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…
Technology
Cash Burn Slowing, Execution Risk Rising
Botanix announced an important update on its supplier payment terms, which gives investors much better visibility around the company’s cash runway.
For many investors following the stock, cash burn has been one of the biggest concerns. That is why the recent placement at 6 cents per share came as such…
Atomo Diagnostics A$4m Raise Funds Scale-Up as FebriDx US Rollout Accelerates
Atomo Diagnostics has just completed a fresh capital raise to fund growth. The company raised A$4M through a A$3M placement and a A$1M share purchase plan.
The new shares were issued at 3.3 cents each, which represented a 10% discount to the company’s 15-day moving…
The ASX's Good Fame and Character Test is not new. But the possible listing of Oliver Curtis' Firmus meant investors are paying more attention than they otherwise would.
You see, the Australian Securities Exchange does not let just anyone run a listed company. Before an entity joins its official list, the ASX requires that every director,…
Two Bull Catalysts, One Huge Valuation Question
4DMedical has had two bullish catalysts help push the company to a A$3.6B valuation. We started covering 4DMedical at 25 cents and have now seen it grow from a micro-cap into one of the top ASX performers, with a lot of future expectations now built into the share…
Down After the Raise, But Onsemi & Texas Instruments Are the Real Catalyst
Weebit Nano opened below the placement price today, which means the institutions that participated are already sitting in the red. Even so, the company successfully completed a fully underwritten A$80M placement, plus a A$7M Israeli placement, taking total proceeds to A$87M.
The company…
The mass sell-off in the semiconductor space
The semiconductor sector came under pressure, with Nvidia down 2.4%, AMD falling 5.5%, TSMC down 4.5%, and Micron dropping 4.6%, leaving it down 14% over the past five trading days. Western Digital fell 4.7%, and Sandisk dropped 8%.
The selloff was driven by Google’s recent TurboQuant announcement, which uses…
Xero and Anthropic have just unveiled a strategic partnership. The press release this morning did what all press releases of this kind would do: frame it as a win win for both sides...but of course few deals truly turn out like that. In the short-term, Xero will be the winner because investors worried it'll go…
The global boom in artificial intelligence and cloud computing has turbocharged demand for data centres, but also turbocharged a data centre backlash. In Australia (and elsewhere), demand for data centres is colliding hard with electricity and water (two of the most important but finite resources on the planet) and the friction is producing a backlash.…
A SpaceX IPO looks like it is on. It is not the first venture of Elon Musk's to list, but this one could be the largest ever IPO in terms of capital raised and the value of the company, it would be over US$1tn barring a highly unlikely cut in the most recent private valuation!…
