Hi Tony,
We covered NCK on Friday morning here with the simple conclusion that we are neutral and see no compelling reason to chase the furniture retailer into this sell-down.
Overall, we still think it gets tougher from here in a general sense towards retail, as we enter an uncertain period for the local economy as interest rate rises take affect (i.e. there is a lag between when they go up and how this impacts consumer behavior), and we think this will weigh on consumer spending – for example, our last sale in the Income Portfolio was in Wesfarmers.
Bapcor (BAP) and Premier Investments (PMV) are both slightly different, PMV has a bunch of cash to make hay in any downturn while we think the risk/reward stacks up in BAP given the weakness in share price. Essentially, we are more concerned about the retailers that have run up on less bad news / better outcomes and would prefer to buy these into corrections – Super Retail (SUL) springs to mind as another example in addition to Wesfarmers. NCK was also one of those prior to the pullback.