ASX Announcements
June 2023
The AI stocks that offer smart investors opportunity
Nvidia, Microsoft, Salesforce, Adobe and Australian tech giant Canva are all flagged as businesses that can harness AI to improve products and grow profits.
- Tom Richardson
May 2023
WiseTech, Afterpay-owner Block jump as tech rally lifts shares
Tech shares extended a rally on Tuesday as investors cheered Technology One’s results, but were also worried that Qantas may face more competition in the future.
- Tom Richardson
February 2023
Earnings hit from sales slowdown the biggest risk to Aussie tech
Local tech companies will not escape the sales cycle slowdown being experienced by their US peers, analysts say.
- Yolanda Redrup
November 2022
Miners, energy producers help shares outpace global peers
Shares added 0.59 per cent on Tuesday as gains among metals, coal, lithium and energy producers supported the market.
- Tom Richardson
These 10 shares would have made you 888pc-plus in a decade
A standout lesson from the top performers over the last 10 years is that investors who ignore Australian IT companies do so at their peril.
- Jennifer Mead
October 2022
- Exclusive
- Investing
How these angel investors turned $440k into $11m
Brisbane Angels initially passed on backing a Queensland start-up that eventually delivered the group a huge return.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
The tech stocks focused on becoming cash positive
Rising rates lift the cost of capital, making non-cash-generating businesses less attractive. These are the companies that say returns are not too far away.
- Elio D'Amato
April 2022
Xero, Elmo lead tech stocks set to benefit from budget
A new tailwind is set to support a small group of ASX-listed technology stocks.
- Yolanda Redrup
February 2022
Adrian Di Marco made the most of proxy reforms
TechnologyOne provided investors with a vivid demonstration of just what Josh Frydenberg’s mercifully short-lived proxy regime emboldened.
- Myriam Robin
November 2021
TechnologyOne lifts profit 15pc, targets unis, councils
TechnologyOne has reported profits after tax up 15 per cent as the company transitions customers to a recurring fee business model.
- Updated
- Natasha Gillezeau
SiteMinder surges on ASX debut
Aussie unicorn hotel booking firm SiteMinder had a bumper first day of trading on the ASX, putting investors in mind of the likes of WiseTech Global and Xero.
- Natasha Gillezeau
July 2021
Indonesia’s hopes for sharp economic rebound slip away as cases surge
The country’s health emergency has delayed plans to reopen Bali for international tourists, another blow for a government faced with big demands and constricted revenues.
- Emma Connors and Natalia Santi
June 2021
- Exclusive
- IPO
Health software IPO taps into Xero growth story
Australia will have another SaaS stock, boasting high growth and future expansion potential, when Genie Solutions goes public in the second half of the year.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Governance
Proxy advice excesses will haunt the future of public markets
“One size fits all” checklists and robo-voting by institutions will hinder investment when there is a new industrial revolution coming.
- Adrian Di Marco
TechnologyOne goes full SaaS as directors sell
The chairman and a director sold more than $60 million worth of shares, as the company used its half-year earnings presentation to emphasise the SaaS transition 56 times.
- Tom Richardson
May 2021
Adrian Di Marco has chutzpah to accuse others of ‘arrogance’
It was only last October that the Federal Court awarded $5.4 million to a dismissed TechnologyOne executive who accused the company of unfair dismissal.
- Myriam Robin
Proxy changes spark new super war
Company directors praised new regulation for proxy advisers. But advisers say the rules are unwarranted. “We shouldn’t be using the Treasurer’s office to regulate against the hurt feelings of company directors.”
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton and Yolanda Redrup
April 2021
Adrian Di Marco not a huge fan of negative feedback
In an ostensibly free country, how could anyone solemnly advocate for government control over an opinion?
- Joe Aston
- Exclusive
- Governance
Software company founder declares war on ‘toxic’ proxy firms
TechnologyOne founder and chairman Adrian Di Marco says influential proxy firms that advise shareholders on how to vote are an unelected and unaccountable scourge on corporate Australia.
- Patrick Durkin
March 2021
Warnings over software ‘integration hell’ as office workers return
TechnologyOne boss Ed Chung says employers face millions in costs trying to integrate the different software they adopted to help their employees work remotely.
- Finbar O'Mallon
