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Globally, it’s been a pretty good year so far for tech stocks. The likes of Apple and Microsoft have been soaring… and Nvidia has ridden the AI boom to become a trillion-dollar company.

But what’s it all mean for the local tech sector?

Elise Kennedy, Head of Technology Research and Director of Equity Research at Jarden, talks to Sean about tech stocks including Seek, REA, Domain, Carsales, Xero, Zip Co, Sezzle, WiseTech Global, Altium, and Siteminder.

This is general information only, and you should speak to a professional advisor before making investment decisions.

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Sean Aylmer: Welcome to the Fear and Greed daily interview. I’m Sean Aylmer. Globally,

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Sean Aylmer: it’s been a pretty good year so far for the

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Sean Aylmer: tech stocks. The likes of Apple and Microsoft have done

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Sean Aylmer: really well. While Nvidia has ridden the AI boom to

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Sean Aylmer: become a trillion- dollar company. But what’s it all mean for

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Sean Aylmer: the local tech sector? Remember, this is general information only

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Sean Aylmer: and you should speak to a professional advisor before making

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Sean Aylmer: investment decisions. Elise Kennedy is Head of Technology Research and

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Sean Aylmer: Director of Equity Research at Jarden. Elise, welcome back to

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Sean Aylmer: Fear and Greed.

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Elise Kennedy: Thanks for having me again.

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Sean Aylmer: Okay. What’s going on in the tech sector? I don’t

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Sean Aylmer: know that it’s totally rational at times, at least. We’ve

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Sean Aylmer: had quite the run this year, notwithstanding a few bumps

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Sean Aylmer: and bruises.

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Elise Kennedy: Absolutely. I think that the market volatility isn’t necessarily based

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Elise Kennedy: on fundamentals, but we rolled it down and now we’re

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Elise Kennedy: riding it up and who knows over the next couple

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Elise Kennedy: of months as we see rates around the world move

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Elise Kennedy: and inflation try to normalise. I think that’s where we

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Elise Kennedy: get ebbs and flows. But as I’ve said straight from

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Elise Kennedy: all the conversations we’ve had, finding those businesses in between

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Elise Kennedy: there that are going to continue to see and sustain growth.

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Elise Kennedy: There might be some ups and downs and better entry points,

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Elise Kennedy: but fundamentally those are the ones that are going to

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Elise Kennedy: turn out to be the better long- term holds.

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Sean Aylmer: I want to get to the Australian market in a

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Sean Aylmer: moment, but I just want to get your view on

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Sean Aylmer: a few companies. Nvidia being the obvious one, it makes

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Sean Aylmer: computer chips for artificial intelligence. I mean it’s kind of

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Sean Aylmer: high end computer chips. Is it a bubble or does

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Sean Aylmer: it actually have the fundamentals to be… I mean it’s up

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Sean Aylmer: going to 150% or something so far this year.

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Elise Kennedy: I think AI as thematic is a really important one.

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Elise Kennedy: It’s not new. We could’ve turned back a few months

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Elise Kennedy: or years ago and it was very early stage when

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Elise Kennedy: some of the bigger tech guys started to invest in

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Elise Kennedy: it started to pop up in all presentations. But yes,

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Elise Kennedy: there is an element of exuberance that exists within that,

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Elise Kennedy: in any type cycle. Something that I referred a few

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Elise Kennedy: clients to recently was the Gartner Hype Cycle. So if

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Elise Kennedy: you go and look that up, you’ll see there’s this

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Elise Kennedy: irrational exuberance that comes through into the market and everyone

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Elise Kennedy: gets excited. It then drops down, normalizes. It’s still higher

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Elise Kennedy: than where it was before it starts to take more

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Elise Kennedy: of a normalized turn. So I’d be inclined to think

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Elise Kennedy: that that may be what we’re seeing at this point

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Elise Kennedy: in time. So definitely relevant. But yeah, it’s had a

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Elise Kennedy: bit of a good run, hasn’t it?

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Sean Aylmer: It sure has. How does Wall Street stocks like Nvidia,

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Sean Aylmer: but you can add Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, Alphabet into the that

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Sean Aylmer: as well. How important are they to what happens in

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Elise Kennedy: I think that overall they have a sway in the

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Elise Kennedy: local market in terms of if that tech sector is

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Elise Kennedy: a rally, you tend to see a lot of our

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Elise Kennedy: global tech names take a lift in valuation. Is that

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Elise Kennedy: a justified rationale? It’s kind of how markets work. It’s

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Elise Kennedy: like if you see the NASDAQ rally your electronic trading

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Elise Kennedy: and you’re some of those other more less fundamental orientated guys

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Elise Kennedy: will start buying other indices globally and that will drive

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Elise Kennedy: it higher. So I think that comes into play to

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Elise Kennedy: some element, but then also they’ll impact some of the

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Elise Kennedy: guys in the domestic market because some guys might be

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Elise Kennedy: leveraged to that, might be utilising their technology. So there’s

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Elise Kennedy: a few ways that it does flow through.

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Sean Aylmer: Okay. So let’s talk about some of the local companies.

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Sean Aylmer: We have to start with WiseTech Global has been a

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Sean Aylmer: great performer this year up more than 50% notwithstanding a

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Sean Aylmer: sit? Why is that one doing so well and where

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Sean Aylmer: do you think it’s going?

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Elise Kennedy: Yeah, look, the valuation is always a challenge on this name.

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Elise Kennedy: Right now it’s trading on a multiple that is so

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Elise Kennedy: ridiculously high versus some of its peers. An EBITDA of 72.

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Elise Kennedy: Even Xero, which everyone else says is expensive at 60

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Elise Kennedy: times versus some of its peers will be around 30.

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Sean Aylmer: And so I’m just going to jump in. So just explain that.

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Sean Aylmer: So when you’re talking about trading on a multiple, it’s

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Sean Aylmer: actually a multiple of earnings.

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Elise Kennedy: That’s right. A multiple of earnings. So that’s just saying

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Elise Kennedy: what are you paying for today in 12 months time?

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Elise Kennedy: Because if the stock is going to be growing exceptionally

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Elise Kennedy: high, you can justify and grow into that, but it’s

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Elise Kennedy: a matter of you’re putting what it’s value is over

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Elise Kennedy: its earnings.

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Sean Aylmer: And then to give some context around that. So you’re

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Sean Aylmer: like 12 to 15 times this I guess?

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Elise Kennedy: That’s exactly right. A bank or anything that pays more

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Elise Kennedy: of a earnings based number, which to me I think

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Elise Kennedy: is an increasingly important factor for investors as cash isn’t

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Elise Kennedy: coming free anymore in this environment.

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Sean Aylmer: Okay, so 72 times. Very expensive to get into WiseTech.

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Elise Kennedy: Yeah, that’s right. So it has had a very expensive

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Elise Kennedy: volumes are falling, there’s risks to margins. You may look

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Elise Kennedy: back at some of the acquisitions that they did back

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Elise Kennedy: in FY19 and N20. They impacted margins and saw them fall

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Elise Kennedy: by 550 basis points. But whereas you look at where

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Elise Kennedy: consensus in the market kind of has those forecasts for

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Elise Kennedy: WiseTech’s margins and they’ve got no impact from the acquisitions

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Elise Kennedy: that they made. And those two acquisitions were the biggest

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Elise Kennedy: that they’ve ever done. Much bigger than those back in

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Elise Kennedy: 19 and 20. So I think there’s some cause of concern long

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Elise Kennedy: term. Sure this is a great stock, generates a lot

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Elise Kennedy: but I think it’s become increasingly pricey.

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Sean Aylmer: Okay. Xero, you mentioned as well, you said 60 times.

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Sean Aylmer: I didn’t realise that was as expensive as that is.

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Elise Kennedy: Look, it is more expensive, but I’m probably more positive on that name.

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Elise Kennedy: We just recently published a report around looking at what

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Elise Kennedy: they can do compared to some of their peers on margins.

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Elise Kennedy: We compared it to MYOB, which is a name that comes

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Elise Kennedy: achieve EBITDA margins or free cashflow margins of around 40%.

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Elise Kennedy: And Xero right now is doing 3% free cashflow margins.

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Elise Kennedy: So that just to me is our floor as to where

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Elise Kennedy: the potential long- term earnings growth of the business can

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Elise Kennedy: doing desktop, they were doing enterprise, different segments that require

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Elise Kennedy: additional investment that I wouldn’t be inclined to think that that would

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Elise Kennedy: be able to get higher for Xero who’s a 100%

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Elise Kennedy: pure play SaaS (Software as a Service). And the new incoming CEO is really

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Elise Kennedy: to me, whilst it looks expensive on that 12 month

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Elise Kennedy: basis as I mentioned, I think it’s more likely to

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Elise Kennedy: grow into its earnings and have a few of those

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Elise Kennedy: trigger points to be able to get to a better

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Elise Kennedy: valuation to bring down that or increased earnings that it’ll

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Elise Kennedy: bring down that multiple that I mentioned.

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Sean Aylmer: Stay with me Elise, we’ll be back in a minute.

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Sean Aylmer: My guest today is Elise Kennedy, Head of Technology Research

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Sean Aylmer: and Director of Equity Research at Jarden. Okay. What about the

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Sean Aylmer: online property groups? REA and Domain being the main two.

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Sean Aylmer: We are seeing the property market turning or in some

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Sean Aylmer: cities it has turned definitely. What’s the outlook for those guys?

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Elise Kennedy: You are right. Look, house prices have held up relatively well,

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Elise Kennedy: but listings, volumes is still at record level. But these

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Elise Kennedy: share prices for Domain and REA have already largely priced

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Elise Kennedy: in a lot of that potential uplift in listings volumes.

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Elise Kennedy: Now we also did research lately and looking at just

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Elise Kennedy: warehouse prices have grown and you know, what is REA

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Elise Kennedy: putting through in terms of the price increases for them?

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Elise Kennedy: Because they put through double- digit price increases for the listings.

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Elise Kennedy: So that impacts you and I. When we go to

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Elise Kennedy: to be marketing spend for this campaign?” They’re going to

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Elise Kennedy: say it’s X. They’re put through a minimum of 10% increase,

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Elise Kennedy: sometimes up to double- digit, high double- digit growth on that.

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Elise Kennedy: Whereas if house prices are growing 5%, it’s grown that

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Elise Kennedy: a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) a basis and then REA’s is going to try

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Elise Kennedy: a percentage, it’s going to be $ 5, 000 more in

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Elise Kennedy: be able to take a cut of their commission, which

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Elise Kennedy: I think is going to create conflict. I just think it’s

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Elise Kennedy: going to be a harder slog given how high expectations

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Elise Kennedy: are for these two names at the moment.

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Sean Aylmer: Okay. I also wanted just ask you about the Buy

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Sean Aylmer: Now Pay Later sector because it was an incredible sector

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Sean Aylmer: for a few years. Obviously Afterpay led the way there.

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Sean Aylmer: That’s now been sold to Block. We still have companies

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Sean Aylmer: like ZIP and Sezzle listed on the ASX, but with

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Sean Aylmer: regulation coming, are they companies that we should be thinking about?

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Elise Kennedy: I think they’re really challenged, even though valuation is where

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Elise Kennedy: it is, we find it hard to be able to

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Elise Kennedy: push either of the names. I think they’re doing great

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Elise Kennedy: as with what they have. Management pulling as many leave as they

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Elise Kennedy: can on the cost out, but you’ve got risk on

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Elise Kennedy: the credit side. Sezzle’s just did a recent print that

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Elise Kennedy: showed still very good cost out and delivering on target

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Elise Kennedy: there, but those credit numbers over in the US started

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Elise Kennedy: economic backdrop, even from here, it’s just ones that are harder

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Elise Kennedy: for me to go and put my hand on the

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Elise Kennedy: table and say, ” Yep, let’s go get these ones,” versus

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Elise Kennedy: some of the others that have some fundamentals backing them.

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Sean Aylmer: And then I have to just quickly ask about SEEK and car

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Sean Aylmer: sales. We’re running out of time, but again, sort of

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Sean Aylmer: Domain, SEEK and car sales. What are their prospects?

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Elise Kennedy: Yeah, look, I think car sales is going to have

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Elise Kennedy: an upgrade into the result. Just the used car market

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Elise Kennedy: and the new car market is holding up well in

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Elise Kennedy: Australia, that’s benefiting them. SEEK, I am surprised at the

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Elise Kennedy: jobs market how well that has held up. We are still

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Elise Kennedy: seeing vacancies relatively lower. We still get to see the

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Elise Kennedy: impact of migration, but I think that everyone’s thinking, ” This

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Elise Kennedy: is the last upgrade, this is the last upgrade.” So

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Elise Kennedy: it’s probably not getting as much of the benefit and

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Elise Kennedy: versus aren’t going to buy that as much as they

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Elise Kennedy: are going to for car sales.

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Sean Aylmer: sales, they’re very traditional companies. I mean they’re tech companies,

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Sean Aylmer: but they’re based on very traditional industries and cyclical industries.

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Sean Aylmer: Whereas things like, I mean WiseTech Global I suppose is the example,

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Sean Aylmer: much more innovative or something or other. Is it fair

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Sean Aylmer: to say that? Therefore it trades much higher?

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Elise Kennedy: Absolutely. I have to agree. And that’s where technology, because we’re still so early

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Elise Kennedy: a phase in most of the adoption curves, that’s where

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Elise Kennedy: the valuation is for us justified to be higher on

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Elise Kennedy: those multiples, which we discussed earlier versus some others that,

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Elise Kennedy: you compared it to a bank that really doesn’t have

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Elise Kennedy: as much growth or as much lead as is leveraged

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Elise Kennedy: to other macroeconomic forces. Versus, hey, we actually need to

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Elise Kennedy: drive adoption of say, Xero’s accounting software or logistics software

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Elise Kennedy: when it comes to WiseTech. And that to me is

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Elise Kennedy: really why there’s a bit of volatility when it comes

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Elise Kennedy: to markets in the short term, but longer term, if

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Elise Kennedy: you believe in the technology which they’re bringing in, the

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Elise Kennedy: economic mold and the competitive landscape which they’ve created, these

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Elise Kennedy: companies will generate more dollars in the future versus the

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Elise Kennedy: others that might go up and down.

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Sean Aylmer: Elise, thank you for talking to Fear and Greed.

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Elise Kennedy: Thank you as always for having me.

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Sean Aylmer: That was Elise Kennedy, head of technology research and director

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