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Plus500 - Has returned an incredible 11.5x its IPO market value via dividends and buy-backs!

October 2024

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

Plus500 is an incredible animal on the London market. According to Jefferies, “No company listed in London has provided higher distributions over the past decade.” Listed in 2013 at 115p, it has generated a cumulative US$2.7bn net profit, US$3.4bn net cash and returned US$2.3bn to shareholders (11.5 times its original US$200m market cap) via US$1.5bn in dividends and US$0.8bn in share buy-backs while the shares have also gained 2100% post float. Oh and it’s just increased guidance for its full year. Plus500 is not some hot AI tech stock or the successor to Apple or Amazon or Google but it was founded in 2008 by six alumni of the Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology - with an initial investment of US$400,000. It is an online ...

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