Lottery ticket reseller Jumbo took the right decision to align itself with traditional partner Tatts Group rather than aggressive challenger Lottoland. Meanwhile, digital promotions house OtherLevels believes that a clamp on wagering advertising will be good for business
Read MoreSome argue that nickel is a more important component in electric vehicle batteries than lithium or graphite. Whatever the case, nickel stocks have found their groove although they remain vulnerable to renewed market volatility.
Read MoreAnother form of crypto craziness, or a more respectable iteration of bitcoin and its many cousins? Just as the listed bitcoin sector emerged from the depths of the cyber haze in 2017, 2018 is shaping up as the year of the blockchain – the underlying technology supporting crypto currencies.
Read MoreFrom heavy duty oil and gas equipment to making figurines of Richmond cult hero Dustin Martin, the use of 3D printing technology is boundless.
Read MoreYour crusty columnist really must widen his social circle from his ageing acquaintances, as he had never heard of US rap artist Danielle Bregoli or Indian actor and singer Chinmayi Sripaada.
Read MoreJudging from a yarn told by Adherium CEO Arik Anderson, the respiratory medicine monitoring house has more consumer education to do despite moving 100,000 units of its Smartinhaler asthma devices to date.
Read MoreAn ASX newcomer is offering an exposure to both the taxi and ride share sectors at a time when listed stalwart Cabcharge is fighting back. Which stock represents the ‘farest’ value?
Read MoreSuch is the fragmented nature of the $10 billion car dealership industry that the biggest dealer chain – the Perth based Automotive Holdings – still only accounts for 6 per cent of the market.
Read MoreThe Perth-based stalwart’s main prize remains lithium but its shorter term revenues lie with an industrial metal few outside of the oil and gas industry have heard of: caesium.
Read More“And what for? A little bit of money” despaired Fargo’s original heroine cop Margie Gunderson after witnessing some truly gruesome work involving a woodchipper.
Read MoreBPS chief Trevor Dietz says it’s now “peace in our time” after a bruising shareholder revolt that almost saw the board of the Gold Coast based payments company overthrown at a recent shareholder meeting.
Read MoreThe paradox around one of the greenest of ASX listed stocks is that its planned biomass operation will rely on waste feedstock from Malaysian palm oil – not the most politically correct of industries.
Read MoreLike any self-respecting miner, Mike Jones experienced his Pilbara gold epiphany at the front bar of Kalgoorlie’s Palace Hotel late one night during August’s Diggers & Dealers bash.
Read MoreJust as diamonds are compacted carbon, sapphires are derived from alumina subject to immense heat and like diamonds they can also be grown artificially.
Read MoreValue conscious investment legend Warren Buffett would be proud of the listed investment company’s rationale for not charging any base or performance management fees.
Read MoreWhile dirty coal enjoys a rehabilitation of sorts, here’s one for the body beautiful brigade that could do with a valuation boost.
Read MoreWith a powerful September quarter performance, the ASX-listed South African coal miner is defying both the investor gloom pervading the sector and fears that its home country is too risky a place to do business.
Read MoreWith a mere 9.5 million shares on issue, the schools communication specialist can’t be accused of recklessly diluting investors with serial capital raisings.
Read MoreThe news that ANZ Bank will divest most of its wealth management arm to IOOF is sweet music to HUB24 chief Andrew Alcock, because it reflects how the banks are distracted in the all-important ‘platform’ sector.
Read MoreThe Johns Lyng group is well known in insurance circles for its restoration building businesses, but majority owner Scott Didier has built a wider web of enterprises than most folk would appreciate.
Read MoreThe well-backed Latin American car classifieds house had a compelling yarn to tell when it listed in December 2014, given the region’s rapidly rising rates of both car ownership and internet penetration.
Read MoreValued in the books at $39m, Featherdale is a valuable asset for Elanor, a property group otherwise covering more conventional assets such as hotels and warehouses.
Read MoreThe head of WA nickel producer Panoramic Resources, Peter Harold is now watching more commodity prices than just the metals index.
Read MoreWhat’s in a corporate name – or in this case a symbol?
Read MoreThe only pure-play, ASX-listed ATM operator, Stargroup sniffs an opportunity in the big banks’ decision to abolish foreign ATM fees at an estimated collective cost to their revenue of $120m a year.
Read MoreSchrole Group (SCL) not yet listed
Read MoreManufacturing isn’t dead in Australia: it’s just employing far fewer workers.
Read MoreThe latest aspirant to the bulging listed medical cannabis sector is bow-wow-wowing to a new trend of developing veterinary drugs over human therapies. But there are regulatory implications for all the pot stocks.
Read MoreSenSen Networks (not yet listed)
Read MoreA pregnant pause, or the advent of a more permanent decline?
Read MoreIn the circle of life, every organic being must die and that makes the country’s dominant funeral and crematoria provider the ultimate defensive stock.
Read MoreThere are plenty of cases of human drugs being repurposed for veterinary use, but not so much the other way around. That makes PharmAust different to other early stage drug developers as it targets cancer treatments for both people and their four-legged friends.
Read MorePorkers of the world rejoice! If Anatara’s drug rollout goes to plan, soon their short lives in the sty will be healthier and just that little bit longer.
Read MoreThe last thing your columnist wants to know is the true gruesome extent of his middle age spread, but there are plenty of exponents of the body beautiful who want an accurate measure of weight loss.
Read MoreIn a variation of the coals-to-Newcastle theme, this eclectic multi-commodity resource house plans to ship one million tonnes of sand from PNG to Sydney.
Read MoreWhich bank is the most “unquestionably strong” of its ASX-listed cohorts on a capital adequacy basis and also produces the highest net interest margins and sector-leading lending growth?
Read MoreThe best-performing ASX stock of 2015, ResApp has joined the list of biotech stocks suffering an embarrassing – and surprising – clinical setback.
Read MoreSpeaking of water, about the only Australian aspect of the globalized, New York headquartered Fluence (formerly Emefcy) is it happens to be listed on the ASX.
Read MoreA feature of this upcoming agrarian IPO is that unlike the last several hundred small-cap tech listings, it’s not being spruiked as a ‘cloud’ or ‘software as a service’ based offering or a robotics story.
Read MoreNorthern Cobalt (not yet listed) The latest cobalt offering is testing ongoing investor appetite for the battery ingredient, in a climate in which investors are becoming more educated and more discerning about battery wonder metals and blue-sky promises.
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