Robert Sutherland Smith

Is the GlaxoSmithKline dividend sustainable?

GlaxoSmithKline at 1370p. This company is undergoing considerable change in its strategic objectives. It looks attractive on both market consensus…

HSBC – Can this financial behemoth improve shareholders’ returns?

HSBC Holdings shares at 614p. After the tablets are brought down from the mountain, look good value on fundamentals even if…

Is Vodafone still worth dialling into?

Vodafone at 254p. Pull this one – its got bells on it and many other things as well including a…

Is it time to hang up Dixons Carphone?

After figures for year to 31st March 2015. With the share price up 12% in only four months (an implied…

Looking for clouds on the horizon

Begin by placing your market telescope to your eye the right way around so as to magnify distant objects of…

Thomas Cook – Slow but positive progress against a very sad backdrop

The Thomas Cook (TCG) results for the second half and full year to 31st March 2015 appeared this week. I…

SSE – The results may be obscure and bewildering but the dividend looks very attractive

The first thing to report is that the SSE share price rose to 1,696p during the course of report day…

Is M&S finally back in fashion?

In the words of that great retailer Mr Grace of Grace Brothers Department Store, in the much loved BBC comedy…

How Sustainable is the British American Tobacco Dividend?

In anticipation of the first quarter results from British American Tobacco (BATS), I use the hiatus to cast an eye…

British Land at 876p – up with events in valuation terms but with some upward momentum

I have been a bull of British Land (BLND) ordinary shares because of quantitative easing - first in the UK…