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Marc Kennis

Marc Kennis is one of the Co-Founders of Stocks Down Under and has been an equities analyst since 1996, predominantly covering Semiconductors, Technology, Consumer Electronics and Medical Equipment. Prior to founding Stocks Down Under, Marc worked for various brokers and banks in the Netherlands, including ING and Rabobank, and co-founded Pitt Street Research in 2016. Marc obtained an MSc in Economics from Tilburg University, Netherlands in 1996 and a postgraduate degree in investment analysis in 2001.

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Cyber Monday is the new Black Friday

3 December 2020 Every last Friday of November, right after Thanksgiving in the United States, shoppers around the world go nuts on Black Friday sales. Black Friday derived its name from the term “into the black”, which refers to becoming profitable as this has historically been the one day retailors could count on massive sales and…

ByMarc KennisDecember 3, 20200Comments

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Our top 5 emerging iron ore plays

2 December 2020 One of the more remarkable things to have happened in the commodities world in recent days has been the rise in the iron ore price. Back in early April 2020 it was trading at US$81 a tonne, where ‘it’ was 63.5% Fe iron ore fines with the price of freight included when delivered…

ByMarc KennisDecember 2, 20200Comments

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Copper – the world needs more of it

30 November 2020 Times have been good the last eight months or so if you’re a copper producer. Back in late March, during the Corona Crash, copper got down to nearly US$2 a pound on Comex, one of the main futures markets for copper. Since then, the re-rating has been steady and as at late November…

ByMarc KennisNovember 30, 20200Comments

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Oil is making a comeback

27 November 2020 Not long ago we joked that Hollywood movie producers wanted to do a remake of the 1987 film Less than Zero, with the US oil benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) replacing the Robert Downey Jr. character from the original film. What we were referring to was that historic day on Monday 20 April…

ByMarc KennisNovember 27, 20200Comments

Technology Uncategorized

Weebit Nano: Firing on all cylinders

27 November 2020 Stocks Down Under subscribers will know that we have a soft spot for ASX-listed semiconductor companies. Many of them have developed technologies that we believe have great commercial potential and, importantly, most of them are still not well-understood by the Australian investment public. As a consequence, many of these stocks are still mispriced,…

ByMarc KennisNovember 27, 20200Comments

Life Sciences Uncategorized

Pfizer delivers the goods on a COVID-19 vaccine

10 November 2020 One of the reasons investors can be optimistic about 2021 is the speed with which the first of the Covid-19 vaccines delivered Phase 3 data. On Monday 9 November the American pharmaceutical major Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) announced the results of an interim analysis showing that the BNT162b2 vaccine was more than 90% effective…

ByMarc KennisNovember 10, 20200Comments

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Bank of Queensland: On the road to recovery

27 October 2020 Since our four-star rating back in March, a lot has gone right for the Bank of Queensland (ASX: BOQ). Back then we felt the company had taken too much of a beating when it seemed things were starting to turn around and the FY20 results proved us right. While statutory profit declined 61%…

ByMarc KennisOctober 27, 20200Comments

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AfterPay’s brave new world

25 October 2020 Last week, AfterPay’s (ASX: APT) share reached our price target as it shot through the $100 barrier. The company announced a deal with WestPac (ASX: WBC) that outlined the collaboration between the two companies. Starting in the second quarter of 2021, AfterPay will be launching new financial products for its customers, including savings…

ByMarc KennisOctober 25, 20200Comments

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The New Zealand one-way bubble, a symbolic victory for Qantas that changes nothing

17 October 2020 On 16 October 2020, around 350 passengers across three commercial flights from New Zealand touched down in Sydney. Only in 2020 would this be considered significant as these passengers did not have to go through any quarantine period. However, before investors cry havoc and release the bulls of the market on Qantas Airways…

ByMarc KennisOctober 17, 20200Comments

Resources Uncategorized

President Jinping, BHP, Aurizon and the transformation of the world energy market.

12 October 2020 On Tuesday, 22 September 2020, President Xi Jinping of China made a significant, and slightly surprising announcement to the world at the pulpit of the United Nations General Assembly. While the speech itself was predicted, it was scheduled among other major world leader speeches, after all, the surprising bit was President…

ByMarc KennisOctober 12, 20200Comments