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OneSteel Limited (OST) is a steel manufacturing and distribution company that is engaged in the mining, manufacturing and distribution of metal and steel products. Its main product line includes rail tracks, structural, rods, cold finished bars, merchant bars, reinforcing steel, chrome plated bars, tube, wires, fittings, valves and pipes. OST was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on the 23rd of October 2000. Its average annual revenue reaches approximately $4 billion out of its issued capital of $1 billion.
OneSteel (OST) has an Outperform recommendation and a suggested upside of over 10% in the stock from Australian stock analyst Macquarie Research Equities.
OneSteel (OST) : Demand for Steel - Demand for OneSteel
One Steel (OST) has a Neutral stock recommendation and a $7.00 price target per share from Australian stock analyst Macquarie Research Equities.
One Steel (OST): A Short Term Steel
One Steel (OST) - Neutral
Current Price: $6.48
Target Price: $7.00 (~8% Upside)
P/E: 16.9 X
Div Yield: 3.2% (100% Franked)One Steel (OST) Technical Analysis
OST is looking good for a short term trade in our view after a strong performance from the steel names in the US overnight, with Nucor adding 3.24%.
Queensland Gas QGC was the overall best performing Australian company taking in a 34.5 percent increase in its share price this week. For the past week (week 6 for 2008) on the Australian sharemarket, among the best performing stocks were a mixture of metal & mineral, telecommunication & media, steel and coal seam gas companies: Fortescue (FMG), Telstra (TCS), OneSteel (OST), Queensland Gas (QGC), Arrow Energy (AOE). These best performing stocks for week 3 recorded between 5.3 percent to 34.5 percent for their gain by the end of the trading week.
Australian investors can gain exposure to the steel sector in a number of ways, but a more direct play would be to invest in stocks whose earnings are leveraged to the steel cycle. Australian sharemarket analyst, Macquarie Research Equities (MRE), have provided a steel sector update with the three stocks that stand out. The three outstanding steel sector stocks are OneSteel (OST), Bluescope Steel (BSL) and Sims Group (SGM). The analyst remains bullish on the outlook for the steel sector, and have "Outperform" recommendations on two of three aforementioned stocks.
Monadelphous Group (MND) was the overall worst performing stock taking in 18.07 percent decrease. Among the worst performing stocks for the week 32 of 2007 of the Australian sharemarket were a mixture of engineering & infrastructure, steel and mining: Downer EDI (DOW), OneSteel (OST), Zinifex (ZFX), Monadelphous (MND), Energy Resource Australian (ERA), Perilya (PEM). These worst performing stocks for week 32 recorded losses above 10.4 percent by the end of the trading week. Mining companies were dominating both the ASX 100 index and the ASX 200 index in the worst performing stocks list.
OneSteel (OST) has a reiterated Outperform recommendation and a 12 month share price target of $7.20 from Australian stockmarket analyst Macquarie Research Equities. They believe OneSteel (OST) remains a "solid story", with the iron ore business offering further potential and upside risk to current pricing assumptions. The key message is that the analysts' commodities team is more bullish on the bulk commodities market and the steel market. Demand in the Asian region and China in particular continues to fuel further pricing growth. The big changes for the analysts relate to the coking coal price and the iron ore price. Both have increased and this has both positive and negative impacts for OneSteel. OST sells iron ore into the Chinese market place so the increase is positive but it is also a large consumer of coking coal in the Whyalla blast furnace. Steel price increases also have a negative impact. The net result of these changes is fairly neutral for earnings but positive for longer-term valuations. OneSteel (OST)
There are three big steel companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange: Bluescope Steel (BSL), Smorgon Steel (SSX) and OneSteel (OST). Recent global steel production data shows continued strength in the steel market place, with prices also remaining strong.
An update about Australian steel stocks by analyst Citigroup Investment Research (CIR): The analyst's medium-term steel view falters; in contrast to expectations based on their macro driven view of the steel industry, Asian steel prices are up 5%-30% since the start of 2007. The analyst now focuses on near-term indicators of steel prices and increase their earnings forecasts for the volatile steel stocks in their coverage universe by up to 27% and upgrade their recommendation on BlueScope (BSL) to Hold.
If you wish to use these broker recommendations for trading shares listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, it is highly recommended that you back up your analysis using fundamental or technical analysis or a combination of both before investing in any company.
UBS has a Neutral 2 recommendation for National Australia Bank (NAB) with a target of $35 per share.
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