ASX Announcements
2024 AGM Addresses and Presentation
Company Presentation, Chairman's Address to Shareholders
- May 9, 2024
- 40 pages
Market Sensitive
Trading Update, Company Administration - Other
- Apr 30, 2024
- 2 pages
April
Melbourne, Brisbane should brace for bowser hit, retailers warn
Brent crude is up about 17 per cent since the start of the year, driven by supply concerns and escalating tension in the Middle East.
- Elouise Fowler
February
Ampol shares surge to record high
Australia’s largest fuel supplier surged following a strong full-year result featuring a higher than expected special dividend to investors.
- Elouise Fowler
January
Jobless rate steady; Albemarle’s lithium blow; Davos’ fieriest speech?
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Convenience retail to tip Ampol into record territory
The outlook has fuelled expectations of a capital return for shareholders at the full-year result in February, despite it falling shy of some forecasts.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
December 2023
New Westpac chair takes the reins
He’s been the chairman of Goodman Fielder, Tabcorp and The Lottery Corporation. Now the businessman is taking on his highest-profile board position.
- Lucas Baird
These assets – including bitcoin – could lead a risk rally
Cryptocurrencies, small-cap stocks and corporate bonds boasting huge yields are all tipped as hot areas for investors prepared to take more risk.
- Tom Richardson
November 2023
Project Ubud: How Seven & i won the day at 7-Eleven
Azure and Ashurst began reaching out to potential bidders in February with documents on the sale and eventually shook out four credible bids.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
7-Eleven Australia’s family owners sell for $1.71b
Convenience and petrol retailer 7-Eleven’s Australian arm has been sold to its Japanese parent company after a hard-fought auction run by Azure Capital and Ashurst, Street Talk can reveal.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Magellan a ‘classic’ dividend trap, says Plato’s Gardner
Portfolio manager Peter Gardner says Ampol will be a dividend stock to watch in the new year and explains why he’s still holding on to BHP.
- Joanne Tran
October 2023
- Updated
- Executive shake-up
Steven Gregg to succeed Westpac chairman McFarlane
The chairman of Ampol will take the top board seat at Westpac from next month and will be leaving his post as chairman of Lottery Corp.
- Lucas Baird
September 2023
$2 a litre here to stay as petrol pump records tumble
Record petrol prices are likely to rise even further and motorists should get used to paying more than $2 a litre as global oil prices continue to climb.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
ASX edges higher with iron ore; traders await CPI
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index added 14.6 points, or 0.2 per cent, to 7206.9 at the close. The All Ordinaries also climbed 0.2 per cent.
- Sarah Jones
August 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What we learnt: Westpac, Ampol, NIB, Breville
Ampol gets some feedback on its retail plans, Westpac’s costs rise, Breville toasts its inventory, and we meet America’s mortgage prisoners.
- Anthony Macdonald and James Thomson
Ampol takes soft approach on power retailing
The petrol and diesel supplier is reducing reliance on domestic fuel sales as it expands in convenience retailing and overseas.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Ampol walks the fine line between dividends and growth
Ampol has kept some capital up its sleeve, at the same time as one of its competitors is up for sale. Is it a coincidence?
- Anthony Macdonald
July 2023
Ampol shares hit six-week high on ‘impressive’ sales
A trading update has revealed that the company’s fuel sales rose by nearly a quarter in the first half.
- Elouise Fowler
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
7-Eleven sales pitch pits $1 coffee against cut-price fuel
Fuel or convenience retailer? That’s the debate raging over 7-Eleven’s Australian arm, as its owners collect indicative bids, and for which Ampol is a contender.
- Updated
- Anthony Macdonald
June 2023
‘Just transition’ critical in achieving net-zero
Supporting low-income customers as the economy shifts to net zero is the next frontier for companies implementing ESG strategies, executives say.
- Updated
- Ben Potter and Lucy Dean
May 2023
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
VC dollars start flowing for Aussie climate-tech manufacturing
A new VC fund – Melt Ventures – is avoiding software in favour of hardware firms such as Endua, which has banked $11.8 million to make hydrogen power devices.
- Paul Smith
Childcare and fuel: Investors spend $108m on small commercial property
Rate rises have done little to dampen enthusiasm for bricks-and-mortar assets on long leases, especially petrol stations and childcare centres.
- Larry Schlesinger
