Hear the term 'Activist investors' and you might think of GetUp, the progressive activist group that forced Woolworths to hold an EGM in 2014 in an attempt to limit the maximum bets on poker machines to $1. Or perhaps even of ESG-focused fundies like Australian Ethical (ASX:AEF). The reality is a lot more complicated and…
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Pepper Money's (ASX:PPM) promise to borrowers has been flexibility. You may not be 'good enough' to match the Big Banks' standards, but Pepper might be able to help. It had a >20 year history prior to its mid-2021 listing where it raised $500m at $2.89 per share, implying an A$1.3bn market capitalisation. And it has…
Ever since the Southern Cross Seven West Media Merger was announced back on Tuesday (September 30), it has been met with disappointment at best, anger and disgust at worst.
What's not to like? A pair of media companies are teaming up to give the best chance of survival in a highly competitive industry being disrupted by…
After a terrific FY24, FY25 was more difficult for Intelligent Monitoring Group (ASX:IMB) but it may have turned a corner.
In FY24, this company (which we will call IMG to avoid confusion with the Illawarra-based mutual bank IMB) made >$40m EBITDA, went from being the 3rd largest company in its industry to the largest and set…
Stocks that benefit from inflation do exist, but they might not be immediately obvious to find. After all, inflation can be a tricky economic phenomenon. It can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on various aspects of the economy, including investments. And even companies you think might benefit may not actually benefit from inflation.
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Poor Treasury Wine Estates (ASX:TWE) investors! After 3 and a half years of China's 200% tariffs on Australian wine imports, they were scrapped in March 2024. It was about this time we last wrote about the company and we posed the question: So is it now back to business as usual for one of Australia's…
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Maas Group (ASX:MGH) - Dubbo, NSW
This company is based at Dubbo and is named after its founder Wes who retains a stake of over 50% in the…
Myer (ASX:MYR) made headlines earlier this week after its FY25 results - shares fell >25%. Were results that bad? Maybe not that bad, but they manifested problems investors arguably thought either weren't as bad or closer to a resolution than they previously envisioned.
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Back in February 2024, Super Retail (ASX: SUL) reached an all time high after declaring it had new 'record' in sales, raking in about $2.02bn in 1H24. A lot has gone on since then including a 'confession' during confession season and the 'messy' departure of its CEO, but the company's shares are only down 6%…
Nearly 3 months since Virgin Australia (ASX:VGN) made its re-entrance to the ASX, there's little to complain about (unless you were one of those investors who got wiped out in 2020 when it went into administration and was bought by Bain Capital).
Despite analyst warnings about private equity IPOs, the mantra you should 'never buy an…
