Top 5 & Bottom 5 – ASX Top 200 This Week

By Christopher Hall | More Articles by Christopher Hall

The share market offers us endless investment opportunities which means there will always be winners and losers.

Here are the Top 5 and Bottom 5 from ‘The Market’ (ASX Top 200) this week.

The Market (XJO) is down 4.9% this fortnight
Top 5
Rank Code Description Two week performance
1 AMC Amcor Limited 4.62%
2 MPL Medibank Private Ltd 4.33%
3 CTX Caltex Australia 1.67%
4 JHX James Hardie Industries 1.12%
5 SYD SYD Airport 0.91%
Bottom 5
Rank Code Description Two week performance
46 OSH Oil Search Ltd -11.10%
47 S32 South32 Limited -11.34%
48 ORG Origin Energy -11.65%
49 ANZ ANZ Banking Grp Ltd -11.75%
50 WPL Woodside Petroleum -12.68%

Positive News:

AMC – Deutsche upgraded outlook and added to Top Picks list after FY results
MPL – New CEO appointed
CTX – Annual Report

Negative News:

OSH – Funding concerns for PnG resources
S32 – Deutsche and Morgan Stanley downgraded
ORG – half Year report, Moody’s reaffirms ORG’s credit rating, signs 15 year deal with NSW Solar Farm
ANZ – Bad Debt Increases, $5m pay out for fee errors
WPL – Credit Suisse downgraded.

About Christopher Hall

Christopher is head of equites at Spring Financial Group. Christopher has over 10 years' experience managing equities desks with thousands of retail clients and responsibility for maintaining and servicing retail and wholesale relationships.

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