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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is what the Flux.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I'm justin and I'm hish Deep and it's Monday, the
- 0:09Speaker 2: third of June.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Ay she get this one. Telstra customers who receive their
- 0:13Speaker 1: phone mills in the mail will now cop a thirty
- 0:16Speaker 1: percent increase in price for the privilege of having paper.
- 0:19Speaker 1: It's all part of Telstra's plan to reduce costs in
- 0:21Speaker 1: their business and obviously position this as an environmental benefit too.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Of course, Fluxpam, did you know that the majority of
- 0:28Speaker 2: Australians would rather speak about death than money. Yep. Money
- 0:31Speaker 2: is a pretty awkward topic and that's why we've built
- 0:34Speaker 2: this month's academy around having money conversations in your life.
- 0:37Speaker 2: Very much needed with your partner, your friends and families.
- 0:40Speaker 2: It's guaranteed to help you have better relationships and feel
- 0:43Speaker 2: better about your money.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Money back guarantee from Flux. Three delicious stories today.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
- 0:50Speaker 1: For our first goods. Mini Gomez, the Mexican fast food chain,
- 0:54Speaker 1: has announced plans to list on the ASX in June
- 0:57Speaker 1: and a multi billion dollar valuation.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Who knew beres could turn into billions? Tell me more?
- 1:02Speaker 1: Okay, so goods, Midigo Mares or gyg As they call
- 1:05Speaker 1: themselves Oh Yes. First opened in Sydney in two thousand
- 1:07Speaker 1: and six.
- 1:08Speaker 2: The goal was to become a quality Mexican fast food
- 1:11Speaker 2: chain and take on the big dogs in fast food
- 1:13Speaker 2: like Macas and Hungry Jacks.
- 1:15Speaker 1: And actually, since then it's expanded its network to two
- 1:17Speaker 1: hundred and ten restaurants.
- 1:19Speaker 2: And Jazz they aren't just dishing out burrito bowls in Australia.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Oh no, no no, They've also got stores in Singapore,
- 1:24Speaker 1: in Japan and the US as well.
- 1:26Speaker 2: After many years of do we don't we list on
- 1:28Speaker 2: the Airsex, GYG has announced they will list on the
- 1:31Speaker 2: Airsex in June this year.
- 1:33Speaker 1: And as part of this float, GYG will raise two
- 1:35Speaker 1: hundred and forty two point five million dollars WOW and
- 1:38Speaker 1: will listed evaluation of get this two point two billion
- 1:42Speaker 1: dollars Jazz.
- 1:42Speaker 2: Forty two point five million of this raise will be
- 1:45Speaker 2: given to existing investors who are looking to sell down.
- 1:48Speaker 1: And the other two hundred meal will be used to
- 1:50Speaker 1: fund growth of the business by expanding its network of
- 1:52Speaker 1: stores in Australia and then globally as well.
- 1:55Speaker 2: And Jazz Gyg has mentioned there is a voluntary escro
- 1:58Speaker 2: arrangement in place for twelve months from listing.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Which means fifty eight percent of their shares will be
- 2:03Speaker 1: under this ESCRO.
- 2:04Speaker 2: So tell me what is the key learning here.
- 2:06Speaker 1: A voluntary escro arrangement is when the key stakeholders in
- 2:09Speaker 1: the business agree to voluntarily lock up their shares for
- 2:12Speaker 1: a certain period post the IPO.
- 2:15Speaker 2: This can range from six months to a year or
- 2:17Speaker 2: even longer.
- 2:18Speaker 1: And actually by agreeing to hold on to their shares
- 2:20Speaker 1: it sends a strong signal to the market.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Yeah, we believe in the long term potential of the
- 2:25Speaker 2: company and are just looking for a quick cash out.
- 2:27Speaker 1: But actually the number of shares in escrow as a
- 2:29Speaker 1: percentage of total shares is also important.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because if only ten percent of shares are
- 2:34Speaker 2: in escrow, then ninety percent can still be sold on
- 2:36Speaker 2: the market.
- 2:37Speaker 1: The average number of ordinary shares that are subject to
- 2:39Speaker 1: ESCRO for Australian companies that are worth less than one
- 2:42Speaker 1: hundred million was twenty to forty percent, and.
- 2:44Speaker 2: For Australian companies worth more than one hundred million dollars
- 2:47Speaker 2: it ranged from forty to eighty percent in escrow.
- 2:50Speaker 1: That's according to law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.
- 2:52Speaker 2: So Guzmand's fifty eight percent of shares in Escro should
- 2:55Speaker 2: help stabilize the share price host.
- 2:57Speaker 1: Ipo without the shares tumbling like a holy built breckydo.
- 3:01Speaker 2: For our second story, the owner of Country Road Group
- 3:05Speaker 2: has warned that it expects its earnings to be more
- 3:07Speaker 2: than twenty percent lower in comparison to last year.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Jeez, clearly those country Road double bags just I'm selling anymore?
- 3:13Speaker 1: So tell me everything well.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Jazz country Road is the fashion retailer that was started
- 3:18Speaker 2: back in nineteen seventy four.
- 3:19Speaker 1: And by twenty fourteen, the brand was wholly owned by
- 3:22Speaker 1: a South African retailer called Woolworths Holdings Limited.
- 3:25Speaker 2: Not the Australian Woolies that is, no.
- 3:26Speaker 1: No no, and Walwort's Holdings has also got other Aussie
- 3:29Speaker 1: brands like Mimco, Trenery, Politics, Witchery under its belt and
- 3:33Speaker 1: formerly had David Jones as well.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Now Jazz Wolworth's Holding has just come out with the
- 3:37Speaker 2: Country Road Group's twenty twenty four earnings update, and let
- 3:40Speaker 2: me tell you it is not looking forward.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Me throw it so.
- 3:43Speaker 2: Wilwors has worn that it expects country Roads earnings to
- 3:46Speaker 2: drop by twenty percent compared to FY twenty three.
- 3:49Speaker 1: And actually this is largely due to the slower economic environment.
- 3:52Speaker 1: The Country Road is actually facing a double whammy yep.
- 3:55Speaker 2: On the one hand, there's a pressure of high living costs,
- 3:57Speaker 2: meaning less demand from customers, and.
- 3:59Speaker 1: On the other hand, there's higher import costs thanks to
- 4:02Speaker 1: a weaker Australian dollar.
- 4:03Speaker 2: So tell me what is the key learning here.
- 4:05Speaker 1: When a company relies on imports for its materials or
- 4:08Speaker 1: its manufacturing, it's beholden to fluctuations of its local exchanger.
- 4:13Speaker 2: You see jazz. Like many fashion retailers, Country Road imports
- 4:16Speaker 2: goods for its operations, and when it.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Does, it often pays for those goods in the supplier
- 4:20Speaker 1: country's currency.
- 4:21Speaker 2: If the Australian dollar is stronger against that currency, that
- 4:24Speaker 2: means each Aussie dollar can buy more and.
- 4:26Speaker 1: The cost of importing becomes cheaper.
- 4:28Speaker 2: But if the Australian dollar becomes weaker against that currency,
- 4:31Speaker 2: like it is right now, the cost of those imported
- 4:34Speaker 2: goods goes up.
- 4:35Speaker 1: For example, the Australian dollar has dropped over thirteen percent
- 4:38Speaker 1: compared to the US dollar in the last twenty four months,
- 4:40Speaker 1: and because.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Of the weaker Aussie dollar, Country roads expenses have jumped
- 4:44Speaker 2: significantly more than.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Its revenue, and while many retailers try to offset this
- 4:49Speaker 1: foreign exchangers by using hedging strategies, this clearly hasn't been
- 4:53Speaker 1: quite successful for the Country Road Grip.
- 4:55Speaker 2: For our third and final story, Salesforce has seen its
- 4:58Speaker 2: shares tumble more than twenty percent in its worst day
- 5:01Speaker 2: of trading since two thousand and four after week results.
- 5:05Speaker 1: Wow, that is more than fifty billion dollars in a
- 5:07Speaker 1: drop in just one day. That's what you call it.
- 5:09Speaker 1: Top date at the office. So tell me more.
- 5:11Speaker 2: Okay. So, Salesforce is one of the og software companies
- 5:14Speaker 2: that launched back in nineteen ninety nine and is now
- 5:17Speaker 2: worth more than two hundred billion US dollars.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Salesforce specialized in the very sexy industry of CRM software.
- 5:24Speaker 2: Oh yeah, CRM stands for Customer Relationship management. In other words,
- 5:28Speaker 2: it provides software for large companies.
- 5:30Speaker 1: And helps them drive sales and customer service, marketing, automation
- 5:33Speaker 1: and analytics as well.
- 5:34Speaker 2: We're talking mega companies like IBM, PayPal, Sonos, and even Headspace.
- 5:39Speaker 1: And actually, don't forget this sluck. He's also now owned
- 5:42Speaker 1: by Salesforce since twenty twenty one.
- 5:43Speaker 2: But late last week, Salesforce warned that its first quarter
- 5:46Speaker 2: results would miss its revenue estimates.
- 5:48Speaker 1: And interestingly, this was the first time it's missed its
- 5:51Speaker 1: estimates since two thousand and six.
- 5:53Speaker 2: And it warned of a weaker earnings guidance for the
- 5:55Speaker 2: upcoming quarter two.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And as a result, Salesforce shares dropped more than twenty
- 5:59Speaker 1: percent in it's worst day of trading since two thousand
- 6:01Speaker 1: and four.
- 6:02Speaker 2: So tell me, Charles, what is the key learning here?
- 6:04Speaker 1: Achieving revenue guidance is crucial for companies because it reinforces
- 6:08Speaker 1: investor confidence.
- 6:09Speaker 2: And Salesforce has had quite a good run of hitting
- 6:12Speaker 2: and exceeding their guidances for upcoming quarters.
- 6:14Speaker 1: But actually, interestingly, the forecasts that SMP five hundred companies
- 6:18Speaker 1: present to the market are getting less and less accurate.
- 6:21Speaker 2: In fact, between twenty fourteen and twenty eighteen, only sixteen
- 6:25Speaker 2: percent of SMP five hundred companies reported results within their
- 6:29Speaker 2: guided rates.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Is low, and when a company like Salesforce misses their
- 6:32Speaker 1: revenue guidance, especially for the first time in a very
- 6:34Speaker 1: long period, it can create uncertainty.
- 6:37Speaker 2: And potentially erode investor trusts.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Wex SAM money is awkward, and that is why we
- 6:41Speaker 1: want to help you. In the Flux Academy. This month,
- 6:44Speaker 1: we give you all the tips and tricks to speak
- 6:45Speaker 1: to your partner, your friends, and your family about money.
- 6:48Speaker 1: So make sure to download the Flux app and check
- 6:50Speaker 1: out the Academy.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Thanks for listening and we'll see you on Wednesday.