Plenty of companies assert that “innovation” is their guiding principle, but Melbourne-based Hydrix Limited takes it more literally than most. Four years ago, when it arrived on the ASX through a merger with the listed Panorama Synergy, Hydrix was a product engineering consultancy that designed and developed prototypes for clients from around the world, from…
ASX investors are very well-used to the SaaS, or “software as a service” business model, under which customers pay to use software hosted on a remote computer – in the “cloud” – rather than buying a software licence and installing it on their physical computers. Under the SaaS model, customers subscribe to a software product…
So, Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) shareholders have learned that their company is to become a hydrogen and steel superpower. Andrew Forrest, the founder, non-executive chairman and largest shareholder of Fortescue, says Fortescue will lead the way in building a steel-making industry in Australia, making “green” steel – zero-carbon steel, using zero carbon-dioxide-emissions energy. There…
Macquarie Investment Management is now a bigger manager than AMP Capital – and the outlook for the respective stocks appears to reflect that ranking. Macquarie Investment Management has taken AMP Capital’s crown as the largest Australian-owned manager of Australian assets, moving to $125.7 billion in assets in the year to September 2020, according to the…
With interest rates at all-time lows, and term deposits lucky to be paying 0.5%, investors have simply been forced to look for alternative income-generating investments. The share market has obliged, but not only in the form of normal equity dividends – but in newer listed income-bearing investments. One of the most recent offerings came last…
Victorian-based veterinary products and services provider Apiam Animal Health (AHX) is a stock that taps into two strong tailwinds. The first is Australians’ love of pets. Even before the pandemic, Australians spent $12.2 billion a year on their pets – feeding them, adopting them, and buying them toys, accessories and services – and that amount…
It has been a tough 18 months on the share market for Inghams Group, but things could be starting to turn for Australia and New Zealand’s largest integrated poultry producer. Inghams is one of those classic disappointments for shareholders, in that the stock looked to be going great guns, but hit unexpected turbulence and gave…
The latest buzzword in the renewable energy space is “hydrogen,” with element H – the world’s most abundant – forecast by many to play a major role in the world’s transition to a more sustainable energy future, as an energy carrier that can be produced from a wide range of sources and used in many…
You have to feel for Treasury Wine Estates, Australia’s largest wine company, the maker of well-known brands such as Penfolds and its iconic Grange label, Wynns, Seppelt, Wolf Blass, Pepperjack and Lindeman’s. After starting the year at just over $16, Treasury Wine Estates had moved nicely to $17.70 – then the COVID-19 pandemic stripped its…
Allegra Orthopaedics (AMT, 18.5 cents)Market capitalisation: $19 millionThree-year total return: +7.2% a yearAnalysts’ consensus target price: n/a Since 2014, orthopaedic manufacturer Allegra Orthopaedics has held an exclusive global licence to the composite bio-compatible and bio-degradable ceramic “synthetic bone” material Sr-HT-gahnite, developed at the University of Sydney: the lead product is a 3D-printed spinal cage, which…
