Woodside Energy Group Ltd (ASX: WDS) shares are marching higher today.

Shares in the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) energy stock closed on Friday trading for $31.83. In morning trade on Monday, shares are changing hands for $32.13 apiece, up 0.9%.

For some context, the ASX 200 is up 0.1% at this same time.

This sees Woodside shares up 35.8% in 2026, smashing the 3.2% year-to-date gains posted by the benchmark index.

That’s the recent share price action for you.

Now here’s how the Aussie energy giant is building a global LNG portfolio.

Woodside shares expanding global LNG footprint

Woodside’s major growth projects include the Trion oil field, located offshore Mexico, which was 64% complete at the end of H1 2026.

On the liquid natural gas (LNG) front, Woodside shares could get long-term support on two fronts.

First, its Scarborough Energy Project, a natural gas resource project located in Western Australia. At the end of H1 2026, Scarborough was 98% complete and on track for first LNG cargo in Q4 2026.

Then there’s the mammoth Louisiana LNG project in the United States, which was 28% complete at the end of H1 2026.

The approximately AU$24 billion project got the green light from former CEO Meg O’Neill in April 2025.

On completion, Louisiana LNG has a total permitted capacity of 27.6 million tonnes per annum.

The company stated:

Development of Louisiana LNG will position Woodside as a global LNG powerhouse, enabling the company to deliver approximately 24 Mtpa from its global LNG portfolio in the 2030s, and operating over 5% of global LNG supply.

And MST Marquee analyst Saul Kavonic noted that the United States, and Louisiana in particular, provide regulatory certainty that Woodside and other energy companies aren’t getting from Australia.

According to Kavonic (quoted by the Australian Financial Review):

The fact that even Woodside is looking to spend most of its next wave of investment in the US instead of Australia is a stark signal that Australia is losing its competitiveness to attract investment in our world-scale gas resource base.

Commenting on the company’s LNG ambitions intended to boost Woodside shares over the years, Liz Westcott, who took over the reins as Woodside CEO in March this year, said, “We’ll have LNG facilities in the Atlantic and the Pacific. That is really quite a unique position for an operator to be in.”

Woodside owns 90% of Louisiana LNG, with United States-based Williams holding the rest.

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Corporate Travel Management Ltd (ASX: CTD) shares only returned to the ASX last Thursday, and the week couldn’t have gone much worse.

After more than a year suspended from trading, the stock crashed 86% on its first day back to close at $2.32. The selling continued on Friday, with Corporate Travel shares dropping another 3% to finish the week at $2.25.

The shares are rebounding slightly today, up 4% to $2.35 at the time of writing. Even with that recovery, they remain around 85% below the $16.07 level they were trading at before the suspension.

And investors now have another problem to think about.

Another legal headache

According to The Australian, law firm Phi Finney McDonald is investigating a potential class action against Corporate Travel Management and its former auditor, PwC Australia.

The law firm said it was “well advanced in its investigation” into what it described as financial misreporting over several years.

Any class action would allege that Corporate Travel misled investors through its annual financial reports over a multi-year period up to 2024, in breach of the Corporations Act.

It would also allege PwC engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false statements about its auditing of the company’s financial reports.

Phi Finney McDonald principal lawyer Roop Sandhu told The Australian that investors were “rightfully concerned about what has happened to their investments”.

At this stage, no class action has been filed, but it is another issue shareholders could probably have done without.

Some signs of progress

Corporate Travel shares were suspended in August 2025 after accounting problems emerged around customer charge rates in its UK operations.

Since then, the company has been working through a large customer remediation program. Around 78% of refunds have been agreed or are close to finalisation, leaving roughly $55 million still to be dealt with.

The FY26 result did at least show the underlying business is moving in the right direction.

Revenue and other income rose 4% to $669.9 million, while underlying EBITDA increased 36% to $113.6 million. Corporate Travel also returned to profit, reporting net profit after tax (NPAT) of $17.7 million compared with a $348.5 million loss a year earlier.

Transaction volumes climbed 13% to 18.3 million, while the company secured $669 million of new business and $1.5 billion of re-tenders and renewals during the year.

Would I buy Corporate Travel shares?

I can see why some investors might look at the $2.35 share price and wonder whether most of the bad news is already priced in.

The business is still operating, earnings improved in FY26, and the shares have already taken a huge hit.

But I’d still be staying on the sidelines.

There’s a sizeable remediation bill to work through, the accounts carry a modified audit opinion, and there is now another potential legal issue hanging over the company.

After everything that has happened over the past year, I’d want to see a few of these issues resolved before considering the shares.

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If I had $10,000 available for ASX growth shares today, I would be comfortable splitting it between the two businesses in this article whose share prices have fallen sharply.

Both still have plenty to prove, but I think the long-term opportunities remain substantial.

Here is where I would put the money.

Catapult Sports Ltd (ASX: CAT)

I would invest $5,000 into Catapult Sports.

Its shares may be down heavily from their highs, but I think the underlying opportunity in professional sport remains intact.

Professional sport is global, highly competitive, and increasingly willing to spend on anything that can improve preparation or decision-making.

Catapult develops technology used by elite sporting organisations to understand what is happening on the field, in training, and across an athlete’s wider performance.

What interests me is how deeply this technology can become embedded in a team’s decision-making. A club can use Catapult to measure physical workloads, review video, assess tactical patterns, and manage preparation. Over time, more of those functions can sit within the same technology ecosystem.

That gives Catapult room to grow by winning new customers and becoming more valuable to existing ones over the next decade and beyond.

SiteMinder Ltd (ASX: SDR)

My other $5,000 would go into SiteMinder, whose shares have also fallen heavily from their 52-week high.

This ASX growth share builds technology that sits behind hotel bookings.

Hotels need to make rooms available across multiple channels, manage pricing, encourage direct bookings, and keep inventory updated as reservations arrive. SiteMinder brings much of that together.

I think the long-term opportunity comes from the sheer number of accommodation providers that still have room to modernise how they sell rooms.

Running a hotel is already complicated enough without staff manually adjusting availability and pricing across numerous booking platforms. Better software can remove some of that work while helping operators reach more travellers.

SiteMinder is also developing more automated tools, including artificial intelligence capabilities that could help hotels respond to demand and manage distribution with less manual input.

If more accommodation providers decide their technology needs an upgrade, I think SiteMinder can become an increasingly important part of how hotels operate online.

Foolish takeaway

I would be comfortable putting $5,000 behind each of these ASX growth shares.

The recent falls do not remove the risks, and both companies still need to execute well. But I think Catapult Sports and SiteMinder are addressing markets that should keep becoming more technology-driven. 

At today’s lower share prices, I would be willing to back that opportunity with a long-term view.

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Motley Fool contributor Grace Alvino has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool Australia’s parent company Motley Fool Holdings Inc. has positions in and has recommended Catapult Sports and SiteMinder. The Motley Fool Australia has positions in and has recommended Catapult Sports and SiteMinder. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy. This article contains general investment advice only (under AFSL 400691). Authorised by Scott Phillips.