Qantas Airways ($QAN) has come out steaming ahead this week on the Raiz platform, storming up the charts for a silver medal finish. The national airline has close to 8000 shares traded this week, an increase of 231 per cent which saw it move from sixth place last week to now second place. Reports have surfaced this week that ASIC has recently raised questions about certain price movements in the flying kangaroo shares last year. ASIC wrote to the ACCC about its timeline of investigation into the airline, to see if directors or executives knew about the investigation before it happened or before the drop in the share price. Despite these legal issues, it’s still a popular stock to own.
A broker’s note from Morgans shows its analysts have retained their add rating with an improved price target of $7. The broker expects payouts to resume from FY25 while also retaining that it expects a profit of over $2B over the financial year.
Overall, trading this week was up a massive 20 per cent, with over 43 thousand shares traded across the last seven days. While Qantas has the biggest increase, Telstra and NEXT DC also fared well over the period. NEXTDC ($NXT) was up over 164 per cent over the last seven days to make 2,350 shares traded. The last few weeks have seen shares traded in the company hover around the 1,000 mark and this week marks its first time in the top 10.
It’s been a popular tech stock amongst finance watches this week due to its exposure to AI. The company has seen increased demand for its data centres and ongoing drive for cloud computing.
Telstra ($TLS) trades were also up by 143 per cent which saw it go from seventh in the rankings to third. Its share price lifted higher this week after revealing it would be amending the prices of its mobile plans by between $2 and $4 a month. It’s part of a broader move by the company to move beyond inflation-linked prices to provide better flexibility.
Pilbara Minerals ($PLS) managed to cling onto its top 10 spot despite a 48 per cent drop in shares traded. The company recently saw an upgraded rating from JPMorgan from a sell to a neutral, but with the same price target. This is an indicator that the lithium stocks share price may have finished falling, but of course that is just one analyst. The ETF market saw an 8 per cent dip in trading activity amongst the top 10 this week but still had over 596,000 units trades made.
Most of the top 10 saw a dip in units traded with the biggest laggards being the Russell Investments Australian Responsible Investment ($RARI) ETF which saw a 22 per cent dip and iShares Asia 50 ($IAA) which saw an 18 per cent drop. Only two ETFs saw an uptick in units traded, being the iShares Europe ($IEU) with a 3 per cent boost and BetaShares NASDAQ 100 ($NDQ) with 65 per cent.
The NASDAQ hit its seventh straight record-high close this week, buoyed by Nvidia and Apple, the latter of which climbed 1.9 per cent to a record high this week.
Published 12/7/2024
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