Sky Business with Ticky Fullerton featuring Roger Montgomery: 13 June 2018
Roger joined Ticky Fullerton on Sky Business to discuss Telstra. With the investor day shortly approaching will the dividend be cut even further?
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Roger Montgomery is the Founder and Chairman of Montgomery Investment Management. Roger has over three decades of experience in funds management and related activities, including equities analysis, equity and derivatives strategy, trading and stockbroking. Prior to establishing Montgomery, Roger held positions at Ord Minnett Jardine Fleming, BT (Australia) Limited and Merrill Lynch.
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Max Zan
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Hi Roger
The NBN rollout when completed will cost in the range of $50 – $60 Billion and the Government is wanting NBN Co to achieve a mandated commercial return – I’m not 100% sure what that return is, but vaguely remember reading somewhere that 6% was the target. Based on how things are going NBN Co has no hope in hell of achieving a commercial return. WHY ? – because like any infrastructure project Governments get involved in, they end up costing a fortune and then it’s impossible to achieve a commercial return. It’s the same old story with NBN Co.
You mentioned that the Government wants to eventually divest NBN Co – Who would want to buy it for $50 – $60 Billion if it can’t achieve a commercial return???
Divesting would involve the Government first writing down the value of the NBN network to entice a sale , but that will involve the Government of the day taking a big hit to the budget bottom line. Can you see the Government of the day doing that ???? It may not have a choice if it wants to divest, so expect the national debt to keep rising.