After a tumultuous six-month period for equity markets, the Australian fiscal 2019 half-year reporting season again proved to be volatile as 30 per cent of companies experienced a share price move of 5 per cent or more.

During February, 27 per cent of companies in the S&P/ASX 200 reported results ahead of consensus expectations, 40 per cent delivered in-line results and 33 per cent disappointed.