Is it the time to dump UK stocks?

Indeed, I would personally keep an eye on:

Unilever about £44 a share, will be over £50 within a year, 15%+ upside from here and pay good dividend

Diageo
Held up better than most but still at £30 I think good value, any dips to £26/£27 good entry. This will push on next year as economy opens more.

GSK
Still cheap IMO at £14, some upside growth even if cyclical with a tasty 5%+ dividend in the meantime.

HSBC
UK bank but international market, and shifting their focus to asia more which gets them more profit)

BAE
£5 is good value, dividend 4.6% at this price, any dips under £5 definite buy.

Lloyds
stock is down more than other banks but I think for UK bank they are better shout than Barclays/Natwest IMO

Shell/BP
Depends on your view on oil and the industry but good value if you think they will come back even part way post covid.

To be honest a basket of these at current prices would probably see a great return in 12 months+

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How about Rio tinto as well? It may of got a bit expensive lately though

Why would you sell RR when a lot of their business is in the US and dollars will equate to more sterling with a weaker pound. Now is the time to buy. The same can be said for most of the FTSE100 it’s the FTSE250 that will struggle (IMO temporarily).

One market I’d avoid is US stupid prices and weaker pound you’ll get less bang for your buck. Investment banks are all bullish on UK.

If you want a good buy and aren’t afraid of risk Morses Club this is easily a X3 bagger do your due diligence and you will see.

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Services accounted for 42% of the UK’s exports to the EU in 2019. So yeah… 42% of UK exports is not much I guess… The services are not even discussed now so regardless of a deal or no deal tariffs will hit the services sector.
There is no such thing as borderless.

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  • RR exports over 80% of its goods produced in the UK. US is its biggest market but EU is second biggest by a small margin.
  • Covid is not gone yet. The big engines are not that wanted anymore.
  • Sales dropped for big engines anyway pre-covid. Airlines prefer(ed) smaller aircrafts (i.e 737 MAX ). RR gave up to the middle/small engines market a while ago.

RR is really a mixed bag. I will buy at 70p but right now, given the current conditions is still expensive.

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There was an entire write up in this weeks Financial Times Weekend on exactly this - stating that the UK missed the boat on growth stocks by investing in more traditional companies in the past decade, but are now looking at tech, particularly in China.

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Fair point but I don’t think you’ll see 70

I’ve never actually heard of this company but it’s had good growth and has a great dividend so I’m pretty intrigued

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If there is a hard brexit it will reach 70 for sure.

may as well throw ur money in a 0% interest bank account if you plan on investing in UK stocks, you’d probably gain more money

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So your bet is that EU will fall apart and investor will transfer the EU investments into UK?

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Only if you have no clue on how to pick your stocks :joy:

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That seems to be the classic brex9t voters argument. Unfortunately there’s no evidence of that happening and that actually brexit has hugely increased eu population belief in amd support of the benefits of the EU… its been the euro sceptics argument for decades…still waiting…

I’ve been inspired to start my UK pie after all this. Investing weekly in it from next week for a couple of months :ok_hand:

Unilever, London Stock Exchange, Pershing Square Holdings, Avon Rubber, GB Group, Cineworld Group, Gamma Communications, Astrazeneca.

These are a list of all the UK stocks I currently hold which I’ve identified as growth stocks. I’m sure there are plenty I’m missing and would love to hear your others which could join this list.

I’m reading The Morse Clubs annual report that @Gfclappah mentioned and I like the sound of them from what I’m currently reading. I’ll add them to my pie once I’m done I think.

ASOS and the hut group are in my pie for growth. BAE also as they’re pretty beaten up and have just reached around the 50 day.

Checking out Gamma also as I don’t currently own a cloud stock.

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Bloody reply never works for me :man_facepalming:

EU is in a terrible state, the debt burden of Greece, Italy, Spain and Ireland pre covid was bad enough, who bailed out Ireland…give you a clue United…The euro really doesn’t help nations like Greece, they need the Drachma back and a weaker currency. You watch everyone rush to Ireland’s waters if a no deal is the outcome. EU is in a bad place.

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It’s the boring micro caps that make you rich. Not Tesla, Apple, Microsoft. You have to find diamonds in the dirt.

Do you have any good recommendations?

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I’d probably say nothing you haven’t heard of. I’ll pm you my pie I’m working on.