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A retail stock benefiting from the reopening of economies
Stuart Jackson
December 9, 2020
In this week’s video insight Stuart discusses Universal Store Holdings, a recent listing on the ASX. While apparel has generally been a lagging segment of the retail market this year, casual and active wear have been the stronger components within the apparel market. Universal’s focus on streetwear has helped to through this period. Despite a material impact on sales during the lockdown period, Universal has performed very well with store sales bouncing back to year-on-year growth just 2 weeks after the 5-week lockdown ended. continue…
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Our top picks in the mining services space
Dominic Rose
December 7, 2020
Surging commodity prices and a deep infrastructure pipeline support a positive medium-term outlook for contractors, a sector which has broadly lagged the market recovery. Here, we share our preferred businesses – we favour players with strong management teams, scaled business with ability to take market share as the cycle strengthens.
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Have travel restrictions impacted Atlas Arteria’s value?
Andreas Lundberg
December 3, 2020
In this week’s video insight Andreas discusses Atlas Arteria’s major asset, the 31 per cent stake in APRR, a 2300 km motorway network in France. Coronavirus travel restrictions have seen Atlas Arteria’s first-half revenues decline 25 per cent. But is the worst over? continue…
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Freedom Foods – significant control deficiencies cost $591.5m
David Buckland
December 2, 2020
The meaningless historical accounts signed off by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, came to a head on Monday 30 November when Freedom Foods Group Limited (ASX: FNP) released its Annual Report for the year to 30 June 2020. continue…
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Why Flight Centre shares are soaring again
Joseph Kim
December 1, 2020
The good news on coronavirus vaccines has boosted the value of travel stocks, like Flight Centre (ASX:FLT), Webjet (ASX:WEB) and Corporate Travel (ASX:CTD). While a return to normal is still a fair way off, many investors clearly don’t seem to mind, and are looking ahead to better times. So, are they being realistic, or is this a case of irrational exuberance? continue…
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The consumer businesses that should thrive in 2021
Roger Montgomery
November 30, 2020
The COVID-19 lockdowns brought massive changes to consumer behaviour this year. Now, the economic re-opening is bringing a new set of changes. These should benefit many of the consumer businesses that suffered during the lockdowns, thus providing some great opportunities for investors. Let’s look at some of the businesses that should thrive in 2021. continue…
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Lovisa supercharges their European growth
David Buckland
November 26, 2020
Early this year Lovisa Holdings Limited (ASX:LOV) celebrated its tenth birthday and this coincided with the Company’s share price hitting a pandemic low in March 2020 of $2.45. It has since rallied 4.5-fold to the current $11.20, giving a market capitalisation on 107.5 shares of $1.2 billion. continue…
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Is Qantas returning to normal, or something better?
Tim Kelley
November 23, 2020
Back in May, we wrote about potential investment merit in Qantas, noting that, while airlines do not readily fit into the “exceptional business” category, we could see good reasons why an investor might be attracted to Qantas (ASX:QAN) at the mid-$3 price that prevailed at the time. continue…
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Why our confidence in EML has increased
Dominic Rose
November 20, 2020
News of a potentially highly effective COVID-19 vaccine has provided a welcomed boost for so called ‘out and about’ stocks which are viewed as key beneficiaries of an economic re-opening scenario. Over the past few months, the Montgomery Small Companies Fund has been busy seeking ‘vaccine insurance’ to position the portfolio further towards the re-opening trade. continue…
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Winners and losers from vaccine announcements
Joseph Kim
November 17, 2020
In a year full of big moves and volatile share prices, last Tuesday saw one of the biggest disparities in the share price performance of the so called “growth vs value” stocks. The spark was the announcement from the Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine, which led to a significant rotation into the traditional “value” stocks, funded largely by profit taking in many growth stocks. continue…
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