Australia's discretionary retailers have spent two years bracing for a consumer that never quite cracked. Universal Store Holdings (ASX: UNI), a Brisbane-based seller of youth fashion, has been among the more striking exceptions, posting double-digit sales growth while shoppers elsewhere trimmed their spending. As …
McMillan Shakespeare Limited (ASX: MMS) rarely makes headlines, yet the Melbourne-based group sits at the centre of two habits millions of Australians take for granted: packaging part of their salary to cut tax, and leasing a car through their employer. On 23 February 2026 …
Equity Trustees, listed as EQT Holdings Limited (ASX: EQT), is one of Australia's oldest financial institutions, tracing its roots to 1888. Its trailing dividend yield now sits near 6.4%, well above the 3 to 4% range long-term holders were used to. But that headline …
Adairs Limited (ASX: ADH) is one of the Australian market's better-known home-furnishings names, operating the Adairs bedding-and-decor chain, the online-led furniture brand Mocka, and value furniture retailer Focus on Furniture. Over the past 12 months the shares have fallen 28 per cent, even as …
Charter Hall Social Infrastructure REIT (ASX: CQE) is an externally managed Australian real estate investment trust that owns property used to deliver essential community services, above all childcare centres. Managed by Charter Hall Group, the trust collects rent from operators who run childcare, healthcare, …
FleetPartners Group Limited (ASX: FPR), the Sydney-based vehicle-fleet and novated-lease specialist formerly known as Eclipx Group, told the market on 3 August 2026 that it had received an unsolicited, indicative and non-binding proposal to acquire the company for A$3.60 cash per share. The approach, …
Few ASX-listed companies have leaned into a "declining" industry as deliberately as IVE Group. The marketing, print and packaging group has spent years arguing that print is not dead — it simply needs to be run more efficiently and wrapped in faster-growing services. Its …
Elders Limited (ASX: ELD), one of Australia's oldest agribusinesses, lifted first-half earnings sharply in the six months to 31 March 2026 — yet its shares fell heavily on the day of the result. The reason lay in the gap between the headline growth and …
Australian Finance Group Limited (ASX: AFG) is one of the country's largest mortgage aggregators — the wholesale middleman that sits between thousands of independent mortgage brokers and more than 80 lenders. On 18 February 2026 the Perth-based group reported what it billed as a …
Charter Hall Retail REIT (ASX: CQR) owns the kind of property most Australians visit without a second thought: the neighbourhood and sub-regional shopping centre where a Woolworths, Coles or Aldi anchors a cluster of specialty shops. Increasingly it also owns "net lease" convenience assets …