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Market Review - NASDAQ and ASX
NASDAQ Composite: 25,122.18 (Thu 7/30 close), +2.8% on the day, ending a six-day losing streak.
Week-to-date: approx +0.6% (+146 pts, estimate). Driver: Choppy week on AI-capex fears and a Fed pause, then a sharp Thursday rebound on strong Big Tech earnings - Microsoft's Azure beat drove a record +16% single-day gain (about $450B added).
S&P/ASX 200: ~8,992 (Fri close, approx.), near a 5-month high.
Week-to-date: approx +2.5% (~+218 pts). Driver: Late-week spillover from Wall Street's tech rally. Materials/mining was the most volatile sector - lithium and mining-services names rallied while BHP and gold miners were pressured by falling gold prices.
Notable Movers
Ticker
Market
Move
Note
MSFT
NASDAQ
+16% (1-day, record)
Azure +43% YoY; briefly added ~$450B market cap
AAPL
NASDAQ
+3.5%
Briefly touched $5T market cap
AMD
NASDAQ
-5%
Semiconductor weakness
WTC
ASX
+26% (week) / +6.67% (day)
WiseTech Global
LTR
ASX
-10.86%
Liontown Resources
WDS
ASX
+3.29%
Woodside Energy
Morningstar Cross-Reference Highlights
MSFT - rallied +16% this week; Morningstar independently raised its rating to 5 stars (from 4) after earnings. Fair value $600 vs ~$390 price - still significantly undervalued even after the rally.
WTC - up +26% this week, yet Morningstar's fair value of A$130 vs ~A$37.89 price implies the stock is still trading at roughly a 70% discount, following a fair-value cut tied to governance/succession concerns.
AAPL - up +3.5%; Morningstar's most recent published view (pre-earnings) rated it 2 stars / moderately overvalued. No post-earnings update found - may be stale.
Data quality note: Morningstar's live pages returned HTTP 403 (paywall/bot-blocking) to direct fetch. All figures reconstructed from public search snippets, cross-checked where possible - flagged explicitly wherever confidence was low (LTR: no coverage found; MIN/BHP: conflicting fair-value figures, reported as unresolved).
Watchlist - Mid-Term (1-3 years)
Criteria: Morningstar 4-5 star (undervalued) AND Uncertainty Low/Medium AND at least Narrow moat
Ticker
Rating
Fair value vs price
Notes
MSFT
5 star - Uncertainty Medium - Wide moat
FV $600 vs verified price $456.92 (~24% below FV)
Star rating raised 4 to 5 after Q4 FY26 earnings (Azure +43% YoY)
Watchlist - Long-Term (3+ years)
Criteria: Morningstar Wide economic moat rating
Ticker
Moat
Notes
MSFT
Wide
Also qualifies for Mid-Term (see above)
TER (Teradyne)
Wide
No confirmed current star rating; price unresolved (spread across sources) - qualifies on moat alone
WTC (WiseTech Global)
Wide (upgraded ~July 2026)
Star rating not currently confirmed; moat upgrade sourced to Morningstar only
AAPL
Wide
2 star rating (fails Mid-Term valuation bar); may be stale post-earnings
Watchlist - Dividends
Criteria: TTM yield above 2% AND consistent/growing payout history
Ticker
Yield
Payout history
Notes
WDS (Woodside Energy)
~5.2-5.7%
Consistent, no suspension - 5yr growth +24%, 3yr -12%
Cyclical energy payer - trending down from 2022 peak
BHP (BHP Group)
~3.2-3.3%
Consistent, no suspension - 5yr growth -3%, avg annual -18%
Cyclical iron-ore payer - declining/volatile
Excluded from every list (with reason, from independent verification): AMD (3 star fairly valued, narrow moat, very high uncertainty, no dividend), MU (no rating found, no moat, ~0.06% yield), MIN and PLS (dividends suspended, unresolved ratings), LTR (no analyst coverage found, price unverifiable - more than 2x spread across sources).