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[Date] 03/8/2015 23:26 [Author] fjgooner [Subject] 
Who cares what the share price does in the next few minutes / hours / days / weeks? That's concern for the spiv speculators, whether long or short. For real investors, the combined Shell / BG group is going to be massively powerful. For 20 to 40 years to come. View the Q2 Results video presentation|: http://www.shell.com/global/aboutshell/investor/news-and-library/presentations-2015/royal-dutch-shell-plc-second-quarter-2015-results.html There's a very strong guarantee of the dividend being maintained at current levels or greater until 2017. And preserving its unique record of always maintaining or increasing its dividend in every single year and every single crisis since the end of World War Two. What a record. From 2017 onwards there's a share buyback program pencilled in of 25 Billion. Note carefully the comments about how there isn't really a market - future let alone spot - on LNG prices. More than 80% of these contracts are multi-year, bespoke and market agnostic. That makes the BG acquisition even more strategically sound in the near term. A rapid positive contribution to cashflow straight from the off, if you like. That said, on the oil side, $50 Brent will of course continue to weigh on results if maintained for several quarters, rather than a couple of months. But medium term even that may be good for the strongest operators such as Shell in seeing the retirement of weaker competitors. The recovery, when it comes, will be even more generous in its rewards. I retain a healthy holding for 6.5% plus dividends and a capital gain of >50% when Barclays latest, reiterated target for Shell is reached. Whether that be one year or five years hence really doesn't matter. That's the beauty of holding a financial giant paying reliable and strong dividends.
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