These days, I hear many commentators say it’s hard to find value in the market. But if you look hard enough, it’s still possible to find a gem. One of these is IMDEX (IMD), a global mining-tech company.  With a strong management team, an attractive product suite, high returns, and a net cash position, IMDEX could be set for a significant step-up in earnings growth. Continue…

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Between 2012 and 2016, mortgage lending standards were relaxed fuelling a domestic property investing boom. Together with a surge in offshore buying interest, a property and construction boom led to oversupply and frequent warnings from your author. The oversupply is now hitting the property market at the same time that bank lending standards have been tightened, property prices are falling, quality has been found wanting and building approvals have plunged. Continue…

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In my video blog last week, I discussed why the major banks had not passed on the recent RBA rate cuts in full. This is due to an increasing proportion of each bank’s funding base approaching zero or close to zero interest rates. As most bank customers would know, transaction and traditional savings accounts pay little or no interest at present. This fixes the funding cost of these deposits for the banks irrespective of what the RBA does in terms of lowering its official overnight rate. Continue…

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Roger Montgomery has written extensively about the profitless Unicorns – recent start-ups like Slack Technologies, Uber, Lyft, Peloton and WeWork – which are yet to produce predictable or sustainable cash flow. The table below details each of these companies’ share price movements from their recent peak, their current market capitalisation, their recent quarterly revenue on an annualised basis, and finally the ratio of the current market capitalisation to annualised revenue. Continue…

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Super Retail Group (ASX:SUL) is one of Australia’s best-performing listed retailers.  And that was borne out again in its latest trading update, which revealed growing sales across all its franchises. However, margins are starting to come under pressure as the business seeks to grow market share. Continue…

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As regular readers know, we’re not great fans of profitless ‘Unicorns’ – the name given to startups valued at over $1 billion – like Tesla, Slack, Uber, Peloton, Lyft and WeWork. For a long time we’ve been hyper-critical of these companies in our blogs, The Australian, Professional Planner and Money Magazine. And, as that latest from WeWork reveals, boy have our concerns been justified! Continue…

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Roger Montgomery joined Ross Greenwood on Money News to discuss the WAAAX stocks. What’s implied in the price of these companies is that once they grow revenue and market share they will have the market to themselves. Although this isn’t the case, take a look at Uber for example – there are many competitors.

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