 11:54 am
by moorfield
Not too worried. SSE will continue to contribute my steadily growing overall portfolio income. In fact, I think it will become a top up candidate once again come Friday 13 December. We’ll see.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 12:05 pm
by idpickering
tjh290633 wrote:Odd that this RNS did not make it to Investegate, but was picked up by ADVFN, see
https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/londo ... t/81130485You do need to have your wits about you. Also DigitalLook were a bit late in picking up both VOD's interim date and BLND's Q2 report.
TJH
I had noticed the RNS absence on Investegate, which is why I went straight to SSE themselves. I realised some HYPers hold them, making the results a must see here.
Ian.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 12:39 pm
by daveh
idpickering wrote:tjh290633 wrote:Odd that this RNS did not make it to Investegate, but was picked up by ADVFN, see
https://uk.advfn.com/stock-market/londo ... t/81130485You do need to have your wits about you. Also DigitalLook were a bit late in picking up both VOD's interim date and BLND's Q2 report.
TJH
I had noticed the RNS absence on Investegate, which is why I went straight to SSE themselves. I realised some HYPers hold them, making the results a must see here.
Ian.
I've not been getting any Investegate alerts since October (my last was an AZN announcement on 21/10) so I either have to rememebr to logon to Investegate every morning and look at the announcements filtered by My Alerts or rely on Ian posting them on here - I mostly relying on Ian so thankyou Ian
I have an idea whats expected each week from emails I get from II but I still have to remember to go and look. I'd have missed BLND today if it wasn't posted here.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 1:39 pm
by Arborbridge
moorfield wrote:Not too worried. SSE will continue to contribute my steadily growing overall portfolio income. In fact, I think it will become a top up candidate once again come Friday 13 December. We’ll see.
I admire company prudence, but I thought we should not be rewarding a cutter?
Luckily, I don't need to make that choice at the moment.
Arb
PS on a topical subject, I have a note that the SSE cash flow is pretty dire. No doubt someone can explain it away
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 2:15 pm
by idpickering
daveh wrote:I've not been getting any Investegate alerts since October (my last was an AZN announcement on 21/10) so I either have to rememebr to logon to Investegate every morning and look at the announcements filtered by My Alerts or rely on Ian posting them on here - I mostly relying on Ian so thankyou Ian
I have an idea whats expected each week from emails I get from II but I still have to remember to go and look. I'd have missed BLND today if it wasn't posted here.
Thank you very much for your kind comment. You're welcome.
With regards to company announcements, I don't use an Investegate alert, but keep an eye on the FTSE diary via this link;
https://www.lse.co.uk/share-prices/fina ... 4-Nov-2019Even they get it wrong sometimes too though.
Back to SSE, I sold out of these some time ago mainly due to the Corbyn risk, but I've also found them to not be a very reliable stock overall. Not the 'help you sleep at night' share that I try to buy. There's never any guarantees in investing full stop though of course. I'm not inclined to buy back into SSE to be honest, but one can never say never I guess?
Ian.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 6:26 pm
by funduffer
Dividend cut. Oh dear.
Hang on, don’t we get a return of capital from the sale of the retail business to OVO?
If so, when?
FD
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 13th, 2019, 7:11 pm
by PinkDalek
funduffer wrote:Hang on, don’t we get a return of capital from the sale of the retail business to OVO?
The latest I saw was over here***
viewtopic.php?p=252551#p252551 and the net proceeds were to be used to make a small dent in the net debt.
The interims include
Important note: SSE Energy Services ... The transaction has received FCA approval, awaits CMA approval and is expected to complete early 2020.. That's only the first hit I bothered to find.
*** Company Share news (LSE Main Market) which can be a useful port of call, as against individual single topic discussions here.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 14th, 2019, 12:07 am
by Gengulphus
It has made it on to Investegate - see
https://www.investegate.co.uk/sse-plc-- ... 00081889T/. I don't know when it made it, though, since I was otherwise engaged for most of yesterday, so I can see at least two possible reasons why you and others didn't see it - it could have been late getting on to Investegate, or people could have been relying on Investegate's alert facility to bring it to their attention and that facility failed for some reason.
The point of saying that is that if anyone is relying on Investegate's alert facility and still hasn't received an alert about it, whatever has gone wrong is to do with the alert facility and not with the RNS appearing on Investegate - which does affect the practical matter of how they might try getting the problem corrected.
Gengulphus
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 14th, 2019, 10:35 am
by tjh290633
Gengulphus wrote:It has made it on to Investegate - see
https://www.investegate.co.uk/sse-plc-- ... 00081889T/. I don't know when it made it, though, since I was otherwise engaged for most of yesterday, so I can see at least two possible reasons why you and others didn't see it - it could have been late getting on to Investegate, or people could have been relying on Investegate's alert facility to bring it to their attention and that facility failed for some reason.
I looked for it about 10am, and I see that they have it as issued at 07:00. I was expecting it, then saw messages here that it was a PDF file on their (SSE's) website. I see my earlier comment was made at 11:38, and I don't think it had got onto Investegate by then.
This has happened before, that Investegate have not picked up a report and ADVFN have. There is obviously a glitch in their procedures.
TJH
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 16th, 2019, 10:29 am
by Wizard
idpickering wrote:daveh wrote:I've not been getting any Investegate alerts since October (my last was an AZN announcement on 21/10) so I either have to rememebr to logon to Investegate every morning and look at the announcements filtered by My Alerts or rely on Ian posting them on here - I mostly relying on Ian so thankyou Ian
I have an idea whats expected each week from emails I get from II but I still have to remember to go and look. I'd have missed BLND today if it wasn't posted here.
Thank you very much for your kind comment. You're welcome.
With regards to company announcements, I don't use an Investegate alert, but keep an eye on the FTSE diary via this link;
https://www.lse.co.uk/share-prices/fina ... 4-Nov-2019Even they get it wrong sometimes too though.
Back to SSE, I sold out of these some time ago mainly due to the Corbyn risk, but I've also found them to not be a very reliable stock overall. Not the 'help you sleep at night' share that I try to buy. There's never any guarantees in investing full stop though of course. I'm not inclined to buy back into SSE to be honest, but one can never say never I guess?
Ian.
Out of interest Ian when did you sell, I missed that. Also, in what way do you consider them "not very liable"? Until the recent cut I thought they had been a pretty solid income producer.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 16th, 2019, 11:52 am
by idpickering
Wizard wrote:Out of interest Ian when did you sell, I missed that. Also, in what way do you consider them "not very liable"? Until the recent cut I thought they had been a pretty solid income producer.
Hi Wizard. I sold on 22 May 19. The dividend cut put a huge shadow over them for me, thereby not reliable. Then there was the Corbyn risk too.
Ian.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 16th, 2019, 12:24 pm
by Wizard
idpickering wrote:Wizard wrote:Out of interest Ian when did you sell, I missed that. Also, in what way do you consider them "not very liable"? Until the recent cut I thought they had been a pretty solid income producer.
Hi Wizard. I sold on 22 May 19. The dividend cut put a huge shadow over them for me, thereby not reliable. Then there was the Corbyn risk too.
Ian.
Ah, I can see why you are not that fond of them, given the 22nd May this year was the lowest closing price over the last 10 years. But a rarity I am sure you can survive given you seem to have a consistent knack of getting out at a very sensible point.
Somewhat bizarrely as somebody who theoretically no longer buys in to much of HYP teaching, in practice I seem to abide by at least some of the guidelines pretty solidly having only voluntarily sold one share in my HYP in the three years it has been running. Maybe that is why my HYP has performed so dismally?!?
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 16th, 2019, 2:01 pm
by idpickering
Wizard wrote:idpickering wrote:Wizard wrote:Out of interest Ian when did you sell, I missed that. Also, in what way do you consider them "not very liable"? Until the recent cut I thought they had been a pretty solid income producer.
Hi Wizard. I sold on 22 May 19. The dividend cut put a huge shadow over them for me, thereby not reliable. Then there was the Corbyn risk too.
Ian.
Ah, I can see why you are not that fond of them, given the 22nd May this year was the lowest closing price over the last 10 years. But a rarity I am sure you can survive given you seem to have a consistent knack of getting out at a very sensible point.
Somewhat bizarrely as somebody who theoretically no longer buys in to much of HYP teaching, in practice I seem to abide by at least some of the guidelines pretty solidly having only voluntarily sold one share in my HYP in the three years it has been running. Maybe that is why my HYP has performed so dismally?!?
You’re very kind thanks Wizard. I’m certainly no expert believe me. On an investing basis I’d rather drop my losers, and redeploy the money, and run my winners too. Probably the wrong thing to do dropping shares at the weak spot as that surely is the time to buy? With regards to SSE particularly, I’d lost faith in them full stop. However, I mainly try to be a good HYPer and keep my finger off the sell trigger, and let time and compounding work their magic.
Ian.
Re: SSE Interims
Posted: November 16th, 2019, 2:16 pm
by Arborbridge
Wizard wrote:Ah, I can see why you are not that fond of them, given the 22nd May this year was the lowest closing price over the last 10 years. But a rarity I am sure you can survive given you seem to have a consistent knack of getting out at a very sensible point.
Somewhat bizarrely as somebody who theoretically no longer buys in to much of HYP teaching, in practice I seem to abide by at least some of the guidelines pretty solidly having only voluntarily sold one share in my HYP in the three years it has been running. Maybe that is why my HYP has performed so dismally?!?
having only voluntarily sold one share in my HYP in the three years it has been running.Crumbs, that's almost Zen-like! Well done (I think)
For the record, my total is six in three years.
Arb.