Scentre Group, Westfield & Listed Property

Scentre Group announced their estimated distribution for the six month period ended 30 June 2017 will be $0. 10 cents per ordinary stapled security.

Scentre Group will announce its results for the half year ended 30 June 2017 on Thursday, 24 August 2017.

Charts – SCG

The chart  of Westfield below illustrates the price action is now in an oversold range.

Chart – WFD

Our Algo Engine triggered a buy signal in the SPDR Property Fund ETF.

Chart – SFL

 

 

Algo Short Signal – Harvey Norman

The technical pattern for Harvey Norman started to break-down early this year when the price action traded through the $4.50 support level.

Since then, HVN made a low in June at $3.55 and has now had a counter-trend rally back to $4.50.

Our Algo Engine is now flagging the “lower high” structure and we’ve added HVN to the short trade list with a stop loss above the $4.75 area.

Short term traders may prefer to use the momentum indicators to compliment the entry and stop loss rule.

HVN reports on the the 31st August. The market is looking for NPAT to increase to $377m, (from $337m last year), and DPS up 1 cent to $0.18.

Overly optimistic property revaluations, along with weak consumer trends, concern us and support our bearish view.

Chart – HVN

 

Crown Resorts & TabCorp

Crown Resorts reported their FY17 earnings on Friday, and the result showed a 13% decline in revenue and 11% fall in EBITDA. Helping to offset this was a further $375m share buyback.

Based on $0.60 of DPS in FY18, Crown trades on a forward yield of 4.8%.

Chart – CWN

TabCorp Holdings reported FY17 earnings on Friday with underlying net profit of $179m, down 4% on the same time last year.  We see encouraging trends within the core wagering business with digital turnover up 14% and fixed odds revenue growth of 15%.

We expect the Tatts merger  to be completed by the end of the year and with the FY18 dividend yield at 6%, we see upside potential to $4.50 – $5.00.

Chart – TAH