For a company that dominates Australia's online job marketplace, Seek's first half numbers were bad: revenue fell 4% to $536m and adjusted net profit fell 28% to just $77m due to higher costs. That's ...

If, like me, you have friends who insist the share market is a giant casino rife with madness, don't tell them about Audinate's interim result. There were, as expected, terrible numbers. Revenue was ...

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When a stock falls 20% on the release of its interim results, as MinRes just did, you might expect to see disaster in the numbers. In another display of odd behaviour (see Audinate earlier this week), ...

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For most businesses, 12% growth in sales and 28% growth in profits wouldn't trigger a 10% drop in the share price. Alphabet isn't most businesses. When we last looked at the company on 4 Nov 24 (Hold ...