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Top 5 mining related services stocks

April 18th, 2013 by Penny Stock Reporter 4 comments »

The Metals & Mining sector is the largest industry sector by number of companies with over 760 companies involved in mineral exploration, development and production across over 110 countries.

Leading US mining consultancy Behre Dolbear has rated Australia the best place in the world for mining investment for the fourth year running. Overall Behre Dolbear found Australia to be significantly ahead of any other region in the world for mining investment, especially in its handling of economic, political, and social issues.

Below is our picks of stocks on the mining related services sectors that support the mining industry, these companies support the mining industry and can benefit from multiple contracts from different mining companies in australia as well as overseas and therefore are doing reasonably well. Not all companies have overseas contracts or provide overseas services in his mining list

1. Leighton Holdings (LEI) $18.66 Share price

http://www.leighton.com.au/

Leighton Holdings Limited is the parent company of Australia’s largest project development and contracting group and provides construction, mining and operation and maintenance services to the infrastructure,Mining resources and property markets. The Groups related companies are active in Australia, Asia, Africa and the Gulf region.

2. Monadelphous group (MND) $19.61

Monadelphous

http://www.monadelphous.com.au/

Provision of engineering services within Australia.

Since public listing in 1991, Monadelphous has demonstrated a steady growth in revenue, profit and earnings. For more information on our results, please click here to review our reports and presentations.

3. Boart Longyear (BLY) $0.825

http://www.boartlongyear.com

Leading integrated drilling services provider and products manufacturer for the minerals industry.its also the provider of mineral exploration drilling services and drilling products.

4. MERMAID MARINE AUSTRALIA LIMITED (MRM) $3.65

http://www.mma.com.au

Provides diverse range of marine related services to major oil and gas exploration and production companies. Mermaid Marine Australia Ltd (MMA) specialises in the provision of marine logistics and supply base services throughout all phases of the oil and gas development cycle.

5. WORLEYPARSONS LIMITED (WOR) $21.78

http://www.worleyparsons.com

Provider of Professional Services to the Energy, Resource and Complex Process Industries

It delivers engineering, procurement and construction management services

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More Australian Related Industry stocks

DOWNER EDI LIMITED (DOW) $4.55

Downer EDI Limited provides engineering and infrastructure management services to the public and private Minerals & Metals, Oil & Gas, Power, Transport Infrastructure, Communications, Water and Property sectors across Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

Skilled group ( SKE) $3.010

SKILLED Group is Australia and New Zealand’s provider of staffing services for skilled and semi-skilled people.

http://www.skilledgroup.com.au

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Tags: Mining Sector Mining services Miningstocks Penny stock Related stocks Resource stocks

stock pick of the month

March 4th, 2013 by Damien Haz No comments »

Its been a while since we checked on our favourite penny stock speculator David Haselhurst, The penny stock guru has brought over some stocks from his Eureka report portfolio to my favourite magazine “money magazine portfolio”, The stock he has carried forward are Viralytics ( VLA) $0.29 , Image resources (IMA) $0.17 , and Potash West (PWN) $) 0.23 which are todays prices.

Potash west added to our portfolio

We like PWN and are adding 8695 units @0.23 = $2000 to our portfolio today.

[ Check Current price of Potash west (PWN) ]

^{upwards and forwards- super pick of the month-PWN}

Potash West NL (Potash West) focuses on potash mining projects. They have mineral tenements situated in the Perth Basin and the company has also acquired certain rights to glauconite and phosphate minerals within the mineral tenements. We also place value on speculators comment that this company has valuable intellectual property. with it developing a “commercially viable processing system” for processing glauconite- to fertiliser production, with it also lodging a world patent application for this process.

Potash West is undertaking a A$3.1M capital raising that will, if successful, provide sufficient funding to move its Dandaragan Trough project – believed to be the world’s largest known glauconite deposit – through feasibility.

If you believe, in there being a increasing demand for food (and thus fertilizer) its a good pick , but unfortunately those are not the only factors for a company to be successful, but with a good management and enough funding this stock can do well with its current valuation

Asx announcement : 18 February 2013

Historically Australia has always been deficient in known resources of potash but ongoing exploration has led to recent published resources for some deposits such as Lake Disappointment, Lake Chandler and Dandaragan Trough/Dinner Hill deposit in Western Australia (WA), in the WA/Northern Territory (NT) portion of Lake MacKay, and in the Karinga Creek Salt Lakes area in southern NT

Company’s exploration assets [ 4 tenements ]

Richmond Resources Pty Ltd

Torbinup Resources Pty Ltd

Adrian Griffin

The Perth Basin Potash Project consists of the right to explore for potash and phosphate within five exploration licenses (ELs’) and six applications for ELs (ELAs’) and contains 11 tenements and tenement applications located between 50 and 230 kilometres north of Perth.

Who is managing potash west ?

Directors / Senior Management

Mr Adrian Christopher Griffin (Non Exec. Chairman)
Mr Patrick Bernard David McManus (Managing Director)
Mr Gary Donald Johnson (Non Exec. Director)
Mr George Sakalidis (Non Exec. Director)

The potash west website is at http://www.potashwest.com.au and their office is in WA.

According to the United States Geological Survey the countries with the largest economic resources of potash (K₂O) in 2011 were Canada 4.4 gigatonnes (Gt), which represents about 46% of the total world resource, followed by Russia with 3.3Gt (35%) and Belarus with 0.75Gt (8%).

Some other companies in this sector are

INCITEC PIVOT LIMITED

IPL $3.120

ORICA LIMITED

ORI $26.070

Other links

- Phosphate and potash in northern Territory

- IIR research report ( http://www.potashwest.com.au/UserFil…20May%2012.pdf )

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Tags: Australia Penny hopeful Portfolio Speculator Stock pick

Investing in technology stocks

February 8th, 2013 by Penny Stock Reporter No comments »

Our pick for this month is a quite enterprising not so new company that has something unique to offer. They are more well know as “Nearmap” and their profit has jumped in the last reporting quarter.

The Company’s breakthrough
technology enables PhotoMaps to
be updated much more frequently
than other providers

Current stock price : ASX: NEA – 22 Jan 10:51am AEST @ 0.071

Stock Short code : NEA (Nearmap Ltd)

Operating cash flows have significantly improved from an outflow of
$2.81 million in 2Q12 to an inflow of $0.59 million in 2Q13. The result for
2Q13 included $0.17 million of litigation receipts regarding IP assertion
claims

Nearmap’s balance sheet continued to remain strong with no debt and a
growing cash balance. During the quarter, the company’s cash balance
increased $0.55 million to $5.74 million as at the end of 2Q13.

History of nearmap

Ipernica to focus on NearMap business, with $23m in cash

Monday, February 02, 2009

ipernica is a diversified technology and intellectual property (“IP”) commercialisation group which is focused on the creation and exploitation of IP rights on a global basis. Ipernica is also focused on the success of recently acquired subsidiary, NearMap, an innovative new media company

Nearmap ltd is an innovative online PhotoMap content company that creates and serves high quality, current and changing PhotoMaps. nearmap ltd is an Australian based publicly listed company (ASX code ‘NEA’; US OTC: IPRNY).

Article written by sheldonsingh for digitalgrog.com.au, the author holds stocks in Nearmap and writes articles on technology, Finance and Gadgets

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Posted in Australia, Hopeful, Penny hopeful

Tags: ASX Small cap Tech stocks Australia

DGM and Viva 9 merger brings out stronger affiliate network

December 5th, 2012 by Damien Haz 1 comment »

Viva9 (which runs the Commission Monster affiliate network) has joined forces with DGM to form a performance marketing powerhouse.

Merger News

Commission Monster Affiliate Network – Commission Monster is Australia’s leading affiliate
network

Commission Monster Affiliate Network

The Affiliate Marketing sector in Australia is undergoing some takeover activity with a recent announcement that the Digital Performance Group (ASX: DIG) is to acquire Australia’s second largest affiliate network Viva9 and merge it with its own number one Australian affiliate network, dgm.

DPG’s other business, Empowered Communications, also benefits from the deal, with a boost to its email database to 600,000. We are going to keep our eye on this one, keeping in mind the growing online trend for advertising.

Check out the press release here

What is Affiliate marketing ?

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Affiliate marketing is a type of performance-based marketing in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate’s own marketing efforts. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as ‘retailer’ or ‘brand’), the network (that contains offers for the affiliate to choose from and also takes care of the payments), the publisher (also known as ‘the affiliate’), and the customer. The market has grown in complexity, resulting in the emergence of a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third party vendors.

Simple definition : “Affiliate Marketing is promoting other people’s (Company’s) product and earning a commission in return (If a sale is made).”

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Posted in ASX, Australia

Tags: Affiliate Retail Online

Trading the Market – Australia

October 10th, 2012 by Penny Stock Reporter No comments »

Article written by sheldonsingh for digitalgrog.com.au

I an a part time home trader and the bank provided trading platforms work for me well.

Comsec trading platform New features

I have now been trading for a while on comsec with their new upgraded platform and it definitely is much better for home traders , even though a bit slower. I discovered a nifty little link today , i was surprised when i clicked on Position in the market ( under shared orders/ Manage orders) that it actually shows where my trade is in the line and how many before me in the line before my trade can be possibly executed.

I am quite pleased with this feature and will be using is much more often to check my trades..I put in a trade for AGO today @ 1.53 buy so lets see what happens

Here is the pic below showing my trade waiting in the line. now i wish the people catching the 69 Bus number as well was so tardy and stick to the rules and formed a line.

Bell Direct is also good

Btw My other trading platform, that i use is Bell direct , i like the free research i get over there in addition to the $15 trades.

Here are some more trades i was watching today !! Good Luck !

Let me know what features you like in your trading platform and which trading platform you think is value for money

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Tags: Bell Direct Commonwealth Bank Comsec Software Trading Trading Platforms

APS Australian Stock Portfolio

September 4th, 2012 by Penny Stock Reporter 1 comment »

We been slacking off fro some time with our live portfolio , due to the downturn in markets , GFC Floods, Storms , Droughts and doom and gloom in the markets and the US And EUROPE CRISIS. These seem to be everyone’s excuse nowadays for their woes and failures so we though we might as well use it .Off course there are always genuine affected parties, but we will leave that for another time. Lets focus on now.

Our live Australia Portfolio 2012/2013

WE are optimists and while everybody i holding to their cash or stuffing their bank accounts with loads of cash like they were Santa filling up stockings we will do exactly the opposite WE WILL SPEND ON SOME STOCKS.

Iron ore prices are down but we are buying into Australia’s resilience and good quality ore and so we buy

Our Penny stock Aussie punts on the stock market

AGO 03-Sep-2012 @1.31 X 4000= $5240

AMCOM 03-Sep-2012 @ 1.11 x4000=$4440

FMG 30-Aug-2012 @ 3.47 x1500=$5205

AGO ( ATLAS IRON) because we like their good quality grade of iron ore and David Flanagan is a true blue honest aussie ( so to speak)

Amcom ( AMCOM TELECOMMUNICATIONS) – Because they are so good and everybody love this isp including me , plus they have been giving out some good profit results for obvious reasons

FMG ( FORTESCUE METALS GROUP ) – A owner that invests in his own shares can definitely increase my confidence besides this is the cheapest iron ore stock among the big players

Good luck Punters !!

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Tags: Aussie stocks Penny Portfolio Punt Punter

WA Tech stocks shine in reporting season

August 23rd, 2012 by Penny Stock Reporter No comments »

Expired is the new kid on the block that is showing potential for a upswing and could possibly get some earnings upgrade in the future reporting seasons. The other two tech and internet related stocks “AMCOM” and “IINET” have already been featured on our blog.

Perth-based Empired will add 54 staff to its roster of more than 275 employees serving customers in the corporate, resources and government markets. Empired due to its acquisition has potential to increase its earnings just like amcom and iinet. ASX-listed Empired Limited has acquired Western Australian firm Conducive for $7.95 million, in a move that will enable it to provide a broader range of IT services to companies in the energy and natural resources sectors.

Tech sector – Expired Ltd acquisition

Empired (ASX: EPD) Todays price 0.260

The first cash payment will be about $3.2 million due on contract completion, expected by the end of August, followed by two other milestone payments of about $1.7 million and about $1.9 million will be due July 31, 2013 and July 31, 2014 respectively.

EPD – Empired Acquires Quadrant Group – Mr Russell Baskerville, MD

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:30am

http://www.empired.com/

According to Conducive managing director, Branden Dekenah, the transaction will offer great value for all its key stakeholders.

Both AMCOM And IINet ( WA STOCKS) have delivered good results this reporting season

.

For Perth based Amcom, Growth came from a $40 million increase in revenue from business services to $60.1 million following the acquisition of cloud-computing service L7. Telco Amcom has announced a 56 per cent increase in annual revenue to $136 million and a 10 per cent increase in post-tax profit to $16.8 million. Amcom chief executive Clive Stein said fiscal 2012 had been a “defining year in Amcom’s ongoing evolution.

Amcom Telecommunications Ltd (AMM)

Last Price

$1.15

Change

+$0.005

Market Cap

$278 M

at 23 August 2012 04:12 PM

21-Aug-2012Investor Presentation

ISP IINET delivered a record full-year net profit of $37.1 million, driven by better than expected progress on the integration of TransACT and Internode.iiNet founder and chief executive Michael Malone has called for an acceleration in the rollout of the national broadband network (NBN) and dismissed political risks surrounding the $37.4 billion project.

Internet service provider (ISP) iiNet said it has delivered its best financial result ever, with an 11 per cent rise in full-year profit. Net profit for the year to 30 June was AU$37.1 million, up from the AU$33.3 million in the previous year.

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Tags: Expired Perth Technology Company WA stocks

Uzbekistan Biggest gas reserve is known as “The door to hell”

May 21st, 2012 by Penny Stock Reporter 1 comment »

The Locals in Uzbekistan call this “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. in uzbekistan. The story of this place now lasts already for a long 35 years.

The story of “door to hell” starts in 1971 with a Russian team of geologists in the search for natural gas. Once the geologists were drilling for gas, suddenly during the drilling they found an underground cavern, it was so big that all of the drilling site with the equipment and camps slipped deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas.

The door to hell in uzbekistan

They came up with a plan, so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole and so decided to ignite it , and since then, it’s burning, for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of gas has been burned all these years but it just seems to be a infinite supply there. Here is a video of the Door to hell

Video of Door to hell In uzbekistan

Imagine the gas that could have been mined if some company managed to put a lid on it and started piping the gas for export. The gates of hell could have rned into “the gates of heaven” for somebody

The other gates of hell – The Gates of Hell (French: ”La Porte de l’Enfer”) is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from "The Inferno", the first section ofDante Alighieri‘s Divine Comedy.

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Tags: Gas Gate of hell Uzbekistan

Pick of the month : Amcom telecom

February 25th, 2012 by Penny Stock Reporter 3 comments »

Hartley’s have recommended accumulate on “Amcom Telecom” today in the West Australian and we are happy to back them up on this position or even go so far as to recommend “Buy”. Amcom is rapidly expanding into IT Solutions as well in addition to their internet services already being provided to a large base of personal and business customers. Their foray into IT solutions includes wide range of advanced business services, including Video Conferencing, IP Telephony, SIP Trunks, Voice (ISDN), Colocation facilities, Data Applications, Disaster Recovery and Internet services. Their new focus on IT solutions as part of the L7 Services can be found on this website http://www.l7.com.au/

Internet and Data services provider Amcom Telecom

The company is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX code: AMM)

Currently trading around : AUD $ 1.010 (Accumulate , Buy )

Company Name: Amcom Telecommunications Limited

Website: www.amcom.com.au

AMM´s 2012 growth strategy is focused on client acquisition for its fibre network and the uptake of additional products from its existing client database and leveraging new products from its new IT solutions L7 services.

Amcom as part of its services also have a “Dark Fibre service”. Dark Fibre is an optimum solution for very high-speed data applications, such as real-time data replication. The Amcom Dark Fibre service is an unlit, point-to-point optical fibre link. It allows you to manage your own network, operate your own terminating equipment and manage the applications that use the network.

Amcom Telecommunications reported NPAT up 50% to $25.85m for the year ended 30 June 2011. Revenues from ordinary activities were $87.19m, up 38% from last year. Diluted EPS was 3.55 cents compared to 2.70 cents last year

Although the company’s fibre business for corporate, government and telco customers performed well, its residential broadband business, Amnet, suffered a 7 per cent decline in revenue from $12.2 million to $11.3 million in 2010 . TPG TELECOM are one of its competitors in the Internet services providing market that we would possibly take a punt on.

Amcom Telecommunications (ASX: AMM) has lifted its net profit after tax (from wholly-owned operation and before one-off items) by 20 percent to $8.4m for the six months to 31 December.

The company said: "The material uplift in earnings was achieved following strong organic sales growth from Amcom’s core fibre-based communications services and expanding business services offerings."

The company also recently scored a major $9 million cloud deal with the University of Western Australia to provide hosted servers, storage and backup from its datacentres in Perth, with the hundreds of servers and over 400TB of storage connected to the university via Amcom’s 10-gigabit fibre network.

About Amcom Telecommunications

Amcom is an Australian telecommunications company operating since 1998. Amcom specialises in providing services to business’es and government for data, internet, voice and related services over its extensive fibre optic network.

Perth (Head Office)
Level 22, 44 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA

T: 08 9244 6000
F: 08 9244 659

Mailing Address
GPO Box 2541, Perth WA 6001

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Posted in Australia, Australian Stocks, Hopeful

Tags: iinet ltd Internet ISP NBN Tech stocks

penny hopefuls still drag on in 2011

January 31st, 2012 by Penny Stock Reporter 1 comment »

If you are a David Haselhurst follower , you will be a bit disappointed with the year ending result on his money magazine portfolio which ended in a –19.00% portfolio change for the calendar year ending. I do keep a watch on his penny hopefuls and do follow a few of his punts in my own portfolio , as i do admire his winning streak punt for penny stocks from previous years. The last couple of years with the US crash , Euro crash there is still some weakness in the Australian stock market which is also evident in the penny stocks and the speculators portfolio.

speculator picks

His last pick in Oct. 2011 was Blackwood Corp (BWD) which was formerly “Matilda Minerals Limited” which was picked up at 0.23 and still remains at 0.23. You can get more details on Blackwood Corp here on their website.

The Exco Resources Punt

David Haselhurst took a punt of EXCO Resources( EXS) in June 2011 @ $0.615 which has since then taken a beating with the current price as of today being $0.19. Exco resources has quite a few tenements in its prospecting portfolio in Queensland and South Australia besides the one it sold to Xstrata , which could possibly generate more income for the company.

“Exco Resources Ltd” (ASX: EXS) is an ASX listed mining and exploration company that has been operating since 1998. It operates the White Dam Gold Mine and the Cloncurry Copper Project (CCP). The CCP was sold to Xstrata Copper for A$175M in June 2011, generating a significant return on equity and the Company subsequently returned A$135M (A$0.38/share) to its shareholders as a fully franked dividend and capital return.

One of his picks from which i have profited before CTP or Central petroleum has had some good news , with it striking oil at its Suprise well and it being the first significant discovery of oil flow from a onshore discovery when most of the discovery are from offshore in the waters off Australia. You can hear a report of this onshore discovery of central petroleum over here.

If you check out the shareholders list , you can see some very respected parties in the shareholders list of central petroleum as below

Top Twenty Shareholders of central petroluem (CTP)

Name	Shares Owned	% of Shares Owned
Brighten International Pty Ltd	22,841,551	2.13%
National Nominess Limited	22,074,980	2.06%
Citicorp Nominees Limited	15,044,512	1.40%
Mr Mark Philip Shawcross	13,250,000	1.23%
Renlyn Bell Investments Pty Ltd	10,416,670	0.97%
Comsec Nominees Pty Limited	10,213,608	0.95%
JP Morgan Nominees Australia Limited	9,996,235	0.93%
RBJ Nominees Pty Ltd	9,375,000	0.87%
Franze Holdings Pty Ltd	9,360,000	0.87%
AMG International Pty Ltd	8,915,000	0.83%
Salavente Pty Ltd (GRB Superannuation Fund A/C)	8,625,000	0.80%
Colbern Fiduciary Nominees Pty Ltd	7,181,818	0.67%
Advent Energy Ltd	6,250,000	0.58%
Mr John Phillip Heugh	5,741,429	0.53%
HSBC CUSTODY NOMINEES AUSTRALIA LIMITED	5,428,889	0.51%
Agens Pty Limited	5,324,176	0.50%
Brispot Nominees Pty Ltd	5,032,646	0.47%
Marford Group Pty Ltd (Aggressive Trade A/C)	5,000,000	0.47%
Blamnco Trading Pty Ltd	5,000,000	0.47%
Mr Garry Bonaccorso & Mrs Dorothy Bonaccorso (Osrocc Super A/C)	5,000,000	0.47%

I still think CTP is a good buy at tis current prices, though currently don’t hold any of its stock as i have already taken a punt on some other ones with my money already tied up.