The saying ‘third time’s a charm’ rings true for financial services company Latitude (ASX: LFS) who finally made their entrance to the public market last week after cementing themselves as the biggest ASX float of 2021 This year’s offering marked Latitude’s third attempt at an IPO. Their first attempt was stalled in 2018 by investor
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In their quarterly trading update today, Afterpay (ASX: APT) touted their successes in North America. They had achieved 211 percent underlying sales growth in the US for the quarter, with the US now the largest contributor to underlying sales. North America now accounts for 9.2 million of Afterpay’s 14.6 million global active customers and the
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Not for the first time, the listed waste management sector is in the throes of ownership upheaval as investors await the fallout from this month’s proposed $20 billion merger of the French based giants Veolia Group and Suez Group. The outcome has direct implications for the largest ASX listed waste manager, Cleanaway Waste Management (CWY).
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With our international borders still resolutely padlocked, the absence of foreign students poses an ongoing existential threat to our universities and other parties feeding off the education ecosystem (such as student accommodation providers). The listed education providers have not been immune, although arguably those exposed to the foreign student trade have not fared as badly
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Several large Chinese operations have listed on the ASX across the past five years, usually with impressive financials and promises of strong, consistent, future growth. These companies have always been attractively priced and always seemed to report extremely well. What was the problem? Well, put simply, some of these companies may not exist at all,
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Investors thirsting for an ASX beer exposure have been left largely unsated since Fosters/Carlton United Breweries and Lion Nathan were subsumed by foreign buyers a few years back. Coca Cola Amatil (CCL) has long held beer and spirits ambitions that have never quite come to fruition, but in any event the bottler looks headed to
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