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,…
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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!…
As many investors know, robotics is one of the fastest-growing areas in global industry. The value of the industrial robotics market reached an all-time high of US$16.5B, with 542,000 industrial robots installed in 2024.
Looking at the broader robotics ecosystem, BCG’s longer-term framework is still useful. It estimates the global robotics market could grow from around…
Weebit Nano Wants A$100m Despite A$82m Cash
Weebit Nano is one of those market darling names. Over the past year, the stock has delivered more than a 100% return, and it is a company we cover through institutional research. We want to help investors better understand what the business actually is and what it is…
The US Navy Is Now Paying for Parts, Not Just Printers
AML3D has seen a bit of momentum in the market this week. It is a company we are following closely in the additive manufacturing space.
Last week, we broke down its A$9.9M contract win and estimated that, based on current manufacturing capacity, AML3D can likely…
