Speaker 1: This is what the Flux I'm Brett and I'm Justin
Speaker 1: and it's Friday, the fourteenth of February.
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Speaker 2: Three generous stories today. Juzzy Boy for our first chemist
Speaker 2: warehouse officially launched on the ASX yesterday as it's mega
Speaker 2: merger with Sigma Healthcare went live.
Speaker 1: Now it's time for investiceing. Why pay more for the
Speaker 1: share price? So tell me what'll be Man.
Speaker 2: Well, Jazzi boy. We all know Chemists ware House as
Speaker 2: the pharmacy with ales tighter than compression socks and the
Speaker 2: jingle more catchy than hot Potato by the Wiggle. Since
Speaker 2: its first store in two thousand, Chemist Warehouse has grown
Speaker 2: to more than six hundred stores.
Speaker 1: And be Man or Chemists Warehouse announced its plans to
Speaker 1: merge with Sigma Healthcare that in December twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was their hard launch.
Speaker 2: And chemist Warehouse sprinted from a private company to the
Speaker 2: nineteenth largest on the as house.
Speaker 1: We're talking to company worth around thirty two billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Now for some perspective here, Chemist Warehouse is valued more
Speaker 2: than Colds and more than double of Quantus and be Man.
Speaker 1: With so few big name companies listing on the ACEX lately,
Speaker 1: there has been a heap of buyers that have been
Speaker 1: sweeping in YEP, and naturally a lot of sellers getting out,
Speaker 1: in particular be Man Chemists Warehouse franchisees who collectively were
Speaker 1: holding more than a third of the company pre IPO
Speaker 1: and unlike the Chemists ware House founders, these franchisees shares
Speaker 1: those were unescrowed.
Speaker 2: So they're making a rain as the nasal spray. So
Speaker 2: what is the key learning here?
Speaker 1: When a company goes public or mergers with another company,
Speaker 1: shareholders are often required to hold onto their shares for
Speaker 1: a set period of time.
Speaker 2: Now. This is called escro and it's designed to prevent
Speaker 2: a flood of shares hitting the market all at.
Speaker 1: Once, which could crash the share price.
Speaker 2: For example, Juzzy Boy Chemist Warehouse co founders own forty
Speaker 2: eight point three percent of the merged company, so.
Speaker 1: If they were to sell all their shares on day one,
Speaker 1: it would be way more supply of shares than demands.
Speaker 2: Causing the share price to decline big time, not to
Speaker 2: mention the fact that new investors would be less likely
Speaker 2: to invest if they knew the founders were out on
Speaker 2: day one.
Speaker 1: On the other HANDO b Man Chemists ware House franchisees,
Speaker 1: who earned about thirty seven and a half percent of
Speaker 1: the company aren't under escrow terms.
Speaker 2: And with so much interest in Chemists ware House stock,
Speaker 2: many franchisees have already jumped at the chance to cash in.
Speaker 2: And while the sales of franchise shares has already begun.
Speaker 2: We could see even more selling in the coming week.
Speaker 2: For our second story, the Federal government says it will
Speaker 2: acquire REX Airlines if there isn't a buyer for the
Speaker 2: airline by the end of June.
Speaker 1: Alba going from Prime Minister to REX CEO. Slush Sugar
Speaker 1: Daddy didn't see that on his LinkedIn profile, so John
Speaker 1: me Moore.
Speaker 2: Well, REX, which is short for Regional Express, has been
Speaker 2: flying Australians to the farthest corner of the country since
Speaker 2: two thousand and two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's become the second largest regional airline based on
Speaker 1: the number of regional destination.
Speaker 2: We're talking Hubert Petty and Cans.
Speaker 1: Miljura, even Monkey Mia.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. REX got a little too ambitious
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. It expanded to the big leagues, taking
Speaker 2: on the Sydney Melbourne Brisbane triangle and Beeman.
Speaker 1: Let's just say it was not a smooth landing.
Speaker 2: But by July last year REX had hit turbulence, falling
Speaker 2: into administration and scrambling for a buyer. But now be Man,
Speaker 2: Rex can't even buy a bid now. As a result,
Speaker 2: the Federal government has promised to acquire Rex to ensure
Speaker 2: the regional flights remain operational.
Speaker 1: And if that happens, it would be the first time
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety five that the Australian government has owned an.
Speaker 2: Airline after sailing off Quantas.
Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here?
Speaker 2: When infrastructure is at risk, governments have no choice but
Speaker 2: to step in and sometimes nationalize the service.
Speaker 1: Awbman, might I remind you Australia has a history of
Speaker 1: going the other way, which is privatizing public assets.
Speaker 2: So yes, we'd be talking Quantas, Telstra, the Commonwealth Bank,
Speaker 2: which were all once government owned.
Speaker 1: But when a key player in a critical market fails,
Speaker 1: nationalization becomes an option again.
Speaker 2: And juzuboy Rex is a prime candidate for nationalization because
Speaker 2: regional airlines connect remote communities around Australia and stimulate regional economy.
Speaker 2: And Australia wouldn't be the first country to own or
Speaker 2: partially own a national airline.
Speaker 1: Singapore Airlines and New Zealand entire Ways just over majority
Speaker 1: owned by their respective government.
Speaker 2: And Emirates and Ediehead are entirely owned by their government,
Speaker 2: so be man.
Speaker 1: While the government privatized Quantus nearly thirty years ago it
Speaker 1: might step back into the airline industry once again.
Speaker 2: For our third and final story, reddits Stock has taken
Speaker 2: a hit after its user growth missed expectations as it
Speaker 2: struggles to compete with Meta and Google. A. You're telling
Speaker 2: me that reddit got down voted on Wallster, I am
Speaker 2: what is going on here?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Reddit is the Internet's ultimate rabbit hole, juzzy boy. It's
Speaker 2: the place where people post and comment and debate literally everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're on nearly three and a half million subreddits.
Speaker 1: They cover broad topics like finance and fitness, to some
Speaker 1: very specific topics as well.
Speaker 2: Like my personal favorite hashtag bread stapled two trees, where
Speaker 2: people post photos of bread staple two trees.
Speaker 1: What about hashtag Thomas the dank Engine where people remix
Speaker 1: and share the Thomas The tank engines are now juzzweit.
Speaker 2: Reddit has announced its fourth quarter results where it had
Speaker 2: just under one hundred and two million daily active users,
Speaker 2: but analysts.
Speaker 1: Were expecting nearly one hundred and four million daily activities.
Speaker 1: So question, what was the reason for this drop in active.
Speaker 2: User Google's algorithm changes? Tell me more, juzzy boy.
Speaker 1: Well, Reddit relies heavily on search traffic from Google.
Speaker 2: All right, so when Google tweaks the rules, Reddit builds
Speaker 2: it hard exactly.
Speaker 1: But bit man, it isn't all bad news for Reddit
Speaker 1: because even though they had slower use of growth, they
Speaker 1: saw it. They saw their quarterly revenue jump seventy one percent.
Speaker 1: But this is a little for Reddit and friends. That
Speaker 1: reliance on one single platform can come back to bite you.
Speaker 1: So what is the key leading here?
Speaker 2: Platform dependency risk is when a business relies too heavily
Speaker 2: on a single external platform or service provider.
Speaker 1: It could be Google, could be Meta, could be Amazon
Speaker 1: or other platforms that drive traffic or sales.
Speaker 2: And why, oh, why, juzzy boy, your little expert, is
Speaker 2: this such a big risk because a single change can
Speaker 2: create drastic impacts on a company's performance, like what happened
Speaker 2: to Reddit. Yeah, on some days, up to fifty percent
Speaker 2: of reddits daily visitors came from Google.
Speaker 1: While and so a small algorithm change or even a
Speaker 1: policy update can change the fortunes of a company. Blucklam,
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