ASX Announcements
Webcast and Conference Call details for FY24 Results
Notification of Results/Reporting Date, Web Casts
- Feb 4, 2025
- 1 page
Market Sensitive
Ventia to divest Toowoomba Second Range Crossing
Asset Disposal, Progress Report
- Jan 20, 2025
- 2 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - VNT
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Jan 15, 2025
- 6 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - VNT
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Jan 15, 2025
- 4 pages
December 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Nothing like an ACCC cartel case to scare the pants off corporate Australia
Cartel cases – even the ones that bomb – are scary. This is questionable, but definitely worth watching.
- Anthony Macdonald
Downer EDI, Ventia Services execs named in price-fixing allegations
The contractors’ shares tumbled as investors worried whether the allegations would hurt their ability to win tens of billions of dollars of future Defence contracts.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
April 2024
Ventia creates careers for people with disabilities
ASX-listed infrastructure services company Ventia has increased the representation rate on some government contracts to 9 per cent.
- Larry Schlesinger
November 2023
Bye bye, Ventia! Apollo, CIMIC launch $270m block via Barrenjoey, JPM
Street Talk understands the firm’s lead managers, Barrenjoey Markets and JPMorgan, were rounding up investors at $2.71 per share.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
October 2023
Barrenjoey, UBS, Macquarie top ECM league tables after Q3 raising rush
A trio of top-tier investment banks are angling for a top spot on the equity capital markets league table.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
September 2023
Ventia block upsized to $400m; Apollo dips below substantial holding
The upsized trade should take Apollo to 4.3 per cent of Ventia’s register and CIMIC to 7.4 per cent.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Barrenjoey, JPM in $331 million Ventia block trade
The selldown represented about.14.6 per cent of securities on issue.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
May 2023
FWC overrules sacking for sharing nude pics in ‘Sickos’ Facebook group
An employee sacked for posting a picture of naked women in a private Facebook group featuring pornography and racist memes has won his job back plus back pay.
- David Marin-Guzman
March 2023
Downer EDI investors hopeful the worst is over
Top investors who have met with the contractor’s new chief executive and acting chairman are hopeful that it is close to “maximum negativity” but warn it will take time.
- Jenny Wiggins
CIMIC, Apollo’s time at Ventia Services causes IPO rethink
Ventia Services should re-spark discussions about Australian IPO structures and escrow expectations, with the current system clearly not working for vendors or investors.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
Barrenjoey, JPMorgan in $400m Ventia Services block
CIMIC and Apollo have cut their stakes in Ventia Services for the first time since the group listed.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
February 2023
Ventia Services shares fly via Goldman Sachs; $104m block
While brokers prey on Apollo and CIMIC’s 32.8 per cent stakes in Ventia Services Group, Goldman Sachs has found another parcel of loose stock on the share register.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
Ventia Services struggles to find cleaning and catering staff
The group has delivered a big jump in net profit in its first full year of trading but its biggest challenge is in the ‘lower skilled area’.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
August 2022
Ventia Services says it is on track to hit profit targets
Interim earnings at newly listed contractor Ventia Services more than doubled to $105 million, helped by lower finance costs but profit margins weakened.
- Jenny Wiggins
Escrow blocks on ice as last year’s IPOs battle
It looks like vendors from last year’s listings will be stuck with their blocks longer than expected, as the IPO class of 2021’s struggles to beat their offer prices.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
June 2022
Ventia Services’ balance sheet questioned by CLSA
Seven months after it floated, Ventia Services’ balance sheet is worrying some analysts, with one describing the company’s negative working capital position as “highly irregular.”
- Jenny Wiggins
May 2022
- Exclusive
- Inflation
‘Imperative’: Ventia squeezes subbies on rising costs
Infrastructure giant Ventia Services has told executives they should reject claims from suppliers and sub-contractors trying to recoup rising prices.
- Jenny Wiggins and Liam Walsh
February 2022
All the profit results for February 23, 2022
Results briefing | News and analysis on today’s profit results from Woolworths, WiseTech, APA, Carbon Revolution, Charter Hall Retail, Coronado, Domino’s Pizza, Healius, HT&E, Karoon Energy, McPherson’s, Pilbara Minerals, Scentre, Stockland, Wagners, Worley and Ventia Services.
Ventia Services net profit slides 30pc
The newly listed services group says its contracts are protected against rising inflation as finance and IPO costs crimped net profits.
- Jenny Wiggins
November 2021
Credibility key to Ventia Services’ search for shareholders
CEO Dean Banks wants to prove the newly listed entity is credible after the price of its $438 million float was slashed.
- Jenny Wiggins