February 14, 2020

Blackmores – an incredible ride

By David Buckland

When Marcus Blackmore oversaw the float of his family’s business 35 years ago at $1. 00 per share, little did he (or anyone) realise that total dividends since 1985 would have aggregated to $27. 65 per share. Today, Blackmores (ASX:BLK) has a market capitalisation of $1. 36 billion, and the share price at $77.
February 12, 2020

The Facebook juggernaut

Last week Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) reported its fourth quarter 2019 earnings, capping out a solid year for the tech giant. We highlight some interesting datapoints and insights to emerge from the result and explain why we are still optimistic about the growth prospects for Facebook. In Q4, there were 2.
February 10, 2020

Why there’s no stopping CSL’s charge to the top

By Roger Montgomery

Since listing in 1994, Australian biotech company CSL has powered ahead to become our second largest company by market cap. Lying just ahead is the Commonwealth Bank. But with a more compelling growth story, it’s probably just a matter of when, not if, CSL will hit the front.
February 7, 2020

A Montgomery reporting season preview

By Roger Montgomery

With reporting season about to commence amid the bush fires and coronavirus, the environment is ripe for more positive and negative surprises than we have seen in some time. Meanwhile the ASX 200 industrial index, excluding financials, is trading on a record PE of 28. 5 times.
February 7, 2020

Two reasons this bull market is set to continue

By Roger Montgomery

Since early 2009, soaring global markets have made shares an extremely rewarding place to invest. With profits likely to keep recovering, and interest rates and inflation likely to stay low, I see no reason why this bull market will not continue.
February 4, 2020

What should we expect from BHP and RIO in 2020?

  In this week’s video insight Joseph takes a look at the outlook for the two major miners, BHP and Rio Tinto. Generally speaking 2019 was a positive year for the miners, BHP posted a total return of 25 per cent, while Rio Tinto’s performance was even more impressive with a total return of 41 per cent.
February 4, 2020

It’s time to focus on quality global businesses

By Roger Montgomery

Rallying markets have raised the valuations of many businesses, possibly to unsustainable levels. To my mind, it’s made one thing clearer than ever: investors need to bulk up on high quality Australian and global businesses, like CSL, Microsoft and Vivendi. I recently talked about the gravitational force exerted on asset prices and values by interest rates.
February 3, 2020

What’s behind the weak performance of quantitative investing?

Equity markets have been very kind to investors in recent years, with stock indices setting new records in Australia and overseas. Notwithstanding some episodes of turbulence along the way, these good results continue a decade-long run of mainly positive returns following the depths of the GFC in early 2009.
January 17, 2020

Montaka’s fourth quarter update

  In this video Andrew shares a summary of Montaka’s Q4 2019 letter to investors. Discussing the view that the world is favourable for equities at the moment with monetary policies highly accommodative around the world. Andrew also shares a holding in the portfolio – Floor & Decor.

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