SEK250.6m market cap
SEK2.54 last close
Auriant is a Swedish gold company, focusing on exploration and production in Russia. It has two producing mines (Tardan in Tyva and Solcocon in Zabaikalsky), one advanced exploration property (Kara-Beldyr in Tyva) and one early-stage exploration property (Uzhunzhul in Khakassia).
Investment summary
After five years of gold production via gravitational and heap leach recovery methods, Auriant’s Tardan plant is now being remodelled to a single carbon-in-leach (CIL) process flow route, which is anticipated to improve metallurgical recoveries by c 31% and halve total cash costs to c US$523/oz from July 2019. Simulataneously, Auriant is also completing a DFS on Kara-Beldyr. Combined, the two are expected to achieve management’s goal of 3t (or 96,453oz) of gold output per year from FY22 (cf 809.5kg in FY17 and 423.4kg in FY18).
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Revenue (US$m) |
EBITDA (US$m) |
PBT (US$m) |
EPS (c) |
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| 2016A | 43.4 | 22.0 | 7.8 | 36.4 | 0.8 | 0.3 |
| 2017A | 33.5 | 8.8 | (3.1) | (5.8) | N/A | 1.0 |
| 2018E | 18.3 | (2.6) | (11.2) | (11.1) | N/A | 12.8 |
| 2019E | 45.1 | 19.7 | 9.7 | 7.6 | 3.6 | 2.0 |
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Industry outlook
Auriant raised US$7.1m via the exercise of warrants in March. On the basis that management raises an additional US$13.8m in cash via equity at a price of SEK2.14/share, we estimate that Auriant is capable of generating average cash flows of US$37.3m pa, average earnings of US$31.2m and average EPS of 20.0 cents in the period FY25–33. Discounted at 10% pa, we value the resulting stream of dividends to shareholders at US$0.82/share. FY19 forecasts are under review.
Last updated on 21/03/2019
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| Forecast net debt (US$m) | 71.8 |
| Forecast gearing ratio (%) | 312 |
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Key management |
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| Peter Daresbury | Chairman |
| Sergey Ustimenko | CEO |
| Katerina Popova | Head of PR&IR |
