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<a href="https://smartkarma.com/entities/ampol-ltd">Ampol</a> is Australia's leading transport energy provider, leveraging a vertically integrated model that includes the Lytton refinery, an extensive logistics network, and over 1,800 branded retail sites across Australia and New Zealand.</li>
 <li>The company is navigating the energy transition by optimizing its legacy fuel business for cash flow while strategically investing in 'future energy' solutions, primarily focusing on its AmpCharge EV charging network and exploring renewable fuels.</li>
 <li>Financial performance is subject to the volatility of global refining margins and crude oil prices, with a strategic focus on growing higher-margin, non-fuel convenience retail earnings to provide more stable cash flows.</li>
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Ampol is Australia's leading transport energy provider, leveraging a vertically integrated model that includes the Lytton refinery, an extensive logistics network, and over 1,800 branded retail sites across Australia and New Zealand.
  The company is navigating the energy transition by optimizing its legacy fuel business for cash flow while strategically investing in 'future energy' solutions, primarily focusing on its AmpCharge EV charging network and exploring renewable fuels.
  Financial performance is subject to the volatility of global refining margins and crude oil prices, with a strategic focus on growing higher-margin, non-fuel convenience retail earnings to provide more stable cash flows.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Derivatives and Quantitative Strategist

Gaudenz Schneider

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Context: The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ampol-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:345:1" rel="noopener">Ampol (ALD AU)</a> vs. <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/woodside-energy-group-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13190:1" rel="noopener">Woodside Energy (WDS AU)</a> price ratio has deviated more than two standard deviations from its one-year average, presenting a potential relative value opportunity.</li>
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Highlights: Going long Ampol (ALD AU) and short Woodside Energy (WDS AU) targets a 10% return.</li>
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Why Read: Essential for quantitative traders seeking mean-reversion opportunities, with detailed execution framework, risk management protocols, and historical simulation showing the statistical basis for this relative value play.</li>
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Context: The Ampol (ALD AU) vs. Woodside Energy (WDS AU) price ratio has deviated more than two standard deviations from its one-year average, presenting a potential relative value opportunity.

Highlights: Going long Ampol (ALD AU) and short Woodside Energy (WDS AU) targets a 10% return.

Why Read: Essential for quantitative traders seeking mean-reversion opportunities, with detailed execution framework, risk management protocols, and historical simulation showing the statistical basis for this relative value play.


Ampol (ALD AU) Vs Woodside Energy (WDS AU): Recurring Energy Pair Trade Targets 10 Percent

MD, Leaf & Ledger Limited

Leaf & Ledger Limited

Formed in 2024, Leaf & Ledger is a European advisory and research firm serving institutional investors and managers. We focus on real assets and private markets, with public-market read-throughs where material. Our work emphasises valuation signals, market structure, and execution topics that translate technical assessment into underwriting and strategy.

Insight That Moves Capital

Event-Driven

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 Trade call: Long the 2022 SL hybrid. Price in a likely SPT 1 miss, capture optionality around 101% redemption and the post-disclosure vendor lag.</li>
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 Miss risk: F&amp;I intensity must fall about 5.4% from 2024 to meet the 2021 minus 5% SPT. Operational mix makes that hard.</li>
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 Catalyst path: Two windows. Pre-disclosure, trade miss probability. Post-disclosure, arbitrage the convergence until data vendors update.</li>
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 Trade call: Long the 2022 SL hybrid. Price in a likely SPT 1 miss, capture optionality around 101% redemption and the post-disclosure vendor lag.

 Miss risk: F&amp;I intensity must fall about 5.4% from 2024 to meet the 2021 minus 5% SPT. Operational mix makes that hard.

 Catalyst path: Two windows. Pre-disclosure, trade miss probability. Post-disclosure, arbitrage the convergence until data vendors update.


Ampol Ltd (ALD) SL Hybrid, Trade the FY25 Disclosure Window

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Quantitative Analysis

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<li>We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Sep 25th (reported today). The aggregated short interest was USD49.0bn.</li>
<li>We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.</li>
<li>We highlight short interest changes in Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP.</li>
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We analyzed the changes in short interest of ASX Stocks as of Sep 25th (reported today). The aggregated short interest was USD49.0bn.
We tabulate league tables for top short by value and short as multiple of ADT, as well as weekly increases &amp; decreases in short value, short as multiple of ADT.
We highlight short interest changes in Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP.


ASX Short Interest Weekly (Sep 25th): Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass), with Int’l Compass reports all echoing this sentiment.</li>
<li>China (Shanghai Composite) has been a major focus ever since our July 3 report titled "China and Japan Breaking Out," and it's pulling back toward 10-year base support at 3675-3725;buy.</li>
<li>Japan's TOPIX and TOPIX Small indexes remain bullish (BUY), but RS remains below multi-month resistances; we would upgrade Japan to overweight on RS breakouts.</li>
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We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass), with Int’l Compass reports all echoing this sentiment.
China (Shanghai Composite) has been a major focus ever since our July 3 report titled "China and Japan Breaking Out," and it's pulling back toward 10-year base support at 3675-3725;buy.
Japan's TOPIX and TOPIX Small indexes remain bullish (BUY), but RS remains below multi-month resistances; we would upgrade Japan to overweight on RS breakouts.


Buys in Japan and Europe; China Pulling Back -- Buy; MSCI ACWI Uptrend Intact

Australia

Ampol Limited provides petroleum products. The Company offers petrol and convenience network as well as refining, importing, and marketing fuels and lubricants. Ampol serves defence, mining, transport, marine, agriculture, aviation, and other commercial sectors in Australia.

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Ampol (ALD AU)

Primer: Ampol (ALD AU) - Apr 2026

Ampol is Australia's leading transport energy provider, leveraging a vertically integrated model that includes the Lytton refinery, an...

αSK Primers

Ampol (ALD AU) Vs Woodside Energy (WDS AU): Recurring Energy Pair Trade Targets 10 Percent

Opportunity targeting a 10% return as price ratio deviates from one-year average, ideal for quantitative traders seeking mean-reversion...

Gaudenz Schneider

Ampol Ltd (ALD) SL Hybrid, Trade the FY25 Disclosure Window

Summary: Trade call to go long on 2022 SL hybrid, capturing optionality around 101% redemption and post-disclosure vendor lag. Two catalyst...

EC

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Sep 25th): Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Buys in Japan and Europe; China Pulling Back -- Buy; MSCI ACWI Uptrend Intact

Buys in Japan and Europe; China's Shanghai Composite Pulling Back to 10-year Base Support -- Buy; MSCI $ACWI Uptrend Intact. Actionable Themes:...

Vermilion Research

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Primer: Ampol (ALD AU) - Apr 2026

Ampol is Australia's leading transport energy provider, leveraging a vertically integrated model that includes the Lytton refinery, an...

αSK Primers

Ampol (ALD AU) Vs Woodside Energy (WDS AU): Recurring Energy Pair Trade Targets 10 Percent

​Opportunity targeting a 10% return as price ratio deviates from one-year average, ideal for quantitative traders seeking mean-reversion...

Gaudenz Schneider

Ampol Ltd (ALD) SL Hybrid, Trade the FY25 Disclosure Window

​Summary: Trade call to go long on 2022 SL hybrid, capturing optionality around 101% redemption and post-disclosure vendor lag. Two catalyst...

EC

ASX Short Interest Weekly (Sep 25th): Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP

We analyzed ASX short interest report for the past week and highlight short interest changes in Steadfast, Wesfarmers, Macquarie, Ampol, BHP.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Buys in Japan and Europe; China Pulling Back -- Buy; MSCI ACWI Uptrend Intact

Buys in Japan and Europe; China's Shanghai Composite Pulling Back to 10-year Base Support -- Buy; MSCI $ACWI Uptrend Intact. Actionable Themes:...

Vermilion Research

Opportunity targeting a 10% return as price ratio deviates from one-year average, ideal for quantitative traders seeking mean-reversion...

Summary: Trade call to go long on 2022 SL hybrid, capturing optionality around 101% redemption and post-disclosure vendor lag. Two catalyst...