Knowing how to read a balance sheet is a key skill investors need to know, because the balance sheet is the most underrated document in an annual report. Most new investors skip straight to earnings - perhaps not knowing how importance the balance sheet is or having an appreciate but not knowing how to read…
Travel Stocks
Many investors may prefer stock market sectors with high margins over those with low margins. Profit margins are one of the simplest signals investors reach for when assessing business quality, yet they are also one of the most frequently misread.
It is tempting to treat margins as a scoreboard and just say high is good and…
ASX Travel Stocks Rally on Ceasefire Oil Drop
Virgin Australia (ASX:VGN) surged 13%. Qantas (ASX:QAN) jumped 8%. Flight Centre (ASX:FLT) climbed strongly. Wednesday was one of the best single sessions ASX travel stocks have seen all year, and the reason is straightforward. Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran, oil prices crashed 15%, and investors…
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,…
Over 500 petrol stations across Australia have run out of at least one type of fuel, with Energy Minister Chris Bowen confirming the shortages are concentrated in New South Wales and Victoria. AdBlue supplies are tightening too, threatening to force modern diesel trucks off the road entirely if urea imports do not arrive in time.…
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…
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…
Is Qantas a buy? Qantas (ASX: QAN) has fallen roughly 33% from its all-time high of A$12.62, set in August 2025, with shares sitting around A$8.45 as of Thursday’s close. While that decline began before the current conflict, the Iran war has accelerated the selloff sharply since late February as jet fuel prices surged from…
It is easy to think the Impact of The Iran War is simply businesses in the oil space or that use oil in their operations (for instance freight businesses). Or by extension, companies in the 'consumer discretionary' space that find due to higher energy prices (and interest rates), that their goods are more discretionary than…
ASX travel stocks rise as demand stays strong
Web Travel Group (ASX: WEB) surged 6.4%, Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX: FLT) gained 3.1%, and Qantas Airways (ASX: QAN) rose 1.5% yesterday after a powerful signal emerged from the other side of the world. Delta Air Lines and American Airlines both raised their first-quarter revenue forecasts,…
