Chemist Warehouse is now ASX listed - 14 months since the plan to list was first unveiled. Australia's largest pharmacy chain had long been mulled as an IPO candidate. But - with IPO conditions less than ideal - it chose to list via a reverse takeover of Sigma Healthcare (ASX:SIG). The irony is that despite…
Teaminvest Private (ASX:TIP) may not be as prominent an investment company as Magellan or Wilson, but perhaps it has not been getting the attention it deserves.
Originating roughly 2 decades ago as an informal club of business owners for investment education and stock-picking purposes, it has evolved into a company with $1.6bn in funds in its…
Edge AI chip maker Kinara is being bought by NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ:NXPI) for US$307m, or nearly A$500m. NXP, a Dutch semiconductor manufacturer that is US listed and capped at over US$50bn, announced the all-cash purchase earlier this week. We think this is good news for ASX companies working on Edge AI chips, like Nanoveu (ASX:NVU).
Why…
Its not every day you see four industry oligopolists publicly announcing they're eyeing off a single commercial asset, let alone working together to see if it could be viable, but that's what is happening with the Huntly Power Station.
Huntly Power Station: The largest such facility in New Zealand
Huntly has been producing energy (mostly via…
Nick Scali (ASX:NCK) is the second company we've written about this week that is trying to expand into the UK.
Nick Scali has doubled in the last 5 years, and a big part of this growth can be attributed to the furniture boom during the pandemic. Its sales have doubled from ~$250m to ~$500m in that…
As governments around the country spend money like there's no tomorrow (no bill to repay), the prospect of credit rating downgrades is realistic.
Don't take our word for it, take the agencies' own words. One of them, S&P, has come out and said as such - yes, the same S&P that 'manages' the S&P 500 in…
The ASX may be 'officially' open for only 6 hours a day, but after hours trading extends it significantly. In this article we look at the phenomenon generally and how it works both on the ASX and internationally.
What is after hours trading?
After hours trading, also known as extended hours trading, refers to the buying…
Australia's Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&D Tax Incentive) regime can be useful for pre-commercialisation companies serving as a non-dilutive source of funding.
Progressing new medical treatments or technologies to market is not a cheap exercise and it can be difficult to secure funding from investors (either debt or equity). Even if a company can secure…
What are Franking Credits? Those pesky things that allegedly decided the 2019 election after uproars from investors, led by Geoff Wilson. Are they just some kind of rorting mechanism that help the rich get richer? Or are they the things that 'save the bacon' so far as investing in particular ASX dividend stocks are concerned?…
Vinyl Group (ASX: VNL) is the only ASX-listed company offering exposure to the music technology and media industries. It has undergone a major transformation in 18 months, now a business with a curated portfolio of interconnected brands that empower everyone in the music ecosystem.
Vinyl Group's brands
Vinyl has several brands. The most important are:
- Jaxsta:…
