One of the hottest ASX debutantes crashed this morning after handing in its full year earnings report card.
Human resource software provider 1-Page Ltd (ASX: 1PG) tumbled 6.4% to $1.965 in morning trade when management revealed a deepening net loss of $10.4 million for the 13 months to end January 2015 compared with a loss of $1.5 million for calendar 2013.
But this isn't the reason for today's sell-off. In fact, the results are meaningless as they largely reflect the performance of a resource company.
The current 1-Page entity came into being through a reverse takeover of InterMet Resources Limited in October last year and the stock has surged six-fold since.
This certainly puts today's decline into perspective, but I suspect we will see further profit taking in the coming quarter as I am anticipating a market pullback after the S&P/ASX 200 Index (INDEX:^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) enjoyed its best gain in nearly six years with a March quarterly gain of 8.9%.
This makes new rising stars on the ASX particularly vulnerable to a reversal in investor sentiment.
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