Stock Takes

ResMed – Quality Trade

We have caught the knife buying RMD for a trade after a 25% collapse in the share price, which, as you can see below, has broken a long-term uptrend. That sell-off came after recent results (August7 2023) which missed sales forecast by 2% and saw margins down 2.1% to 55.8%. Margins were the issue, although they were only 0.3% below expectations. Brokers adjusted numbers downwards after the results to account for narrower margins and higher costs (inflation). Risks include Philips getting back into the market and suggestions that weight loss drugs could take off which would reduce the need for OSA devices.

APE – Cheap cyclical income stock

APE is a $3.66 billion company. In the pandemic, it dropped from over $14 to below three dollars. In the last year, it is up from $9 to $14, with its results in February sparking a rally from $11 to $14.50. The automotive industry has been through a confusing couple of years thanks to COVID, which included a boom in secondhand car prices, a disruption in the supply network (no cars to sell), a ramp-up in costs. M ost of these factors are now improving helped by unrelenting orders for new cars (now being delivered) and particularly EVs thanks to some tax breaks introduced in Australia in t

JBH – Don’t buy yet

JB Hi-Fi (JBH) was established in 1974 by Mr. John Barbuto (JB), trading from a single store in East Keilor, Victoria. He had one simple philosophy: to deliver a specialist range of Hi-Fi and recorded music at Australia’s lowest prices. It is now a $4.9 billion listed company with $9.2 billion worth of turnover and is one of Australasia’s fastest-growing and largest retailer of home entertainment.

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