@ForagerSteve

Founder and CIO at Forager Funds Management. Likes assets plays, cigar butts and anything else cheap.

 Sydney, Australia
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Joined March 2011
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This new trend towards companies that make profits and pay dividends is interesting. Back when I was young, they called it investing.
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Note to all those focussed on the $MGH buyback, they have approval to buy back up to 20% of the register, not 10%. Passed it at the recent AGM
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Granted Firmus was a step too far but don't dismiss the ASX if you are looking to list a zero revenue shitco for billions of dollars. Why should one failure put you off? We have a long list of success stories including Audiopixels, Titomic, IperionX and many more
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It's a pretty easy fix if those are the problems. Prove the concept on a much smaller scale and come back to the market in 12 months' time. The worry is they might only prove that it's not what they are pretending it is
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@tommyr345Oct 8
Firmus investment bankers are some of the smartest in Aussie market, so I wouldn't blame them, reality is company came too far, too fast, & wasn't ready or sufficiently scaled to pull off IPO this big
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As a general rule in investing, "you can't afford to ignore this" is a very good reason to ignore something afr.com/chanticleer/love-it-…

Love it or hate it, fund managers can’t ignore Firmus

This is shaping as the biggest test for active stock picking in more than a decade, and there’s performance to be made either way.

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The old Titomic ($TTT). Roughly $100M of cumulative losses. Umpteen dozen promotional announcements promising future riches every year since the 2018 IPO. Q2 cash receipts: $1.5m
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This was one of my favourites from 2020:
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"Calorie efficient"🤔. Unilever genius at its best
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Something I learned today: There is a -0.95 correlation between the number times someone says "thank you for your feedback" and how much they actually value your feedback
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We are too small to move the dial, but this $JLG takeover at $4 feels like we are giving it away too cheap. Clearly sandbagging guidance, some nice underlying organic growth and the founders get to roll their shares into the bidding vehicle. At least give us the same option?
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I had a steak lunch with a couple of American executives in Sydney last week. They were chuckling about eating American steak this time next year. Their heavily subsidised ag sector won't compete with Aussie farmers. And that's before you incorporate the cost of shipping
Alex Joiner 🇦🇺
@IFM_Economist6 Aug 2025
One of the lesser known productivity narratives is the extraordinary gains made by the agriculture sector. While other sectors have higher output per hour worked the ag sector has clearly been able to produce what it does with more efficiency improvements.
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Hard to know what to say other than wow. In the middle of a regulatory review, ASX erroneously tags TPG Telco as TPG the private equity company that is taking over Infomedia (IFM)! Oops
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Market cap: $345m 👀
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Surely $JLG.ax have to announce the terms of the indicative offer before it can start trading? With insiders getting scrip in the takeover vehicle, got a bad feeling that this isn't going to be friendly to minority holders
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How did they know what we were up to? 🤷‍♂️
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There is an account impersonating me again. I've tried to report it but it's too complicated - please be careful.
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Good tactics from MIXI on the $PBH.ax takeover offer. $1.20 scheme bid + considering non scheme offer with min 50.1% condition if the scheme doesn't get up. Calling $BBT.ax's bluff. They won't want to land in a minority position with Japanese co parent.
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Still don't understand SIG Sports selling a blocking stake to Bluebet at a miniscule premium. Could have been a good takeover battle this one
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Bizarre sequence of events at $OFX. 1. Share price +18% Monday morning 2. Please explain from the ASX 3. Trading halt, OFX says results about to be released "may have a material impact on the price" 4. Releases results this morning. Weak. Withdraws guidance. 🤷‍♂️
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Steve Johnson retweeted
Tom Richardson.
@tommyr3457 May 2025
Talked with @ForagerSteve on the new rules of small-cap investing, how to beat the market, & what he thinks about #gold - Forager's Australian Equities Fund was top of Mercer's performance tables over 12 months to March 31 livewiremarkets.com/wires/fo…

Buying unloved companies put this fund manager on top. Here's what he likes now

From ASX small-caps to US exceptionalism, share markets are changing faster then ever. Steve Johnson explains why and how to adapt.

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👀 "Morningstar found that 335 sustainable products changed their names in Europe during the first quarter, including 116 that dropped ESG-related terms". That should fix it ... ft.com/content/9f425c25-4fc3…
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