Life Healthcare nurses Covid-19 hangover

Life Healthcare’s trading for Q1 exceeded expectations, growing revenue by approximately 5% compared with the previous year.

Healthier U.S. growth buoys JSE

South African stocks rose on Tuesday riding an optimistic wave created by encouraging U.S. growth data that also lifted financial sector stocks such as Standard Bank.

How to achieve outperformance without taking on crazy risk

By Craig Martin Considering both the global and local economic landscape investors in the JSE would be forgiven for being somewhat cautious. The dilemma is that if the US economic recovery continues, and Europe continues to pump money into the markets, then equities might continue their run. Is it therefore possible to seek outperformance without … Read more

Life Healthcare – interim results, 115% increase in comprehensive income

From SENS Life Healthcare has released its interim results, and announced trading expectations of earning improvements of more than 20%  for its year end in September 2014. Life Healthcare has a market cap of R43.8bn and is trading nearly 1% down on the day (11h00). Highlights: Revenue increased by 10.2% to R6 211 million Operating … Read more