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Speaker 1: This is what the Flux. I'm Brett and I't justin

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Speaker 1: and it's Wednesday, the twelve for February, Dozy Boyd. The

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Speaker 1: ATO has been cracking down left, right and center, and

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Speaker 1: the latest industry to feel their wrath is sunscreen. Get

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Speaker 1: this one. You may not know this, but sunscreen is

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Speaker 1: actually GST three. But now the ATO has said that

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Speaker 1: if you want to sell sunscreen GST three, the product

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Speaker 1: needs to be marketed principally as sun protection, not a

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Speaker 1: strawberry lip farm with SBF fifteen fox A. Did you

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Speaker 1: know the ASX index in January wrotes four point six percent,

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Speaker 1: which is a pretty good flex for the first month

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Speaker 1: of the year. There are some seriously top performing stocks

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Speaker 1: in ASX from January and we have it all covered

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Speaker 1: in the Flux out, so make sure to check it

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Speaker 1: out to see what were the best performing stocks in

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Speaker 1: January this year. Three Beta stories today, Chuzzy boy, Let's

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Speaker 1: do it for our first. JB Hi Fi has announced

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Speaker 1: better than expected sales growth for the past six months,

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Speaker 1: but its share price still fell five percent. Robo Vacuum's

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Speaker 1: really leading from the frontier for JB High Fi. So

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Well? Jbhigh Fi is obviously the ossie

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Speaker 1: electronics of retailer that's been around since nineteen seventy four YEP.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, it was selling twenty inch TVs

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Speaker 1: and Elton Junker setts that got schewed up in your cartterea.

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Speaker 1: Nowadays we're talking everything from iPhones to smart home devices,

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Speaker 1: TV's washing machines with Wi fi that practically does your

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Speaker 1: taxes for you and men man. Jbhigh Fi also owns

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Speaker 1: the Good Guys and more recently n S, which had

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Speaker 1: acquired in September last year, and now jbhi Fi has

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Speaker 1: announced sales growth of nearly ten percent for the six

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Speaker 1: months to December and net profit rows eight percent as well.

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Speaker 1: But while that sounds good, it's share price fell five

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Speaker 1: percent y jbco was a little cautious. He said they're

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Speaker 1: expecting rising prices from suppliers and that will be passed

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Speaker 1: on to consumers and it might impact their upcoming results

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Speaker 1: and be man. Might I remind you that JB has

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Speaker 1: been trading on a forward profit multiple of just over

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Speaker 1: twenty three times YEP. Compare that to a long term

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Speaker 1: average for the consumer discretionary sector of about eighteen times,

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Speaker 1: so be Man, investors were thinking, maybe it's time to

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Speaker 1: reconsider this stock. So what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 1: Investors don't just look at what companies have done in

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Speaker 1: the past, but also they look at what's next. And

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Speaker 1: when a company's share price has jumped seventy percent in

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Speaker 1: a year a hem JB high five, expectations go through

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Speaker 1: the roof and that's where forward profit multiples come in.

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Speaker 1: A forward profit multiple compares a company's share price to

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Speaker 1: its expected future earnings. If the profit multiple is high

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Speaker 1: compared to the sector's average, it means that investors are

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Speaker 1: betting on strong future growth. But if growth starts to

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Speaker 1: slow down, even slightly, the market can punish the company,

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Speaker 1: and that is what happened here with JB Hello five

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Speaker 1: percent drop in share value. For our second story, Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has warned of a fresh set of tariffs and

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Speaker 1: this time it could affect the Australian economy in a

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Speaker 1: big way. Strap on your heart, hat b Man, because

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Speaker 1: we're back in the era of Trump tariffs. So tell

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Speaker 1: me what well, Jasi boy. We spoke on the pod

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Speaker 1: the other week about Trump's plan to put twenty five

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Speaker 1: a ten percent tariff on Chinese goods, which has already

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Speaker 1: kind of started a bit of a trade war. Yes,

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Speaker 1: but now Donald Trump has warned of a new tariff

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Speaker 1: planning to put a twenty five percent tariff on these imports.

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Speaker 1: That's a tax on imported goods. Now, in the past,

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Speaker 1: be Man Australia has got a get out of tariff

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Speaker 1: jail free car. By this time, Trump's saying no exception.

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Speaker 1: So next minute Albert gave Trump a call and begged

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Speaker 1: for an exemption, which is supposedly under consideration. So what's

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Speaker 1: the key learning here? There is an age old debate

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Speaker 1: between free trade and protectionism. Free trade means countries remove

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Speaker 1: barriers like tariff, which makes it easier to buy and

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Speaker 1: The US has traditionally supported free trade, but under Trump,

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Speaker 1: this boy Unfortunately, Australia is particular vulnerable to global trade wars,

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Speaker 1: and that's because we export everything around the world, from

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Speaker 1: For our third and final story, a group of investors

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Speaker 1: are led by Elon Musk, has made a ninety seven

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Speaker 1: point four billion US dollar offer to buy the non

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Speaker 1: the company behind chat GPT is called open Ai and

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Speaker 1: it was initially launched in twenty fifteen as a non

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Speaker 1: by a man called Sam Holtman and Elon Musk, but Juzboy.

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Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen, Elon left open AI and Altman created

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Speaker 1: all out war between Musk and Altman because Elon Musk,

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Speaker 1: for lease, open ai has violated its founding mission to

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Speaker 1: of investors have put a ninety seven point four billion

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Speaker 1: And just as this offer sent the Internet into a spin,

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Speaker 1: open Ai CEO Sam Altman responded on X no, thank

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Speaker 1: nine point seventy four billion if you want just a reminder,

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk acquired X for forty four billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Ouch and be man. Well, this might

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Speaker 1: just look like another tech profud it actually highlights the

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Speaker 1: challenge of scaling nonprofit tech businesses. So what's the key

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Speaker 1: learning here? Balancing mission and money is one of the

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Speaker 1: trickiest challenges for fast growing companies. Multiple well known tech

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Speaker 1: to face this non profit verse profit conundrum. Nope. Mozilla,

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Speaker 1: which is the web browser. They started as a nonprofit initiative,

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Speaker 1: Then there's also deep Mind, which was an AI research

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Speaker 1: So b man, it'll be interesting to see if open

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Speaker 1: ai will prioritize cash or return to its original mission.

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Speaker 1: Flux maam the ASEX two hundred indexecute is an all

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Speaker 1: to go up and up and up. We take a

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Speaker 1: look at the four best performing ASX stocks in January

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and you might be surprised who's up there.

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Speaker 1: To make sure to check out the Flux out to

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Speaker 1: see the winners from January. Thanks for listening and we'll

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Speaker 1: see you on for Friday