If there’s one thing holding back the electrical vehicle sector it’s ‘range anxiety’ – the sickly feeling that you’re not going to make it to the next sparsely-located charging station and will spend the night by a lonely verge. Show More
With the parched conditions lingering in some key farming regions, it’s becoming a case of the water haves and have-nots for the key listed agriculture plays. Show More
Small companies continue to attract attention from investors while large caps deal with sector specific and macro headwinds. I took the opportunity to fire 10 questions at Chris Prunty who is a portfolio manager at QVG Capital - a specialist small cap investment firm. Show More
Tech - it’s a sector that local investors just love to hate, but if you didn’t own a handful of these high PE names of late you missed out on some stellar price action. In August just four technology stocks generated ~60% of the returns for the small ords. Show More
While a fresh report on the childcare sector highlights a dearth of places for under two year olds in some non-urban regions, oversupply is emerging in the main cities and the three listed childcare providers are howling with pain. Show More
Four Pillars, beware: the low-key payments services house is applying for a banking licence under a new restricted ‘P plate’ category aimed at supporting the growth of the fintech sector. Show More
Food Revolution Group (FOD), trading at 9.5c, the producer of all-Australian juices, fibres and “infused fruits” is getting serious about China, having entered a distribution deal with Daigou channel Health More. Show More
Online travel agent Webjet (WEB) has been a phenomenal performer with the share price up over 300% in the last three years, compared to the ASX Small Ords Accumulation Index which is up 60% (obviously not a return to be baulked at either!). Show More
Until Seek came along, recruiting was pretty much about bunging an ad in Saturday’s classifieds and sifting candidates based on their ability to write a semi-coherent application. Show More
We wouldn’t say it’s gone to pot, but the ASX-listed cannabis sector is facing a much-needed reality check as investors realise that the medical marijuana aspirants need more than a ‘grow it and they will come’ strategy. Show More
Despite the multitude of worries in the world, the gold price in $US terms continues to be under pressure, trading about 2.7 percent below its level of a year ago and about 10 percent off its January peak. Show More
Zenith Energy (ASX:ZEN) builds, owns and operates (BOO) remote energy power stations for a range of industries including the resources industry. Clients include Newmont Mining, Chevron, Northern Star, Independence Group, Incitec Pivot and Dacian Gold, among others. The group currently has an owned installed generation capacity base of 183MW in... Show More
Funds oriented to growth stocks such Hamish Douglass’s Magellan have been the rock stars in recent times, which makes value funds such as Templeton the crooner on stage at the RSL club belting out hits from the 1960s. Show More
Sigma Healthcare has put a brave face on the loss of a chemist supply contract that accounts for about 40 percent of its revenue, arguing that there wasn’t much point refreshing the deal if it wasn’t going to make a decent margin out of it. Show More
To the chagrin of UK motorists, Smart Parking was on to what Arthur Daly would dub a nice little earner: sign up a client such as a shopping centre, install technology such as automated number plate recognition and reap the rewards from issuing infringement notices. Show More
The number one imperative of managing staff is not to provide the troops with chocolate biscuits in the tea room or a subsidised gym, but to pay them accurately and on time. Show More
Leigh Creek management must be feeling like Fortescue Metals founder Andrew Forrest on opening his Cloudbreak mine, after an analyst earlier opined he would safely lie on the railway track to the site because the mine would never be built. Show More
In March 2017 Ben Griffiths found himself in a deeply uncomfortable position. For the first time since inception 15 years ago his small cap portfolio was badly lagging the benchmark. Sentiment had violently swung against his stocks and Griffiths was facing a tough decision – hold the current course or... Show More
With Mortgage Choice joining the casualty list of high-profile franchised operations, investors are pondering just how low the mortgage broker’s shares can go following reports of a looming franchisee revolt. Show More
Quickstep Holdings (QHL) 7.5c: Quickstep’s recently-appointed CEO gives a succinct explanation for why shares in the Bankstown Airport based carbon composites maker are trading at close to record lows. Show More