This month marks the 25th anniversary of CSL ((CSL)) as a listed company on the ASX. In fitting fashion, shares in Australia's highest quality global success story surged to an all-time high of $253 in October. Looking back, corrected for share splits, the initial opportunity to …

Brief recap of what has transpired across the Australian share market since January: upon an initially tepid recovery from deep oversold levels, equity markets put in a multi-month rally which saw cheaper-priced laggard stocks lead the rest of the market higher by some 20% by …

Investors should draw an imaginary elastic band between share prices of, say, Goodman Group ((GMG)) and Scentre Group ((SCG)) as that will help them in understanding current dynamics in the local share market. We've all heard and read it before: the share market is heavily bifurcated; …

Probably the best way to describe the performance of the FNArena/Vested Equities All-Weather Model Portfolio into the new financial year is by making the following observation: the All-Weather Portfolio has rallied to a fresh all-time record high, while key local share market indices might need …

On the micro-level, a failed or splendid financial performance release can have a noticeable impact on a company's share price up to three months down the track. On the macro-level, recent observations suggest beats and misses can set new trends for sectors and broad themes, or keep the …

A lot of ink and airtime have been spent on the never ending debate on Value versus Growth investing in the Australian share market, but if the August 2019 corporate reporting season is proving anything it is that investors might be best off by focusing …

FNArena only started to produce detailed coverage of Australian corporate results in August 2013. In the six years since we haven't monitored one season yet in which released financial performances consist of more "misses" than "beats", but early indications are this August reporting season can possibly …

August is local reporting season for Australian listed companies, but the pace of corporate results releases is so much skewed to the second half of the month that as half-way approaches on the calendar, it remains way too early to draw any definitive conclusions or …

Coming into the August reporting season Australian equities had enjoyed seven months of uninterrupted gains, despite more than 250 profit warnings from ASX-listed companies and with underlying corporate profits (ex-iron ore miners) negative and in decline. But central bankers are cutting interest rates and reassuring investors …

In the share market all that matters are corporate profits and growth, or so the mantra goes. But sometimes the direction for the share market is guided by a number of other catalysts, relegating corporate earnings to merely a secondary role. See the past twelve months …