The Woolworths Group Ltd (ASX: WOW) share price is in the green. By close of trade today, shares in the retailer were selling for $38.21 – up 0.53%. For context, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) ended the day 0.02% lower.

The positive price rise comes after The Australian reported Woolworths will be launching its first ‘dark store’.

Let’s take a closer look at the news.

Woolworths’ new dark store

Woolworths has submitted plans to open a dark store in the southern suburbs of Sydney. A dark store is only for the fulfilment of online orders – including pick-up for the first time, and delivery.

The Australian says this facility is just one of several similar sites that will be developed as the company focuses on online and suburban sales.

“To keep pace with customer expectations, we’re planning to open a new customer fulfilment centre in (southern Sydney) to offer more delivery windows and an even more reliable service to our online shoppers,” Woolworths director of e-commerce Annette Karatoni told the paper.

E-commerce sales increased 63% across the group in the third quarter of FY21 to $1.3 billion. Its Australian food division saw e-commerce revenue increase 90.5% to $878 million. E-commerce sales for New Zealand food, Big W, and the now demerged Endeavour Group Ltd (ASX: EDV) increased 37.9%, 34.8%, and 23.8% respectively.

Investors don’t seem to mind this expansion into digital sales, judging by the 17.4% rise in the Woolworths share price over the past year.

The company has 3, soon to be 4, of what it calls “micro-fulfilment centres” that act in a similar capacity, but for delivery orders only. Woolworths also said it would build an automated customer fulfilment centre in Auburn in Sydney’s western suburbs.

Woolworths share price snapshot

Year to date, Woolworths shares have increased around 12.7%. That includes the 15% fall in value the company saw on the day of its demerger with Endeavour Group.

The current Woolworths share price is only 70 cents lower than its 52-week record of $38.91.

Woolworths has a market capitalisation of around $48 billion.

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The Cimic Group Ltd (ASX: CIM) share price ended the day higher following a media release by its 50% owned investment partnership, Ventia.

At the closing bell, the engineering group’s shares finished 1.02% higher to $19.79.

What did Ventia announce?

Cimic shares advanced throughout the day after investors appeared pleased with the company’s latest news.

In today’s update, Cimic advised that Ventia’s telecommunications business, Visionstream Australia, has been awarded a significant new contract with NBN Co.

The deal is estimated to generate roughly $400 million in revenue to Ventia over a 2.5-year term. This is subject to work order and volumes, however.

The N2P Evolution contract will support NBN Co’s plans to extend its fibre technology into communities around Australia. It hopes that up to 75% of homes and businesses will be on the fixed line network by 2023.

NBN Co is continuing its rollout of fibre, in which eligible premises currently connected via Fibre-to-the-Node technology will progressively gain access to Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology.

Works under the new contract are scheduled to commence immediately.

Ventia Group CEO, Dean Banks commented:

We are proud to be extending our long-term relationship with NBN Co. We will be using our knowledge of the nbn network – combined with our extensive experience managing other large-scale telecommunication network build and maintenance programs – to continue supporting the delivery of improved digital connectivity for our communities.

Ventia group executive of telecommunications, Tim Harwood went on to add:

We will deliver these works across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria utilising our client-focused, innovative and sustainable approach.

We were instrumental in the delivery of the initial nbn build program and the subsequent maintenance of the nbn network over the past decade, and we are looking forward to delivering this new program of work.

About the Cimic share price

Since hitting a 52-week low of $16.86 in April, the Cimic share price has rebounded by more than 15%. However, Cimic shares are still trading at similar levels to those seen in mid-February, when their value nosedived 16% on the group’s full-year results.

Cimic has a market capitalisation of around $6.1 billion, with approximately 311 million shares outstanding. The company ranks 85th on the ASX in terms of market value.

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The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) was flat today, falling by 0.02% to 7,332 points.

Here are some of the highlights from the ASX:

Select Harvests Limited (ASX: SHV)

The Select Harvests share price soared around 16% today after the nut business gave investors an update about its crops and the market.

Select Harvests said that its 2021 harvest has been completed and 100% of the 2021 crop has been delivered to the Carina West processing facility.

With over 60% of the crop processed, it estimates that the crop volume, including from the acquisition of the Piangil orchard, will be approximately 28,250 MT, up from the 2020 crop volume of 23,250 MT.

Management said that processing productivity continues to improve, with the prior year investments in technology delivering efficiency gains and further enhancing post farm gate quality.

Select Harvests also said that the almond industry has experienced significant growth in global demand across all markets, particularly in the traditional markets of India, Europe and China.

Australian almond exports year on year are up 54%, with the South and Central Asian (India) market up 200%, Europe up 69% and the North East Asian (China) market up 9% during the period.

Continued strong shipment numbers and the worsening drought situation in California have led to an appreciation in almond pricing of between 5% and 10% over the last six months.

The business said that 60% of its 2021 crop is committed at prices in the range of A$5.90 per kilo and A$6.40 per kilo. However, the un-committed portion of the crop is the lower value grades.

The development of Select Harvests’ 2022 crop is “progressing well” with good tree health, according to management.

Volumes are benefiting as younger orchards reach maturity. Water supply and pricing is “much improved”.

Polynovo Ltd (ASX: PNV)

Polynovo also gave an update. It said that notwithstanding limited access to US hospitals and surgeons due to COVID, it’s seeing increasing revenue momentum in the US and all other major markets. More than 50% of hospitals are now re-engaging for business.

NovoSorb BTM is a dermal scaffold for the regeneration of the dermis when lost through extensive surgery or burn.

The ASX 200 company said that revenue growth of around 34% is a good indicator of FY21 BTM financial performance and recent business fundamentals have significantly improved.

US BTM revenue in US dollar terms has grown 49% in FY21 over FY20.

The US FY21 fourth quarter BTM revenue was a record US$4.9 million, compared to US$3.3 million in the fourth quarter of FY20.

It saw record monthly BTM revenue of A$3.3 million in June 2021.

FY21 distribution revenue growth was 53% with “strong” increases in Germany, Switzerland and Australia. There has also been further sales in South Africa and India. Finland, Italy and Taiwan has seen “good” first sales in Finland, Italy and Taiwan.

The FY21 Australia BTM revenue has grown 25% despite challenging COVID lockdowns.

The Polynovo share price rose by 1%. 

Nearmap Ltd (ASX: NEA)

The Nearmap share price went up around 14% today after giving an update.

The ASX 200 share said that the annualised contract value is expected to close FY21 at $133.8 million in constant currency terms, exceeding recently upgraded guidance of $128 million to $132 million.

The ACV portfolio in North America saw 54% growth to US$44.5 million. The company said this validated its refined go-to-market strategy. The Australian and New Zealand ACV saw growth of 7% to A$69.1 million.

The HyperCamera3 prototype was tested in flight. Management said this represented a significant technological breakthrough. The commercial roll-out remains on track for FY22.

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The Novonix Ltd (ASX: NVX) share price has been going gangbusters today, surging to a mid-afternoon intraday high of $2.69, up 16.5%.

The Novonix share price has since retreated to trade at $2.60 at the market close, up 14.5%

The integrated battery materials developer and supplier has not announced any price-sensitive news since 23 June, where it purchased a second facility to produce anode materials.

But investors have been bidding up the Novonix share price with approximately 9.05 million shares changing hands on Tuesday. This compares to its 10-day average of approximately 1.96 million.

Let’s take a look at what else might be driving a sharp re-rating in Novonix shares.

Battery-related shares are running hot

The Novonix share price isn’t alone in today’s rally. The company supports the global deployment of lithium-ion batteries, and its peers — including battery developers, lithium miners and electric vehicle manufacturers — were also pushing higher.

Talga Group Ltd (ASX: TLG) develops a similar integrated battery anode plant in Sweden to produce anode products and lithium-ion batteries. The Talga share price pushed higher today, up 3.15% to close at $1.31.

Similarly, shares in Ecograf Ltd (AX: EGR) climbed today, closing up 4.17% at 62.5 cents apiece.

Ecograf is also positioned to support the global battery market, with operations in battery anode production and battery recycling.

Elsewhere, ASX lithium shares were surging on Tuesday, with heavyweight miners Galaxy Resources Limited (ASX: GXY), Pilbara Minerals Ltd (ASX: PLS) and Orocobre Limited (ASX: ORE) rallying between 1.63% and 4.88%.

Today’s rally also appears to be supported by gains from Wall Street peers overnight, including top lithium producer Albemarle Corporation and electric car manufacturer Tesla Inc.

About the Novonix share price

The Novonix share price has rallied 111.3% year-to-date, with most of its gains occurring between January and February.

From March onwards, its shares have stalled around the $2.30 level.

With today’s renewed buying interest, the Novonix share price has propped back up to a 5-month high.

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If you’re interested in gaining exposure to the small side of the market, then you might want to look at the small cap ASX shares listed below.

Here’s why these small cap ASX shares are ones to watch:

Damstra Holdings Ltd (ASX: DTC)

The first small cap to watch is Damstra. It is a growing integrated workplace management solutions provider which provides a cloud-based workplace management platform that is used by businesses globally. Its platform allows users to track, manage, and protect their workers and assets. Demand has been growing strongly in recent years and has continued in FY 2021. For example, during the third quarter, Damstra’s revenue increased 66% on the prior corresponding period to $6.9 million. This followed its highest ever monthly revenue in March and was underpinned by a 61% increase in active users to 689,000.

MyDeal.com.au Limited (ASX: MYD)

Another small cap to look at is MyDeal.com.au. It is an online retail marketplace with a focus on homewares, furniture, and technology. Like other ecommerce companies, MyDeal has been growing strongly over the last 12 months. This led to the company recently reporting full year sales growth of 111.1% to $218.1 million for the 12 months ended 30 June. This was underpinned by an 83.1% increase in customer numbers to 894,225 and significant momentum in Private Label sales during FY 2021.

Pointerra Ltd (ASX: 3DP)

A final small cap share to watch is Pointerra. It is a technology company that provides a powerful cloud-based solution for managing, visualising, and sharing massive 3D point clouds and datasets. Pointerra’s platform is able to extract vital information from the data that would otherwise take many hours to do. At the end of April, the company’s annualised contract value (ACV) stood at US$7.89 million. This is still only a very small fraction of a total market opportunity that management estimates is worth US$500 billion.

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Most weeks, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA)’s share trading service CommSec tells us the most popular US shares that its ASX investors have been trading the previous week.

Since CommSec is one of the most widely used brokers in Australia, this information can give us an interesting window into what ASX investors are finding exciting over in the USA right now. My Fool colleague James has already taken a look at CommSec’s most popular ASX shares today. But here are the top 10 US shares that CommSec users were trading last week. This week’s data covers 5-9 July.

Tesla in the driving seat, but Apple looking sweet

1. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) – representing 3.5% of total trades with a 67%/33% buy-to-sell ratio.
2. Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) – representing 2.8% of total trades with a 55%/45% buy-to-sell ratio.
3. GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) – representing 2.6% of total trades with a 93%/7% buy-to-sell ratio.
4. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) – representing 2% of total trades with a 79%/21% buy-to-sell ratio.
5. AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc (NYSE: AMC) – representing 2% of total trades with a 66%/44% buy-to-sell ratio.
6. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)
7. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)
8. Nio Inc. (NYSE: NIO)
9. Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (NYSE: SPCE)
10. Alphabet Inc Class C (NASDAQ: GOOG)

What can we learn from these trades?

That old habits die hard. Last week, we saw Nasdaq newcomer DiDi Global Inc (NYSE: DIDI) make an appearance here after its recent IPO.

Well, this week, we saw the old favourites of ASX investors reclaim their dominance. Electric vehicle and battery manufacturer Tesla is back on top, with investors going from a pretty even buy/sell split last week to decidedly biased towards the buy side this week. That coincides neatly with an 11% increase in the Tesla share price over the past month.

Apple also climbs from 5th spot last week to number 2 this week. Unlike Tesla though, investors are still pretty split down the middle when it comes to buying and selling.

In other news, we see many of the same faces returning. ‘Meme stocks’ like Nio, AMC and GameStop remain popular, as do the US tech blue chips like Apple, Microsoft and Alibaba (which is actually a Chinese company, but US listed). In that vein, we also see the return of Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet after a few weeks’ absence.

It’s interesting to note that Virgin Galactic retains its presence after several weeks of obscurity prior to last week. Perhaps Sir Richard Branson’s well-publicised space flight the other day has inspired some investors.

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The Kula Gold Ltd (ASX: KGD) share price surged 32% today after the company announced the discovery of kaolin clays near Southern Cross, Western Australia.

Kula shares settled at 5.7 cents apiece by market close after reaching 6.7 cents at one stage.

Let’s take a closer look at what the announcement has in store for the Australian mineral explorer’s shares.

But first – what is Kula Gold?

Kula Gold is a minerals exploration company based in Western Australia.

Its expertise lies in acquiring “significant geological structures” that are positioned on or near major gold mines. This means its main objective is to find prospective metals, namely gold.

Kula has a market capitalisation of $9.6 million.

What does today’s announcement mean?

Kaolin, also known as kaolinite or ‘white clay’, is used in a variety of skincare products, toothpastes and hair products.

The discovery of the “high quality kaolin clays” is a plus for the company, with recent prices for such kaolin end-products fetching “up to $700 per tonne”.

The company also notes the recent success of several other kaolin miners from the current price action.

Therefore, Kula forms the view the “initial assays are significant in grade” to justify further investigation.

Specifically, the company reported:

RC drilling at the Airfield Project near Southern Cross WA intersected thick >42m vertical kaolin clay development over the 300m drilled length at the newly named Boomerang Kaolin Prospect.

Further touching on the drilling results, the company said:

Whilst Kula’s results are preliminary and need to be confirmed by follow up drilling and assays, the Company
believes that the initial assays are significant in grade and extent and require further investigation and drilling.

Today’s announcement comes after the company announced it had successfully “recognised a geophysical structure” in its Southern Cross Gold project on 2 July.

In its release, Kula explained it had found “large areas of previously unmapped or recognised amphibolite” at this location.

Amphibolite is a stone that is used in paving and road construction. Following the discovery, Kula revealed it had applied for new applications, adding to its 570km2 Airfield location.

Kula share price snapshot

The Kula share price has climbed ~28% this year to date, extending the previous 12 months’ return of 46%.

These gains have outpaced the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO)’s return of ~11.3% this year to date.

The share price is trading just off its 52-week high of 6.9 cents but well above its 52-week low of 2.8 cents.

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The Ansarada Group Ltd (ASX: AND) share price surged to a five-month high on Tuesday after it posted a record quarter.

The Ansarada share price surged 6% to $1.35 ahead of the close when the IT sector was struggling to keep its head above water today.

In contrast, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (Index:^AXJO) eked out a 0.2% improvement as it gave up most of its morning gains.

Big customer growth drives Ansarada share price higher

But the Ansarada share price remained well bid as management reported a 99% increase in new customer wins for the June quarter compared to the same period last year.

This takes total subscribers on its confidential information sharing platform to 2,566, which is a 41% uplift over 4QFY20.

What’s more, the customer wins have translated to a 17% improvement in revenue to $9.3 million in the latest quarter. Deferred revenue is up a more impressive 76% to $13.6 million over the same periods.

Ansarada share price still lagging peers

Shareholders will be hoping that the latest quarterly marks a turnaround in disappointing performance of the Ansarada share price.

Even with today’s big rally, its shares are still down by nearly a third over the past year following its reverse takeover of The Doc Yard.

That’s surprising given that anything to do with tech and growing recurring revenues would be hot property.

Just look at the Xero Limited (ASX: XRO) share price, Afterpay Ltd (ASX: APT) share price and Life360 Inc (ASX: 360) share price.

Why Investors are overlooking Ansarada

Perhaps one big issue is that not many retail investors understand the value proposition of the Ansarada offering.

It’s software as a service (SaaS) platform allows enterprise customers to share and collaborate on confidential documents. Such a service is useful in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), sharing of board papers and tenders.

These aren’t small niche markets. Ansarada is trying to point out the size of the opportunity by highlighting its use in the global infrastructure boom.

Chasing big market opportunities

Governments around the world are ramping up infrastructure construction as a way to stimulate their economies in the COVID-19 aftermath. Ansarada reckons the size of this opportunity is worth US$3.9 trillion.

Ansarada is leveraged to this theme as it says governments use its Tenders and Deals products to manage high-value/high-risk information.

This isn’t only in the management of the tender process, but also the lifecycle of financing and M&A activities across the infrastructure asset lifecycle.

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Fortunately, in this low interest rate environment, there are countless dividend shares for investors to choose from on the Australian share market.

But with so many to choose from, it can be hard to decide which ones to buy over others. To narrow things down for you, I have picked out two ASX dividend shares brokers think income investors should buy:

Medibank Private Ltd (ASX: MPL)

According to a note out of Credit Suisse, its analysts have retained their outperform rating and lifted their price target on this private health insurance company’s shares to $3.50. The broker made the move after increasing its earnings estimates to reflect positive investment market movements and improving trading conditions in the private health insurance industry.

As for dividends, Credit Suisse expects 13 cents per share in FY 2021 and then 14 cents per share in FY 2022. Based on the latest Medibank share price of $3.25, this implies attractive fully franked yields of 4% and 4.3%, respectively, for investors over the next couple of years.

National Australia Bank Ltd (ASX: NAB)

A note out of Macquarie reveals that its analysts have upgraded this banking giant’s shares to an outperform rating with a $28.00 price target. According to the note, the broker upgraded its shares on valuation grounds following a period of underperformance. In addition to this, the broker notes that NAB has a strong capital position. It feels this should allow NAB to absorb any negative impacts of the AUSTRAC investigation and a potential economic slowdown.

In respect to dividends, Macquarie is forecasting fully franked dividends of $1.20 per share in FY 2021 and then $1.25 per share in FY 2022. Based on the latest NAB share price of $26.32, this will mean generous yields of 4.6% and 4.75%, respectively, for income investors over the next two years.

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The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is having a decent day today. At the time of writing, the ASX 200 is up 0.14% to 7,344 points. But let’s dig a little deeper, and see which ASX 200 shares are being the most heavily traded this Tuesday:

3 ASX 200 shares flying around the share market today

Shopping Centres Australasia Property Group Ltd (ASX: SCP)

SCA Property Group is our first ASX 200 share flying around the markets today. In fact, a very solid 11.9 million shares have changed hands so far this Tuesday. That’s despite no major news or announcements out of this ASX property company. In saying that, SCA Property Group is up 3.36% so far this week, including a healthy 1.23% bump just today. Perhaps it’s this steady climb that is causing this company’s shares to be so heavily traded.

Incitec Pivot Ltd (ASX: IPL)

Fertiliser and explosives manufacturer Incitec Pivot is another ASX 200 share that’s seeing some heavy trading volume today. So far, approximately 15.7 million Incitec shares have changed hands today. Unlike SCA Property, it’s fairly easy to see where this volume is coming from.

Incitec Pivot shares are up a very hefty 7% today so far to $2.60 a share. As my Fool colleague Aaron covered this morning, ASX 200 investors seem to be responding to an update the company put out today before market open. This update told the markets that Incitec is moving towards a regional manufacturing model, moving away from its old global model. This is partly due to the changing nature of the pandemic, with international borders around the world remaining restricted or closed.

Investors seem to have given their tick of approval to this move.

Bingo Industries Ltd (ASX: BIN)

Bingo is our top ASX 200 performer in terms of trading volume today, with a very substantial 18.26 million shares changing hands so far this Tuesday. Again, we have a clear motive here. This morning, Bingo put out an announcement, which declared that almost 97% of its shareholders have voted in favour of the proposed takeover by a subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.

This subsidiary will now acquire all issued Bingo shares, pending court approval, with Bingo scheduled to leave the ASX 200 and the ASX boards on Thursday. Bingo also announced a special dividend of 11.7 cents a share at the same time.

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