18/11/2025 09:31

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) $155.79

The CBA bears have been crowing of late and we’re glad to have exited our position in the Income Portfolio in July ~$180.  CBAs recent September quarter trading update went down badly due to margin pressure despite solid profit growth and healthy lending momentum, plus of course it’s expensive.

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11/11/2025 17:19

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) $163.40

CBA -6.59%: Shares fell sharply today after the September quarter trading update was largely inline with expectations, though margin pressure persisted despite solid profit growth and healthy lending momentum. 

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04/11/2025 09:25

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) $175.54

CBA is a world-class bank, but it's often accompanied by the unattractive tag of being the world's most expensive. Even while trading ~9% below this year's high, it's trading more than 30% above its average 5-year PE. The stock is only forecast to yield 2.8% fully-franked over the next 12-months, which doesn’t scan well compared to say ANZ on ~4.6% (part-franked).

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14/10/2025 09:22

ANZ Group (ANZ) v Commonwealth Bank (CBA)

CBA was driven higher by momentum traders into the EOFY, pushing it up to ~$190/sh, but ever since, it has peeled away, closing ~14% below this year's high on Monday.

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15/08/2025 08:28

Westpac (WBC) $36.04 vs Commonwealth Bank (CBA) $167.21

It’s not often we see WBC outperform CBA by 10% in a week. Both companies updated the market to varying degrees, with CBA releasing very solid FY25 results, while WBC provided a quarterly update that was slightly stronger.

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13/08/2025 17:43

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) $169.12

CBA -5.41%: posted a decent FY25 result but failed to deliver the material beat required to sustain its stretched valuation with the shares trading down as much as -6%.

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22/07/2025 09:19

BHP Group (BHP) v Commonwealth Bank (CBA)

The outperformance by CBA over BHP has been dramatic over the last 18 months, but it's started to snap back since late June: BHP has rallied +14% while CBA has fallen 8%, a more than 20% relative move, and we are looking for more of the same over the coming weeks/months:

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03/07/2025 10:00

Active Income Portfolio – Amendments

We are making several changes to the Income Portfolio today

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02/07/2025 09:49

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) $182.58

This may well be an unpopular call, but we feel uncomfortable that new members may be buying CBA, or investors adding funds to Market Matters Invest are increasing their exposure to the world's most expensive bank, trading on what we believe is a very stretched valuation.

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01/07/2025 09:15

Looking in the rearview mirror & through the windscreen into FY26

Standing back and looking at FY25 hides a multitude of sins, or noise, as we often call it. However, ignoring the panic selling around “Liberation Day,” the polarisation on the stock and sector level has been remarkable. As we said, even with the index up 10% for the year, more than 35% of the main board closed lower.

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