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stockmarket1 wrote: Well said and I too have noticed other company forums a bit quieter so far. As for PPL shares.....I hope these shares don't stagnate like Manulife shares, for example, where over 10 yrs the shares have gone nowhere.
Yea usually with my blue chip investments I go in with the idea that the payout will grow 5-10% per year and the normal price action will follow that in some way. (most of the time it preceeds it as everyone knows when a regular grower increases like BCE will announce about 6% increase this week or next, CNR will follow with around 10-12% in a few weeks) Beyond that normal price action I expect 10% normal volatility, 5% up 5% down depending on what the market is feeling. That said it also seems somewhat normal for these stocks to move off the normal trends for years at a time and eventually get back on the wagon.
Companies that just maintain a steady non growing payout tend to have much more volatility that moves in large waves and are difficult to predict but can be nice to trade as they swing into over value and undervalue. I don't want this company to be one of those, I like this as one of my safe pillars/full position in my portfolio.
I used to view the pipelines/utilities as 'toll takers', which are on par with royalties in terms of they should be rather steady and follow a set path and value plan. All these major moves and projects we and others have come up with to boost value have moved off that 'toll taking' idea or atleast reduced its presence in our earnings profile.