Family owned ASX companies are a rare breed. We're not talking about companies who had one or two founders who are still involved today but the company is still controlled by the same generation. We're talking about companies that have been in the same family for multiple decades, often multiple generations.
Such companies offer the advantage…
Blue Chip Stocks
If you invest in the Big Four Banks, it is likely that you are looking for two things: profit and dividends. That instinct is understandable, but it misses most of what actually matters. Banks are structurally unlike any other listed company. They borrow money at one rate and lend it at another, hold vast pools…
a2 Milk Company (ASX:A2M) recalled 63,078 tins of US label infant formula, but the direct financial impact looks contained.
Woolworths Group (ASX:WOW) A$18.1b Q3 sales, Middle East conflict adds cost pressure heading into Q4
Woolworths Group (ASX:WOW) has reported Q3 FY26 group sales of A$18.1 billion, up 4.5% on the prior year. Australian Food drove the result through 5.9% top-line growth, with eCommerce sales growing 23.8% and Everyday Rewards active members reaching a record 10.7 million.
The harder part of this update sits in the outlook section. The conflict…
With the ASX is shaping up for an unusually interesting IPO year in 2026, many investors are wondering how to buy an ASX IPO. In our market, there are early expectations centred on potential listings from Firmus, SkinKandy and BlackBull. These names sit in very different corners of the market, yet each has already generated…
The 50% CGT discount on shares is one of the key mechanisms that helps investors keep as much of their cash as they have earned on their investments. We felt that it was time to write a stand-alone article about this in light of the inflation crisis and how it could lead to investors seeking…
Is there any such thing as safe ASX stocks? Maybe not in the sense of being completely risk-free, but there are some that are doing better than others right now and they are in the minority.
Amidst the latest round of ASX trading updates (spanning consumer, infrastructure and energy), all investors are looking to see if…
ASX Confession Season got into full swing yesterday with Cochlear's guidance downgrade that saw over $4bn in shareholder value wiped out. It is that time that happens every year - a period that fund managers dread and short sellers quietly anticipate. It has no official name on the ASX calendar, no regulatory trigger, and no…
If you own shares in Cochlear (ASX:COH), you had a pretty bad morning. The company delivered one of the most significant earnings guidance downgrades in its listed history this morning, cutting its FY26 underlying net profit guidance to A$290–330m from a previously disclosed range of A$435–460m. The revision (a reduction of roughly 30% at the…
When we last wrote about Black Cat Syndicate (ASX:BC8) in December 2023, the company had just secured a A$60m equity investment from Chinese industry investors — a pivotal moment for a developer that had spent years assembling a multi-asset gold portfolio in Western Australia. Since then, BC8 has graduated from developer to producer, achieved first…
