Australian stocks closed marginally lower.

Today’s scoreboard:

• ASX200: 5,940.90 -0.70 -0.01%
• All Ordinaries: 6,045.60 +1.60 +0.03%
• AUD/USD: 0.7926 +0.0013 +0.16%

The local market open with a dip of about 0.4% but fought back to close almost flat. The ASX200 was still holding above the key 5900 support level.

Shares in electronic design software company Altium jumped 26% to $18.88 after posting record revenue growth of 30% to $US63.2 million for the first half. Profit rose 51% to $US14.9 million.

Telco Vocus dropped 10.4% to $2.57 after underlying profit fell 25% to $68.6 million for the half year.

Real estate agency McGrath announced a new board of directors and its shares fell another 4.6% to $0.41.

Engineering services giant Monadelphous was 2% higher at $18.32 after posting a 39% jump in sales to $874.1 million for the half year and a 32% lift in profit to $37.6 million.

Vacuum cleaner retailer Godfreys fell 6.2% to $0.30 after posting a loss of $58.6 million, including non cash impairments after tax of $59.3 million. Underlying profit was $900,000, down 61.8%, as like for like sales keep falling.

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