Arborbridge wrote:Dod101 wrote:Well obviously using the trailing yield for say HSBC over the past year is going to err on the side of caution I hope but how do you do a forecast yield for that, or I suppose how does a bunch of analysts do that? So I take the current share price and the trailing yield. Actually I seldom buy motivated by the yield anyway. I am much more interested to know why the market is allowing such a high yield for Imperial Brands and whether that is 8.8% as a forecast or 8.5% based on the trailing yield is neither here nor there. It bothers me especially at the moment when there has been so much disruption to dividends in general.
But I really cannot be bothered to argue the case all over again.
Dod
Just a point of order: it's the dividend forecast we are concerned with initially, not the yield.
I'm not concerned as to how they do it: I'm happy to know that in most cases it works out near enough correctly for my purposes. There's nothing to argue about, Dod, we are each happy with our ways and that's enough
Arb.
But why then would you produce a table showing the Forecast Yield?