Anyone buying banks yet?

[UMike]

If Westpac go under $20 I am buying again.
Not 'cause it is sound advice but I sense the BS meter is On the Oversold Dial.

Also looking at JDO as a Falling Knife scenario. Put a buy order in already at $1.095. Had enough of these under valued environments. Still can't get a builder to make my garage. Money is being spent like there is no tomorrow.

 

[peter2]

If Westpac go under $20

Shouldn't be long for this to happen.

JDO: I looked at it recently for a possible reversal setup. Business lender with no home loans - should be a goer. It seems the market doesn't like it as price is drifting lower. JDO like the rest of the ASX isn't ready to be bought yet (for me).

 

[frugal.rock]

Looking at BEN.
Sitting near a 52 week low. ?
Has gone ex dividend recently.
Looking like a decent lower entry price setup for a longer term compounding style investment, imo.

 

[KevinBB]

Looking at BEN.
Sitting near a 52 week low. ?
Has gone ex dividend recently.
Looking like a decent lower entry price setup for a longer term compounding style investment, imo.

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unless, of course, it breaks through that lower support level, and heads towards $6

KH

 

[frugal.rock]

Looking at BEN.
Sitting near a 52 week low. ?
Has gone ex dividend recently.
Looking like a decent lower entry price setup for a longer term compounding style investment, imo.

unless, of course, it breaks through that lower support level, and heads towards $6

KH

I can't see it doing that.
Yesty was a good day for banks in general, not so great for BEN, but it was positive.
It is bouncing off a 52 week low after going ex dividend, so it won't happen overnight, although is up 1% as I write...

 

[InsvestoBoy]

*me right now*

Is a steeper yield curve good news for banks? A challenge to the conventional wisdom

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[KevinBB]

*me right now*

Yes, me in small quantities, too. On Wednesday I replaced some IOZ with ANZ, a straight swap. I'll do the same with NAB early next week.

My reason is a little different: its dividend time ... just a little more than 45 days before ANZ and NAB go ex div.

KH

 

[InsvestoBoy]

Yes, me in small quantities, too. On Wednesday I replaced some IOZ with ANZ, a straight swap. I'll do the same with NAB early next week.

My reason is a little different: its dividend time ... just a little more than 45 days before ANZ and NAB go ex div.

KH

oops, sorry, I didn't mean to imply I am buying banks now, was just trying to depict my current thoughts "right now"

 

[peter2]

I am. Bought 1/4 position in MQG today. Will buy another parcel further down and will then wait for rising prices to add final 1/2.

I'm waiting to start a similar tactic in CBA at $90. BHP at $35. WDS at $30. GEAR at $19. Plus a few others in current dip.
For conservative medium term (1-3yr) outlook portfolio. Aim is to earn more than term deposit rates (>4%pa).

 

[KevinBB]

oops, sorry, I didn't mean to imply I am buying banks now, was just trying to depict my current thoughts "right now"

Just like any business, it is always a good time to buy when margins are rising strongly. Fuel retail is another dog in the same kennel, or at least it was a couple of months ago.

KH

 

[divs4ever]

i probably should have bought extra KSL today ... but was busy trying to cherry-pick the REITs (

have an order in for extra BOQ , but didn't really get close there

i need more down for most of the banks ( i hold )

i should probably calculate a target price for extra VUK over the weekend , as well

 

[InsvestoBoy]

i should probably calculate a target price for extra VUK over the weekend , as well

you ever gonna tell us how you come up with those targets?

 

[divs4ever]

well first i use a little bit of greed ( it will NEVER come down to THAT price .. but sometimes i am delightfully wrong )

then a double-check the value using historical divs and then forecast divs ( neither are reliable guides , but this game is all about risk V. reward , no potential reward , i move on )

then go through the boring stuff P/E , and D/E , look to see if there is a chance of future earnings growth etc etc

with VUK i have to weigh up the chances the UK government will nationalize the bank ( the City of London despise Branson )

 

[UMike]

WBC up 8% this week. Anyone see that coming?

 

[UMike]

Even if we have an economic downturn I still don't think it will be a financial crisis.

Yet CBA leading a 6% odd sell of.

 

[dyna]

WBC up 8% this week. Anyone see that coming?

Perpetual is one Insto that's been saying for a while now, that WBC is their pick out of the big 4.

 

[mullokintyre]

Phil Lowe, perhaps in a bit of an attempt to deflect attention from the RBA's rather poor record on economic forecasting, has tipped a bucket on the OZ banks.
Fromthe Australian

Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says banks have been slow in passing on higher interest rates to savers, as the sector faces a new probe over why rates have not moved up as quickly for savers as mortgage holders.
While the big four banks vowed to co-operate fully with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry, which will report to government by December 1, Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Matt Comyn conceded there were “far fewer promotional or introductory rates” for deposit accounts than in the past.

Jim Chalmers said the ACCC inquiry would “shine a light on the dynamics of the retail deposit market”, noting Australian households held more than $1.3 trillion in savings and deposit accounts.
“Australians should see the benefit of higher interest rates flow through to their savings accounts – it should be the silver lining when rates increase,” the Treasurer said.

“It’s a fact that banks have been a lot slower to pass on the increases in interest rates to savers than to mortgagees.”

Dr Lowe told Senate estimates that increasing interest rates had an “immediate effect” of boosting banks’ profits, “particularly if they’re slow in raising deposit rates, which they have been”.

One might look at this from two perspectives.
Firstly, the banks become more attractive as they increase profits.
Hence they maintain their buying attraction.
on the other hand, with the Government now involved, they will need to be seen to "doing something".
maybe a little bit of pushing by JIm, or mild threats about penalties etc.
Putting banks on a leash upsets a very small contingent of the great unwashed, so its seen as politically safe.
The latter scenario may take some of the gloss of bank share buying.
Mick

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Perpetual is one Insto that's been saying for a while now, that WBC is their pick out of the big 4.

@dyna I am convinced that when the media approach outfits like Perpetual or Challenger for an opinion on which of the four banks is the pick of the four they do the following.

Bring out four cards face down with the names of the big 4 on them and get the cleaning lady to pick a card.

If WBC is the blinded card that the cleaning lady picks they then tell the media that WBC is the one to go for.

They then set an algorithm titled WBC Sue-Lin's Pick which spews out a lot of nonsense figures to justify their pick.

Same if they are asked the following week, only algorithm might be called CBA Sue-Lin's Pick.

gg

 

[mullokintyre]

@dyna I am convinced that when the media approach outfits like Perpetual or Challenger for an opinion on which of the four banks is the pick of the four they do the following.

Bring out four cards face down with the names of the big 4 on them and get the cleaning lady to pick a card.

If WBC is the blinded card that the cleaning lady picks they then tell the media that WBC is the one to go for.

They then set an algorithm titled WBC Sue-Lin's Pick which spews out a lot of nonsense figures to justify their pick.

I think they talk to ChatGPT.
Mick

 

[UMike]

Both ANZ and NAB are below my buy the dip target.
Letting the wife decide which one since it'll be her acc.

Still a watch and see before any plunge is taken.