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Adtrans Recovers As Fuel Prices Fall
Car and truck retailer Adtrans Group Ltd is looking for further gains in earnings as it rides out the downturn in the car sector.
Read MoreDowner Recovers Cred.
Downer EDI is continuing its slow recovery from last year’s big loss of credibility when it surprised investors with millions of dollars in losses and write-downs.
Read MoreFUN Cuts Dividend, Brings Back DRP
Re-instating a previously suspended dividend re-investment program at a time of strained profitability is always the sign of a board acting with a little bit of prudence and foresight.
Read MoreBlueScope Does Better, But Will Slow
Australia’s largest steelmaker, BlueScope Steel experienced a sharp recovery in first half earnings, but doesn’t expect that trend to continue in the second half of the current financial year.
Read MoreOil, Gold, Metals Catch A Surge
Just as our market had a big day Friday, rising conclusively over the 6000 point mark and finishing there, oil, copper and gold all hit 2007 highs on Friday night, our time, prompting suggestions of a gathering re-run of last year’s commodities boom.
Read MoreUS Markets Worry About Dud Loans
The gathering crisis in the subprime mortgage market in the United States is starting to send ripples through the broader economy.
Read MoreColes Special Sale Looms
Incompetence can harm a company in many ways: low share price, no profits, losses, takeover, management and board changes.
Read MoreProfits: GWA, SBC, EHL, SUL
Southern Cross Broadcasting, the metro radio and regional TV operator and TV production house, is confident an expected second half improvement in TV revenues will boost earnings after the flat first six months of the 2007 financial year.
Read MoreMiners Boom: OXR Up, ILU Recovers
2006 was a ‘golden and red letter year’ for medium level miner, Oxiana.
Read MoreMiners Boom: ZFX’s Cash Cascade
Despite reporting a record first half profit of $751 million, zinc miner, Zinifex copped a small trashing at the hands of investors yesterday.
Read MoreMarket Accepts IAG’s Lower Profit Story
Earlier this week an insurance analyst at a leading investment bank wondered where the downturn would come in the general insurance industry after solid performances by Promina and the GIO arm of Suncorp-Metway.
Read MoreSeven Makes Its Numbers
The Seven Network reported and delivered on guidance of a 40 to 45 per cent rise in pre-tax earnings yesterday and the shares ended up all square on the day at $11.63.
Read MoreSkilled Lower, Pacific Brands Higher
Skilled Group, the labour services and hire company, remains confident of posting higher earnings this financial year despite a drop in first half profit.
Read MoreMedia Profits, Deals
Media companies will dominate the news over the next couple of days with the likes of Seven Network (today) and PBL (tomorrow) reporting.
Read MoreTabcorp’s Shocker
The hatches have been battened; the gate bolted after the horse has gone and the strategy is changing at Tabcorp, but changing one would feel, all too late.
Read MoreMarket Likes WPL, Dislikes TOL
Some big results yesterday, led by oil and gas giant, Woodside Petroleum which reported a 29 per cent rise in earnings to a record, driven by higher output and prices.
Read MoreFGL Stumbles
Once again Fosters Group has under-delivered, upsetting investors and raising questions about the capabilities of the management team running Australia’s biggest liquor group.
Read MoreOneSteel Earns More
Like Promina and Suncorp-Metway OneSteel’s latest results are interesting in a historical sense but it’s the immediate future that holds the key to the company’s progress and profitability because of the dramatic changes that about to happen.
Read MoreVirgin Blue Profit Soars
A couple of weeks ago we pointed out that with Qantas heading down the runway towards takeover, Virgin Blue would attract more interest from investors wanting some exposure to airline stocks and a proxy on oil prices.
Read MoreSuncorp Lifts Profit, Looks Forward To Promina
Suncorp-Metway’s outlook isn’t about banking and insurance, it’s really about the Promina merger, should it be approved.
Read MoreMarket Doubts On ABC, Funtastic
Boom child care operator, ABC Learning Centres hit a small pothole yesterday in its endless quest to grow.
Read MoreCoates Surprises Market
Once again the market’s unhappiness with a company delivering news outside expectations has been shown with the poor reception given to the interim results from equipment hire giant, Coates Hire.
Read MoreDomino’s Also Surprises
Another stock to surprise on the downside was fast food darling, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises, promoters of the pan pizza based eating experience in Australia and in several major markets overseas.
The company yesterday revealed a first half that showed the pan pizza eating experience isn’t luring as many Australians to Dominos as before, but is still proving seductive to pizza eaters in parts of Europe.
As a result the shares shed 12 per cent in value, or around 40c to $3.25, after it reported a 46.2 per cent fall in first half profit.
That’s a big ouch and the confident story about overseas expansion wasn’t enough offset the fact that like Coates, DOM needs to do well in its home base to earn solid profits.
The company did warn in October after the first quarter, that earnings would down by at least “$1.2 million” because of the problems in Australia but they have continued, given the downturn for the full six months.
Those problems involved promotion and the high crust pizza product which seems to have done poorly.
For a company like Domino’s growth can come from converting sales gains in foreign markets into earnings a little down the track but the simple fact is that to maintain its rating among investors, it needs to sell more pizzas in Australia.
And it didn’t do that well enough in the first half of 2007, thanks in part to the high proportion of company-owned stores in Australia as against franchised outlets which generate fees and other income streams..
The company said net profit was $3.5 million for the half year ended December 31, down from $6.5 million in the corresponding period.
Not even an expected second recovery in after tax earnings (a forecast of a 40 per cent rise on the first half) could offset the market’s suspicion.
CEO Don Meij said the result reflected the impact of its expansion into Europe and poor performance in Australia in the first quarter.
He said while Australian same store sales growth had been weak, European same store sales growth was 12.5 per cent, the New Zealand was also solid (compared to Australia).
European operations are “tracking better than planned” and are expected to make its first profit contribution in 2007/08.
But the company said the EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) in Australia was off almost 17 per cent because of weaker promotions and start-up costs associated with the new in-house equipment maintenance and supply department.
Mr Meij said the company would begin reducing the proportion of corporate stores over the next 12 months from 30 per cent to around 15-20 per cent.
“This move will refocus our corporate stores into cost-effective geographic locations and reduce administration overheads, while still maintaining the benefits of the hybrid corporate-franchise store model,” he said.
Sounds like franchise speak for ‘we’ll be cutting the influence of earnings from our own stores and get income streams from selling the surplus locations to outsiders’.
That’s a switch in approach from the previous approach of maintaining company owned outlets above what is considered normal in some areas of franchising.
The company’s revenue rose 36.4 per cent to $118.1 million in the first half while network sales increased by 42 per cent to $251 million.
Domino’s is the master franchiser for the Dominos Pizza brand in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium and the Netherlands and it and its franchisees operate 645 stores: 457 stores of those are in Australia and New Zealand, so when Australia is offsong, the company is offsong as well.
Domino’s declared a first half dividend of 4.1 cents.
Wotif Booms
Like jobs group, Seek, Wotif.com is showing just how profitable the internet business model can be for a company flogging what is essentially a service:in this case accommodation.
Read MoreUS Economy Slowing, Bonds Fall
US bond rates fell to 4.69 per cent for the 10 year security last week, the lowest for several months and perhaps a sign the hard heads in the market see the risks of an economic slow down are greater than investors in stocks and commodities.
Read MoreMarkets: A Correction Before More Gains?
The head of Strategy at the AMP, Dr Shane Oliver has warned that the local stockmarket “is in danger of a short term correction” after giving the 6000 point mark a nudge last week.
Read MoreMetals Up, Down
With oil prices back over $US59 a barrel, our market will get a touch of hope today but there was nothing much in the way of assistance from other commodities.
Read MoreRepco Stagnates
Repco Corp’s return to private ownership is on track, despite the troubled auto products retailing reporting a 67 per cent fall in first half profit and warning of a ‘challenging’ second half.
Read MoreHow The Banks Price Their Loans
Competition is often not understood or even practised in Australian business these days but in one industry its rife: lending money, especially home loans.
Read MoreTLS Advances On Promises
Five bucks here we come? Any advance on five bucks?
Read MoreCCA: Forget The Results, It’s All About The Review
Like Telstra, Coca Cola Amatil’s current share price is all about what is to happen and how the future will pan out, rather than the recent past, especially the 2006 earnings which were released yesterday.
Read MoreWES Interim Profit Down, As Forecast
There was nothing really outstanding in the interim profit announcement yesterday from Wesfarmers.
Read MoreThe Reject Shop Accepted
Shares in small retailer, The Reject Shop (TRS) hit a record yesterday on the back of another solid result and expectations of more to come.
Read MoreDJS’ Billion Dollar Half
After Woolies, David Jones is the ‘glamour’ retailer these days, thanks to things like its glitzy Sydney winter fashion launch on Tuesday night and the quality of its sales and earnings in the past year.
Read MoreLEI’s Boomer Of A Result
If you had to use a short phrase or two to describe Leighton Holdings, it would be ubiquitous and highly profitable and becoming more so with news yesterday that 2007 earnings could hit a net $300 million.
Read MoreCBA Profit Up, Shares Down
The market ended up not liking the interim result from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, despite an initial positive response.
Read MoreOn Line Ads Boom
We saw in the Fairfax Media result on Monday, a hint of the enormous growth in revenue for online advertising.
Read MoreResults … Count – Seek
Count Financial probably escaped a beating yesterday at the hands of investors when it missed its confident forecast of a 25 per cent lift in 2007 earnings.
Read More… As Does Cochlear
Cochlear, the artificial hearing implant group, provided investors with some joy yesterday.
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