Orion Minerals (ORN) is an Australian exploration company which is listed on the JSE (September 2017) and on the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney. It is trying to find funding for its copper and zinc mine in Prieska. The Prieska mine was previously operated by Anglovaal, but stopped operating in 1990 after 20 years during which it extracted more than 1 million...
Barloworld (BAW) is an international supplier of heavy earth-moving equipment and vehicles to the mining, agriculture, infrastructure, power, automotive and logistics sectors. Its best-known brands include Caterpillar, Avis, Massey-Ferguson, and Challenger. It operates in 24 countries, especially in Southern Africa, Russia, and other emerging markets. Its wide...
Burstone (previously Investec Property Fund) is a diversified South African real estate investment trust (REIT) with a R27,2bn portfolio with 92 properties in South Africa worth R15,7bn. Like most REIT's, IPF suffered from the general sell-off in property shares on the JSE during 2018 following the Resilient group's melt-down. It is currently trading well below...
Capitec Bank (CPI), now the country's largest bank by customer numbers (21,1m), was launched by PSG, and has been a major disrupter in the South African banking system. It has steadily taken retail market share from the other banks by offering a cheaper and easier solution, especially for the previously unbanked section of our population. The company is adding...
Emira Property (EMI) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) which has substantial exposure to the South African economy through its office properties. It owns the prestigious Knightsbridge office park in Bryanston. It has a new CEO in the form of Geoff Jennett and the business has been improving consistently since he took over. It has about R760m of overseas...
Enterprise Outsourcing Holdings (EOH) was Africa's largest information technology company with involvement in almost every aspect of computer applications. At one point the company had 11000 staff members, but that has now been reduced to 6151. It was, until August 2015, the darling of the JSE because it had a long track-record of steadily improving profits. It...
Heriot (HET) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) which owns a diverse portfolio of 44 properties worth R4,827bn in retail, industrial, commercial and specialist property. It was listed on the Alt-X of the JSE on 24-7-2017 but has hardly traded since then. They are developing a property in Adderley Street in Cape Town into 215 residential units. In its results...
The Netcare Group (NTC) operates hospitals and medical response teams throughout South Africa and Lesotho. It has fifty-nine hospitals, four of which are public/private partnerships, employs 22000 people in South Africa and has 10600 beds. Netcare 911 operates from seventy-nine sites and has over 1000 paramedics. Healthcare is generally not impacted by the...
An Australian palladium mining company with a secondary listing on the JSE. South PD owns 70% of a South African company called "Miracle upon Miracle" (MUM). In cooperation with the Bengwenyama community the company is engaged in exploration for platinum group metals. The company raised A$19m to explore in the Limpopo bushveld complex where MUM owns the...
Spar (SPP) runs a chain of supermarkets across Southern Africa with 2402 stores. It also operates the Build-It chain in hardware and building materials and the Tops Liquor chain. It has operations in Southern Ireland under the name "BWG" which operates through 1392 stores and the Spar chain of 388 stores in Switzerland. The company is expanding into Poland with...
Trellidor (TRL) is a manufacturer of barrier security products, blinds and security shutters since 1976. The company is divided into the Trellidor business (security barriers) and the Taylor business (security and decorative blinds). Taylor also imports and distributes cornicing and skirting. The company has 70 franchise outlets in South Africa and a very strong...
Ascendis Health (ASC) is a South African company which manufactures brands aimed at health in animals, plants, and people. On 30th January 2020, the company said, "As Remedica continues to be a high performing asset that delivers considerable earnings and margin growth to the Ascendis group, the Board is not supportive of the disposal of Remedica at a price that...
Bytes Technology was spun out of Altron and separately listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and the JSE. At listing it had a market capitalisation of about R13bn which has subsequently grown to R26,5bn. Altron shareholders received GBP542m in shares and cash at the demerger in a significant release of value. It describes itself as "...one of the UK's leading...
Vukile (VKE) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) trading on the JSE and the Namibian Stock Exchange. It owns properties directly, shares in other REITs, property in the UK as well as a growing portfolio of properties in Spain. 50% of its assets are in Southern Africa, mainly in retail, 46% in Spain and 4% in the UK. Vukile has a policy of re-investing into...
Luxe (Previously called Taste Holdings) consisted of two businesses - a food franchisor and a luxury goods retailer. It had master franchises in Southern Africa for Starbucks and Domino’s. The luxury retail division consists of the jewellery chain NWJ, Arthur Kaplan Jewellers and World Finest Watches. A rights issue raised R398m through the issue of 376m shares at...
Old Mutual (OMU) is a premium African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key market segments in seventeen countries. Old Mutual's primary operations are in South Africa and the rest of Africa, and it has niche businesses in Latin America and Asia. This company is what is left after...
Wesizwe (WEZ) is a miner of platinum group metals through its development of the Bakubung Platinum Mine (BPM). The company is developing a mine to access the Merensky and Upper Group 2 (UG2) resources. The mine is near Rustenburg on the Western limb of the Bushveld complex. The company also owns 17,1% of projects 1 and 3 of Maseve Investments. In its results for...
This is a very thinly traded mining exploration company. It bought two gold projects in the DRC in 2020. In its results for the year to 28th February 2023 the company reported a headline loss per share of 143,34c compared with a loss of 141,76c in the previous period. The company has a negative net asset value (NAV) of 741,36c per share. In a trading statement for...