Shares in Qantas Airways Limited(ASX: QAN) fell along with other ASX travel companies today. At the close of trading, the Qantas share price was $5, down 1.96%.
Also trading lower today were fellow ASX 200 travel shares Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd(ASX: FLT), down 2.74%, and Webjet Limited(ASX: WEB), down 2.86%.
ASX travel shares follow US lead
Overnight, the share prices of US airlines also fell amid concerns the US Federal Reserve might raise interest rates in higher increments than usual to curb inflation after the Ukraine-Russia conflict eases.
Some US carriers are carrying hefty net debt and every rate rise means more expensive loan repayments. This can impact cash flow and result in less money flowing through to profits for shareholders.
Also possibly weighing on the Qantas share price is the rising cost of oil amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict. This is a significant headwind for airlines, as jet fuel is one of their biggest costs of doing business. The price of Crude oil is up 1.5% to $97.66 and the price of Brent is up 1.63% to $102.73, according to tradingeconomics.com.
Qantas customers say they’ve been charged twice
Compounding the company’s woes today is reports that some Qantas passengers have been charged multiple times for the same flight.
According to a report on abc.net.au, customers have taken to Twitter to express their frustration over the charges. Many claim they’ve had to spend hours waiting on hold to speak to someone at the call centre.
Ruby Halloumi posted: “I was charged twice, and it took 15 business days to get my funds back, after approximately 10 hours on hold with Qantas over a week.”
In a media statement released today, Qantas acknowledged that “recent call wait times that our customers have been experiencing are not acceptable… We sincerely apologise”.
In its statement, Qantas said:
Our call volume has increased from an average of 7,500 calls a day to 14,000 calls a day, with calls on average taking 50 per cent longer to resolve than pre-COVID given the complexity of some itineraries across more than one airline where routes are re-opening and flights are re-starting at different times.
Qantas share price recap
The Qantas share price is up by more than 10% over the past 30 days. However, it is still down almost 8% over the past year and 3% year to date.
For comparison, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) has gained more than 6% over the past 12 months but is down around 2% this year to date.
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The Ardent Leisure Group Ltd (ASX: ALG) share price surged today, despite many ASX tourism shares descending.
The company’s shares soared 8.49% in earlier trade before retreating. At the closing bell, the Ardent Leisure share price finished up 6.18% at $1.38.
Ardent’s shares took off on a day many ASX tourism shares were in the red. The Corporate Travel Management Ltd (ASX: CTD) share price slid 2.54%, while Helloworld Travel Ltd(ASX: HLO) descended 2.4%.
Meanwhile, Qantas Airways Limited(ASX: QAN) dropped 1.96%, Webjet Limited(ASX: WEB) fell 2.86% and Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd (ASX: FLT) slipped 2.74%.
Let’s take a look at why this ASX tourism share performed so well today.
What’s happening with this ASX tourism share?
Ardent Leisure has agreed to sell 100% of its US Main Event Entertainment business for US$835 million.
The company, along with RedBird Capital partners, has entered a binding agreement and merger plan with Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc (NASDAQ: PLAY). New York-based private investment firm Redbird acquired a 24.2% interest in Main Event Entertainment in June 2020.
If the transaction goes ahead, Ardent Leisure will receive about US$487 million in cash. Ardent plans to now focus entirely on its Australian theme parks business. Ardent owns the Dreamworld and WhiteWater World theme parks on the Gold Coast, along with the SkyPoint attraction.
Proceeds from the sale will be used to pay its debt to the Queensland Treasury Corporation and deferred settlement to the Australian Taxation Office.
Ardent will also use the funds to invest in the theme parks business. The company expects to return $430 million, or 90 cents per share, to shareholders if the deal goes ahead.
Shareholders will vote on this transaction at an extraordinary general meeting later this year.
The Ardent board will recommend shareholders vote in favour of the sell-off. This is subject to conditions, including independent expert review and no superior proposal being received.
Commenting on the news that boosted this ASX tourism share today, Ardent Leisure chairman Dr Gary Weiss said:
Having regard to the valuation reflected by the transaction and its terms and conditions, the Board believes that this transaction with Dave & Buster’s is in the best interests of Ardent Leisure shareholders.
Furthermore, if the transaction completes, Ardent Leisure shareholders will receive a significant distribution of cash and retain continued ownership in a leading theme parks operator with a strong balance sheet and highly experienced management team that is poised to benefit from the significant investments made in the business and the reopening of Australia’s economy and its international borders.
Ardent Leisure share price snapshot
The Ardent Leisure share price has soared 50% in the past year, while it is up 2% this year to date. In contrast, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) has returned nearly 8% in the past year.
Ardent has a market capitalisation of about $662 billion based on its current share price.
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The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is having a fairly disappointing day of trading thus far this Thursday. At the time of writing, the ASX 200 is down by 0.66% at just under 7,450 points. Unfortunately for ASX tech shares, this sector is leading the ASX 200 losses today.
While the ASX 200 is ‘only’ down by 0.64%, the S&P/ASX All Technology Index (ASX: XTX) has now lost more than 3% of its value.
We can see this in action with some of the ASX 200’s most prominent tech shares.
Take Block Inc(ASX: SQ2), the new owner of Afterpay. Block shares are currently enduring a nasty 4.3% drop at $170.59 a share.
Altium Limited(ASX: ALU) shares aren’t quite as deep in the dog house but are still down 3.13% right now at $33.60 a share.
Appen Ltd(ASX: APX) is faring slightly better again. This dataset company has lost 1.68% at $6.72 a share as it currently stands. It’s a similar story with Xero Limited(ASX: XRO), which is down by 2.56% at $102.19.
But WiseTech Global Ltd(ASX: WTC) is really copping some ire. WiseTech share price has slumped 6.01% so far today and is now at $49.54 a share.
So why has the ASX 200 tech share sector taken such a battering today?
Why are investors selling off ASX 200 tech shares?
Well, it’s possible these moves have been spurred by the performance of the US tech sector overnight. Last night saw the NASDAQ-100 (INDEXNASDAQ: NDX) lose a hefty 2.17%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is home to most of the prominent US tech shares, such as Alphabet Inc(NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Netflix Inc(NASDAQ: NFLX).
This in turn seems to have been sparked by hawkish comments from the US Federal Reserve, which seem to indicate that the Fed may be thinking about ramping up interest rate hikes.
Tech shares are particularly susceptible to higher interest rates seeing many of them trade on elevated valuations and higher growth expectations compared to other sectors on the market.
So that could be why we are seeing so many ASX tech shares getting steamrollered today.
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The Bitcoin(CRYPTO: BTC) price is down 4.4% over the past 24 hours, having earlier been down more than 6%.
One Bitcoin is currently worth US$43,356 (AU$58,377).
The past two days of retreat have mirrored losses among risk assets like high growth tech shares. This selloff has the S&P/ASX All Technology Index (ASX: XTX) leading the way lower, down 3% in intraday trading.
With the overnight losses, the world’s original crypto is now down 8% since this time last week and down 9% year-to-date.
Yet, while still in the red for the calendar year, the Bitcoin price has marched 23% higher since 24 January, when it traded for US$33,184, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
That’s the recent price action in a nutshell.
But what can crypto investors expect from the Bitcoin price over the coming months?
What’s ahead for the Bitcoin price in 2022?
Ian Lowe is the CEO of crypto wealth platform Dacxi.
Asked what could impact the Bitcoin price over the coming months, Lowe told The Motley Fool:
Institutional adoption will continue to push prices higher. Bullish undertones rippled through the market last Tuesday as the co-founder of Terra (CRYPTO: LUNA), Do Kwon, announced that Terra is commencing the accumulation of US$10 billion worth of Bitcoin as a reserve asset for its stablecoin TerraUSD (CRYPTO: UST).
Lowe added:
The institutionalisation of Bitcoin was further highlighted last week, when Goldman Sachs conducted its first Bitcoin OTC transaction, and reports of Ray Dalio’s giant hedge fund, Bridgewater, backing a crypto fund were released.
A US-listed Bitcoin ETF and looming regulations
Josh Gilbert, crypto analyst at multi-asset investment platform eToro, pointed to the potential launch of a Bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) in the United States’ markets as a strong potential tailwind for the Bitcoin price in 2022.
“A US spot bitcoin ETF is still on the radar for next quarter. Although there is no confirmed launch date, interest-only continues to soar,” he told us.
“As some of the world’s largest financial institutions, such as BlackRock, are now beginning to make crypto available for their clients, a spot Bitcoin ETF is expected to make investing in Bitcoin much more straightforward,” he added.
But Gilbert cautioned of potential headwinds over the coming months that could drag on the Bitcoin price.
“I’d be watching for further conversations around regulation, particularly outside of the US,” he said.
According to Gilbert:
US President Joe Biden recently issued his executive order on Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets. Although it’s unlikely we will see the full transition pan out in Q2, any negative discussions in Congress could see the Bitcoin price drop.
Rising utility and stronger hands a tailwind for the Bitcoin price
Daniel Sekers is the managing director of crypto trading platform YourPortfolio.
Commenting on what could send the Bitcoin price higher, Sekers told The Motley Fool, “We are seeing the utility of Bitcoin starting to be used as an underlying security to altcoins. Last week saw the LUNA Foundation Guard buy up US$3 billion of Bitcoin to back their dollar-backed stablecoin.”
Sekers pointed to the havoc caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as also likely to support the Bitcoin price over the coming months:
We have again seen a marked increase in Bitcoin transactions in Europe, we assume fuelled by the conflict in Ukraine. Some of this flow can be attributed to aid flowing into Ukraine, but it would also be reasonable to assume that some of it is being used to avoid Russian sanctions. I would expect the use of cryptocurrencies in the region will continue to fuel price increases in the asset.
He also noted that more Bitcoin looks to be held by what equity investors call ‘strong hands’. Namely investors unlikely to sell at the first sign of weakness.
“In the last 30 days, an analysis of the blockchain via forensic analysis platform Chainalysis shows 0.9% increase in Bitcoin being held by what is considered to be ‘illiquid pools’ which may have an inflationary impact on the Bitcoin price,” he said.
As for what could drag Bitcoin lower over the coming months, Sekers said, “There is nothing like a tweet from Elon Musk to move the Bitcoin price, but we are never really certain of his motives. Tesla holds almost US$2 billion in Bitcoin but that didn’t stop Elon commenting on the energy consumption of the coin putting downward pressure on the price.”
Then there’s the uncertainty surrounding upcoming regulations, which can potentially depress Bitcoin’s performance in the shorter-term. “In the long run this will likely support the Bitcoin price with mass market adoption, but in the short term, the uncertainty of regulation may create a state of flux,” he said.
But the biggest risk to the Bitcoin price, according to Sekers, is the cost to produce and transact the token, which could see a jump in supply.
“With energy prices heavily inflated, crypto-miners that aren’t relying on more stable renewable energy sources will have inflated mining costs,” he said.
Sekers continued:
We see miners react to these fluctuations like any other commodity producer, in that they will decrease their mining operations and increase outflow of reserves. Where it differs with crypto is that miners will release more crypto into the market creating more liquidity, hence increasing supply.
For the miners, especially with an elevated price, this allows them to offset the increased price of production. In the last week, we have seen a marked increase in miners moving Bitcoin to exchanges, as such increasing supply.
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The S&P/ASX 200 Index(ASX: XJO) has continued its poor form of the week so far this Thursday. At the time of writing, the ASX 200 has lost another 0.64% and is now trading at just under 7,450 points.
So let’s look at something different and take a glance at which shares are sitting atop the ASX 200’s share volume charts, according to investing.com.
The 3 most traded ASX 200 shares by volume this Thursday
ASX 200 telco Telstra is our first cab off the rank today. Telstra has had a notable 12.11 million shares swap hands as it currently stands on the markets. This telecommunications company seems to be defying the mood of the broader market and is currently up 0.9% at $3.97 a share. The company is also continuing to regularly buy back its own shares. This is probably why Telstra is appearing on this list today.
Paladin Energy is next up today. This ASX 200 uranium share has watched as 24.39 million of its shares have found a new home thus far. Yesterday, Paladin announced the completion of a $200 million share purchase plan, which saw the company’s share price drop at the time. However, today, investors seem to have had a change of heart. Paladin shares are now up by 4.2% at 81 cents apiece. This is probably the source of this elevated trading volume.
AVZ Minerals is our third and final share to check out today. This ASX 200 lithium hopeful has had a whopping 31.88 million shares bought and sold on the markets thus far. Again, there has been no major news or announcements out of this company today. So we can probably attribute this volume down to the share price fall AVZ has endured over today’s trading. The AVZ Minerals share price is currently down by 2.62% at $1.12.
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Two separate markets, one similar industry. That’s an easy way to categorise this pair of interesting tech names that are currently triangulating around the scene.
Each of Archer Materials Ltd(ASX: AXE) and Brainchip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN) has been beaten down in the last month whilst the broader tech sector has jumped into the green.
Tech names, in general, have snapped back over the last month, with the S&P/ASX All Technology Index (ASX: XTX) – a proxy for the ASX tech sector – shooting up 5% in that time.
Why don’t we do a quick comparative analysis on both of these shares to get a better understanding of what’s driving each name, and then we’ll see what the market is saying.
Brainchip versus Archer – descriptive analysis
Whilst both companies operate in the same industry, each has fairly different addressable markets. First, let’s look at a brief description of each security.
Brainchip operates as a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it provides neural computing technology solutions. It also provides artificial neural networks, software and digital hardware solutions in both the US and Australia.
It currently trades at 93.25 cents, well off its 52-week high of $2.34, but above its yearly low of 36 and a half cents. It has a market capitalisation of around $1.6 billion, and printed revenue of $1.6 million in 2021, up from $120,000 a year prior.
Archer Materials on the other hand operates as a technology company. It develops and then commercialises advanced semiconductor devices. The application of its chips ranges from quantum computing to medical diagnostics to mineral exploration. It has a global footprint.
Archer is trading down today at 88.5 cents and that’s a hefty slice off its 52-week high of $3.08 and actually closer to its 52-week low of 66.5 cents, set back in May 2021.
Archer’s market capitalisation of just $217 million places it in the small cap category as well. The company hasn’t secured revenue yet but recorded a net loss after tax of $2.8 million last year.
Fundamental flavour
There’s plenty that can be said about each company’s operating lines and the strengths and weaknesses of various product offerings. That’s not for this analysis. Here we’ll look at some of the numbers for a more informed and objective take. All measures are per Bloomberg data.
Ratios are a great way to bring two companies into the same line to make this comparison. We can use data obtained from the ratios to examine whether each name is performing well or not.
For instance, both companies aren’t profitable right now, in the sense they’ve both recorded after-tax losses in the last reporting period. That has an impact on certain measures of profitability.
Even still, Brainchip’s return on common equity (ROE) came in at -114% in H2 FY21, whereas Archer saw a -30% ROE.
Elsewhere, Brainchip’s gross margin of 82% stands out, as Archer hasn’t printed or recognised revenue from its operations just yet.
Instead, Archer recorded other comprehensive income of $1.72 million in 2021, mainly due to the sale of assets of $1.7 million to Chem X Materials Pty Ltd.
Both companies were also cash flow negative in their last half-yearly set of accounts, spending more on operations than earning in customer receipts.
Archer has a debt ratio of just 0.08% whereas its competitor here has a ratio of 8.6%. But that doesn’t mean to say it has an unhealthy balance sheet – both of these figures show each company is lowly geared with little debt. That could be a good sign in a world of rising interest rates.
In fact, Brainchip has ample liquidity, as short-term obligations are covered around 7x from and 6x from cash on the balance sheet.
Also, both companies appear to have a sufficient cash runway to last over the next 2 years, as determined by a funny little metric that analysts use, called the Altman’s Z-score.
The score takes various metrics from the financial statements and is used to predict a company’s likelihood of going bankrupt in the next 2 years, with surprising accuracy. A score of 2.99 or more indicates this safety. Brainchip and Archer are at 94.5 and 338 respectively.
Share price performance
Archer shares have compressed down in the last 12 months and have shaved 21% in that time. From their peak, shares have lost exactly two-thirds of their value at the time of writing, and are down another 8% this past month.
Brainchip shares on the other hand have had a similar outcome albeit a little bit further down the track (see below). Except, the company has held onto gains and is now up 70% in the past year and 37% in the past month of trade.
Whilst shares have retreated heavily in 2022 after going vertical in January, they are still quite top heavy and are floating well above 3 and 5 year highs.
Both stocks have also moved largely independently of each other over the last 12 months. Even more curious is, that Brainchip has moved pretty much on its own, despite what’s happened in the tech sector over this time. Let’s explain.
A commonly used term in finance is a statistic known as the stock’s ‘beta’; simply a measure of how closely it moves in unison relative to moves in the market (or an index).
A beta of 1 means the stock is perfectly correlated. It and the index move directly in unison, whilst minus 1 moves directly inversely to the index. A score of zero has no correlation whatsoever.
In this case, we’ll use the S&P/ASX All Technology Index, and what we’re trying to examine is what direction each stock moves when the index spikes up or down, and by how much. Typically, tech stocks move almost in unison with the wider tech sector and are called ‘high-beta’ stocks for that reason.
But not Brainchip. For the last 2 years its beta is -0.156, meaning that, on average, each move in the tech index has had little to no impact on the Brainchip share price.
In comparison, Archer has moved more closely. Its beta score is 0.87 – closer to 1 – meaning it has a much higher correlation to movements in the index.
Important to note, is that correlation doesn’t equal causation – these measures don’t show what’s causing the share price to change, rather how closely it moves compared to another benchmark.
These calculations, drawn from historical data, have implications on factors like diversification in portfolios, and also security selection – particularly at the professional level (think fund inclusion etc).
Valuation
Analysts haven’t glossed over both of these companies in enough detail to provide a comprehensive discounted cash flow valuation based on future cash flow projections.
Instead, we can look at valuation multiples for an apples-to-apples here. Archer is trading at 6.9x its book value of equity (P/B) but hasn’t printed sales, so P/B is what we need to focus on.
Brainchip on the other hand is trading at a P/B of 62.5x – but it has printed revenue, unlike its foe here, and warrants the premium. Although, it is trading at more than 750x sales – hardly a bargain.
Checking growth of these measures compared to each company’s enterprise value (EV) growth is a method that analysts use to assess the value of early-stage players with little earnings data to go by.
Brainchip’s EV has climbed 128% since 2020 and over 1,500% since 2018, compared to P/B growth of 106% and 612% in the same periods.
Meanwhile, Archer’s EV has grown 51% since 2020 and 950% since 2018, with P/B expanding just 25% and 538% in those times respectively.
Compare this to the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO), whose market cap has grown by 19% and 47%, whilst its P/B has grown by 9.5% and 21%.
Therefore it could be that Brainchip has created more value for its shareholders, outpacing Archer and smashing the benchmark in growing the book value of its equity. This has come alongside growth in its share price. What this means in terms of valuation – the market will decide.
Has it created more value for shareholders? I’ll let you be the judge.
Foolish takeaway
Both shares are running at different paces this year, but it’s interesting to know that they aren’t necessarily dancing to the tune of the tech sector.
Analyst opinion on each is very light and there are a lot of assumptions baked into each company’s forward revenue projections.
Nevertheless, whilst both shares have garnered serious attention over the last 12 months, there’s no telling in what direction the market will move next, let alone these two individual names.
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The S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Index (ASX: XAO) is in the red today, down 0.64% to 7,738 points at the time of writing.
The ASX All Ords may be wobbling after the release of official notes from the US Federal Reserve’s latest meeting. The notes indicated that bigger interest rate hikes than usual — possibly 0.5% at a time — might be required to curb inflation once the Ukraine-Russia conflict eases, according to reporting by abc.net.au.
Among the drags on the All Ords index today are these three ASX small-cap shares, which have all touched new 52-week low prices.
The first ASX All Ords faller we’re looking at today is fashion footwear retailer Accent. It’s trading down 5.35% to $1.56 at the time of writing — its lowest level in a year. This is a long way down from the 52-week high of $3.08 reached in April 2021.
Next is online luxury goods retailer Cettire, which is currently down 7.42% at $1.06 — a new 52-week low. This ASX All Ords share is now down 78% on its 52-week high of $4.81 reached in mid-November. That was around the time the company announced a direct brand partnership with Staff International and reported strong trading momentum.
Lastly, we look at Audinate, which crashed to a new 52-week low of $6.13 in earlier trading. That’s a 4% decline on yesterday’s closing price of $6.39. It has since rebounded to its current price of $6.22 at the time of writing.
The last lot of price-sensitive news from Audinate came on 14 February when it released its 1H22 results. The audio-visual networking provider delivered strong revenue growth and said it was navigating supply chain issues well. Broker James Gerrish of Shaw and Partners responded the following day by slapping a $12 price target on this ASX All Ords small-cap. He’s still keen on the stock today, as my Fool colleague Tony reported.
ASX All Ords recap
The All Ordinaries index is down 2.4% year to date but up 7.8% over the past 12 months.
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The Xero Limited (ASX: XRO) share price has dropped 5% over the last two days.
Considering the market capitalisation of Xero is $15.7 billion (according to the ASX), this decline represents hundreds of millions of dollars.
Xero shares are seeing red, just like plenty of other ASX shares on the stock market. At the time of writing, the S&P/ASX 200 Index(ASX: XJO) is down by 0.6%.
Today, the WiseTech Global Ltd (ASX: WTC) share price is down 5.4%, the Novonix Ltd(ASX: NVX) share price is down 5.2%, the Block Inc (ASX: SQ2) share price is down 4.1%, the Webjet Limited (ASX: WEB) share price is down 3.9% and the Pro Medicus Limited (ASX: PME) share price is down 3.1%.
There haven’t been any announcements out of the company recently that could have affected the Xero share price. However, it is due to hand in its FY22 full-year result on 12 May 2022.
What is causing the ASX share market to be volatile?
Inflation and interest rates are getting much more investor attention these days.
A number of Australian economists now believe that June could be the month when interest rates start increasing in Australia, according to the Australian Financial Review.
Why do interest rates matter for the Xero share price? Or any asset price?
Billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, once said about interest rates and asset valuations:
It all comes down to interest rates. As an investor, all you’re doing is putting up a lump sum payment for a future cash flow.
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The ASX could be about to welcome a mining technology company amid a major commodities boom.
Chrysos Corporation might be gearing up to list on the market by May. The details of its IPO are expected to be finalised today, according to The Australian.
The company could be floating with a valuation of around $600 million following an initial public offering (IPO) worth approximately $200 million.
Let’s take a closer look at the CSIRO-born-and-backed company and its apparently imminent ASX float.
Could this ASX hopeful win out in the commodities boom?
Chrysos Corporation is seemingly gearing up to join its ASX mining clients on the exchange, potentially making the most of the current commodities boom.
According to the CSIRO’s Resourceful magazine, the company is “part spin-out, part employee start-up, part investor joint venture”. The scientific research agency still holds a significant portion of the company.
Chrysos Corporation’s mining technology – PhotonAssay – has been developed by the CSIRO over the last 15 years and commercialised by the company for the last five years.
It’s said to be a faster, safer, more accurate, and more environmentally friendly way to analyse gold samples. It could replace the industry standard, fire assay, which employs extreme heat and chemicals.
Chrysos Corporation makes its coin by leasing its equipment, and licensing its technology, to mining companies.
But what kind of cash could the commodities-focused ASX IPO hopeful be bringing in?
Those metrics are reportedly expected to increase to $26.6 million and $3.2 million respectively next financial year. And, in following years, they could double.
The CSIRO isn’t the only entity with a hold of Chrysos Corporation. Perenti Global Ltd(ASX: PRN) also owns shares in the ASX hopeful.
The Australianhas also recently reported Regal Funds Management, Wilson Asset Management, and Tribeca Investment Partners each own stakes in Chrysos Corporation.
No doubt, all eyes will be on the mining tech company ahead of its potential IPO and ASX float.
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