Santos Merger

Santos announced it had submitted a non-binding all-scrip merger proposal to Oil Search, under which OSH shareholders would receive 0.589 STO shares for each OSH share.

Currently values OSH at around A$4.25ps.

The new entity will become the largest ASX listed oil and gas company by
market cap.

CIMIC – 1H21 Earnings

Cimic Group 1H21 earnings beat market expectations, with group revenue growth of 10.6%2 to $7.1bn and NPAT of $208m for HY21.

Factoring balance further reduced by $243m YTD from $976m at December 2020 to $733m at June 2021. 10.4bn of new work awarded in HY21, with total work in hand increasing to $33.3bn.

FY21 NPAT guidance of $400m-$430m maintained, subject to market conditions.

US Earnings – Our Focus

Week 2.

Monday, July 19th: IBM.

Tuesday, July 20th: Travelers, UBS, Philip Morris International United Airlines and Netflix.

Wednesday, July 21st: Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Texas Instruments and Kinder Morgan.

Thursday, July 22nd: AT&T, Dow, Abbott Labs, American Airlines, Intel, Twitter, Snap, VeriSign, Domino’s Pizza, and Las Vegas Sands.

Friday, July 23rd: American Express and Honeywell.

Week 1.

Tuesday, July 13th: PepsiCo, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs.

Wednesday, July 14th: Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo

Thursday, July 15th: Morgan Stanley, Charles Schwab, U.S. Bancorp, Taiwan Semi, UnitedHealth, and Alcoa.

Friday, July 16th: Ericsson and State Street.

Netflix – 53% Gain

Netflix, Inc. – Common is now under Algo Engine sell conditions. NFLX was in our NASDAQ and S&P model portfolios since June 2019. The recent switch to sell signals resulted in the holding being sold for a 53% gain after a 752-day holding period.

Netflix is due to report earnings on July 20. Our sector preference is Disney.

Disney was added to the S&P model in February 2018 and has since increased 72%.

CIMIC – Buy Call Options

CIM:ASX is likely to see improved earnings in FY22 and we expect to soon see a recovery in the share price.

CIMIC is a high-risk counter trend investment with the prospect of a multi-year recovery, once earnings hit an inflection point.

Buy Dec $20 call options as a stock replacement strategy. For more detail, please call 1300 614 002.