Financial Review

Charting Blackmores

This post formed the basis of an article which then appeared in the Australian Financial Review on 19 July 2016. Michael Gable is a regular expert contributor to the AFR. You can access the AFR version HERE. The chart for Blackmores is finally giving us the first buy signals for 2016. Blackmores was the golden child of 2015 as sales to China saw its revenue double in the last two years. Nearly 40 per cent of group revenue comes from China …

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Can Origin (ORG) rally 30%?

This post formed the basis of an article which then appeared in the Australian Financial Review on 3 June 2016. Michael Gable is a regular expert contributor to the AFR. You can access the AFR version HERE. In being an energy retailer as well as a gas and oil producer, should Origin be better sheltered by the drop in oil prices? Lower oil prices have sent the share prices of energy companies lower, but what if the company is as diversified …

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Downside risks for Qantas

This post formed the basis of an article which then appeared in the Australian Financial Review on 24 May 2016. Michael Gable is a regular expert contributor to the AFR. You can access the AFR version HERE. The share price of Qantas has had a dream run in the last 18 months. Back then it was trading near a dollar and was suffering the ignominy of asking the government for extra cash. Since that low point, the share price went on …

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Short-term sell signals for BHP

This post formed the basis of an article which then appeared in the Australian Financial Review on 25 April 2016. Michael Gable is a regular expert contributor to the AFR. You can access the AFR version HERE.  Much has been said about BHP, iron ore, and the resources sector in general. We know that the commodities boom is over, but has the sell-off in stock prices been overdone? We can analyse the company along with the supply and demand for commodities …

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Why Wesfarmers will feel more pain

This post formed the basis of an article which then appeared in the Australian Financial Review on 6 April 2016. Michael Gable is a regular expert contributor to the AFR. You can access the AFR version HERE.  Over the past two years, there has been a lot of press about Woolworths’ problems, especially its disastrous venture into hardware with its Masters stores. But while Woolworths was shooting itself in the foot, you would expect its major competitor Wesfarmers to be cashing in …

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