Sharesight20 top 20 trades on ASX & NZX - April 2019

Welcome to the April 2019 edition of the Sharesight20 monthly trading snapshot (click here for March 2019’s Sharesight20), where we look at the top 20 trades on both the ASX and NZX markets among the Sharesight userbase during the current month, and dig a little deeper into the news behind these movements.

Let’s dive into April’s top trades.

Sharesight20 top 20 ASX trades April 2019

Strong interest from the Sharesight userbase in buy now, pay later fintech, Afterpay Touch (ASX: APT) saw it surge past March’s Sharesight20 most traded share (and fellow buy now, pay later startup), Splitit (ASX: SPT) - which fell out of the snapshot entirely. Some of the highlights in April’s top 20 trades on the ASX include:

Afterpay Touch (ASX: APT)

• APT shares hit a new all time high on April 11 of $25.48

• Livewire analysis of Afterpay Touch vs Zip Co

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Appen Ltd (ASX: APX)

• Appen shares were hit hard in early April, falling 5%

• But bounced back 5% later in the month

Zip Co Ltd (ASX: Z1P)

• Announced it had made an unaudited $23 million in revenue for the three months to March 31 - up 20% on the previous quarter

• Launched new partners Chemist Warehouse, General Pants and Lorna Jane during the quarter

• Z1P shares moved 6% higher on the quarterly results

Nearmap (ASX: NEA)

• Boasts expansion into Canada is "well underway"

• Morgan Stanley set a $4.20 share price target on NEA

• Nearmap’s share price has doubled in 2019

Sharesight20 top 20 NZX trades April 2019

Some of the April highlights in the NZX top 20 for April include:

Restaurant Brands New Zealand Limited (NZX: RBD)

• 75% of RBD shares were purchased in a partial takeover by Finaccess Capital

• Shares hit an all time high of $9.30 just prior to announcing annual results

• Kiwis' spent $336 million on KFC last year boosting RBD profits

• RBD net profit increased 0.8% to $35.7m

• Announced they would be withholding a final dividend payment in order to open 60 Taco Bell outlets across Australia and New Zealand

Genesis Energy Limited (NZX: GEL)

• Shares spiked 3.3% in early April

Spark New Zealand Ltd (NZX: SPK)

• SPK shares fell almost 4% on the announcement

• Spark is optimistic that NZ regulators will allow Huawei 5G equipment after the UK relaxed restrictions

• Yet another ‘glitch’ with Spark Sports app interrupted Formula 1 streaming

The a2 Milk Company (NZX: A2M)

• Nine announced a2 Milk as an initial commercial partner for Lego Masters TV series

• Rival Bellamy’s received State Administration for Market Regulation approval in China

• Bellamy’s share price shot up 18% in 2 days on the news

• a2 is still ‘crushing’ the opposition in China

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