There are nonetheless loads of low cost shares on the FTSE 100 regardless of the latest rally, and I’m shopping for as many as I can afford.

I like going cut price trying to find cut-price UK shares. This fashion, I keep away from the danger of paying for frothy, overpriced shares. Usually, I’ll get a better yield too.

It’s not a assured successful technique although. Low cost shares are sometimes low cost for a motive. Turning round a struggling firm takes time. Worth buyers like me want luggage of endurance.

FTSE 100 bargains

Currently, I’ve been busy loading up my self-invested private pension (SIPP). Now I’m turning my consideration to this yr’s Shares and Shares ISA.

Wanting on the FTSE 100 as we speak, one inventory leaps out at me. Oil and gasoline large BP (LSE: BP) trades at simply 6.6 instances earnings. That’s properly under the 15 instances usually seen as truthful worth. The share price has been falling in latest weeks, a interval when Brent crude dipped under $80 a barrel. Over 12 months, the BP share price is down marginally, falling 0.25%.

I believe this can be a shopping for alternative however there’s one underlying danger. The world is meant to be weaning itself off fossil fuels. BP is constructing its renewables capability, however not half as quick as campaigners would really like. It is aware of the carbon transition can be pricey and dangerous.

Final week, the Worldwide Vitality Company predicted that oil demand will peak by 2029, resulting in a significant provide glut. If appropriate, that will be a blow for giant oil. It could be good for the planet however I’m not completely satisfied it can occur. The world appears to be utilizing extra power than ever, and wishes each supply it may get together with fossils. Oil can be with us for a very long time but. So will BP, for my part.

High worth shares 

Like many commodity shares, the BP share price may be cyclical. That’s why I’d quite purchase when the oil price is down and the inventory is out of favour, as seems to be the case as we speak. The dividend outlook is constructive with a forecast yield of 5.23% in 2024 and 5.56% in 2025. The board has been beneficiant with the share buybacks too.

BT isn’t the one low cost blue-chip providing a mighty yield as we speak. China-focused financial institution HSBC Holdings trades at simply seven instances earnings and yields 6.91%. Tobacco maker Imperial Manufacturers Group trades at 7.5 instances earnings and yields 7.1%. Mining large Rio Tinto trades at 9.1 instances earnings and yields 6.57%. I might go on.

Let’s say I scraped collectively each spare penny and was in a position to make investments my full £20,000 ISA allowance, not this yr however in future years as properly.

The long-term common whole return on the FTSE 100 is 6.9%. It’s not assured, but when I matched that, it will take me 21 years to make one million. I’d have £1,029,374.

If my hand-picked portfolio of low cost shares outperformed the index and grew at 9% a yr, I’d get there in simply over 18 years. No time to lose then.