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Speaker 2: thirty first of May.
Speaker 1: A g the latest inflation figures for April have been released. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and sadly, inflation has jumped from three point five percent
Speaker 1: in March to three point six percent in April. Oh
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Speaker 1: is a bad signal because inflation is going in the
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Speaker 1: Three Kluey stories today.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it.
Speaker 1: For our first Catapult Sport, the ASX listed sports tech
Speaker 1: company has just hit one hundred million US dollars in
Speaker 1: revenue for the very first time. Wow. After doubling down
Speaker 1: on its subscription services.
Speaker 2: Scary to think about the amount of data captured on
Speaker 2: elide players. There is no hiding tell me more so.
Speaker 1: Catapult Sport actually started back in the early two thousands
Speaker 1: as a collab between the Australian Institute of Sport and
Speaker 1: Cooperative Research Australia.
Speaker 2: But it became commercialized in two thousand and six and
Speaker 2: has become the leading wearable device product for elite athletes.
Speaker 1: Players wear tracking devices when they're training or playing a match,
Speaker 1: and Catapult Sport uses software to record and analyze performance.
Speaker 2: They've got over two three hundred teams across forty sports
Speaker 2: using their devices, and.
Speaker 1: They've just released their annual results and for the very
Speaker 1: first time, Catapult Sport has crossed one hundred million US
Speaker 1: dollars in annual revenue.
Speaker 2: Now, you might have assumed that their revenue is generated
Speaker 2: by selling these wearable devices, but you'd be wrong because
Speaker 2: the bulk of catapults revenue actually comes from software as
Speaker 2: a service, not from the hardware.
Speaker 1: So tell me, actually, what is the key learning here?
Speaker 2: The future of hardware may actually come via software subscriptions.
Speaker 1: We've already seen a number of companies that charge you
Speaker 1: for the hardware and then charge a monthly subscription for
Speaker 1: the software as well.
Speaker 2: Like Tesla or Pelton.
Speaker 1: But now we're starting to seeing more companies who are
Speaker 1: just offering their hardware as a delivery mechanism for their
Speaker 1: subscription service.
Speaker 2: You see Jazz. The majority of Catapult's tech is sold
Speaker 2: through a SaaS or software as a service model to
Speaker 2: elite sporting clubs.
Speaker 1: In other words, athletes wear these tracking devices and the
Speaker 1: sporting clubs play a monthly fee to access the athlete
Speaker 1: startup and jazz.
Speaker 2: Catapult has managed to grow their annual contract value by
Speaker 2: twenty percent because of this model.
Speaker 1: Rather than adding more and more hardware, they expand their
Speaker 1: software offering. And actually Cata Holt aren't the only wearable
Speaker 1: company to adopt this model. Have you heard of the
Speaker 1: wearable fitness device Whoop? I have? Whoop does something similar.
Speaker 1: It wraps the upfront cost of its wearable device into
Speaker 1: its monthly subscription.
Speaker 2: For our second story, Sony Music is in talks to
Speaker 2: buy Queen's music catalog for over one billion USD and
Speaker 2: this would be the largest music catalog purchase of all times.
Speaker 1: Just imagine earning the rights to Baby Redsidy Absolutely timeless.
Speaker 1: So tell me everything here.
Speaker 2: So Jazz, Sony Music is a second largest of the
Speaker 2: big three record companies behind Universal Music, and.
Speaker 1: They are the record label behind mega artists like Seling, Dion, ACDC, Dojakat,
Speaker 1: Lil Nasex, and many many more.
Speaker 2: Earlier this year, Sony acquired a fifty percent interest in
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson's music catalog for six hundred million USD.
Speaker 1: But now Sony is in talks with Queen Band members
Speaker 1: and the estate of Freddie Mercury.
Speaker 2: It's believed that Sony Music, along with another investor, is
Speaker 2: willing to pay one billion USD for ownership over everything
Speaker 2: from Bohemian Rhapsody to Don't Stop Me Now and It's She.
Speaker 1: In recent years, there has been a frenzy to acquire
Speaker 1: music catalogs.
Speaker 2: Yep, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Justin, Timberlake and Beyonce have
Speaker 2: all generated hundreds of millions by selling all or a
Speaker 2: portion of their music, and a.
Speaker 1: Whole new industry of specialist investment funds are being created too.
Speaker 2: So tell me jas, what is the key learning here?
Speaker 1: Move over shares and bonds. There is a new asset
Speaker 1: class in town. The music catalog.
Speaker 2: Investors like Hypnosis, KKR and Blackstoner in a race to
Speaker 2: acquire a whole host of music rights.
Speaker 1: That's because they're now considered stable assets because they generate
Speaker 1: consistent revenues.
Speaker 2: People tend to stream music or by records, whatever the
Speaker 2: weather or economic climate.
Speaker 1: Back in the day, songwriting catalogs generally sold between eight
Speaker 1: to twelve times the revenue generated from those songs annually.
Speaker 2: But now we're talking fifteen to twenty five times because
Speaker 2: of the growth of streaming platforms.
Speaker 1: Meaning more people accessing music legally.
Speaker 2: Queen Productions reported revenues of fifty two million dollars in
Speaker 2: the year ended September twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: So a billion dollar purchase price is about nineteen times
Speaker 1: the revenue.
Speaker 2: And these songs not only create a stable revenue stream,
Speaker 2: but they actually have the potential to grow.
Speaker 1: Yep, we're talking royalties from being featured on TV shows,
Speaker 1: in films, video games, and even possibly TikTok.
Speaker 2: For our third and final story, BHP has abandoned its
Speaker 2: seventy four billion dollar takeover bid for British mining company
Speaker 2: Anglo American after six weeks of hectic negotiating.
Speaker 1: Must say it's a bit of an anticlinectic end to
Speaker 1: this journey. So what is the story here?
Speaker 2: BHP the world's biggest mining company, worth a casual two
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty four billion dollars, and.
Speaker 1: It operates mines in all corners of the globe, mining
Speaker 1: things like iron ore and coal, copper nickel.
Speaker 2: Now BHB has been in one of the biggest will
Speaker 2: they won't they asked since Russ and Rachel from friends.
Speaker 1: Except this is with British mining company Anglo American YEP.
Speaker 2: For the last six weeks, BHB has been in negotiations
Speaker 2: with Anglo American for a takeover of the company.
Speaker 1: And bhb's takeover offers were rejected three times before it
Speaker 1: finally gave up and called it quits.
Speaker 2: The reason for Anglo Americans rejection they didn't like the
Speaker 2: way BHB had structured the deal.
Speaker 1: BHP's offer required Anglo American to unbundle it's South African
Speaker 1: platinum and iron ore businesses to reduce their regulatory risks.
Speaker 2: So since Anglo wasn't vibing with the direction BHP wanted
Speaker 2: to take the business in, the two companies decided to
Speaker 2: just stay friends.
Speaker 1: All frenemies. So tell me what is the key learning here?
Speaker 2: A takeover bid isn't just about the price, but also
Speaker 2: about how the company will look in the hands of
Speaker 2: its new owner.
Speaker 1: You see, when a target company is assessing the takeover bid,
Speaker 1: they're looking into if it's a good deal for the
Speaker 1: company today, but also into the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anglo American's biggest shareholder is actually the South African
Speaker 2: government with over thirty percent ownership in the business.
Speaker 1: And given BHP wanted to unbundle Anglo South African business,
Speaker 1: which could put jobs at risk, well, the South African
Speaker 1: government was not happy Jam.
Speaker 2: And this isn't the first time we've seen a takeover
Speaker 2: bid fail over disagreements on strategic direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Back in twenty nineteen, it was a proposed merger
Speaker 1: between Chrystler and Renolds and that collapsed at the very
Speaker 1: last minute.
Speaker 2: Reno's biggest shareholder was the French government who wanted guarantees
Speaker 2: over Renaud's jobs.
Speaker 1: And the two companies just couldn't reach an agreement, so
Speaker 1: the deal fell through. Flux Sam, if you want to
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