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- 0:05Speaker 1: This is lock them flies.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I'm Brett and justin a. It's mondayta fifth.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Of August tozie boy, how things change quickly on the
- 0:11Speaker 1: share market. On Thursday, the ASEX closed at a record
- 0:15Speaker 1: high and everyone was celebrating. But Friday was an absolute bloodbath.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Get this one. Nearly fifty billion dollars was wiped off
- 0:21Speaker 1: the value of companies on the ASX after a big
- 0:24Speaker 1: bat drop in US tech stocks. Always keeping us on
- 0:28Speaker 1: our toes.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Never know what to expect the man dam. We are
- 0:32Speaker 2: very excited to have two experts join us as part
- 0:34Speaker 2: of the Property Investing Academy this month doesn't really matter
- 0:37Speaker 2: what's happening today.
- 0:38Speaker 1: People look at a long term asset clias in too
- 0:41Speaker 1: much of the micro right.
- 0:42Speaker 2: That is the voice of property Guru and TikTok start
- 0:45Speaker 2: Jack Henderson of Henderson Advocacy, who's helping the Flux them
- 0:48Speaker 2: understand the property market. Why invest in property, how to
- 0:50Speaker 2: make it work to your financial position, and what to
- 0:52Speaker 2: look out for. It is all in this month Flux
- 0:54Speaker 2: Academy on Property Investing.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Three profitable stories today. Juzzi boy, let's do it for
- 1:00Speaker 1: our first at Lassian saw at share price plummet after
- 1:03Speaker 1: it warned that revenue is expected to slow slow down
- 1:07Speaker 1: over the next year.
- 1:09Speaker 2: The founders just became a casual three point eight billion
- 1:11Speaker 2: dollars poor after this announcement. So tell me more.
- 1:13Speaker 1: Well, jus wait, we know the story of at Lassian.
- 1:16Speaker 1: The two Sydney siders who met at UNI and started
- 1:18Speaker 1: the company with a ten thousand dollar credit card.
- 1:21Speaker 2: And from there they've built it into a project management behemoth.
- 1:24Speaker 1: We're talking Gira, Confluence, a bit Bucket, Trello, all the
- 1:27Speaker 1: big name brands for tech heads.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Now be man. Earlier this year, at Lassian announced a
- 1:33Speaker 2: pretty bold revenue target. Yeah, they had a goal of
- 1:35Speaker 2: twenty percent revenue growth over the next three years and
- 1:38Speaker 2: hitting this target would mean at Lassian clocks over ten
- 1:40Speaker 2: billion US dollars in and your revenue.
- 1:42Speaker 1: But Josie boy, at Lassian just released their annual results
- 1:45Speaker 1: where its revenue jumped twenty four percent. That sounds pretty positive,
- 1:48Speaker 1: but my friend, it wasn't all positive.
- 1:50Speaker 2: You see.
- 1:51Speaker 1: At Lassian also revised its revenue target for the next
- 1:53Speaker 1: twelve months.
- 1:54Speaker 2: Yep, that twenty percent goal they had it, well, they
- 1:56Speaker 2: dropped it down to sixteen percent. But be man, they
- 1:58Speaker 2: still have a plan to get there.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Their plan to get there continue growing revenue from their
- 2:03Speaker 1: Fortune five hundred company partners.
- 2:05Speaker 2: So what is the key learning here?
- 2:06Speaker 1: When it comes to revenue, Digging deeper, not wider, can
- 2:09Speaker 1: often be a faster way to supercharge growth.
- 2:12Speaker 2: You see, be a man. New revenue comes from acquiring
- 2:14Speaker 2: new customers.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Which often requires significant marketing and sales efforts.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Yan dining, pitching, chasing our females, sending through more pitches.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Yes, but expansion revenue is generated when existing customers purchase
- 2:26Speaker 1: additional products or services.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Like upgrading their plans or adding more licenses.
- 2:30Speaker 1: And Josie Boy at Lesson already has a raft of
- 2:33Speaker 1: large companies on board, but they're just not spending enough.
- 2:36Speaker 2: In fact, eighty four percent over the Fortune five hundred companies,
- 2:39Speaker 2: the biggest five hundred companies in the US are using
- 2:41Speaker 2: at Lassie.
- 2:42Speaker 1: But it only represents ten percent of their revenue.
- 2:44Speaker 2: So at Lassian's plan is to show more love to
- 2:47Speaker 2: its existing clients. Hit that big, hairy ten billion dollar
- 2:50Speaker 2: goal for our second story. Apple is back on the
- 2:53Speaker 2: winner's list after it saw growth in revenue over the
- 2:56Speaker 2: past three months. But not all is rosy in Apple
- 2:58Speaker 2: land like Apple getting a bit tired lately with their
- 3:01Speaker 2: kind of irrelevant iPhone updates, So don't we more Well,
- 3:04Speaker 2: it's fair to say Apple has been a tech innovator
- 3:06Speaker 2: since its early days of the Mac computer, then the iPod,
- 3:09Speaker 2: who could forget the feeling of holding one of those
- 3:11Speaker 2: babies in your hand while your mate still had a discrant.
- 3:14Speaker 1: And then of course the iPhone, which took it into
- 3:16Speaker 1: the stratosphere of world's most valuable company that Beeman. Despite
- 3:20Speaker 1: all of these developments, Apple's most important business is still
- 3:23Speaker 1: the iPhone. That's why investors were so concerned last quarter
- 3:26Speaker 1: Juzzy Boy when Apple announced a major decline in iPhone sales.
- 3:30Speaker 2: But now Apple's announced a return to sales growth that
- 3:33Speaker 2: We're talking four point nine percent growth.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Okay, lots of divisions in Apple, Juzzy Boy, which ones
- 3:38Speaker 1: are the winners?
- 3:39Speaker 2: Here? Interestingly, the iPad division grew the fastest at twenty.
- 3:42Speaker 1: Four percent, and of course the services division, which is
- 3:44Speaker 1: Apple TV, cloud storage subscriptions.
- 3:47Speaker 2: The revenue in that division jump fourteen.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Percent two and now Apple's goal is to reduce its
- 3:52Speaker 1: reliance on its iPhone hardware and shift even more of
- 3:55Speaker 1: that demand to its software.
- 3:57Speaker 2: And investors or alike in the sound of dem Apples.
- 4:00Speaker 2: So what is the key learning here? Not all revenue
- 4:02Speaker 2: streams are created equally, and luckily for Apple, its sexier
- 4:05Speaker 2: revenue stream is doing particularly well, you seeb man. Apple
- 4:08Speaker 2: services business is critical for shareholders because it has better
- 4:11Speaker 2: margins than their hardware products.
- 4:12Speaker 1: The jazibay. Apple still has a bit of a reliance
- 4:15Speaker 1: on its iPhones.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Yeah, the iPhone's accounted for forty six percent of Apple's
- 4:19Speaker 2: total sales during the quarter.
- 4:21Speaker 1: So basically, pushing the software division is key here, as.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Well as a little thing called AI, which you may
- 4:26Speaker 2: have heard of yep.
- 4:28Speaker 1: In fact, Apple has not ruled out charging a subscription
- 4:31Speaker 1: for its Apple Intelligence features in the future as well.
- 4:34Speaker 2: So now Apples investors are licking their lips at the
- 4:36Speaker 2: idea of another juicy software stream of revenue.
- 4:39Speaker 1: For our third and final story, Intel is cutting fifteen
- 4:43Speaker 1: thousand jobs and suspending its dividend as its stock fell
- 4:47Speaker 1: twenty percent in one day last week.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Twenty percent and fifteen thousand jobs not numbers you want
- 4:52Speaker 2: to hear. So what is happening here? A little bit
- 4:54Speaker 2: about ground jazzyboy.
- 4:55Speaker 1: Intel is a global tech company started in nineteen fifty six, and.
- 4:59Speaker 2: It became a household name with the rise of personal
- 5:01Speaker 2: computers back in the eighties and nineties.
- 5:03Speaker 1: And what I do know, Juzzy Boy, is that millions
- 5:06Speaker 1: of PCs around the world used Intel's very own computer
- 5:09Speaker 1: chips inside them during that time.
- 5:11Speaker 2: And the man, after struggling in the early two thousand
- 5:13Speaker 2: and new CEO, took the helm of Intel in twenty
- 5:16Speaker 2: twenty one with a pretty ambitious plan to turn the
- 5:18Speaker 2: company around.
- 5:19Speaker 1: Yep. Now Intel became the US's most important chip maker
- 5:22Speaker 1: and has around one hundred and sixteen thousand employees.
- 5:25Speaker 2: But not so fast, because now Intel plans to lay
- 5:27Speaker 2: up fifteen thousand employees this year and pause their dividend payments.
- 5:31Speaker 1: And it's all part of a big cost saving exercises.
- 5:34Speaker 2: It not. It is Their plan is reduced costs by
- 5:36Speaker 2: more than ten billion dollars next year. And it's all
- 5:39Speaker 2: because it's struggled to gain a foothold in the market
- 5:41Speaker 2: for AI chips. So what is the key learning here?
- 5:44Speaker 1: Over the last few years, a brutal and competitive race
- 5:47Speaker 1: in the chip industry has been going on, some of
- 5:49Speaker 1: it visible, some of it not.
- 5:51Speaker 2: In case you'd been living under a rock. You may
- 5:53Speaker 2: have noticed a boom in AI going on.
- 5:56Speaker 1: And this boom in generative AI has led to new
- 5:58Speaker 1: challenges for all Intel.
- 6:00Speaker 2: Yeah you see, Intel has a dominant market share in
- 6:03Speaker 2: the traditional category of central processes.
- 6:05Speaker 1: But it's far behind the big dogs for the more
- 6:08Speaker 1: modern AI chips. And while Intel has developed an answer
- 6:11Speaker 1: to in Vidia's AI chips, it hasn't gained a large
- 6:14Speaker 1: market share.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Yeah it's aichips are expected to bring in just five
- 6:17Speaker 2: hundred million US dollars of revenue.
- 6:18Speaker 1: This year, way below the more than twenty billion in
- 6:21Speaker 1: Vidia has been pulling in each and every quarter.
- 6:23Speaker 2: So now Intel is vowing to somehow get back to
- 6:26Speaker 2: being number one. I think we'll see about that. Beman
- 6:29Speaker 2: Flux Sam if you always wanted to invest in the
- 6:30Speaker 2: property market, but he never knew how to make it
- 6:33Speaker 2: work for you, what to look out for. It is
- 6:35Speaker 2: all covered in this month's Plucks Academy on property investing,
- 6:37Speaker 2: So make sure you check out the academy this month
- 6:40Speaker 2: to learn a whole lot about property investing.
- 6:42Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and we'll see you on Wednesday.