Daily FNArena News - Australia

Goodman Group represents an attractive opportunity, Shaw and Partners believes, for those looking for a stock that continues to benefit from the growing e-commerce sector.

Unless thermal coal prices improve and there is some progress on New Acland stage 3, brokers suspect New Hope Corp may struggle to find momentum.

Independent Investment Research updates developments in Australia’s listed investment company market and provides comparative data.

Several issues have combined to thwart Sims Metal Management and a substantial downgrade to the first half outlook is the result.

TPG Telecom is at a crossroads, awaiting a decision on its proposed merger with Vodafone Australia, and there are significant implications for Telstra as well.

A positive premium rate cycle should bring elevated revenue growth for general insurers but brokers note this is being offset by a loss of volume.

Investors remain cautious about Synlait Milk, which has many irons in the fire as it works on diversifying its food service strategy. Major customer a2 Milk is also critical to the outlook.

FNArena’s Monitor keeps track of corporate earnings result releases, including broker views, ratings and target price changes and beat/miss assessments.

Australia’s real estate investment trusts, as a group, have outperformed the broader equity market but remain relatively subdued, largely because of the dominance of shopping centres.

Australia’s retail sector is at a low ebb. An eagerly-awaited improvement is expected to emerge over the next 6-12 months and brokers assess which stocks may benefit.