This Month
Boral earnings bonanza lifts Stokes family’s SGH to bumper payout
The industrial conglomerate will reward shareholders after a rise in Boral profits. It took the massive building supplies business off the ASX in July.
- Simon Evans
- Results Wrap
- Chanticleer
What we learnt: The ASX giant that can’t excite investors
CSL consistency isn’t winning over investors, Ryan Stokes explains the new dump truck dance, and Macquarie’s return on equity puzzler.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Ryan Stokes declares Victoria in ‘recession’ as investment flees
Ryan Stokes has SGH’s profit margins humming, even despite Victoria’s stalled economy and unending housing supply drought.
- James Thomson
Beach CEO doubles down on gas strategy amid heightening Vic crisis
Brett Woods has said several parties are interested in joining Beach for power generation after the company disappointed the market with its dividend and outlook.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
December 2024
The simple ways top CEOs find balance in their lives
The first step to achieving work/life balance is realising how hard it is. These bosses have some easy tips to start with.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Chanticleer CEO poll
‘Australia is falling behind’: 55 CEOs demand election action
Top chief executives say the next federal government must make the nation’s crippling regulatory burden and housing supply top priorities.
- Updated
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs in 2024 revealed
Macquarie Group’s Shemara Wikramanayake is Australia’s best-paid CEO for the fourth year in a row.
- Patrick Durkin
- Opinion
- Business People of the Year
Ryan Stokes out-works, out-earns rivals to take SGH to new highs
The SGH chief, one of The Australian Financial Review Business People of the Year for 2024, is renowned as one of the hardest-working CEOs in Australian big business.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Business People of the Year
Humble starts, billion-dollar deals unite Business Person of the Year winners
Founders of Chemist Warehouse Jack Gance, Sam Gance and Mario Verrocchi, and AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda take the top prize for 2024.
- James Thomson
November 2024
From one wheelbarrow and a ute to a $437m ASX listing
Symal Group founder Joe Bartolo started from humble beginnings in 2001 to build his construction group into a large enough player to float on the exchange this year.
- Simon Evans
October 2024
Stokes backs nuclear, and free electricity for those who live near it
Chief executive of Seven Group Holdings Ryan Stokes says the nation must consider nuclear energy as a baseload power source.
- Tom Rabe
September 2024
Investors in Vik Bansal’s biogas side hustle are up 85pc
The Boral CEO is also chairman of ASX-listed biogas group LGI, which has 32 waste landfill sites and supplies electricity into the grid when returns are highest.
- Simon Evans
- Analysis
- Media & marketing
Seven West Media stokes tension behind the scenes at Seven Group
The broadcasting and publishing empire accounts for just 0.6 per cent of the broader conglomerate’s total assets. It accounts for much more of its problems.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
August 2024
Stokes’ woke regime comes with sexy surprise
Seven West Media’s recent issues haven’t stopped a salacious lunchtime performance.
- Updated
- Mark Di Stefano
Stokes’ vision for Seven’s Boral comes to life
Seven Group boss Ryan Stokes says the company is interested in buying the BGC cement division left behind by the late WA entrepreneur Len Buckeridge.
- Brad Thompson
- Results Wrap
- Chanticleer
Winners from profit season’s big Wednesday
All eyes were on CBA’s monster numbers, but Seven Group Holdings and AGL also delivered nice profit growth – and Pro Medicus impressed yet again.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
June 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
‘I don’t think you can trust me at this point’: CEO’s startling call
Brett Woods has a new plan from the Stokes family playbook and some solid market tailwinds at his back. But it will take time to win Beach Energy investors back.
- James Thomson
April 2024
Seven Group says talk of Cleanaway buyout ‘completely untrue’
Shares in Australia’s largest waste collection company surged 15.8 per cent, to a two-year-high, after reports that the conglomerate was contemplating a bid.
- Simon Evans
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Seven’s Boral sweetener lets everyone claim victory
A new dividend and some peacemaking by Ryan Stokes has sealed Seven’s takeover of Boral.
- Updated
- James Thomson
Kerry Stokes’ Seven rains dividends to win over Boral
The independent directors of the cement group are now recommending shareholders accept the revamped $1.9 billion bid, with one-off dividends attached.
- Simon Evans