McMillan Shakespeare (MMS) held in the Income Portfolio is up 25% since results last week. It is now well overbought – having a habit of spiking on results and then peaking. 1HFY24 reports novated lease sales up 25.7%, sales up 42.9% to $87m. Profit of $37m up 5.8%. Interim fully franked dividend of 76c, up…
Rio Tinto Results (RIO) – was down 1% in the US and 1.5% in the UK after posting results. You can look through the numbers if you like (see below), but, as hopefully all Marcus Today Members already know, they will not help you get the share price right. The past is past. The future…
Smartgroup Results (SIQ) – We hold it in the Income Portfolio. The company is up 14% since results. They do salary packaging, novated leasing, fleet management, payroll administration and other HR services. Revenue of $251.6m, up 12% YonY, operating EBITDA of $100.3m (+7%), and NPATA of $63.2m (+3%). Notable highlights include a rise in novated…
Paladin (PDN) Results – No revenue or dividends yet as expected. Profit of $61m mostly from the reversal of an old impairment charge offsetting costs of getting the mine up and running again. 45% of a stockpile at the mine was impaired back in 2016 due to low prices. Thanks to the recent rise in…
Suncorp Group (SUN) – Jumped 3.5% on half-year results yesterday. The banking segment underperformed while underlying earnings in insurance came in line with expectations. 16% written premium growth for this period and full year guidance upgraded to around 13% to 16%. Underwhelming NIM in the bank segment. The results show SUN are much better at…
Cochlear’s (COH) results on Monday saw the share price fall 2% before recovering 3.5% yesterday and today to hit a fresh all-time high. Now up 17% since upgrading earnings guidance two weeks ago. We hold it in the growth portfolio. Prices are lofty but when adjusted for new earnings the stock valuation isn’t massively overpriced.…
BHP after the results yesterday got an unremarkable write-up from brokers. Take out the provisioning and the results were solid enough. Key points: Reported profit down from US$6.6 billion to US$927m thanks to $5.7 billion worth of charges and impairments against Samarco (US$3.2bn) and the nickel business (US$2.5bn). For those not up to date, the…
Excellent results from GMG, the stock finished yesterday up 7%. Underlying profit of $1127m, up 29% on 1H23. Earnings per Share (EPS) of 59c, up 28%. Interim dividend of 15c (still not yielding much for the year ~1%). Property occupancy remains high at 98%. Much more talk of data centre growth in this report and…
PME reported yesterday OK results but the market smashed it, finishing the session down 13%. It along with DTL are two of the more risky stocks we hold in the Growth Portfolio. Great potential, both stocks were up almost 50% since the end October “dovish pivot” until results. With more upside potential comes more volatility…
