With the end-of-financial-year reporting season upon us, it’s often good to have a game plan going for when each of the companies you own publishes their full-year financial results. In particular, research has shown that investors often struggle with deciding whether...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Electrical products distributor and services provider, IPD Group Ltd (ASX: IPG) was listed in December 2021 and is an ASX rarity: the company has seen sustained share price growth since its IPO despite the market turmoil of 2022, especially in small caps. Last week...
Investing in small-cap stocks can be a rollercoaster ride. Aside from their ability to generate outsized returns, Micro and small caps tend to be more volatile, experience larger downturns, and have lower liquidity than their larger counterparts. And it is times like...
One of the advantages of investing in smaller companies is that their share prices typically move less in line with the overall share market (i.e. they are less correlated). Instead, their performance is more driven by the individual company’s operations. Smaller...
While the S&P/ASX 200 is only around 3.5% shy of its all-time high back in August 2021, the last 18 months have been a bumpy ride for most investors. The effects of tighter monetary policy (including a 10th consecutive interest rate rise by the RBA), waning of the...
Australia’s big four banks recently released their financial results for the first half of the 2023 financial year (second half of the 2022 calendar year). While the share prices of ANZ, NAB and Westpac are largely unchanged from a few years ago (and CBA has shown a...
Australian small-cap shares aren’t normally household names and don’t get the same media attention as the big banks and miners that dominate the ASX 200. However, keen investors can find opportunities in these smaller companies for better returns than blue-chip...
We continue sticking to the insurance thematic this week by looking at the other giant in the Australian market: IAG. We will continue using the same template as last week in assessing this business and its reports. The simple/straightforward equation: Profit = Earned...
