Articles On Beacon Lighting Group (ASX:BLX)

Strong demand for lighting products drove an excellent performance by Beacon Lighting (ASX:BLX) in 2Q22, allowing it to indicate today that its 1H22 earnings would be in line with the first half of last year, despite the effect of lockdowns...

Key points Beacon Lighting shares received a boost on Thursday The company’s first half update showed sales and earnings in line with those of the prior corresponding period An interim report is expected to be released on 17 February 2022...

In afternoon trade, the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is on course to record a small gain. At the time of writing, the benchmark index is up slightly to 7,339.1 points. Four ASX shares that are climbing more than most today are listed b...

Ben Rundle is a Portfolio Manager of the Hayborough Opportunities Fund and co-founder of Hayborough Investment Partners. He joins Raymond Jang on The Australian Investors Podcast to share his investing knowledge and lessons with our investi...

Ask A Fund Manager The Motley Fool chats with fund managers so that you can get an insight into how the professionals think. In this edition, Eley Griffiths portfolio manager Nick Guidera nominates the ASX share he would be fine to be stuc...

New additions this month include: Technology One (ASX:TNE), Namoi Cotton (ASX:NAM), HealthCo REIT (ASX:HCW) and People Infrastructure (ASX:PPE). Removals: Beacon Lighting (ASX:BLX), Graincorp (ASX:GNC) and KinaSecurities (ASX:KSL).

There aren’t too many ASX shares that can lay claim to a 10 bagger return in less than 2 years, and there are even fewer fund managers that can say they picked one. However, that’s exactly what Firetrail Investments fund manager, Eleanor S...

Over the next couple of days as the majority of ASX companies release their quarterlies, ASX ecommerce stocks will be one sector to watch because their financials will reflect the impacts of the Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra lockdowns. Man...

Tech made up the majority of top stocks today but taking first place was investment company HGL (ASX:HNG). HGL (ASX:HNG) HGL is an investment company that owns or has owned a wide variety of assets from hatmaker Mountcastle – which began in...

What better way to end the week than to set an all-time high. That is exactly what the Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price ended up doing today. At the end of Friday’s session, shares in the lighting retailer were 6.82% highe...

Leader of the tech pack today was smart home automation provider Zimi Limited (ASX:ZMM), up 15.38% after announcing it had delivered 30,000 Powermesh devices – representing sales in excess of $1.7 million – to GSM Electrical, Beacon Lightin...

Many ASX investors willing to take on more risk for greater returns turn to small-cap companies. And those punters have seen handsome rewards in the past 12 months, with the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries (ASX: XSO) gaining almost 30%. Yes,...

ASX shares on the smaller end of town can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword. Their size and growth ambitions can, at times, deliver explosive returns. On the flip side, many small caps are fraught with execution risk and often strug...

New additions this month include this month include Universal Store (ASX:UNI), Beacon Lighting (ASX:BLX), Hub24 (ASX:HUB), MoneyMe (ASX:MME), PTB Group (ASX:PTB) and Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN).

Today, Friday the 20th of August, we are happy to buy Treasury Wine Estate (ASX:TWE),Oz Minerals (ASX:OZL), Senex Energy Limited (ASX:SXY), Airtasker Limited (ASX:ART), Homeco Daily Needs (ASX:HDN), Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM), Origin Energy...

ShareCafeProfit Briefs: BLX, TRS Retailers continue to produce June 30 figures which still show the benefits of the support from federal and state governments, plus the low rates, guarantee of bank lending and bond buying from the Reserve B...

Recent IPOs, such as Nuix (ASX:NXL) and Peter Warren (ASX:PWR), have shown a company’s first trading update post-listing is critical and lighting company FOS Capital (ASX:FOS) appears to have passed. FOS Capital is one of the smaller compan...

An additional news report on the recommendation, valuation, forecast and opinion changes for ASX-listed equities. In addition to The Australian Broker Call Report, which is published and updated daily (Mon-Fri), FNArena has now added The Au...

The house prices in Australia continue to surge, rising 2.2% in May 2021. This seems to suggest a strong end to FY21 for ASX shares. How strong was the surge? CoreLogic revealed that national prices went up 2.2% across the country, though t...

20 May 21 - Beacon Lighting (ASX:BLX) predicts its profit earnings to hit between $35.5- $37.5 million nearly doubling the $20.4 million underlying NPAT from last year.

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price is powering ahead today after releasing a trading update. At the time of writing, the retailer’s shares have jumped 3.59% higher to $2.02. At one point, the company’s share price hit an...

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price is up more than 4% after telling investors it’s expecting strong profit growth in FY21. Beacon’s bright FY21 The lighting business said positive trading has continued into the second of t...

The ASX share market has recovered significantly over the past year from the pain of the coronavirus crash, also called COVID-19. Looking at the ASX 200 (ASX: XJO), it has gone up almost 50% since 23 March 2020. That’s a strong performance....

Yesterday we touched on the bright outlook for real estate over the next five years. We got another little clue that credit is going to expand for property market transactions this morning as well. What do we see? The Bank of Queensland has...

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price will be under the spotlight today after reporting a bright set of numbers. Beacon is Australia’s biggest lighting retail business that has been operating for over 50 years. It sells ligh...

22 Jan 2021 - Beacon Lighting Group (ASX:BLX) has set up a new subfund of its 50 per cent owned Beacon Commercial Property Fund.

One ASX retailer that has more or less gone under the radar this year is Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX). The Beacon Lighting share price finished more than 12% higher yesterday after the company released a better than expected trading...

ShareCafeLockdown Lights Up Beacon Sales To Record Levels Another surge in the shares of Beacon Lighting as the pandemic-driven boom in home renovations and building will see the record end the first half of 2020-21 with record sales and ea...

Summary Beacon Lighting has reported strong sales for 26 weeks ended 27 December 2020. The group sales would range from A$147 million to A$152 million. NPAT for the period would lie in between A$19.5 million to A$21.5 million. On...

The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) has followed the lead of US markets and is on course to record a strong gain on Wednesday. In late morning trade the benchmark index is up 1.2% to 6,710.5 points. Four shares that have climbed more than...

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price is one to watch this morning after the company provided a key announcement before the market open. What did Beacon Lighting announce today? Beacon provided updated sales and net profit a...

04 Dec 2020 - Beacon Lighting Group (ASX:BLX) has established a property fund and acquired its first property. The Beacon Commercial Property Fund has been established to own sever…

The prospect of a COVID‐19 vaccine is fuelling the market rally but it’s also set to create a new set of winners and losers in the ASX retail sector. We are already starting to see a rotation unfolding even as the S&P/ASX 200 Index (In...

Summary Beacon Lighting Group Limited delivered impressive results in Q1 FY2021 with a growth of 24.3% in group sales. The robust performance helped the Company’s shares closed ~12% higher on the ASX. Q1 FY2021 underlying NPAT, excludin...

In late morning trade the S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is on course to end the week with a small decline. At the time of writing the benchmark index is down 0.2% to 6,199.7 points. Four shares that have not let that hold them back are...

dd Mmm 2020 - Beacon Lighting Group’s (ASX:BLX) group sales have increased 24.3 per cent in the July to September 2020 quarter, compared to the same quarter in 2019. Online sales s…

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price is rocketing higher on Friday following the release of its first quarter update. At the time of writing the retailer’s shares are up a massive 22% to a two-year high of $1.73. How did Be...

Australian consumer confidence is on the rise again but it’s unlikely to prevent a third quarter of negative growth. The ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence Index rose nearly 5 per cent in the last week. Furthermore, all subindices notched u...

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price is falling lower this morning following release of the company’s FY20 results. At the time of writing, the Beacon Lighting share price has fallen 1.5% to $1.32 after closing yesterday’s...

For more evidence that discretionary retail is absolutely booming right now, particularly the furniture and homewares category, look no further than Nick Scali’s (ASX:NCK) strong FY20 result and near-term outlook. NCK’s result follows hot o...

Over the week, a clear picture has been emerging from the ASX small caps retail scene in light of Melbourne’s stage-four restrictions. Department store Myer (ASX:MYR) and lighting store Beacon Lighting (ASX:BLX) confirmed last night they wi...

Shoppers are engaging in retail therapy despite the spectre of even more serious job losses and mounting evidence the virus is far from vanquished. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, retail sales rose 2.4% to $29.7 billion fo...

The government announced this week that the jobkeeper program will be extended until 28 March 2021. Obviously this has potential ramifications for ASX shares. At the moment eligible employees and sole traders are getting $1,500 a fortnight...

The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) fell by 0.7% today to 6,011 points. COVID-19 continues to spread in the south east of the country. Victoria announced another 317 confirmed cases – the largest increase since the start of the pandemic....

The Beacon Lighting Group Ltd (ASX: BLX) share price surged more than 13% today before falling back to a more modest gain of 5.8% at the time of writing. The rise came following a positive trading update this morning in which the lighting...

16 Jul 2020 - Beacon Lighting Group (ASX:BLX) report underlying Net Profit After Tax rose to $19 million, a profit growth of around 16.7 per cent.

In this podcast, I discusses a positive trading update by Beacon Lighting (ASX: BLX), as the DIY and home improvement trend continues in Australia.

On Stockhead today, the silica sand demand storm is coming and Australia is preparing to face it head on, the highest leverage play in Australia’s hottest mining district and nickel in batteries to take ‘significant’ market share from 2023....

Beacon Lightning Group Ltd [ASX:BLX] is the latest business to defy the downturn. Showcasing their strong sales performance amidst a global pandemic. The news helped lift the BLX share price by 20% to $1.20 in trading today. Bringing it bac...

A quick wrap of the key winners and losers on Wednesday, June 17. Data is taken after the market closes at 4pm EST. Stocks highlighted in yellow made market-moving announcements during the day. Today on the ASX there were 764 winners, 500 l...