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ASX financials research

Financials coverage focuses on credit quality, funding mix, capital strength, return on equity, and whether the market is paying for durable spread income or cyclical leverage.

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Coverage

  1. Netwealth's Morgan Stanley pop prices platform flow before margin paybackNetwealth Group (ASX:NWL) jumped 6.7% after a Morgan Stanley platform deal; the question is how much flow can outrun FY27 spend.
  2. NAB's upgrade pop asks whether business-bank spreads can outrun bad debtsNational Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) jumped after an upgrade. We test whether business-bank spreads and credit quality support the move.
  3. Perpetual's rejected bid turns a rally into a break-up value testPerpetual (ASX:PPT) jumped after rejecting a takeover approach. The question is whether control value outruns a messy earnings rebuild.
  4. Zip's two-day rally prices a US turnaround before credit costs have finished their sayZip Co (ASX:ZIP) rallied again as payments risk came back into favour; the question is whether US cash profit can outrun credit costs.
  5. Judo's credit reset turns a growth-bank story into a cost-of-risk argumentJudo Bank's credit downgrade erased about 40% of ASX:JDO. We test whether three bad loans are idiosyncratic or a structural cost-of-risk reset.