ALGO Update: Stay Long Oz Minerals

Our ALGO engine triggered a buy signal in OZL at $8.60 on February 12th. Since then, the share price hit a high of $10.00 on February 27th.

OZ Minerals has a market cap of $2.793 billion. They primarily focus on exploration, development, mining and processing of  projects within  Australia.

OZL are mainly focused on mining Copper and Gold, while holding ownership of the Prominent Hill mine in South Australia.

The company is largely debt-free while holding an overall cash balance of $729 million back in late December 2017.

We see good support at the $9.00 area and upside potential of $10.45 over the medium-term.

OZ Minerals

 

Buy GPT & WFD At Current Levels

We recommend buying GPT & WFD and placing a stop-loss orders below the recent support levels, indicated on the relevant charts below.

Investors may prefer to hold the position and sell call options to enhance the income, whilst staying exposed to the next round of dividends.

GPT will pay $0.123 dividend on 29th June.

WFD will pay $0.16 dividend on 11th August.

 

 

WTI Rally Lifts Local Oil Names

The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude Oil rose 3.5% last week and settled just over $62.00.

This places WTI pretty much in the middle of the $66.80 to $58.00 range we have seen so far this year.

What makes this noteworthy is that last week’s rally coincided with a rally in the USD.  In short, the USD vs Crude inverse correlation looks to be diminished for now.

The technical picture in WTI is improving and the next upside target is near the February highs of $63.40.

As a result, shares of STO, WPL and OSH are all up over 1.5% in early trade today.

All three of these stocks are in our ASX Top 50 Model Portfolio and we prefer the long side from current levels.

We’ll update each of these stocks in subsequent postings.

Woodside Petroleum

Oil Search

Santos

 

 

 

ALGO Sell Signal For Galaxy Resources

Our ALGO engine triggered a sell signal in Galaxy Resources into Friday’s ASX close at $3.57.

The “lower high” pattern is referenced to the January high near $4.50.

Lithium stocks, in general, have seen downward pressure recently after the release of a research paper which estimated Lithium production would double by 2025.

From a technical perspective, we see scope for  GXY shares to retrace back to the $2.80 level.

Galaxy Resources

 

Will Gold Get A Lift From The FOMC?

The Price of Spot Gold slipped to a 3-week low of $1309.00 as the inverse correlation to the USD strength continues to influence price flows.

By the NY close, the yellow metal had found buyers into the weekend to settle at $1314.00.

With the FOMC expected to raise the FED Funds target on March 22nd, market commentators have noted that the price of Gold has rallied  after the last 5 rates hikes in this cycle.

As illustrated in the chart below, Spot Gold traded at $1240 when the FOMC last raised rates on December 13th. By January 25th, Gold had rallied almost 10% to reach $1350.

Some of the local mining names we are following into the buy zone include NCM, EVN, SBM and SAR.

In addition, investors looking for a “pure play” on Spot Gold can buy the BetaShare Gold ETF with the symbol: QAU

Spot Gold

BetaShare Gold ETF: QAU

 

Property Stocks Find Buying Interest

As the US yield curve flattens, which is caused by the long-end of the curve no longer increasing at the same rate as the shorter-end, we’ve started to see institutional money flow back into ASX listed yield sensitive names.

Our preference among these, within the property sector is GPT, SGP, and WFD, (based on valuation grounds).

Within Utilities and Infrastructure, we continue to like AGL, SYD and TCL.