The ASX's 3 pathology stocks: Sonic Healthcare (ASX:SHL), Healius (ASX:HLS) and Australian Clinical Labs (ASX:ACL); have delivered a torrid experience for shareholders over the past two to three years.
Sonic, the global heavyweight, has fallen nearly 20% since early 2025 and recently traded at decade lows. Healius, long the sector’s problem child, has lost more than…
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Investing in Qantas (ASX: QAN) means dealing with the Middle East crisis, more so than any other share market industry. Up until now, the company had said little to investors, until it released a significant market update this morning (April 14 2026), revising its outlook for the second half of FY26 in response to the…
EML Payments (ASX:EML) investors who have held shares for the last 5 years have lost 90% of their money and today capped off that long-term decline. In April 2021, the company hit all time highs, but the CBI regulatory shock that came in May of that year changed everything. Since then, the company has promised…
Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure (ASX:DBI) is often misunderstood. It is not a coal company and it does not behave like one. It is a regulated, inflation‑linked toll road for coal exports, collecting fees whether or not a tonne moves across the wharf. In a year defined by geopolitical shocks and volatile commodity markets, that distinction has…
Add a new term to your vocabulary: The Iran Ceasefire Rally. The rally on the ASX yesterday, that saw our bourse rise over 2.5% in its best day in several months, occurred amidst a 2 week suspension of hostilities in Iran. And the ASX was not alone with Asian markets and North American futures rallying,…
Almost every Guzman y Gomez trading update since it listed has resulted in volatile share price movements one way or the other. And today was no exception. But only weeks after falling 14% off the back of 1H26 results, today's Q3 sales figures sent shares up 20% in early trade. What's the story here? Have…
Australian Active Fund Managers are struggling, make no mistake. Hitting home the point yesterday were reports that Ox Capital Management — a boutique emerging markets specialist led by veteran investor Joseph Lai; had entered formal wind-up proceedings on March 27 2026.
This wind up was not the first, and likely won't be the last. So each…
Investors asked to name ASX 200 stocks winning during the Iran war would likely think of oil and gas stocks, benefiting from soaring prices. This is not incorrect - oil stocks like Woodside, Santos and Karoon have grabbed the headlines as the obvious beneficiaries of the US-Iran conflict that erupted in late February 2026.
However, they'd…
Time to look at another company that is seeing AI-weary investors selling now and leaving the question asking until later, and today it is insurance broker Steadfast Group (ASX:SDF). Can't AI do insurance for us, taking into account our interest only and doing so at a fraction of the cost of humans? Investors think so,…
There are hard questions investors need to ask about their portfolio every now and again, because anyone telling you there's such a thing as a 'set and forget' investment is wrong. Markets evolve, company fundamentals shift, and macro conditions change, yet many portfolios are left largely unchecked. The most rational approach is to periodically interrogate…
