Good week or the FTSE as dividends return

The FTSE 100 has had a good week rising over 100 points.

The past week has been very busy with the general theme of dividend reinstatements continuing. There are very few large dividend increases these days; however FTSE 100 constituent CRH bucked the trend with the 37th consecutive annual increase in its dividend and a 25% annual increase for the 2020 financial year.

The week ahead is also very busy with a large number of companies reporting to the market.

Going ex dividend this coming Thursday with yields in excess of 2% from the single dividend we have Persimmon (4.3%), Evraz (3.7%), Hansard Global (3.5%), HSBC (2.5%), Apax Global Alpha (2.4%) and Microfocus for 2.2%.

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GENERATOR

Portfolio Summary

With a DividendMax subscription you can keep track of your portfolio performance using our Generator tool. This shows the example DividendMax portfolio. Click here to see the Generator in action.

Portfolio	Current Value	Capital Gain	Total Dividends	Total Gain
DividendMax Trading Portfolio	£4.41m -1.6%	£2.25m +215.1%	£1.16m +111.5%	£3.42m +327.2%

DividendMax Trading Portfolio

Company	Shares	Avg Price	Outlay	Dividends Paid	Current Value	Capital Gain	Total Gain
🇬🇧 Retailer	600000	92.61p	£555,634	£24,000	£209,700	-£345,934 -62.3%	-£321,934 -57.9%
🇬🇧 Gas, Water & Multiutilities Company	10000	770.33p	£77,033	£12,342	£92,800	£15,767 20.5%	£28,109 36.5%
🇬🇧 Support Services Company	300000	63.22p	£189,654	£12,300	£87,000	-£102,654 -54.1%	-£90,354 -47.6%
🇬🇧 Travel & Leisure Company	50000	226.15p	£113,073	£19,500	£48,725	-£64,348 -56.9%	-£44,848 -39.7%
🇬🇧 Support Services Company	500000	19.1p	£95,485	£7,500	£149,500	£54,015 56.6%	£61,515 64.4%
🇬🇧 Aerospace & Defence Company	20000	1005.05p	£201,010	£10,816	£581,000	£379,990 189.0%	£390,806 194.4%
🇬🇧 Retailer	45000	1370.11p	£616,547	£19,350	£236,250	-£380,297 -61.7%	-£360,947 -58.5%
🇬🇧 Mining Company	25000	1369.36p	£1,095,490	£99,768	£554,125	£127,290 11.6%	£227,058 20.7%
🇬🇧 Retailer	10000	371.95p	£37,195	£7,170	£14,900	-£22,295 -59.9%	-£15,125 -40.7%
🇬🇧 General Industrials Company	10000	873.45p	£87,345	£2,830	£79,260	-£8,085 -9.3%	-£5,255 -6.0%
🇬🇧 Industrial Metals Company	100000	263.32p	£263,320	£210,470	£583,200	£319,880 121.5%	£530,350 201.4%
🇬🇧 Retailer	5000	5174.44p	£517,444	£40,425	£371,200	£215,746 41.7%	£256,171 49.5%
🇬🇧 Leisure Goods Company	600000	100.75p	£1,017,613	£74,903	£303,000	-£361,533 -35.5%	-£286,630 -28.2%
🇬🇧 Mining Company	6000	3757.02p	£225,421	£104,309	£352,680	£127,259 56.5%	£231,567 102.7%
🇬🇧 Electricity Company	1500000	12.03p	£180,400	£0	£270,000	£89,600 49.7%	£89,600 49.7%
🇬🇧 Media Company	125000	141.71p	£1,027,401	£56,900	£145,438	£2,686 0.3%	£59,586 5.8%

OPTIMIZER

Here’s what is currently top in the Optimizer over 3 dividends:

Company	Price	Dividends	Yield (Total)	Yield (Annualized)	Market Cap	Cover	CADI	FDI
🇬🇧 General Financial Company	37.0p	6.75p	18.2%	28.8%	£16mn	1.5	0	0.0%
🇩🇪 Financial Services Company	39.7¢	36.0¢	90.7%	27.7%	€49mn	15.5	0	100.0%
🇬🇧 General Financial Company	79.0p	13.5p	17.1%	27.0%	£137mn	1.0	0	0.0%
🇬🇧 Real Estate Investment Trust	102.2p	16.2p	15.9%	25.8%	£238mn	0.9	0	-66.7%
🇬🇧 Travel & Leisure Company	40.0p	6.1875p	15.5%	24.4%	£88mn	1.0	0	0.0%
🇬🇧 Company	66.0p	17.0p	25.8%	23.3%	£84mn		1	-31.3%

For more, go to the Optimizer.

COUNTDOWN

The following shares go ex-dividend soon.

A DividendMax subscription includes all declared and forecast dividends for the next 12 weeks.

Company	Dividend		Current Price	Return	Ex-Div Date	Pay Date	Type	Status
🇬🇧 Persimmon plc (PSN)	125p		£29.34	4.3%	11 Mar 2021	26 Mar 2021	Interim	Declared
🇬🇧 Evraz Plc (EVR)	21.602p		£5.83	3.7%	11 Mar 2021	07 Apr 2021	Final	Declared
🇬🇧 Hansard Global Plc (HSD)	1.8p		£0.52	3.5%	11 Mar 2021	20 Apr 2021	Interim	Declared
🇬🇧 Bank	4.125p	est	£1.43	2.9%	11 Mar 2021	01 Apr 2021	Final	Forecast
🇬🇧 HSBC Holdings plc (HSBA)	10.801p		£4.27	2.5%	11 Mar 2021	29 Apr 2021	Quarterly	Declared
🇬🇧 Apax Global Alpha… (APAX)	5.28p		£2.17	2.4%	11 Mar 2021	01 Apr 2021	Final	Declared
🇬🇧 Micro Focus Inter… (MCRO)	11.3p		£5.20	2.2%	11 Mar 2021	15 Apr 2021	Final	Declared
🇺🇸 Ares Capital Corp (ARCC)	40c		$18.76	2.1%	12 Mar 2021	31 Mar 2021	Quarterly	Declared
🇺🇸 Real Estate Investment Trust	20c	est	$10.01	2.0%	12 Mar 2021	29 Mar 2021	Quarterly	Forecast
🇺🇸 Preferred Apartme… (APTS)	17.5c		$9.19	1.9%	12 Mar 2021	15 Apr 2021	Quarterly	Declared
🇺🇸 SFL Corporation Ltd (SFL)	15c		$7.93	1.9%	12 Mar 2021	30 Mar 2021	Quarterly	Declared
🇬🇧 Energy Company	2p	est	£1.06	1.9%	11 Mar 2021	26 Mar 2021	Quarterly	Forecast
🇬🇧 Investment Trust	11p	est	£5.87	1.9%	11 Mar 2021	07 May 2021	Quarterly	Forecast
🇬🇧 Acorn Income Fund (AIF)	5.75p		£3.07	1.9%	11 Mar 2021	31 Mar 2021	Quarterly	Declared
🇺🇸 Iron Mountain Inc. (IRM)	61.85c		$34.28	1.8%	12 Mar 2021	06 Apr 2021	Quarterly	Declared