Day: 16 May 2022

Are you looking for some dividend options for your portfolio? If you are, check out the two ASX shares listed below.

Here’s why these ASX dividend shares have been tipped to as buys:

Baby Bunting Group Ltd (ASX: BBN)

The first ASX dividend share to consider is baby products retailer Baby Bunting.

Citi is a fan of the company and recently reiterated its buy rating and $6.22 price target on the company’s shares. It estimates that the company’s shares trade at 19x forward earnings, which it feels is cheap given its positive growth outlook. This is being supported by its private label business, which a recent survey indicates has a significant growth runway.

Citi commented: “The survey has revealed a range of findings into the baby goods category […] some of the findings from the survey suggest there is a significant runway for growth from the company’s private label program, a relatively small (but growing) demand for second-hand products, improving customer experience and potential that the company may not need all the 110+ stores that it is targeting.”

Citi is forecasting fully franked dividends per share of 16 cents in FY 2022 and 19 cents in FY 2023. Based on the current Baby Bunting share price of $4.23, this will mean yields of 3.8% and 4.5%, respectively.

HomeCo Daily Needs REIT (ASX: HDN)

Another ASX dividend share to look at is the HomeCo Daily Needs REIT. This property company, which recently merged with Aventus, invests in convenience-based assets across target sub-sectors of neighbourhood retail, large format retail, and health and services.

The team at Goldman Sachs is very positive on the company and has a buy rating and $1.70 price target on its shares. The broker believes its shares are cheap at the current level, particularly given its positive growth outlook.

The broker commented: “We believe HDN is undervalued at its current valuation given its diversified tenant base, and see it as well positioned to benefit from the shift to omni channel retailing, with additional external growth opportunities to drive earnings growth over the medium-term.”

As for dividends, it is forecasting dividends per share of 8 cents in FY 2022 and 9 cents in FY 2023. Based on the current HomeCo Daily Needs share price of $1.32, this will mean dividend yields of 6% and 6.8%, respectively.

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The illustrious S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is home to a good number of quality blue chip shares.

So many, in fact, it can be hard to decide which ones to include in your portfolio.

In order to narrow things down, listed below are two blue chip ASX 200 shares that are highly rated right now. They are as follows:

REA Group Limited (ASX: REA)

The first ASX 200 blue chip ASX share to look at is property listings company REA Group.

It has been a consistently solid performer over the last decade despite whatever the economy or housing market has thrown at it. The good news is that this trend is expected to continue, with REA forecasting growth during the second half of FY 2022 despite listing volumes falling. Management expects this to be underpinned by higher Residential and Commercial yields, supported by contracted price rises and increased depth penetration.

So, with the REA share price down by a third in 2022, now could be the time to make a patient buy and hold investment. That’s the view of Goldman Sachs, which recently reiterated its buy rating with a $164.00 price target.

Westpac Banking Corp (ASX: WBC)

Another blue chip 200 ASX share to look at is Westpac. It recently released its half year results and revealed an 8% decline in revenue to $10,230 million, a 12% reduction in cash earnings to $3,095 million, and a 61 cents per share interim dividend.

While weaker year on year, this still compared favourably to the Visible Alpha consensus estimate for first-half cash earnings of $2.8 billion and an interim dividend of 59 cents per share.

But the big news was that Westpac has reiterated its cost reduction plans. Australia’s oldest bank is aiming to reduce its cost base to $8 billion by FY 2024. This compares to operating costs of $13.3 billion in FY 2021. Though, those numbers include $2.3 million of notable items.

This went down well with analysts at Citi. In fact, its analysts believe Westpac could deliver “the strongest EPS growth in the sector” in the coming years.

In light of this, its analysts have put a buy rating and $29.00 price target on the bank’s shares.

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Today, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) bolted upwards in the morning before strength moderated in the afternoon following worse than expected economic data out of China. At the end of the session, the benchmark index finished 0.25% higher at 7,093 points.

Despite the market getting a dose of concerning data from China, most ASX shares pushed onwards and upwards today. The biggest winners could be found in the tech and industrial sectors, with investors willing to bring back the bidding pressure.

At the other end of the market, the healthcare sector was the straggler at the back of the pack. A handful of healthcare shares had a green glimmer, though CSL Limited (ASX: CSL) weighed the sector down.

However, the question is: which shares delivered the biggest returns to investors on the ASX today? Here are the top ten stocks that came through for investors:

Top 10 ASX shares countdown today

Looking at the top 200 listed companies, Brambles Ltd (ASX: BXB) was the biggest gainer today. Shares in the pooling solutions company spiked 11.22% after confirming it is in early takeover talks with CVC Capital that could value Brambles at more than $20 billion. Find out more about Brambles here.

The next best performing ASX share across the market today was Qube Holdings Ltd (ASX: QUB). The logistics company’s share price strengthened by 5.76% today after announcing the completion of its $400 million share buyback program. Uncover the latest Qube Holdings details here.

Today’s top 10 biggest gains were made in these ASX shares:

ASX-listed company	Share price	Price change
Brambles Ltd (ASX: BXB)	$11.60	11.22%
Qube Holdings Ltd (ASX: QUB)	$2.94	5.76%
Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX: PLS)	$2.60	5.26%
Xero Ltd (ASX: XRO)	$87.88	4.42%
Skycity Entertainment Group Ltd (ASX: SKC)	$2.58	4.03%
Block Inc (ASX: MFG)	$119.23	3.79%
Home Consortium Ltd (ASX: HMC)	$5.78	3.58%
Core Lithium Ltd (ASX: CXO)	$1.185	3.49%
Dominos Pizza Enterprises Ltd (ASX: DMP)	$70.11	3.45%
Corporate Travel Management Ltd (ASX: CTD)	$21.27	3.35%

Our top 10 ASX shares today countdown is a recurring end-of-day summary to ensure you know which companies were making big moves on the day. Check-in at Fool.com.au after the market has closed during weekdays to see which stocks make the countdown.

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Lithium prices may pull back in the near term but will regain strength by 2024, one global analyst predicts.

Some of the ASX lithium shares we’re talking about here include Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX: PLS), Core Lithium Ltd (ASX: CXO), Mineral Resources Limited (ASX: MIN) and Sayona Mining Ltd (ASX: SYA).

Let’s look at the outlook for lithium prices in more detail.

‘Increasing’ lithium deficits

A global analyst is predicting lithium supply will exceed demand in the near term before returning to increasing deficits. Lithium is a crucial element in electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

S&P Global Commodity Insights principal research analyst Kevin Murphy said:

Over the near-term, supply-side growth will exceed demand for lithium. This will lead to a pullback in lithium carbonate spot prices during 2022 and into 2023 although prices will remain well above the lows hit in 2020.

By 2024 the lithium market is expected to return to increasing deficits which will provide buoyancy to prices.

Murphy added that lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) supply is forecast to jump to 1.2 million tonnes by 2026. However, he noted demand could be higher, at 1.25 million tonnes.

ASX lithium shares had a stellar start to the week amid a positive outlook from analysts at Macquarie.

The Pilbara Minerals share price soared 5.2% today. Meanwhile, Core Lithium jumped 3.5% and Sayona Mining leapt 6.25%.

Share price snapshot for ASX lithium shares

The Sayona Mining share price has exploded 698% in a year, while Core Lithium has rocketed 415%. Meanwhile, the Pilbara Minerals share price has soared 137% in the last 52 weeks.

In contrast, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) has climbed 1.12% in a year.

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Oh boy.

Am I really going to wade into housing policy?

In a week so politically charged as this one, given polling day is this Saturday?

Am I really that nuts?

You betcha.

And there will be a small but committed group who will either agree wholeheartedly or disagree violently, no matter what follows, because they’re ‘rusted-on’ to one party or the other.

If that’s you, feel free to skip this one – I’m here for the policy, not the politics.

Sorry if that sounds a little punchy… I’m just getting ahead of the hate mail!

Now, for those who are still here for the ‘make our country better’ stuff, let’s kick off.

First, I’ve made my views clear on Labor’s ‘Help to Buy’ scheme: It’s a band-aid on a band-aid, using government money because they can’t imagine there’s any other solution to housing affordability that sees deposits take more than a decade to save in some parts of the country.

And then, last night, the Liberal / National Coalition gave the Opposition an almighty “Hold my beer” as they went one step further: not using government money (though Super contributions are tax-advantaged, so the taxpayer is already kicking in), but inviting us to raid our Super for the second time in a couple of years – this time to buy a house.

If it feels like the government has a predisposition to see Super as a Magic Pudding, you’re not alone, but we’ll get to that.

See, both major parties have taken a similar approach: “We know housing is unaffordable for too many people, so here’s our solution.”

They’ve also taken a similar approach to the solution.

Or should I say “solution”.

‘It’s the least we can do’, they should have said.

Because it truly is the very least they could do.

Housing is too unaffordable? We won’t fix it, you can just buy 60% of a house instead!

Housing is too unaffordable? We won’t fix it, a comfortable retirement is overrated anyway!

Seriously.

Yes, a pox on both their houses.

But I have to say, the Liberal / National policy that was announced yesterday – to let people raid their Super for housing – takes the cake.

It comes after they encouraged people to raid Super during the COVID crisis.

And after they wanted to let victims of domestic violence access their Super in 2021.

To be very, very clear: none of these are undeserving causes.

But the proposed solutions – making Super a magic pudding any time the government wants to solve a problem – are undeserving answers.

We should be a country that doesn’t make young people choose between Super and housing.

Or, as I tweeted to an overwhelming response:

“Imagine being as wealthy as Australia, but decreeing that young people can have a house, or Super, but not both, because we have neither the vision nor the will to meaningfully address housing policy.

“What a complete and utter abandonment of principle and duty.”

Those last two concepts seem hard to find sometimes in politics, don’t they?

(And again, for the record, I also bagged Labor’s policy.)

Neither party seems to have a policy response that actually addresses the real problems – just different piggy banks they’re prepared to raid to add another housing band-aid to an ever-growing pile.

But Super?

Seriously?

As I did when the government made it a piggy bank during COVID, I’ll ask you to look around the world, and compare our retirement savings system to literally any other.

We have the fourth largest retirement savings pool on Earth, despite having only 25 million people.

Other countries, with non-compulsory, or lower levels of compulsory savings have – surprise! – lower levels of retirement savings.

Super works.

And for its success, it’s become a honeypot that government can’t help but try to tap, over and over again, for financial and ideological reasons.

But my issue isn’t ideological.

It’s financial.

Making Australians choose between Super and financial hardship is a false binary.

Making Australians choose between Super and housing is a false binary.

Super is for retirement. Full stop.

Anything else is an undermining of a system that has clearly proven its worth.

And anything that undermines Super threatens the retirement incomes of Australians (and increases the burden on the Federal budget, after both major parties recognised the intergenerational challenges of a growing retirement cohort and longer lives).

I’m sorry if this offends your political sensibilities (in either direction).

But I’m not here to tread gingerly on eggshells.

I’m here to call it as I see it – usually about shares and investing, but also about issues that impact the financial lives of all of us.

We need to be good enough, as a country, to solve for housing affordability, without needing governments to tip in millions, or homebuyers to jeopardise their retirements.

We need to treat Super as sacrosanct, protected for retirement.

We need to have some serious, tough conversations, rather than reaching for the band-aid (or, worse, the hollow soundbite).

We need to return to ideals of, as I said in my tweet, duty and principle (and I’ll add ‘service’).

It’s the least we should expect.

Fire at will!

Fool on!

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The National Australia Bank Ltd (ASX: NAB) share price has tracked 8% higher in 2022 after strengthening in January.

However, the NAB share price has levelled off its previous highs and traded down during the past month, leading to many questions about the bank’s valuation and where it might head next.

The bank’s shares finished the day trading at $31.32 per share, 0.58% higher than their previous close.

Is the NAB share price cheap?

Analysts at JP Morgan have a June 2023 price target on National Australia Bank shares of $34.50, a step above the current market price.

The broker is bullish on the bank. It believes its pre-provision profit growth will continue outstripping peers and that it is “well placed to deliver ongoing growth”.

The broker said in a recent note:

We have an overweight recommendation on NAB reflecting stronger-than-peer revenue growth prospects, likely sound cost control, leverage to rising rates, and ongoing capital management.

NAB’s loan book grew at a 10% annualised pace in the half which was broad-based across divisions. Despite this, margins were well managed, down just 2 basis points half-on-half excluding Markets & liquids.

NAB looks well placed to drive further healthy growth, with a strong capital surplus and recent investments in processes, technology and people opening up opportunities across the markets it addresses.

Meanwhile, the number of buy and hold calls is evenly split amongst brokers covering the stock, according to data from Bloomberg.

There are no sell ratings from this list and the consensus price target is $33.34. What one makes of this is up to them but the stock is positioned only 6% below this value. Thus, calling it ‘cheap’ in value terms may be questionable.

The NAB share price has clipped a 20% gain in the last 12 months but has cooled off alongside the wider banking sector during May.

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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) share price is one of the most widely followed on the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO).

That could be for one or more of several reasons. CBA’s old status as the biggest share on the ASX perhaps. Or its place as the largest of the ASX’s big four banks, and with the most market share. It could even be due to the fact that CommBank used to be a government-owned company.

Whatever the reason, the bank is a popular flagship share of the ASX 200. This is why many investors might find the idea of the CBA share price falling a painful one. Investors have been used to some decent returns from Commonwealth Bank shares. This was a bank that rose more than 20% last year, after all. Over the past five years, CBA shares remain up almost 30%. And that’s not including the generous dividends (and franking credits) that have been paid along the way.

But perhaps the good times are coming to an end, at least for a while. That’s the view of more than one broker on the ASX. So is it buy or sell for the CBA share price today?

CBA share price: Buy or sell?

Well, broker Goldman Sachs is firmly in the latter camp. Goldman has rated the bank as a sell for a while now. As my Fool colleague James covered recently, it has recently raised its 12-month share price target to $89.86, while maintaining its sell rating. If that were to play out, CBA shares would be facing a fall of around 13% over the next year.

Goldman reckons the CBA share price is just too expensive and notes that the bank I “more exposed to sector-wide headwinds” than its rivals.

Brokers at Macquarie largely agree. Macquarie also has a bearish ‘underperform’ rating on CBA shares right now. As we covered last week, the investment bank has a $90 share price target to match its underperform rating.

Macquarie also believes CommBank shares are expensive, and reckons the bank could struggle to match the performance of its rivals going forward, and thus shouldn’t be commanding today’s share price premium.

Perhaps that’s not what CBA investors might want to hear today, but that is the view of two of the ASX’s most prominent brokers. Time will only tell if their predictions turn out to be accurate.

At the current CBA share price, this ASX 200 bank has a market capitalisation of $174.53 billion, with a dividend yield of 3.63%.

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BHP Group Ltd (ASX: BHP) is one of the biggest businesses in the world. It has a market capitalisation of $232 billion according to the ASX. But, how big is the dividend yield going to be?

In 2021, BHP was actually the largest dividend payer in the world. But that’s now history. What could the 2022 and 2023 dividends look like?

What we already know

A few months ago, BHP declared an interim dividend of US$1.50 per share with its FY22 half-year result. That was a 49% increase in the dividend compared to the prior corresponding period.

The dividend growth came after a significant rise in BHP’s profit. It reported that attributable profit rose 144% to US$9.4 billion, with net operating cash flow increasing by 42% to US$13.3 billion.

Continuing operations profit from operations jumped 50% to US$14.8 billion while continuing operations underlying attributable profit increased 57% to US$9.7 billion. The continuing operations underlying earnings per share (EPS) went up 57% to US$1.92. This means that BHP paid out 78% of its continuing operations underlying EPS.

BHP said that its record interim dividend was supported by its “reliable operating performance and continued strong markets” for a number of its resources.

How big could the dividend be in 2022 and 2023?

Ultimately, it’s up to the board of BHP to decide on dividend payments. The strength of commodity prices, profit, cash flow and the balance sheet can be influencers on the size of the dividend.

In Australian dollar terms, Commsec numbers suggest a dividend of $4.53 per share could be paid in FY22. That translates into a potential grossed-up dividend yield of 14.2%.

Then, in FY23 the forecast on Commsec shows a potential annual dividend of $3.23 per share. That would represent a grossed-up dividend yield of 10.2%.

But Commsec isn’t the only place with dividend estimates for BHP.

The broker Citi thinks that BHP could pay a grossed-up dividend yield of 15.1% in FY22. In FY23, the Citi estimate for the BHP dividend translates into a grossed-up dividend yield of 14.6%.

There’s another broker with an even larger forecast. Credit Suisse thinks that BHP could pay a grossed-up dividend yield of 16.2% in FY22 and 15.5% in FY23.

Is the BHP share price a buy?

The brokers at Macquarie think so, with a buy rating and a price target of $60. That implies a possible rise of around 30%.

Macquarie thinks that the BHP share price will benefit after it divests its petroleum assets to Woodside Petroleum Limited (ASX: WPL). It’s thought that investors that can’t invest in BHP because of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) reasons will then be able to invest in the business.

The broker thinks that BHP has a positive future with exposure to commodities like nickel, copper and potash in a lower emissions world.

However, Credit Suisse is neutral on the business with a price target of $50.

Citi rates BHP as a buy, with a price target of $56.

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You’d have to be living under a rock of some description if you hadn’t noticed the attention that ASX lithium stocks have been getting from investors in recent months and years. Lithium has been one of the hottest areas investors have been looking at on the markets over 2021 and 2022. You only have to look at the share prices of ASX lithium stocks like Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX: PLS) to see why.

Back in late 2020, Pilbara was a company with a share price under $1. Fast forward to January of this year and we were seeing Pilbara shares close to $4 each. The company has cooled off since then, closing today at $2.60. We’ve seen similar patterns emerge for other companies in the lithium space, such as Core Lithium Ltd (ASX: CXO) and AVZ Minerals Ltd (ASX: AVZ). But this still proves how much attention (and cash) ASX lithium stocks like Pilbara and its peers have gotten in recent times.

As you might guess, excitement about the global transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy, as well as emerging battery technology, are likely behind this increase in interest. But buying lithium stocks is an investment in a business at the end of the day. And ASX investors still have expectations when it comes to their ASX businesses. One of these is dividend income.

Most ASX shares pay dividends of some sort. That is arguably because ASX investors expect to receive dividend income (as well as franking credits) from their shares.

Do ASX lithium stocks pay dividends?

So how do ASX lithium stocks hold up in this regard?

Not well, to sum it up. For a company to pay a dividend, usually it must first develop strong, consistent cash flows. And most of the companies in the ASX lithium space are yet to achieve such a milestone. Many are not yet even consistently profitable. That’s why Core Lithium and AVZ Minerals don’t even have price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios yet. There are no earnings to speak of.

There is one exception though. Mineral Resources Limited (ASX: MIN) is not a pure-play lithium company. It has interests in a wide range of commodities and projects. However, one of those is lithium. Mineral Resources owns two hard rock lithium mines in Western Australia.

This company is also a historical dividend payer. Mineral Resources has doled out two dividends per year for over a decade. That included through 2020. Saying that, the company did skip an interim dividend in 2022, citing “volatile conditions in the iron ore market”. That was the first time it has missed a dividend in over a decade. So even with this sole dividend payer in the lithium space, income can’t be guaranteed.

So if an ASX investor is seeking regular dividend income, perhaps ASX lithium stocks might not be the best place to look.

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The Webjet Limited (ASX: WEB) share price showed off against most of the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) today.

And it wasn’t alone in the green. The online travel agent’s stock surged alongside many of its travel sector peers.

At Monday’s close, the Webjet share price was trading at $5.64, 3.11% higher than its previous close.

For context, the ASX 200 ended the day 0.27% higher.

Let’s take a closer look at what might be going on with ASX travel shares today.

What’s driving the Webjet share price higher?

The Webjet share price gained on Monday. Its movement came as the market digested the latest news from one of the world’s biggest airlines.

The Dubai-based Emirates airline released its annual results on Friday, leaving ASX participants to deliberate on its performance over the weekend.

The unlisted airline posted a notable recovery from its previous results in which it reported a US$5.5 billion loss, reports Reuters. This time around, Emirates’ loss came to around US$1.1 billion.

The company’s revenue also increased 91% on that of the prior 12 months while its earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) improved 282%.

The improvements came amid a recovery from COVID-19 international travel restrictions and despite increased oil prices and inflation.

That’s likely good news for the ASX travel sector and for Webjet in particular.

The online travel agent is due to release its full year earnings on Thursday.

The Webjet share price was far from the only ASX 200 travel stock trading higher today.

The share prices of Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd (ASX: FLT) and Qantas Airways Limited (ASX: QAN) share price closed 1.9% and 1.7% higher respectively.

Meanwhile, stock in Corporate Travel Management Ltd (ASX: CTD) outperformed the lot. It gained 3.4% on Monday.

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Motley Fool contributor Brooke Cooper has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia’s parent company Motley Fool Holdings Inc. has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia has recommended Corporate Travel Management Limited, Flight Centre Travel Group Limited, and Webjet Ltd. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Scott Phillips.

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