Fortescue delivers again – hard to watch! (FMG, SFR, JHG, GMA)
WHAT MATTERED TODAY
As one trader said to me today, what does it take for this market to fall? 723 new cases in Victoria not the answer as the ASX continues to climb the wall of worry on the back of strong updates from material stocks today – Fortescue Metals (FMG) the standout coming on the back of a decent report from RIO overnight. We also cover Sandfire (SFR) below along with a few other names that reported in one way or another today.
The IT stocks regained top spot today along with Staples and Healthcare, the typical COVID-19 roadmap that we saw during more widespread lockdowns, while the travel stocks and shopping centres lagged. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) out with results today and while we don’t cover below, a few charts in the presentation pack on shopping centre foot traffic, rent collection and the like were very interesting – we’ll look more into this at some point.
Overall, the ASX 200 added +44pts / +0.74% to close at 6051. Dow Futures are trading down -42pts / -0.16%
ASX 200 Chart
ASX 200 Chart
CATCHING MY EYE
Fortescue Metals (FMG) +4.15%: Quarterly plus full year production numbers out today and they were strong across the board. They shipped 178.2Mt vs guidance 175-177Mt while they guided to FY21 shipments of 175-180Mt which is strong. Costs were well behaved with C1 costs a $12.94/wmt vs year-ago $13.11/wmt, inclusive of COVID-19 related costs of approximately $0.22/wmt. At at June 30, they have cash on hand of $4.9b and with the run rates and cost based, along with their outlook for spending in FY21 (total of $3-3.4bn of capex) the backdrop looks good for their upcoming full year results on the 24th August.
Fortescue Metals (FMG) Chart
Sandfire (SFR) -5.76%: Q4 update today that looked good on first read through but like Independence Group yesterday, SFR fell short on guidance. The miner produced 72kt of copper and 42koz of gold in FY20, with June being the biggest quarter for both commodities. Despite the strong finish to the year, the company expects production of both metals to fall in FY21. Lower production = higher costs, clearly a negative when SFR has a short mine life in their DeGrussa operation. Focus for SFR is their ability to develop other projects in the next few years to fill the void. While we are bullish gold over the medium term, we are more neutral copper. We prefer & own OZL for Copper exposure, though have taken some profit off the table this week. In gold we like NCM.
Sandfire (SFR) Chart
Janus Henderson (JHG) -2.98%: Out with quarterly update overnight that had a weak underbelly. The actual earnings were strong mainly for reasons that are unlikely to be repeated, the main issue for JHG, and it’s the reason why the stock is cheap (9x) is the continuance of outflows, ~$8bn versus ~3$bn expected. We hold the stock in the international portfolio. One we may cut.
Janus Henderson (JHG) Chart
Genworth (GMA) -6.78%: The mortgage insurer was out with 1H20 results today and while the stock is cheap, it’s there for a reason which todays update highlighted. We have held GMA in the past for income and done well out of it however the story for GMA is all about dividends and excess capital. Today they suspended their dividend and said it was product to conserve capital, a real negative for the investment thesis on this stock.
Genworth (GMA) Chart
BROKER MOVES:
· Rio Tinto Cut to Hold at Morgans Financial Limited; PT A$107
· Paradigm Biopharma Cut to Reduce at Morgans Financial Limited
· Domino's Pizza Enterprises Cut to Sell at UBS; PT A$64
· Downer EDI Raised to Buy at Goldman; PT A$5.10
· IGO Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan; PT A$5.45
· St Barbara Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan; PT A$3.60
· IGO Cut to Hold at Shaw and Partners; PT A$6
OUR CALLS
No changes today
Major Movers Today
Have a great night
James, Harry & the Market Matters Team
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