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EUR 116.48 For Business Accounts Only

Aussie Reporting Season Wrap: Growth Stocks Reign Supreme

  • FY18 reporting season was solid with 56% of stocks reporting either better-than-expected or in line underlying earnings.
  •  Growth has again outperformed Value in Line with our Expectations.
  •  Lean pickings for Value Hunters.
  •  Costs pressures on the Rise.
  •  Acquisitions driving earnings growth.
  •  Capital Management was delivered mostly via special dividends
Underlyings
Amcor PLC Shs Chess Depository Interests Repr 1 Sh

Amcor is a packaging company. Co. has the following reportable segments: Amcor Rigid Plastics, which manufactures rigid plastic containers for a range of primarily beverage and food products; Amcor Flexibles, which represents the aggregation of four operating segments of which each manufactures flexible and film packaging for their respective industries; as well as Other/Investments, which holds Co.'s equity accounted investments in the associate AMVIG Holdings Limited (AMVIG) and the joint venture Discma AG (Discma). AMVIG is mainly involved in the manufacture of tobacco packaging while Discma's operations primarily relate to the development and licensing of packaging product development.

Ansell Limited

Ansell, along with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the development, manufacturing and sourcing, distribution and sale of gloves and protective personal equipment in the industrial and medical gloves market, as well as the sexual wellness category worldwide. Co. operates in four main business segments: Medical, which manufactures and markets surgical and examination gloves together with a range of healthcare safety devices; Industrial, which manufactures and markets hand and body protection solutions; Single Use, which provides single use industrial application gloves; and Sexual Wellness, which manufactures, sells and markets a range of branded condoms, lubricants, devices and fragrances.

ASX Limited

ASX is a multi-asset class and exchange group. Co.'s principal activities are: providing securities exchange and ancillary services; derivatives exchange and ancillary services; central counterparty clearing services; and registry, depository, settlement and delivery-versus-payment clearing of financial products. Co. services companies and other issuers that list equity and debt securities on the exchange, as well as retail and institutional investors that invest in and trade those securities. While its operations are primarily based in Australia, Co. services both domestic and international customers, and some of its services are accessible from offshores.

Beach Energy Limited

Beach Energy is engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and production and investment in the resources industry. Co.'s operating segments include Cooper Basin, which includes oil and gas sales from Australian production; Other Australia, which includes Co.'s interest in all on-shore and off-shore production and exploration tenements within Australia other than the Cooper Basin; and International interests, which includes Co.'s interests in all areas outside Australia and oil and gas sales from Egyptian production. As of June 30 2016, Co. had total proved and probable reserve estimate of 69.8 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Blackmores Limited

Blackmores is engaged in the development, sales and marketing of health products for humans and animals including vitamins and herbal and mineral nutritional supplements. As of June 30 2016, Co. operated in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Boral Limited

Boral manufactures and supplies building and construction materials in Australia, the U.S. and Asia. Co.'s segments are: Construction Materials & Cement, consisting of quarries, concrete, asphalt, transport, landfill, property, cement and concrete placing; Building Products, consisting of Australian bricks, roofing and masonry, and timber products; Boral Gypsum Joint Venture, which manufactures and sells plasterboard and associated products; and Boral USA, consisting of bricks, cultured stone, roof tiles, fly ash, concrete and quarries. The primary end use markets for Co.'s products include residential and non-residential construction and the engineering and infrastructure markets.

Brambles Limited

Brambles is a supply-chain logistics company operating primarily through the CHEP and IFCO brands. Co. has three segments: Pallets segment, which primarily serves the consumer goods, fresh produce and beverage industries, and sub-divided into three regions: Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia-Pacific; Reusable Plastic or Produce Crates segment, which serves the fresh produce and food industry and comprising the IFCO RPC pooling business worldwide and the CHEP RPC pooling businesses in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; and Containers segment, which comprises four business units: Automotive, Intermediate Bulk Containers, Oil and Gas, and Aerospace.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Commonwealth Bank of Australia provides integrated financial services including retail, business and institutional banking, funds management, superannuation, life insurance, general insurance, broking services and finance company activities. Co. operates in seven segments, Retail banking Services, Business and Private Banking, Institutional Banking and Markets, Wealth Management, New Zealand, Bankwest, as well as International Financial Services and Other Divisions. As of June 30 2016, Co. had total assets of A$933.1 million and total deposits of A$588.0 million.

Computershare Limited

Computershare is engaged in the operation of investor services, which provides registry maintenance and related services; plan services, which provides administration and related services for employee share and option plans; communication services, which comprise document composition and printing, intelligent mailing, among others; business services, which provides bankruptcy, class action and utilities administration services, voucher services, corporate trust services and mortgage servicing activities; stakeholder relationship management services, which provides investor analysis, investor communication and management information services; and technology services.

Estia Health

Estia Health is engaged in the operation and development of owned and leased residential aged care facilities in Australia. Co. has 36 aged care facilities with approximately 3,000 licenced beds located in South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.

Healius

Primary Health Care is a medical center operator engaged in providing diagnostic imaging services and pathology services. Co. operates three principal operating segments: Medical Centres, which provides a range of services and facilities to general practitioners, specialists and other health care providers; Pathology, which provides pathology services; and Imaging, which provides imaging and scanning services from stand-alone imaging sites and from within the consolidated entity's medical centres.

Insurance Australia Group Limited

Insurance Australia Group is engaged in the underwriting of general insurance and related corporate services and investing activities. Co.'s business divisions are: Consumer, which includes short tail insurance such as motor vehicle and long tail insurance such as compulsory third party, as well as travel insurance, life insurance, income protection and funeral products; Business, which provides business and farm insurance, and workers' compensation services; New Zealand, a general insurance provider in New Zealand; Asia, which provides personal and commercial insurance products through local brands in Asia; and Corporate and other, which includes placement of Co.'s reinsurance program.

James Hardie Industries PLC Chess Units of Foreign Securities

James Hardie Industries is engaged in the manufacturing and selling of fiber cement products and systems for internal and external building construction applications in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Europe. Co.'s fiber cement products are used in a number of markets, including new residential construction, manufactured housing, repair and remodeling and a variety of commercial and industrial applications. Co. manufactures numerous types of fiber cement products with a variety of patterned profiles and surface finishes for a range of applications, including external siding and soffit lining, internal linings, facades, and floor and tile underlayments.

JB Hi-Fi Limited

JB Hi Fi is engaged in the retailing of home consumer products. Co. provides a range of brands with particular focus on consumer electronics, software including music, games and movies, whitegoods and appliances.

Magellan Financial Group Ltd

Magellan Financial Group is engaged in funds management, providing international investment funds to high net worth and retail investors in Australia and New Zealand, and institutional investors globally. Co.'s main operating company is Magellan Asset Management Limited (MAM). Co.'s key operating segments are: Funds Management, in which MAM undertakes the funds management activities and MFG Services LLC acts as a service company providing MAM with services of investment analysts and distribution personnel; and Principal Investments, which include investments in the ASX Quoted Funds, the Unlisted Magellan Funds, and a select portfolio comprising Australian and international listed companies.

oOh!media

oOh!media Limited is engaged in providing a range of Out Of Home advertising solution for customers in Australia and New Zealand. Co. operates in four segments namely road, which provides large format roadside billboards; retail, which provides signs in shopping centers; fly, which provides coverage across all domestic airport terminals in Australia, and also provides media to Qantas Lounge, and integrated Wi-Fi site network; and place, which operates in cafes, bars, universities and indoor social sports centers, and also operates Websites. Co. also provides complementary services, such as campaign production, campaign management, creative and digital services, and experiential advertising.

Pact Group Holdings Ltd.

Pact Group Holdings is provider of specialty packaging and manufacturing solutions in Australasia. Co. converts plastic resin and steel into rigid packaging and other products that service customers in different sectors including: food and beverage, personal care, household consumer, industrial and chemical, and materials handling and infrastructure. Co. also provides a range of services including outsourced manufacturing, filling and packing and a range of sustainability, recycling and environmental services to assist customers in reducing the environmental impact of their product packaging and related processes.

Reliance Worldwide Corp. Ltd.

Reliance Worldwide Corporation is a limited liability company. Co. is principally engaged in the design, manufacture and supply of high quality, reliable and premium branded water flow and control products and solutions for the plumbing industry. Co. manufacturers brass Push-to Connect (PTC) plumbing fittings, sold under the SharkBite brand. Co. operates through the following four product segments: Fittings and Pipe, Control Valves, Thermostatic Products and Other Products. Co. has 12 manufacturing facilities across Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America and Spain.

Seven Group Holdings Limited

Seven Group Holdings has six segments: WesTrac Australia, which provides heavy equipment sales and support to customers in Australia; WesTrac China, also providing heavy equipment sales and support in Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin; AllightSykes, engaged in the manufacture, assembly, sales and support of lighting, FG Wilson power generation and dewatering equipment as well as distribution of Perkins engines; Coates Hire, which is an equipment hire company; Media Investments, which relates to investments in listed and unlisted media organizations; Energy; and Other investments.

Shopping Centres Australasia Property Group RE Ltd.

Shopping Centres Australasia Property Group is an internally managed real estate investment trust. Co. is comprised of Shopping Centres Australasia Property Group Re Limited, the responsible entity to the Shopping Centres Australasia Property Management Trust and Shopping Centres Australasia Property Retail Trust. The units of each Trust are stapled together to form a stapled listed vehicle. Co. owns and manages a portfolio of sub-regional and neighbourhood shopping centres and freestanding retail assets. Co.'s portfolio is focused on convenience retailing. As of June 30 2016, Co. had a total of 83 operating properties, including 69 in Australia and 14 in New Zealand.

Sims Ltd.

Sims Metal Management buys, processes and sells ferrous and non-ferrous recycled metals and provides environmentally responsible solutions for the disposal of post-consumer electronic products, including information technology assets recycled for commercial customers. Co.'s product groups are: ferrous secondary recycling, which collects, processes and trades iron and steel secondary raw material; non-ferrous secondary recycling, which collects, processes and trades other metal alloys and residues; recycling solutions, which disposes post-consumer electronic products; and secondary processing and other services, which focuses on melting, refining and ingoting of certain non-ferrous metals.

Suncorp Group Limited

Suncorp Group is engaged in the general insurance, banking, life insurance, superannuation products and related services to the retail, corporate and commercial sectors. Co.'s segments are: Personal Insurance, which include home and contents insurance, motor insurance and travel insurance; Commercial Insurance, which include commercial motor insurance, commercial property insurance and marine insurance; General Insurance, which include home and contents insurance, motor insurance, marine insurance; Bank, which include personal and commercial banking; and Life, which include financial planning and funds administration services.

Super Retail Group Limited

Super Retail Group's main activities are result in the following business segments: Auto, which include retailing of auto parts and accessories, tools and equipment; Leisure, which include retailing of boating, camping, outdoor equipment, fishing equipment and apparel; and Sports, which include retailing of sporting equipment, bicycles, bicycles accessories and apparel. Co.'s principal brands include Amart Sports for sports products such as equipment, apparel and associated accessories; BCF for an outdoor retailer; Rays for an outdoor entertainment and camping leisure retailer; Rebel for sporting and goods such as fitness equipment; and Supercheap Auto for automotive parts and accessories.

Telstra Corporation Limited

Telstra is engaged in providing telecommunications and information services for domestic and international customers. Co.'s operating segments are Telstra Retail, Global Enterprise and Services, Telstra Operations, and Telstra Wholesale. As of June 30 2016, Co. provided retail fixed data services to 3.4 million customers, retail fixed voice services to 5.7 million and domestic retail mobile services to 17.2 million customers.

Wisetech Global Ltd.

WiseTech Global is engaged in providing software solutions to the logistics industry across more than 125 countries. Co. develops, sells and implements software solutions that enable logistics service providers to facilitate the movement and storage of goods and information domestically and internationally. Co.'s customers range from small and mid-sized regional or domestic enterprises to large multi-national companies.

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  • Shane worked for 17 years in Sydney-based senior research roles (economist, equity strategist and bond strategist) in global and regional investment banks and a domestic commercial bank prior to starting Macro Strategy Advisors. These roles straddled the asset classes making him uniquely positioned to advise multi-asset investors. He worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) for 3 years as a housing, commercial property and equity market analyst and a liquidity forecasting specialist.  He worked as a structural engineer in Queensland for 10 years prior to his career at the RBA. 

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