The Agency On A Mission To Disrupt Real Estate
Perth-based real estate disruptor The Agency Limited (ASX: AU1) is a company on a mission, aiming to disrupt the real estate business by becoming the “mother ship” entity to a bevy of agents.
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Invion Tripping The Light To Fantastic Results
Australian biotech Invion Limited has had a busy 2018, and it expects to keep that momentum going in 2019.
Read MoreNew Fund Hits Corporate-Loans Fixed Income Sweet Spot For SMSFs
MCP Master Income Trust offers investors direct access to a diversified pool of Australian corporate debt. Alongside wholesale funds managed by MCP, the trust will lend directly to Australian corporate borrowers, and hold a diversified exposure of loans to Australian companies, diversified by borrower, industry and credit quality.
Read MoreAmcor Still The Full Package
Amcor now operates in 45 countries, including India, Malaysia, China and Argentina as well as countries in eastern Europe. The company is a play on global economic activity, but in a relatively resilient and defensive space. About one-third of revenue comes from the faster-growing emerging markets.
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Short-Term Pain Could Be Wellcom Opportunity For Investors
There’s a growing group of Australian services stocks doing excellent things in the global market, and Wellcom Group Limited (WLL) is certainly in that category. Wellcom is a global advertising and marketing creative production agency specialising in content creation and design. The company designs and produces advertising and marketing material for a wide range of customers who own brands, including household-name consumer goods and services businesses.
Read MoreBHP: Not Always A Blue-Chip, But Good Buying At The Moment
Having been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and its predecessor bodies for 132 years, BHP is an icon of the stock market. Every investor understands – or should understand – that successful participation in the stock market requires a long-term view. Even people who have no interest whatsoever in the share market could, if asked to identify an Australian stock, instantly come up with one: BHP.
Read MoreTreasury To Reward Further Cellaring
The turnaround at Treasury has seen the shares rise to levels just under $12, which capitalises the company at $8.8 billion and has delivered shareholders a return of 52% a year over the last three years.
Read MoreLatrobe Building On Valley Waste
With the imminent closure of the Hazelwood power station, there may not be much in the way of good economic news in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley at the moment, but the eponymous Latrobe Magnesium (LMG) hopes to change that.
Read MoreBroo Bounding Into China
Broo is a highly speculative stock, but it has significant upside potential in the Chinese market if consumers go for the Kangaroo-adorned beer.
Read MoreBuy Now, Pay Later Working For Afterpay
Established in 2015, Afterpay has developed a frictionless payments technology that enables shoppers to ‘buy now, receive now, pay later,’ in a manner that avoids using credit cards, borrowing any money, or paying any upfront fees or interest.
Read MorePlato Income Maximiser LIC Gets The Yield Philosophy Right
A listed investment company (LIC) with a difference is heading to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), with the imminent listing of Plato Income Maximiser Limited. While the Plato Income Maximiser is not the first income-oriented LIC on the exchange, it will be the first to target paying monthly franked dividends.
Read MoreCatapult Giving Investors A Sporting Chance
Catapult provides elite sporting organisations and athletes with detailed, real-time data and analytics to monitor and measure athletes. The founders behind Catapult invented this technology category in the early 2000s, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) to monitor and track the physiological performance of elite athletes.
Read MoreOnly Autumn, But Wealth Group Has Spring In Its Step
Spring Financial Group has grown steadily by expansion since listing in March 2015. The Financial Choice acquisition is Spring’s second major deal of 2017: the first was a revenue and equity-based JV with residential property manager Tessa Residential, to provide property management, letting agency and resale services to Spring’s clients.
Read MoreAfter Sudden Dimming, Beacon Building up the Lumens
Australia’s largest retailer of residential lighting and ceiling fans, Beacon Lighting Group (BLX), has followed a path on the share market in its listed life that is similar to several other small-cap floats in recent years: a successful debut, market euphoria, sudden disappointment through a profit downgrade, and price collapse.
Read MoreClassy Operator Set For Super Growth
The growth of SMSFs has given rise to a whole new industry, and this is where Class Limited (CL1) operates. Class develops cloud-based software solutions for the Australian wealth accounting market, specialising in software-as-a-service (SaaS) administration solutions that automate manual workloads, driving high levels of processing efficiency and scalability.
Read MoreBapcor Riding the Increasing Sum of the Parts
The business press may be full of stories indicating that retail is struggling in Australia, in the wake of an underwhelming Christmas season, but not every sector of the market is equally gloomy.
Read MoreElementos in its Element at Cleveland
Like many commodities, tin had a strong 2016, rising 60% in the second half of the year, mainly on the back of increased demand from Chinese economic stimulus encountering declining supply.
Read MoreParagon Of Care Set To Ride Surging Healthcare Spend
Healthcare gives every indication of being an investment no-brainer: Australia’s ageing population will provide tailwinds for decades to come, boosting the demand for drugs, surgeries, hospital beds and services such as pathology and radiology.
Read MoreAustin Rides Unexpected Mining Recovery To Better Outlook
Austin has manufacturing facilities in Australia, Indonesia and South America. The Australian facilities make, assemble, repair and maintain (on and off-site) products used in the mining and resources sector, with the main product lines including customised dump truck bodies, water tanks, excavator buckets and materials handling equipment.
Read MorePepper Looking Hot At Current Levels
Specialist financial services company Pepper Group (PEP) enjoyed a five-month honeymoon on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) after its July 2015 listing, but 2016 was not kind to the stock.
Read MoreMid & Small Caps Outperform In 2016
One of the quirks of the Australian stock market this year was the rediscovery by a lot of investors of the “other” stock market – the one outside the S&P/ASX 100.
Read MoreShark Mitigation Systems Aiming For Carefree Beach Days
It’s summer in Australia, which for many of us means the beach and all the enjoyment associated with it. But even though it is a very big ocean that surrounds our continent – actually, there are three of them – it is a rare beachgoer that doesn’t succumb to at least a fleeting through of the creatures with which we share those oceans.
Read MoreDevice Maker Uscom’s Time Finally Comes
It’s been a long and occasionally tough road on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) for medical device maker Uscom (UCM), but the company is poised for profitability, with its three major product lines selling into world markets.
Read MoreDroning On, to an Ever-Growing Market
There’s no doubting that drones are one of the technologies of the 2010s so far. As advances in technology have made drones smaller and more accessible, their use, and potential applications is swelling all the time – for purposes both good and not-so-good.
Read MoreConnecting High-Rate Borrowers with Yield-Seeking Investors
“Borrow short, lend long” is the banks’ mantra, but niche lender Investors Central has turned that around – it borrows long, and lends shorter.
Read MoreIn Mint Condition For Profit Breakthrough
Mint is arguably poised for big growth, and Asia is the focus of its attention. The addressable market is huge – the company says the global mPOS terminal market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32 per cent from 2015 to 2019.
Read MoreGetting The Disease Signature The Key For GSS
Yet another example of world-class Australian-developed biotechnology that is having an impact on the global market is Genetic Signatures Limited (GSS). The company’s 3base molecular scanning technology platform offers a quicker and more effective method for detecting entire classes of microbial species, allowing it to screen for a wide range of pathogens and diseases. The technology can potentially address a very large global market for molecular diagnostics (MDx) of human disease.
Read MorePental Cleaning up In Australia, China Next
Australian manufacturing is not dead. Not when the likes of Pental Limited (PTL) are still flourishing in business.
Read MoreIPH Trademarking Success in Asia
“Listed law firm” is not a phrase to gladden the heart of an investor, after Slater & Gordon’s 98 per cent plunge in just 12 months – March 2015 to March 2016 – and Shine Corporate’s 80 per cent plunge from grace, which took just a few minutes on January 29 this year.
Read MoreFirst Monash Investors Finding its Own Path to Market Success
It’s a fairly obvious truth in the funds management world, but not everybody wants to try it: to beat the index, you have to have a portfolio that differs from the index.
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