The Lemon Fool

Apologies if this has already been pointed out, but I noticed that the dividenddata.co.uk website has now added what appears to be an extremely useful set of data on dividend histories for the FTSE 350:

http://dividenddata.co.uk/ftse-dividend-history.py

It includes, for example: consecutive years of years of dividend growth, 5 year CAGR and 10 year CAGR.

For each company, if you click on the arrow to the right you get a full breakdown, e.g. for HSBA:

http://dividenddata.co.uk/dividend-history.py?epic=HSBA

Promisingly, that breakdown also confirms dividend adjustments i.e. for HSBA's rights issue. I'm not aware of any other sites which successfully manage that for such long histories.

I haven't tested for accuracy, but the site seems fairly reliable, intelligently thought out and well maintained, so it could be extremely useful. The tables are sortable, so for example you can sort on number of years of consecutive dividend growth.

Have they employed Luni or something? :0)

Jack

Very useful. My only comment would be that special dividends are not included in the growth rates, and that dividends are stated in currency of issue, not in Sterling. At least that's my interpretation. The site also provides ex dividend and payment dates, where declared.

Jack wrote:Have they employed Luni or something? :0)
Jack

Probably not, but they seem to have blocked the links.

I get all the links

Instep wrote:

Jack wrote:Have they employed Luni or something? :0)
Jack

Probably not, but they seem to have blocked the links.

This seem to happen regularly. They don't seem to like repeated visits from the same IP address, eg when using the Top Up spreadheet to get dividend data. I mentioned it a while ago and someone, Kiloran, I think, suggested rebooting the router, which often then produces a different IP address.

I've noticed that if I don't do that, my access is usually restored within a week or two.

Staffordian

I have a static IP address, so have become twitchy about this sort of blocking (not to mention other privacy-related issues).

A useful way of sidestepping the problem is to use a VPN. While my son says that the free service offered here is OK,I've recently taken out a paid-for subscription:

http://www.cyberghostvpn.com/en_gb

MDW1954

I found that site didn't include all the shares I needed, so I found similar data here:

http://www.iii.co.uk/research/LSE:vod/fundamentals

Just type in the ticker you need in place of "vod" in the address.

Arb.

PS thanks to whoever recommended that to me!

I particularly like the Yield Graphs. I remember Arb and Jack of Basle (?) showing us how to do them, but here we have them ready made !

As an example, here is Unilever's. It defaults to 1 year, but has more useful timespans as an option. The info at the bottom shows that the yield is calculated from the previous 12-month period, and in the case of ULVR, totalled in euros and then converted into sterling.

http://dividenddata.co.uk/dividend-yield.py?epic=ULVR

Good find, thanks
Mike

MDW1954 wrote:I have a static IP address, so have become twitchy about this sort of blocking (not to mention other privacy-related issues).
A useful way of sidestepping the problem is to use a VPN. While my son says that the free service offered here is OK,I've recently taken out a paid-for subscription:
http://www.cyberghostvpn.com/en_gb
MDW1954

For those that don't have or want access to a VPN, you can use Google Translate as a VPN-like tool:

http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

I particularly like the Yield Graphs. I remember Arb and Jack of Basle (?) showing us how to do them, but here we have them ready made !

Mike, I still keep up my yield charts, but these are useful too and save a lot of effort. However, the charts Jack used to do were much cleverer for they were relative to the FTSE yield (I think) and approximated to indicating a "safe" yield rather like Luni's zones - in fact may have been inspired by Luni.

I still keep my charts going, partly because these "free" websites can become unavailable over night (look at TMF! and dividend investor) and partly because I can plot my buy points on the chart. This shows how clever I was to buy at a peak yield, or what a mug I was because I should have waited! I also include the rolling dividends which is inteructive for showing the "character" of a shares pay out. Yes, one can look at tables, but a chart shows what you need at a glance.

Thanks for pointing this out Jack. This is a very useful tool, which I will no doubt make use of in the future.

Regards,

Ian.

Thanks Jack, I was trying to find this info on the net and never though of revisiting that site as they never used to show dividend CAGR.

kiloran wrote:...
For those that don't have or want access to a VPN, you can use Google Translate as a VPN-like tool:

http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

Could someone with access to that website please post a following kind of link so I could try this google thingy?

Dividend payments for February for all the shares. There is a dropdown box for a month and on top a heading dividend payments or something. IIRC this would bring in both ftse100 and ftse250 shares.

Cheers!

Under windows I get a 408 error but the links to dividenddata work fine on my Android tablet.

JMN2 wrote:

kiloran wrote:...
For those that don't have or want access to a VPN, you can use Google Translate as a VPN-like tool:

http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

Could someone with access to that website please post a following kind of link so I could try this google thingy?

Cheers!

I'm a bit confused (easily done!). Are you saying that you don't have access to http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

monabri wrote:Under windows I get a 408 error but the links to dividenddata work fine on my Android tablet.

A 408 error is a timeout problem. Are you getting this when accessing Dividend Data website using a browser on Windows, or are you saying you get this using the HYP Top-up spreadsheet?

--kiloran

kiloran wrote:

JMN2 wrote:

kiloran wrote:...
For those that don't have or want access to a VPN, you can use Google Translate as a VPN-like tool:

http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

Could someone with access to that website please post a following kind of link so I could try this google thingy?

Cheers!

I'm a bit confused (easily done!). Are you saying that you don't have access to http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

No, sorry, I have no access to dividend data but if I knew the link I could try the google.

JMN2 wrote:

kiloran wrote:

JMN2 wrote:
Could someone with access to that website please post a following kind of link so I could try this google thingy?

Cheers!

I'm a bit confused (easily done!). Are you saying that you don't have access to http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

No, sorry, I have no access to dividend data but if I knew the link I could try the google.

I feel I'm missing something. The link I gave gives instructions on how to use Google Translate to access Dividend Data. Are the instructions unclear?

--kiloran

kiloran wrote:

JMN2 wrote:

kiloran wrote:
I'm a bit confused (easily done!). Are you saying that you don't have access to http://lemonfoolfinancialsoftware.weebl ... bsite.html

--kiloran

No, sorry, I have no access to dividend data but if I knew the link I could try the google.

I feel I'm missing something. The link I gave gives instructions on how to use Google Translate to access Dividend Data. Are the instructions unclear?

--kiloran

No, the instructions are clear as a bell. I am asking for a link which I can enter into google translate in order to access dividend data, in which website my IP is blocked. Above a link to AZN payment info was posted, I would like to have a slightly different link which I described above - a dividend data link for all divi payments for february. So if someone could quickly go to dividend data, dividend payments, february dropdown box, and copy paste the web link here, please?

edit. sorry, it was azn and it is in the example link in the above mentioned instructions.

So I would like to have something like this http://www.dividenddata.co.uk/ex-divide ... chTerm=AZN

but a general link to february all payments, not just AZN.