THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT: Contact’s growth, brushing up on takeovers and Catalist and Pledge Me cosy up
Paul McBeth and Oliver Mander opine on marketland.
The Bottom Line’s Paul McBeth and New Zealand Shareholders’ Association chief executive Oliver Mander return with The Long and the Short of It, where they discuss the latest goings-on in marketland.
This week, Oliver dives into Contact Energy’s very busy annual earnings report and just how investors need to think about the electricity generator-retailers.
The latest M&A activity at 2 Cheap Cars and Bremworth gets us dusting off the Takeovers Code and pondering how private market investments might find that magical liquidity.
And Catalist and Pledge Me’s memorandum of understanding has some interesting pathways in the works as the wider capital markets come in for a shakeup.
Paul has been spending too much time going through the companies register.
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Disclosure: Paul McBeth has owned shares of Bremworth since January 2024.
