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Pan African Resources has three major producing precious metals assets in South Africa: Barberton (target output 95koz Au pa), the Barberton Tailings Retreatment Project (20koz) and Elikhulu (55koz), now incorporating the Evander Tailings Retreatment Project (10koz).
Investment summary
Pan African (PAF) produced a forecast beating 179.6koz gold in FY20, resulting in net debt declining by 52.6% in H220 alone to just US$62.0m and allowing it to increase its dividend more than five-fold such that it is among the top 20 yielding precious metals companies, globally. Since then, EPS has almost doubled again to 2.11c/share in a record H121 after production of 98.4koz (cf FY21 guidance of 190koz).
Y/E Jun |
Revenue (US$m) |
EBITDA (US$m) |
PBT (US$m) |
EPS (c) |
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P/CF (x) |
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| 2019A | 218.8 | 65.5 | 37.1 | 1.64 | 14.5 | 7.6 |
| 2020A | 274.1 | 115.2 | 80.8 | 3.78 | 6.3 | 6.2 |
| 2021E | 357.0 | 157.1 | 122.2 | 4.24 | 5.6 | 3.4 |
| 2022E | 336.2 | 177.1 | 151.4 | 5.43 | 4.4 | 2.7 |
Industry outlook
With the 8 Shaft pillar project having now achieved steady state, near-term development opportunities for PAF include Egoli (ZAR2.01bn NPV and 50.1% IRR), which has now been sanctioned, the Prince Consort shaft pillar, the Fairview sub-vertical shaft (adding 7–10koz to production pa) and the Royal Sheba project (c 30koz pa). In the meantime, its acquisition of Mintails’ assets holds out the possibility that it could develop another Elikhulu. Until then, we value PAF at 38.19c/share (27.46p/share) plus the value of c 19.2m underground Witwatersrand oz (estimated 0.22–5.24c/share).
Last updated on 13/04/2021
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| Forecast net debt (US$m) | 29.8 |
| Forecast gearing ratio (%) | 13 |
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| Keith Cousens Spencer | Chairman |
| Cobus Loots | CEO |
| Deon Louw | FD |
