The acquisition that Adavale Resources (ASX:ADD) made back in November 2024 was nothing short of masterful. This junior explorer announced that it had picked up 354.15 sq km of gold and copper prospective ground out near Parkes in western NSW, around 350 km west of Sydney.
The licenses sat between three of Australia's largest gold/copper mines:…
Health insurance stocks are facing a big dilemma right now. On one hand patients don't want to pay more, but private hospitals want them to pay more. What's new about that, you might ask? Well, the collapse of Healthscope has bought this issue to the forefront, and something will have to give sooner or later.
Of…
Donald Trump's attempts to restrict foreign students at Harvard just shows what IDP Education (ASX:IEL) has been grappling with since late 2021.
At that time, students were restricted from travel, and so enrollments dipped, but the hope was that things would get back to normal. And the irony is that IDP (despite dipping during the Corona…
Let's take a look at 5 under the radar ASX 200 shares you probably never knew existed!
The ASX 200 is home to the top 10% of stocks on the ASX. Whilst many of them would be obvious and well known - the big banks, the big miners and even the biggest health and tech stocks…
Reliance Worldwide (ASX:RWC) is one of the companies with the most upside to interest rates. We have argued that it was a good stock to hold amidst record-high inflation. As a plumbing supplies company, it can easily pass costs on to customers because emergency plumbing works typically can't be put off.
But macroeconomic difficulties led to…
Near the northwest Queensland town of Julia Creek, QEM (ASX:QEM) has a 250km2 project covering one of the single largest vanadium deposits in the world today. The project (JCVEP - Julia Creek Vanadium and Energy Project) has a significant resource, offtake products with potential to serve several industries, the promise of significant financial terms as…
The so-called Big Four Banks on the ASX are among the ASX's most prominent companies.
They are capitalised at nearly $400bn collectively, record among the largest profits of any listed company and are renowned for being the most significant dividend payers.
At the same time, they are among the most highly-regulated and scrutinised Australian companies.
So of all…
Investing in IPOs offers the opportunity for investors to make gains they couldn't make with any other company, but also offer a risk of making significant losses which you may not be able to recoup. They're also a major milestone for companies involved, as they not only provide access to significant amounts of capital but…
What are the best REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts)? And what even are REITs? They are a type of security that invests in real estate. REITs can provide investors with an attractive source of income, diversification and the potential for long term capital appreciation. Furthermore, they offer all these advantages with far more liquidity than…
Investors have just heard about TopCo, a company being born from $14bn merger of Brickworks (ASX:BKW) and Washington H. Soul Pattinson (ASX:SOL). For now the combined ASX company will be called TopCo but will eventually adopt the latter's name.
A combination of the two seemed inevitable for many years, given their close affiliation - the former is…
