March 22, 2024

Ausbiz – Macquarie Technology (MAQ) a stock to watch

By Roger Montgomery

In my recent interview with Ausbiz, I discussed the current favourable conditions for investing in smaller companies. Small caps have seen a commendable increase of about 4% this year, driven by a combination of disinflation and positive economic growth.
March 19, 2024

Pilbara Minerals: the ASX' most shorted stock, yet poised for long-term success? 

By Sean Sequeira

As a low-cost and long-life spodumene producer (spodumene is a raw material used to produce lithium for batteries in your phone, e-bike and electric vehicles (EVs), Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) is one of the highest quality single commodity miners on the ASX. The share price has been punished recently, with the spodumene price falling from over U. S.
March 18, 2024

What valuation do you put on sentiment? 

By Roger Montgomery

Retail stocks were on the nose for some time amid fears of recession, the impact of rising interest rates, the cost-of-living crisis and inflation’s impact on the cost of doing business.   The recent HY24 reporting season, however, revealed much of the fear was misplaced. Aggregate revenue growth tended to beat estimates despite moderating slightly.
March 7, 2024

Interest rates, the best it gets. It' time to deploy cash

By Roger Montgomery

In the ever-changing landscape of financial markets, 2023 defied expectations, with highly anticipated recessions in Australia and the U. S. failing to materialise. But the macroeconomic insights of Gavekal Research, from all the way back to 1978 – that innovative growth stocks with pricing power do well amid disinflation and positive economic growth –, has proven consistently prescient.
March 5, 2024

Life360: massive growth potential from the helicopter parent tailwind 

By David Buckland

ASX listed Life360 (ASX:360), a family safety app that allows GPS location sharing is one of the larger and more exciting companies held by the Montgomery Small Companies Fund. In the two business days since Life360 announced its results for the year to 31 December 2023, the share price has jumped 46 per cent from $8. 30 to $12.
February 26, 2024

Audinate Group: the growth worth listening to

By Michael Gollagher

As we sift through the results from our companies over the first reporting season of the year, we watch with great interest as the market is reminded that company fundamental results still matter.
February 23, 2024

Altium: An extraordinary roller coaster over its 25-year listed history 

By David Buckland

In this weeks video insight, David takes us through Altium Limited’s (ASX:ALU) 25-year listed history, marked by a recent bid from Renesas Electronics Corporation valuing it at AU$9. 1 billion. From highs of $6. 70 per share in 2000 to a record low of $0. 09 per share in 2011, Altium has experienced significant fluctuations.
February 21, 2024

Megaport half yearly: A solid, albeit pre-announced result

By Roger Montgomery

Megaport (ASX:MP1) announced its half-yearly results on Tuesday. As the numbers were largely pre-reported at the company’s previous second-quarter announcement on 30 January, they were considered ‘in-line’ with expectations. Megaport’s total revenue for the first half of FY24 came in at $95. 1 million, up $24. 4 million or 35 per cent, compared to the prior corresponding period.
February 21, 2024

Altium’s share price soars on take-over bid

By David Buckland

Altium Limited (ASX:ALU) was floated on the ASX in August 1999 at $2. 00 per share, and the market bought into the excitement by driving up the share price to $6. 70 by March 2000. 11 years later, the company was going through enormous pain, and this saw the Altuim share price crash to $0.

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