Insights into ASX Stocks
Xero Limited (ASX: XRO): From Accounting Software to Global Small Business Operating System
Xero is transitioning from a high-growth SaaS accounting platform into a global small business operating system with improving earnings quality and rising operating leverage. FY26 interim results show resilient revenue growth, margin expansion from cost discipline, and deeper monetisation across payments, payroll and financial services. We believe the market still applies an outdated growth-at-any-cost lens, underestimating Xero’s emerging cash generation and embedded optionality.
Transurban Group (ASX: TCL)- Infrastructure Quality at Scale: Cash Flow Compounding Through Cycles
Transurban is a high-quality global infrastructure franchise with long-duration, inflation-protected cash flows, strong pricing power and irreplaceable assets. The market remains overly focused on macro headwinds, overlooking the durability of its concessions, recovering mobility and improving cash-flow conversion. As operational risk declines and cost pressures fade, Transurban is well positioned to deliver asymmetric upside through FY26–FY28 via compounding distributions and operating leverage.
Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1), Re-Establishing Structural Growth Leverage
Megaport has evolved from a cash-intensive growth story into a more disciplined, cash-generative digital infrastructure business, with FY25 marking a clear structural turning point as costs reset, churn stabilised and balance-sheet risk reduced. While the market still views the company through outdated perceptions, we see improved unit economics, renewed credibility and emerging operating leverage, positioning Megaport for growing free cash flow and ongoing relevance in an increasingly hybrid, multi-cloud world.
Zinc prices are quietly rising - which ASX stocks can benefit the most?
Zinc prices are edging higher as physical markets tighten, supported by steady demand from steel, infrastructure and renewable energy projects alongside shrinking exchange inventories, particularly on the LME. With supply growth limited and visibility low, declining stocks are increasing concerns around future availability, which can underpin higher prices. For ASX investors, this environment favours zinc-exposed producers, developers and explorers, as well as diversified miners with meaningful base-metal exposure, all of which stand to benefit from improving project economics and margins as zinc’s outlook strengthens.
Telstra Group (ASX: TLS) - A Defensive Cash Compounder with Embedded Digital Optionality
We view Telstra as a highly resilient, structurally advantaged cash-generating business within the Australian equity market, offering strong earnings quality and downside protection despite limited headline growth. Its focus on network leadership, disciplined capital management and monetisation of digital and infrastructure assets supports stable free cash flow and reliable capital returns, particularly in a softer macro environment. We believe the market continues to undervalue Telstra’s leverage to long-term data demand, the durability of its mobile economics, and the embedded optionality in InfraCo and enterprise digital services.
These ASX stocks have recently had major share price breakouts
When a share price breaks out after a long period of consolidation, it often signals a meaningful shift in market sentiment, marked by rising volume, improving momentum and former resistance turning into support. In recent weeks, several ASX stocks have shown these clean, technically supported breakouts, suggesting these are not short-lived spikes but structured moves that technical analysts closely watch as potential early signs of a new trend.