Episode 11: Audinate, Volpara, Dicker Data, locality Planning and listener mailbag

No matter what approach you take with investing — and here at Strawman we’re certainly a broad church — it’s impossible to avoid the narrative bias. That is, our tendency to interpret a set of facts or events in terms of a story. A story helps us connect things together, and gives them meaning. It sets out an arc that helps us make predictions […]

This week, we attended the inaugural Coffee Microcaps conference, where we had the chance to hear from a bunch of interesting Micro-cap companies, as well as rub shoulders with some heavy-hitting private & professional investors. We run through our thoughts on all the companies that presented: Volpara (VHT), BlackWall (BWF), SkyFi (SKF), Kangaroo Plantation Timber (KPT), Locality Planning (LPE), XRef […]

Modern economics is littered with ideas that are, frankly, wrong. Not obviously so, which is partly why they are so hard to kill. That, and the fact they tend to be politically comforting, at least in terms of their intended outcomes. That those outcomes would indeed be nice if achieved, and often come from the best of intentions, is not […]

Andrew takes a bearish stance towards property, Matt walks us through his decision to sell Class (ASX:CL1) and Claude pitches the bull case for Webjet (ASX:WEB)

With shares up around 48 times in the past four years, is there still any upside to be had?

When a share price underperforms the market, how much of that can be blamed on management? Conversely, when prices surge higher, how much credit do the senior execs deserve? Of course, in the short run, the answer is probably ‘not much’. But even over a period of a year or two it can be hard to connect executive decisions to […]

Following a big week of half-yearly reports on the ASX, the guys cover six of their favourite stocks — and all in under 40 minutes! Stocks covered: Appen (ASX:APX), MNF Group (ASX:MNF), Nanosonics (ASX:NAN), A2 Milk (ASX:A2M), Webjet (ASX:WEB) & ProMedicus (ASX:PME).

Everyone loves to talk about being a “long-term investor.” It almost sounds noble, and certainly a far wiser pursuit than the degeneracies of trading. Not without good reason, either. When your focus is beyond the immediate future you allow time for compounding to do it’s thing, and you’re less likely to be shaken out by volatility. When you find a great […]