Technology Eats the World: Global Mobility Accelerates 10/8/2023 Despite facing a raft of challenges including higher interest rates, inflationary pressures and a cooling global economy, the share prices of technology companies have shot higher this year....
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Viva Leisure’s share price lifts on strong 2023 results
Viva Leisure’s share price lifts on strong 2023 results 15/8/2023 Viva Leisure Limited (ASX: VVA) a market leader in the personal wellness industry, announced last Friday an impressive set of full year 2023 results. Despite cost of living and inflationary...
ASX Small Cap Analysis: Positive Earnings from ClearView Wealth & Centrepoint Alliance in 2023
ASX Small Cap Analysis: Positive Earnings from ClearView Wealth & Centrepoint Alliance in 2023 28/8/2023 In the recent ASX reporting season, two small-cap companies, ClearView Wealth and Centrepoint Alliance, showcased promising results. Although their...
Retirees are Staying with Stocks
The Wall Street Journal recently published a personal finance column entitled “America’s Retirees Are Investing More Like 30-Year-Olds'' that showed a marked change in the investment preferences of older Americans. In particular, it showed a strong trend...
Is this ASX small cap a potential takeover target?
Symbio Holdings (ASX: SYM) dropped a stunning 37.5% in a single session following a trading update on 20 December 2022. The communications software provider announced a sharp decrease in its expected FY23 operating earnings (EBITDA) with a decrease in the midpoint...
Dotcom 2.0 for Small Caps…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA) recently published a research paper showing that small cap stocks are now trading at a 20-year low versus their large-cap peers. In fact, the only other time in the last 50 years that small cap stocks were this cheap relative to...
Second-Level Thinking and US Homebuilders
The Standard & Poor’s Homebuilders exchange-traded fund (ETF), XHB, has increased by more than 30% in 2023 and 40% over the last 12 months. A number of homebuilder stocks such as PulteGroup (NYSE: PHM) and renowned value investor David Einhorn’s Green Brick...
A Rough Ride for Retailers
Australia’s unemployment rate has defied the doom and gloom predictions, falling to 3.6% in May from 3.7% in the prior month. Around 61,700 jobs were added across the country, most of which were full-time roles. The number of employed in Australia reached 14 million...
Tech Stock Performance 2023: A Closer Look at FAANG and Beyond
For the best part of 2022 investors could have been forgiven for thinking technology stocks only went down. From a previous sea of red, some green shoots have begun to emerge in technology stocks marking a notably positive beginning to 2023. Several factors...
Optimising Returns and Minimising Risks: The Importance of Asset Allocation in an Investor’s Journey
Successful investing goes beyond making smart decisions; it requires avoiding mistakes and adopting a mindset of longevity and endurance. While taking risks and investing optimistically are important for building wealth, keeping your wealth also demands a mix of...
Does Valuation Really Matter?
Crucial to successful investing is recognising the difference between price and value. In the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway letter to shareholders, legendary investor Warren Buffett wrote, “Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that price is what you pay; value is what you get.”...
Renewed Investor Enthusiasm: Lithium
With the world's growing reliance on alternative energy sources, the investment landscape is increasingly fixated on lithium. Lithium is integral to the batteries powering electric vehicles and much more. After steep declines in lithium prices to start the year,...