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…
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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,…
Qantas shares slide as Middle East shutdown lifts fuel costs
Qantas shares dropped as much as 10.4% on Monday morning to A$8.92, its lowest price in 10 months, after the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran over the weekend. Shares recovered slightly during the day but were still down around 5.4% by the afternoon.…
Webjet Group Plunges After Takeover Collapse
Webjet Group (ASX: WJL) plunged 25 per cent to A$0.58 on Friday, marking its largest single-day drop since listing on the ASX. Both potential acquirers, Helloworld Travel (ASX: HLO) at 90 cents per share and private equity firm BGH Capital at 91 cents, walked away without making binding offers…
Web Travel drops due to the Spanish tax audit
Web Travel Group (ASX: WEB) crashed as much as 41 per cent on Friday, hitting a multi-year low of A$2.47 before closing at A$2.96, roughly 30 per cent below its previous close of A$4.20. The trigger was news that Spain's tax authority had started an audit…
No matter how impressive an underlying thematic of an individual may be, Corporate Travel Management (ASX:CTD) depicts to investors that a company's financial position does matter.
Shares are suspended from trading and have been since the end of August 2025. The longer things go on, the more worried investors get because they feel it is more…
Investors in airline stocks have long been told they are foolish for considering the entire sector. Yes, the entire sector and not just one company. The logic has been that margins are low whilst capex and opex is high. Warren Buffet literally said once,' Never buy an airline!' And ironically he broke his own rule…
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EVT: QT Auckland Deal, Bigger Growth Plan
EVT (ASX: EVT) shares slipped 2% last week despite announcing the acquisition of QT Auckland for NZ$87.5 million (~A$76 million). The 150-room premium lifestyle hotel in Auckland's Viaduct precinct has won multiple industry awards since opening in 2020. For investors watching Australia's tourism recovery, the question is whether…
