Forum Topics DDR DDR AGM Update

Pinned straw:

Added 2 months ago

The latest AGM showed that the ramp up of inventory levels in front of supplier price increases has really paid off with Gross Margin ramping back up to 9.5%. A very positive start for FY27.

thunderhead
Added 2 months ago

Any concerns with a strike on the rem report, and Mary's re-election not being strongly endorsed going by the voting results?

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BullsWool
Added 2 months ago

I think there has been an issue for a few years now that the STI and LTI plans for the senior executives are very generous. That being said they continue to deliver and have been a very stable group whilst DD was focussing on his Racing Cars. While I continue to see Vlad in particular stepping in at regular intervals and buying the stock I will feel OK with the rem plan.

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BoredSaint
Added 2 months ago

I've always wondered if DDR is a good, albeit somewhat indirect, ASX listed exposure to the AI megatrend/spend. We've seen massive share price runs on business' which supply hardware and components to the AI players so I'm assuming DDR is one of the distributors for this spend in Australia/NZ. The AGM update was a positive and showed some decent exposure to this trend. Share price hasn't really run in comparison to the actual suppliers, perhaps the spend in AU/NZ is lagging what is being spent in the US.

Disc: Held IRL and on Strawman.

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Solvetheriddle
Added 2 months ago

@BoredSaint , my view is DDR will benefit from the AI spend but not in a first-order way. The companies that are benefiting in a big way hold IP, while DDR acts as a reseller. So those with a defensible place in the semi value chain, so I hold TSM and ASML, but you could hold others like NVDA, AVGO, to a lesser degree, memory, etc., very little quality exposure to this theme in Australia imo. Hard to see DDR getting explosive volumes and margins like the others, but AI still should be a tailwind, and maybe a significant one.

held for daughter in trust, until Albo has his nasty way anyway.




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