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Als Ltd (ALQ.AU) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for ALQ.AU, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 61/100 · S&P 500 fund at 75, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-06
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 98th percentile of the window, +5.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-06
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.74 · up 0.17 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-06
Who it is priced against Consulting Services · 6 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Consulting Services

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against ALQ.AU on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Als Ltd

ALQ.AU in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
ALS provides testing, measurement and inspection services through two segments: Commodities, which covers assaying and metallurgical testing for mining and mineral exploration, and Life Sciences, which covers environmental, food, pharmaceutical and consumer-product testing. It serves mining companies, governments, and consulting and engineering firms across several regions. It is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.
Where it sits in the stack
ALS carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary maps; it belongs to the Industrials sector of Closelooknet's universe, grouped with other scored names from that sector.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other Industrials names scored in our universe, including Accelleron Industries and Nordson; the market also names Bureau Veritas as a comparable testing-and-inspection operator.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
It carries a Closelooknet score built across seven modules, with cash quality the strongest reading and capital allocation the weakest; it holds no index seat and no mentions in the diary's editions so far.
What the diary watches
Whether the weak capital-allocation reading improves as segment mix shifts, and whether the chart's distance from its 52-week high narrows or widens.

Als Ltd (ALQ.AU) trades on the AU exchange in Australia.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.03%, semi-annual · last 0.23 AUD on 2026-06-12

Dividends and capital return

What ALQ.AU pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.43 AUD per share · a 2.03% yield on the 2026-10-06 close 2 distributions, paid twice a year 2026-10-06
  • Change on the year +115.7% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.20 AUD per share
  • Last distribution 0.23 AUD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-12
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.39 AUD (partial) · 2026: 0.23 AUD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-07-03

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-07

Quick answers

What is Als Ltd (ALQ.AU)?

Als Ltd trades as ALQ.AU on the AU exchange (Australia) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-07.

Is ALQ.AU in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Als Ltd is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-10-07.

Where does ALQ.AU trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -4.1% vs the 50-day and -6.6% vs the 200-day average, 19.3% below the 52-week high and +9.6% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 26 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-10-06 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Als Ltd compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Consulting Services), Als Ltd (ALQ.AU) sits 19.3% below its 52-week high, 4.1% below its 50-day average; DKSH Holding AG (DKSH.SW) is 1.4% below, Ipsos SA (IPS.PA) is 16.8% below, FTI Consulting Inc (FCN) is 27.3% below. Put any of them next to ALQ.AU in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

What does Als Ltd do?

ALS provides testing, measurement and inspection services through two segments: Commodities, which covers assaying and metallurgical testing for mining and mineral exploration, and Life Sciences, which covers environmental, food, pharmaceutical and consumer-product testing. It serves mining companies, governments, and consulting and engineering firms across several regions. It is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other Industrials names scored in our universe, including Accelleron Industries and Nordson; the market also names Bureau Veritas as a comparable testing-and-inspection operator.

Where does Als Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

ALS carries no seat in our index and sits outside the AI build-out layers the diary maps; it belongs to the Industrials sector of Closelooknet's universe, grouped with other scored names from that sector. It carries a Closelooknet score built across seven modules, with cash quality the strongest reading and capital allocation the weakest; it holds no index seat and no mentions in the diary's editions so far.

Does Als Ltd pay a dividend?

Als Ltd has paid 0.43 AUD per share over the last twelve months, paid twice a year, a trailing yield of 2.03% on the 2026-10-06 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.23 AUD on 2026-06-12. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ALQ.AU, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Consulting Services, then Industrials. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.