ASX300 News Digest
Beach Energy announced the appointment of Mr Morne Engelbrecht as CEO, effective immediately. Mr Engelbrecht's appointment follows an extensive international recruitment process led...
Calix Receives a Payment of $5.19m with R&D Tax Incentive Claim
Calix confirmed that it has received a payment of $5.19m from the Australian government associated with its Ramp;D tax incentive claim for the 2020/2021 financial year. The Company...
Calix Announces Being Awarded $11m in Government Funding for Low Emissions Lime Project with Adbri
Calix announced that it has been awarded a $11m grant from the Australian Government's Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) Hubs and Technologies Program to develop the first...
Aristocrat Leisure Announces On-Market Share Buy-Back Program of Up to $500m
Aristocrat Leisure announced that it will implement an on-market share buy-back program of up to A$500m, as part of its proactive capital management strategy. It continues to focus...
Aristocrat Leisure Provides Presentation to Analysts and Investors
Aristocrat Leisure provided presentation to analysts and investors. It successfully executing its growth strategy delivers profitable organic growth in all segments. Strong cash...
Aristocrat Leisure Announces 2022 Half Year Results
Aristocrat Leisure announced its financial results for the six months ended 31 March 2022. Normalised profit after tax and before amortisation of acquired intangibles (NPATA) of...
Sims Acquires Land With Deep Water Port Access in Brisbane
Sims announced the acquisition and settlement of a 140,000sqm strategic parcel of land located at Pinkenba, QLD (Brisbane) for a total consideration of AUD$88.0m, plus AUD$5m for...
Webjet Provides FY 2022 Investor Presentation
Webjet provided FY 2022 investor presentation. Group 1Q 2023 trading is currently tracking well ahead of 4Q 2022 at Bookings, TTV, Revenue and EBITDA. All businesses were profitable...
Webjet Announces Financial Results for FY 2022
Webjet announced its financial results for FY 2022. FY 2022 saw the business turn around, delivering a profitable 2H 2022 driven by WebBeds and Webjet OTA. As revenues start to...
Nufarm Provides an Investor Presentation on Half Year Results
Nufarm provided an investor presentation on half-year results. Positive free cash flow is expected for FY 2022. Working capital seasonality results in first-half net cash...
Nufarm Announces Half Year Results
Nufarm announced an increase in its financial performance for the six months ended 31 March 2022. The Company reported underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and...
Strike Energy announced that it has completed its competitive fertiliser offtake process and selected Koch Fertilizer - a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Koch Industries - as...
Australian Agricultural Company Provides FY 2022 Results Investor Presentation
Australian Agricultural Company provided FY 2022 results investor presentation. Operating Profit of $49.9m up vs pcp $24.4m driven by improved operating margins mainly through 21%...
Australian Agricultural Company Releases FY 2022 Results
Australian Agricultural Company released its FY 2022 results. Improved margins contributed to a 105% increase in operating profit in the prior year 2021, totalling $49.9m. Operating...
HomeCo Daily Needs REIT Announces Fund Payment Notice
HomeCo Daily Needs REIT announced total cash distribution rate of 2.08 cents per unit, with record date of 31 March 2022 and payment date of 20 May 2022. This distribution included...
Virtus Health Notes Panel Declines to Conduct Proceedings
Virtus Health noted that the Panel has declined to conduct proceedings on a review application dated 10 May 2022 from the Company in relation to its affairs. The application sought...
Eagers Automotive Provides Chairman and CEO Addresses Presentation to AGM
Eagers Automotive provided its Chairman's and CEO's addresses presentation to the Company's AGM. It achieved a Statutory Profit Before Tax from continuing operations of $456.8m, up...
Boral Provides Revised FY 2022 Earnings Guidance
Boral announced that its earnings have continued to be adversely impacted by extraordinary rainfall, particularly in NSW and Qld, and further increases in energy prices since the...
Starpharma Holdings Announces SPL7013 in VIRALEZE Virucidal Against Influenza A and B
Starpharma Holdings announced that SPL7013, the antiviral agent in VIRALEZE nasal spray, achieved 95% and 99.7% reduction in viral infectivity against two significant types of...
Worley Announces Regarding Commercial Scale Renewable Plastics Facility
Worley announced that its strategic partnership with Avantium Renewable Polymers (Avantium) is progressing to the next phase. It previously announced the partnership on 29 January...
Worley Announces Gulf of Mexico Services Contract Awarded by Shell Offshore
Worley announced that it has been awarded a three-year engineering and procurement (EP) services contract by Shell Offshore to support five of its assets in the Gulf of Mexico...
Cooper Energy Announces Offshore Otway Gas Hub Growth Plan
Cooper Energy announced the updated growth plan for its offshore Otway gas hub. Completion of the upgrade to the Athena Gas Plant and the cutover from the Iona Gas Plant to the...
Eagers Automotive Provides Market Update
Eagers Automotive provided the following update on its year-to-date trading performance and outlook for the financial results for the half year ending 30 June 2022. The underlying...
Integral Diagnostics Announces Acquisition of Horizon Radiology
Integral Diagnostics announced that it has agreed to acquire Horizon Radiology, which is located in Auckland, NZ. The acquisition provides the Company the opportunity to expand its...
Imugene Doses First Patient in Vaxinia Phase 1 Trial
Imugene announced that the first patient was dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating the safety of novel cancer-killing virus CF33-hNIS VAXINIA when used in people with...
Fortescue Metals Group Announces Changes in Leadership
Fortescue Metals Group announced that it will transition to a truly global company and restructure the organisation to have both the CEO of the Company and the CEO of Fortescue...
BlueScope Steel Increases 2H FY2022 Earnings Guidance
BlueScope Steel announced that it expects underlying earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) for 2H FY 2022 to be in the range of $1.375bn to $1.475bn. This is above the prior...
Metcash Announces Extension of Long-Term Supply Agreement with Drakes Supermarkets
Metcash announced that it has extended the term of its agreement to supply Drakes Supermarkets stores in Qld for a further five years. It previously entered into a five-year...
Firefinch Announces Being Morila Convention Extension Granted
Firefinch announced that the Government of Mali has agreed to extend the Establishment Convention (Convention) for the Morila Gold Mine (Morila) for 3 years until 16 May 2025. The...
Champion Iron Announces Acquisition of Pellet Plant Signing of MOU with Steelmaker
Champion Iron announced that the Company has entered into a definitive purchase agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") for the acquisition, via a wholly owned subsidiary of the...
Tabcorp Holdings Advises S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Treatment of Demerger within its Index
Tabcorp Holdings advised Samp;P Dow Jones Indices announced on 17 May 2022 that it will make the changes in the Samp;P/ASX 200 Index, as a result of the scheme of arrangement under...
James Hardie Industries Announces Appendix 3A
James Hardie Industries announced ordinary (must be cash) dividend/distribution of US$0.30 relating to a period of six months for the period ended 31 March 2022, with record date of...
Santos Notes JV Awarded New Central Qld Acreage with State Gas
Santos noted that State Gas in JV with the Company has been appointed Preferred Tenderer of two new areas under the Qld Government's latest Petroleum Land Release Program. The two...
Pilbara Minerals Provides Corporate Presentation
Pilbara Minerals provided corporate presentation. Targeting expanded combined production capacity of 560-580,000 tpa spodumene concentrate from September Quarter 2022, maximising...
Brambles Provides an Update on Discussions with CVC Capital Partners
Brambles advised that it refers to the announcement on 16 May 2022 regarding its preliminary engagement with CVC Capital Partners (CVC) in regard to an unsolicited proposal to...
Pilbara Minerals announced the award of a $20m grant under the Australian Government's Modern Manufacturing Initiative (MMI) - Manufacturing Translation Stream, towards the...
Nickel Mines Announces Term Sheet Signed for Additional 220 MWp Solar Project
Nickel Mines signed a binding term sheet (Term Sheet) with Quantum Power Asia for the implementation of a 220 MWp solar project to be located within the Company's 80% owned Hengjaya...
OZ Minerals Announces Option to Acquire Kalkaroo Copper Project in SA
OZ Minerals announced that it has signed a conditional binding Terms Sheet with Havilah Resources setting out the basis of a new strategic relationship in the prospective Curnamona...
United Malt Group Provides 1H 2022 Investor Presentation
United Malt Group provided 1H 2022 investor presentation. 1H 2022 result reflected increasing sales volumes and continued management of external challenges. Expect improved cash...
United Malt Group Releases 1H 2022 Results
United Malt Group released 1H 2022 results. Group revenue increased by 11% to $652m as customer demand increased in each of the Company's domestic markets and due to the higher...
Deterra Royalties Provides Corporate Presentation
Deterra Royalties provided a corporate presentation. Strong operating performance at Mining Area C as production volumes increase to 49.2m wet metric tonnes, up 45% HoH. Dividend...
Perseus Mining Announces Plan of Arrangement Approved by Orca Securityholders
Perseus Mining announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with Orca Gold to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Orca not already owned by the Company, by...
Janus Henderson Group PLC Provides an Update on Dividend Rates
Janus Henderson Group PLC provided an update stating that shareholders on the register on 16 May 2022, the Record Date, will be entitled to a first quarter dividend in respect of...
Nickel Mines Provides an Update on Fourth RKEF Line of Angel Nickel Project
Nickel Mines provided an update stating that the company's 80%-owned Angel Nickel Project (ANI or the Project) within the Indonesia Weda Bay Industrial Park (IWIP) on Halmahera...
Nickel Mines Announces the Acquisition of Siduarsi Nickel-Cobalt Project
Nickel Mines announced that the company had signed a binding definitive agreement (Definitive Agreement) for the staged acquisition of a 100% interest in the Siduarsi Nickel-Cobalt...
Australian Strategic Materials Provides an Investor Presentation
Australian Strategic Materials provided an investor presentation. Phase 1, 2,200tpa installation and commissioning through Q2 2022 with optimisation and ramp-up over second half...
Australian Strategic Materials advised that KCF Energy (KCF), a company registered in Seoul, Korea, and owned by the Korean Consortium has agreed to invest USD 15m of equity funding...
Virtus Health Advises on Second Supplementary Target's Statement (BGH Offer)
Virtus Health advised that it refers to the off-market takeover offer by entities wholly owned by BGH Capital (BGH). Its second supplementary target's statement is in accordance...
Virtus Health Advises on First Supplementary Target's Statement (CapVest Offer)
Virtus Health advised that it refers to the off-market takeover offer (CapVest Offer) by Evergreen Bidco, an entity controlled by CapVest Partners LLP (CapVest). It provided a Q3 FY...
Karoon Energy Announces Commencement of Bauna Intervention Campaign
Karoon Energy reported that its contract with Maersk Drilling for the Bauna intervention campaign has commenced, following the receipt of all permits and regulatory approvals...
Calix Announces with Boral to Develop Carbon Abatement Project with $30m in Government Funding
Calix announced that in collaboration with Boral, a carbon abatement project with $30m in funding from the Australian Government's Carbon Capture, Use and Storage (CCUS) Hubs and...
Cooper Energy Provides Guidance Update
Cooper Energy announced a revision to FY 2022 guidance. In its Q3 Quarterly Report released in April 2022, the Company noted the strong performance of the business relative to...
Goodman Group Provides Q3 FY 2022 Operational Update
Goodman Group provided Q3 FY 2022 operational update. It continues to take a prudent approach to financial positioning, maintaining low gearing, combined with hedging and liquidity....
AUB Group Issues Retail Offer Booklet
AUB Group issued a retail offer booklet. It successfully completed the institutional component of the Entitlement Offer (Institutional Entitlement Offer) raising gross proceeds of...
Brambles Responds to Media Speculation
Brambles noted media articles relating to a potential bid by CVC Capital Partners (CVC) for the Company. The Company confirms that it has had a preliminary engagement with CVC in...
Qube Holdings Announces Notification of Buy-back - Appendix 3C
Qube Holdings announced an Equal access scheme buyback. The announcement is the final buy-back notification. The total number of securities bought back is 154,438,667. Total...
Tyro Payments Provides COVID-19 Trading Update
Tyro Payments committed to provide weekly transaction value updates until publication of its full-year results for FY 2022. The transaction value data up to and including May to 13...
Qube Holdings Completes A$400m Off-Market Buyback
Qube Holdings announced the successful completion of its A$400m Buy-Back. Due to excess demand for the Buy-Back, a scale back of certain Tenders was required. In line with the terms...
Jervois Global Commences BFS Refinery Expansion at Kokkola
Jervois Global announced that it is commencing a Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) to expand production of refined cobalt at the Kokkola Industrial Park, Finland. The BFS will assess...
Strike Energy Announces Walyering Appraisal, Discovery and Testing Results
Strike Energy provided an update on the activities at the Walyering Gas Field on behalf of the EP447 JV. Walyering-6 has been drilled to the final depth of 3,551m with a new gas...
Challenger Announces Security Class Suspension from Quotation
The Capital Notes of Challenger ('CGF') will be suspended from quotation at the close of trading on 13 May 2022 under Listing Rule 17.2, pending its conversion Security class code...
Infomedia Announces Non-Binding Conditional Proposal from TA Associates
Infomedia advised the Company refers to the TA Associates Management L.P. ("TA") announcement in relation to obtaining a 14.5% relevant interest in its shares via a "Co-operation...
IPH Announces Changes Relating to Buy-Back - Appendix 3D
IPH announced an extension of its existing on-market share buy-back programme of up to $40m. The buy-back period will continue until 30 May 2023. While the Company has no immediate...
Infomedia Trading Halted, Pending Company Announcement
The securities of Infomedia will be placed in trading halt session state at the request of the Company, until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading on 17 May 2022 or...
Infomedia Announces Pause in Trading
Trading in the securities of Infomedia will be temporarily paused pending a further announcement....
Virtus Health Provides FY 2022 April Year to Date Trading Update
Virtus Health provided a Q3 FY 2022 trading update in conjunction with the current acquisition process underway (Acquisition Process). It is providing a further trading update for...
Australian Strategic Materials Trading Halted, Pending Company Announcement
The securities of Australian Strategic Materials will be placed in trading halt session state at the request of the Company, until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading...
Gold Road Resources Issues Second Supplementary Bidder's Statement
Gold Road Resources issued a second supplementary bidder's statement. It Is the second supplementary bidder's statement (Second Supplementary Bidder's Statement) issued by the...
Virtus Health Provides Update for Variation of Takeover Bid
Virtus Health advised that the Bidders hereby give this notice under section 650D(1) of the Corporations Act that under section 650C(1) of the Corporations Act that the Offer is...
Australian Strategic Materials Announces Metals Plant Officially Opens in Korea
Australian Strategic Materials announced that the Company's first high purity critical metals plant has been officially opened in Ochang, South Korea. This consolidates the...
Sigma Healthcare Provides Chairman and CEO Addresses to Shareholders at AGM
Sigma Healthcare provided its Chairman's and CEO's addresses to shareholders at the Company's AGM. It has delivered Revenue up 1.3% to $3.4bn and a Statutory Net Loss After Tax of...
Sigma Healthcare Provides Chairman's Address Presentation to Shareholders at AGM
Sigma Healthcare provided Chairman's address presentation to shareholders at AGM. Revenue up 1.3% to $3.45bn. Good sales growth in 1H 2022. ERP implementation disrupted 2H 2022. The...
Sigma Healthcare Provides Chairman and CEO Addresses Presentation to Shareholders at AGM
Sigma Healthcare provided its Chairman's and CEO's addresses presentation to shareholders at AGM. Revenue up 1.3% to $3.45bn. Good sales growth in 1H 2022. ERP implementation...
Oohmedia Provides Chairman and CEO Addresses to AGM
Oohmedia provided its Chairman's and CEO's addresses to the Company's AGM. Total revenue increased by 18% to $504 million. Underlying EBITDA (pre-AASB16) increased by 24% to $78m,...
De Grey Mining Announces Hemi Pilot Testwork Confirms High Recoveries at Brolga
De Grey Mining reported the results of pilot scale metallurgical test work from its Brolga zone at Hemi, undertaken at ALS Metallurgy in Perth. Hemi is located 60km south of Port...
CSL Provides an Update Regarding Vifor Pharma Acquisition
CSL advised that it is expected to be in a position to close the acquisition of Vifor Pharma AG by June 2022. It expects the regulatory approval process to take a few more months....
Scentre Group Provides First Quarter Operational Update
Scentre Group announced an operational update for the first three months to 31 March 2022. Portfolio occupancy remains strong at 98.7% at the end of March 2022. It continues to make...
Viva Energy Group provided an update on refining performance as well as unaudited financial performance for the four months ended 30 April 2022. Since the end of the March 2022...
Orica Provides 2022 Half Year Results Investor Presentation
Orica provided the 2022 half-year results investor presentation. It completed a $299m refinancing of committed bank facilities on 5 April 2022. The refinancing included a $40m...
Xero Provides Investor Presentation for FY 2022 Annual Results
Xero provided an investor presentation for FY 2022 annual results. Platform revenues account for 11% of revenues, up from 7% in FY 2021. The three largest contributors of platform...
Xero Reports FY 2022 Annual Results
Xero reported its full-year earnings to 31 March 2022 (FY 2022) reflecting the benefits of its commitment to investing for the long-term, to support its strategy and focus on...
Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia Provides Capital Policy and Capital Management Update
Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia provided an update on its capital management approach, including a new Board approved target capital range. The Company previously managed its...
Red 5 Announces Ore Processing Underway at King of the Hills
Red 5 advised that the first ore has commenced being processed through the 4.7Mtpa processing plant at the 100%-owned 2.4Moz, 16-year life-of-mine King of the Hills (KOTH) Gold...
Orica Announces 2022 Half Year Results
Orica announced 2022 half-year results. The Board has declared an interim dividend on ordinary shares of 13.0 cps, unfranked. The dividend represents a payout ratio (19) of 41%. The...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Releases March Quarter 2022 Basel III Pillar 3 Disclosure
Commonwealth Bank of Australia released March quarter 2022 basel III pillar 3 disclosure. As at 31 March 2022, the Group's Basel III Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1), Tier 1 and Total...
Commonwealth Bank of Australia Provides 3Q 2022 Trading Update
Commonwealth Bank of Australia provided 3Q 2022 trading update. The Bank remains well-positioned from a wholesale funding perspective, with 70% of wholesale funding long term and a...
Imugene Reports Net Loss of $14.83m for Half-Year to 31 December 2021
Imugene reported net loss of $14.83m for the half-year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were nil. Basic and Diluted EPS were (0.27) cents compared to (0.13)...
Betmakers Technology Group Reports Net Loss of $27.82m for Half-Year to 31 December 2021
Betmakers Technology Group reported net loss of $27.82m for the half-year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $43.5m. Basic and Diluted EPS were (3.26)...
Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure Reports NPAT of $129.08m for the Year to 31 December 2021
Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure reported NPAT of $129.08m for the year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $505.06m. Basic and Diluted EPS were 26 cents...
Waypoint REIT Reports NPAT Up 58.49% to $443.6m for the Year to 31 December 2021
Waypoint REIT reported NPAT up 58.49% to $443.6m for the year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $178.4m. Diluted EPS was 57.16 cents compared to 35.79...
InvoCare Reports NPAT of $80.16m for the Year to 31 December 2021
InvoCare reported NPAT of $80.16m for the year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $532.45m, up 11.45% from last year. Diluted EPS was 56 cents compared to...
Allkem Reports NPAT of $16.63m for Half-Year to 31 December 2021
Allkem reported NPAT of $16.63m for the half-year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $192.35m. Diluted EPS was 3.02 cents compared to (5.95) cents last...
Sandfire Resources Reports NPAT Up 24% to $55.23m for the Half-Year to 31 December 2021
Sandfire Resources reported NPAT up 24% to $55.23m for the half-year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $311.75m, up 22% from last year. Basic and Diluted...
Blackmores Reports NPAT Up 4.2% to $20.3m for the Half-Year to 31 December 2021
Blackmores reported NPAT up 4.2% to $20.3m for the half-year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $346.02m, up 14.3% from last year. Diluted EPS was 104.1...
IOOF Reports NPAT of $36.3m for the Half-Year to 31 December 2021
IOOF reported NPAT of $36.3m for the half-year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $114.53m, up by 73% from last year. Basic and Diluted EPS was 5.6 cents...
Appen Reports NPAT Up 20% to $28.52m for the Year to 31 December 2021
Appen reported NPAT up 20% to $28.52m for the year ended 31 December 2021. Revenue from ordinary activities were $447.27m, up 8% from last year. Diluted EPS was 22.85 cents compared...