Articles On 1st Group (ASX:1ST)

Birth rates decline as people choose careers and pets Global pet industry is benefitting from this, to grow significantly by 2030 Ethical investing could thrive in sustainable pet product demand   The conversation around motherhood is evo...

ASX 200 benchmark ends almost 0.4% lower Only Consumer Discretionary and Energy Sectors rise Small cap stocks led by exploration minnow Western Gold Resources (ASX:WGR)   How to spin this for a gentler end to Monday…? Well, it’s not been...

Stockhead’s In-Case-You-Missed-It highlights some strongest performing ASX stocks that might have slipped your notice today.  It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing some of the biggest movers in percentage terms...

1st Group jumps 22pc after purchase order for its virtual healthcare system Austco Healthcare wins a $2.6m contract in Singapore Invex Therapeutic to shut down clinical trial immediately   Million dollar+ contracts for 1ST Group and Austc...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at ~10.30am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX stocks in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest movers...

The ASX is poised to open lower on Monday Did Elon Musk’s SpaceX dump all its BTC holding? Investment advisor bullish on China   The ASX is set to slip at the open after a flat session on Wall Street on Friday. At 8am AEST, the ASX 200 in...

The end of pandemic and higher rates have subdued biotech market But there are signs now the sector is making a comeback We take a look at the ASX Biotech Winners in July   The Covid-19 pandemic had produced windfalls for and attracted fa...

The ASX was higher by around 2.5% in July The best sectors were Tech and Energy We look at the best and worst performing ASX stocks for the month For the month of July, most major indexes on the ASX rose by around 2.5%. Name % Change...

The Federal Budget delivers billions of dollars funding into healthcare and aged care Mental health and Telehealth also received significant funding allocations Here are the ASX stocks that could benefit   Medicare, telehealth and mental...

We take a look at how the 15 biotech IPOs that listed in 2021 are faring now Only two IPO stocks from 2021 have gained since listing We also look at the best and worst performing ASX stocks over the past month   There were 191 ASX IPOs in...

1st Group’s (1ST) Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Klaus Bartosch, resigns after co-founding the business a decade agoMr Bartosch says the decision to move on was difficult, but the right time for him personallyChief Revenue O...

In times of great uncertainty the Australian healthcare sector can offer investors plenty of choice, with varying degrees of risk and opportunities. -Australia’s healthcare sector has seen record government investment-Global pandemic has ac...

The healthcare sector is Australia’s biggest employer, employing 1 in 7 Aussies or roughly two million people. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced last night that Australia’s health budget will top $132bn in 2022-23, up from $62bn a decade...

Welcome to the Deal Room Week in Review. Firebrick Pharma (ASX:FRE) recorded the most successful ASX listing so far this year, instantly rewarding IPO shareholders as it opened last Friday with 195 per cent gains. The company’s share...

The ASX200 has vacillated all of Monday in a whiny, unattractive way for a major global index. Like a Kardashian (name one) unable to get out of bed, the heavyweight financial names and the major miners are just dragging everyone lower, dow...

Well, that was brutal. After two days of steady falls, local markets executed a proper face-plant on Tuesday as the microcap Emerging Markets index slumped by 5.14%. For some recent history, you’d have to go back to the heady days of March...

Digital health company 1st Group (1ST) was up as much as 25 per cent on the market today after announcing it would be acquiring Visionflex Established in 2014, Visionflex designs, manufactures and distributes a range of clinical telehealth...

Highlights Small cap stocks are in a free-fall mode and the ASX Small Ordinaries index has continued its losing streak for a fifth consecutive day. 1ST, RNO and BLU are some of the ASX penny stocks, showing strength in this bearish mar...

Medicinal cannabis stock Cann Group (ASX:CAN) has scored a regulatory milestone, after being granted a GMP licence to manufacture CBD therapeutic goods in its Southern facility in Victoria. The GMP (or Good Manufacturing Practice) license w...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.30am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

The ASX posted steady gains to start the week on Monday, with investors preferences leaning towards tech/consumer stocks and gold (unusual bedfellows) at the expense of the big banks and iron ore majors. Companies that specialise in the pre...

1st Group (1ST) signs a new deal with major private hospital group in Australia, St John of God Health Care The first phase of the contract introduces the MyHealth1st specialist solution initially to specialists at two St John of God hospi...

Leading the health stocks today is Genetic Technologies (ASX:GTG) which rose 14.28% after announcing a material increase in cash receipts for the September quarter to $850,000 from $68,000 in the June quarter. The company says the increase...

ASX Capital Raise Roundup is a fortnightly look at ASX capital raisings. Investors were taken by surprise, in particular, with Thursday’s selloff. There were a number of explanations, but the biggest reasons resonating with us are seasonali...

After falling as much as 0.5% in the morning trade the ASX ultimately closed higher than yesterday. The ASX 200 closed at 7,530 points – 0.02% higher than yesterday – while the ASX Emerging Companies Index closed 0.55% higher at 2,474. Reso...

The ASX 200 rose 0.07%, closing at 7,529 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index climbed 1.21% to close at 2,461. Energy lost 1.68% and resources lost 1.09% but most other sectors gained with the best being tech which rose 1.15%.   TO...

It’s been a mixed two weeks for small-cap health companies, with 60 companies gaining ground and 52 losing it – and 21 flatlining. Botanix Pharma Ltd (ASX:BOT) was the biggest gainer, up 38% from 23 June to 7 July, and Suda Pharmaceuticals...

Last year's pandemic put the focus firmly on telehealth services providers, but share prices have deflated since as investors started asking questions, and on the general realisation telehealth has its limits too. -Covid-19 triggered a rush...

Summary Emyria has received firm commitments in a well-supported placement to raise AU$5 million. The Company will use these funds to advance drug development and develop its product pipeline. The proceeds would also support the initi...

If you want to know which ASX stocks fund managers and famous investors are putting their money into we’ve been keeping track of substantial holder buys (and sells). Trading Places is Stockhead’s recap of the substantial holder movements am...

The ASX was in the red today losing 0.9 per cent. Tech and telecommunications were the only sectors in the green while materials and energy were the greatest laggards losing 1.57 per cent and 1.31 per cent respectively. The ASX 200 closed a...

Today the ASX was down a 0.3% and only materials (resources) and industrials were in positive territory. These two sectors rose by 1.3 per cent and 0.33 per cent respectively. But the ASX 200 fell 0.36 per cent to 6,800 while the ASX Emergi...

Source:SFIO CRACHO, Shutterstock The Australian benchmark equity index ASX 200 opened higher today, up 13.60 points or 0.20% to 6837.80, supported by a positive wall street close as the stocks rallied on hopes of strong economic recovery. ...

The Openpay Group Ltd (ASX: OPY) share price will be on watch today after announcing that it was expanding into the hospitals sector. What’s Openpay doing? Openpay has announced that it is the first buy now, pay later (BNPL) business to ent...

Australia has one of the highest rates of household pet ownership in the world. The RSPCA estimates 61 per cent of Australian households own pets and all up there are over 29 million pets across the country. The most common domesticated an...

Future prospects of the health booking platform – 1st Group – with some new opportunities on the horizon By Tim Boreham How a founder’s ASX-listed healthcare platform saved his own life Health platform founder Klaus Bartosch offers an unusu...

The Unicorns Podcast connects you to some of the best and brightest founders, CEOs, executives, business owners, VCs and inspiring ... Read More The post Unicorns Podcast: ‘The health tech revolution is upon us,’ says 1st Group’s Klaus Bart...

Here’s the kind of late Friday afternoon announcement anyone who’s left paying attention loves to still be in the office for: “1st Group Limited (ASX:1ST) is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic commercial partnership with Af...

Special Report: 1ST Group managing director Klaus Bartosch speaks to Stockhead about the seismic shifts that are creating vast growth opportunities in Australia’s healthcare sector and why the business is now excellently placed to deliver v...

Mental health stocks set to benefit from increased mental health awareness This week’s budget included measures to help patients and the sector Cogstate (ASX:CGS) is 2020’s biggest winner so far up over 50 per cent As the world becomes i...

ASX telehealth stocks have had a solid six months, gaining 25 per cent, but there are warnings more has to be done to maintain the run. The breakout of COVID-19 resulted in wide-spread adoption of telehealth as medical professionals were fo...

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment solution provider Openpay (ASX: OPY) is the latest company to update the market with full-year financial results, reporting “record growth and strong momentum” in all key metrics and declaring its strong run...

Telehealth use has only continued to increase as COVID-19 wore on throughout May and June. Both listed and non-listed plays such as healthcare booking service HealthEngine saw demand rise exponentially as the pandemic broke out and this has...

At the time of writing, the Openpay Group Ltd (ASX: OPY) share price is up 16% to $3.77 after the company released an announcement advising it has formed a partnership with MSL Solutions Ltd (ASX: MSL). What was in the announcement? Accord...

The Openpay Group Ltd (ASX: OPY) share price is charging higher today on news it has inked a deal with a new strategic partner.  Openpay is a small-cap buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider that has more than 319,000 active customers and 2,162...

COVID-19 has resulted in radical shifts in the health sector such as the adoption of tele-health, but the pandemic hasn’t been without financial impact. With the deadline for lodging 4C reports looming next Friday the first results trickled...

Buy now, pay later is expanding beyond retail into other sectors to help consumers pay things like medical bills and school fees. Earlier this month, BNPL mover and shaker Openpay (ASX:OPY) was signed on by telehealth stock 1st Group (ASX:1...

Healthcare and life sciences expert Scott Power, who has been a senior analyst with Morgans Financial for 24 years, explains what the movers and shakers have been doing in health and gives his ASX powerplays.   Themes of the week The market...

A quick wrap of the ASX’s key winners and losers on Thursday, July 16. Data is taken after the market closes at 4pm EST. Stocks highlighted in yellow made potentially market-moving announcements during the day. Today 604 stocks rose, 684 de...

A quick wrap of the ASX’s key winners and losers on Wednesday, July 15. Data is taken after the market closes at 4pm EST. Stocks highlighted in yellow made potentially market-moving announcements during the day. Today 987 stocks rose, 400 d...