Profits 2008

Top 500 companies: Interim Reports (xls, csv) and Preliminary Final Reports (xls, csv)

  • Surging $A hits some companies hard

    13 March 2008 | Sue Mitchell | The Australian Financial Review

    Australia's strong dollar is putting a big hole in the profits of a number of leading local companies.

  • Next stop for Aussie is an each-way bet

    13 March 2008 | Katja Buhrer | The Australian Financial Review

    The Australian dollar hit a 24-year high close to US95¢ in recent weeks, but analysts bet the next milestone for the currency could just as easily be parity as fresh lows for the year.

  • Anxious, tense times as dark clouds threaten

    13 March 2008 | Neil Shoebridge | The Australian Financial Review

    Strong conditions in advertising markets, buoyed by the Howard government's ad splurge in the run-up to the November federal election, helped most media companies produce solid results in the December 2007 half.

  • M&A focus prompts high expectations

    13 March 2008 | Fiona Tyndall | The Australian Financial Review

    Merger and acquisition activity dominated the health-care sector during the first half of the 2008 financial year - and it wasn't just the protracted $2.65 billion-plus takeover battle for Symbion Health that captured the industry's attention.

  • Exit stampede takes its toll

    12 March 2008 | Emily Parkinson | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Some remarkably strong performers were undeservedly swept up in the recent bout of market jitters.

  • What they said

    12 March 2008 | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Four experts discuss the earnings seaon just past and assess the road ahead.

  • Deafening silence speaks volumes

    12 March 2008 | Ingrid Mansell and James Chessell | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    The once vocal, upfront CEOs were missing in action from this year's reporting season

  • Mining leans towards fixed costs

    12 March 2008 | Paul Garvey | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Australia's mining contractors have had such a charmed run, few have noticed a subtle but important shift.

  • Opportunity the upside in split market

    11 March 2008 | Vesna Poljak | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    If the credit crisis is signalling flat full-year profits ahead, it's also signalling a chance to buy heavyweight stocks on the cheap

  • A bit of glitter but no gold

    11 March 2008 | Nina Wan and Emily Parkinson | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Three market experts share their views on the reporting season and on what lies ahead

  • Resources remain market heroes

    11 March 2008 | Jo Clarke and Michael Vaughan | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Resources companies were once again the stalwarts of the reporting season.

  • There is plenty of life after debt

    11 March 2008 | Simon Evans and Tracy Lee | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Once encouraged to borrow to ward off private equity raiders, companies are now starting to reduce their debt.

  • Pressure on margins as prices rise

    11 March 2008 | Michael Smith | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Rising costs bit into earnings at most companies this profit season but some are doing better than others in keeping the demons at bay.

  • Companies struggle to maintain payouts

    11 March 2008 | Sue Mitchell | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Franking declined from 88.1 per cent to 84 per cent.

  • Investors on the edge of an earnings chasm

    11 March 2008 | Glenn Mumford | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Widely divergent views of the corporate profit outlook have led investors to the sidelines.

  • Inflation and rising rates loom ominously

    11 March 2008 | David Bassanese | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    The days of turbo-charged spending are at an end

  • Global fallout ends the party

    11 March 2008 | Eric Johnston | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    The near-perfect conditions banks enjoyed over recent years are rapidly turning rough.

  • Storms add to burden of declining premiums

    11 March 2008 | Brendan Swift | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    The insurance sector was a blight on the reporting season.

  • Sector builds strength on new services

    11 March 2008 | Ingrid Mansell and Michael Smith | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Federal government spending plans for infrastructure are expected to keep the sector strong.

  • Fundamentals fuel investor concern

    11 March 2008 | Stephen Wisenthal | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    All of the top five exploration and production companies are now focused on liquefied natural gas as a key driver of growth.

  • Valuation green lights glimmer

    11 March 2008 | Paddy Manning | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    It's been nothing but LPT carnage since Centro Properties Group's freefall in December, but change is in the wind.

  • Highly geared and badly managed, no wonder the sector's on sale

    11 March 2008 | Robert Harley | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Investors who rely on property trusts for stable income are now paying the price of a decade of growth.

  • Chanticleer: Meltdown yet to reach the core

    11 March 2008 | Alan Jury | The Australian Financial Review - Online

    Australia, believe it or not, is in relatively good shape - and not just because of the resources boom.

  • Profits 2008 - Videos
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Mon 10 Mar ´08 6:45PM | Length: 7:41 minutes

Three equity strategists give their forecasts

Video Aussie Dollar Outlook
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CBA's Chief Economist discusses the dollar's fluctuations