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A choppy session played out today with early weakness bought before a midday top was put into place, the afternoon was a soggy one with weakness across the commodity complex weighing on the broader market.
MM is making some amendments to our Income, Emerging Companies & International Equities Portfolio’s. NB: SMS alerts are reserved for changes to our Flagship Growth Portfolio
the ASX200 appears to have quickly put last weeks “May jitters” behind it as the index rallies towards both its 2021 & all-time high. Another day of Commonwealth Bank (CBA) scaling fresh levels certainly helped but the buying was broad based with 75% of stocks closing positive although I did feel it was more a lack of sellers that was the main market driver but either way the result’s the same, the post GFC & COVID bull markets remain intact.
A strong session saw the ASX trade above where it started the month as it looks to buck the “sell in May and go away” trend. The star of the show was Hub24 (HUB), which we own in the Flagship Growth Portfolio, rallying +8.89% without any news.
Join Portfolio Manager James Gerrish & Senior Analyst Jules Copper as they do a deep dive into software business Altium (ALU). The stock has had a difficult time over the last 12 months, and now trades very close to it’s 12 month lows. The market remains split and somewhat skeptical of the companies current guidance and therein lies the opportunity.
MM are adding a new stock to the Flagship Growth Portfolio today
The ASX200 shrugged off some initial morning jitters to commence the week on the front foot rising +0.2% with strength in the banking sector more than offsetting losses in the heavyweight miners e.g. Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and National Australia Bank (NAB) each rallied +0.7%, while OZ Minerals (OZL) and Fortescue Metals (FMG) both fell by over -4%.
The Australian market was swung around like a ragdoll in a whipsawing start to the week with the lead changing hands 5 times before calm set in late in the day.
After over 3-weeks, May has delivered very little on the index level with the ASX200 up just 5-points month to-date, coincidentally the exact amount the SPI futures are calling the index to fall on the open this morning.
This week saw the ASX200 initially test the upside, then the downside with some gusto, only to close out the week marginally higher courtesy of a strong close on Friday. Under the hood we saw solid gains from the IT and banking stocks while the resources sector experienced some profit taking as all the major names retreated by over 2%
