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Pan African Resources — Entailed

Pan African Resources (PAF) has announced that it is to acquire 100% of Mogale Gold and Mintails SA Soweto Cluster from Mintails’ liquidator for ZAR50.0m (US$3.2m). Combined, the two assets host a mineral resource of 243Mt (in tailings), containing 2.36Moz gold. As such, consideration equates to US$1.31 per oz of contained gold cf an average valuation of US$9.88/oz for London-listed pre-production gold assets (see Gold stars and black holes, published in January 2019). Closure of the deal is subject to the usual due diligence, including the evaluation the assets’ amenability to retreatment.

Lord Ashbourne

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Lord Ashbourne

Director of Content, Mining

Metals & Mining

Pan African Resources

Entailed

Mogale and Mintails acquisition

Metals & mining

17 November 2020

Price

22.50p

Market cap

£503m

ZAR20.6236/£, ZAR15.6618/US$, US$1.3169/£

Net debt (US$m) at end June 2020 excluding estimated ZAR16.9m (US$1.0m) of MC Mining shares (formerly Coal of Africa)

55.7

Shares in issue*

2,234.7m

*Effective 1,928.3m post-consolidation

Free float

86%

Code

PAF

Primary exchange

AIM/JSE

Secondary exchange

N/A

Share price performance

%

1m

3m

12m

Abs

(4.5)

(13.1)

99.8

Rel (local)

(12.2)

(18.4)

122.6

52-week high/low

27.1p

9.0p

Business description

Pan African Resources has three major producing precious metals assets in South Africa: Barberton (target output 95koz Au pa), the Barberton Tailings Retreatment Project, or BTRP (20koz), and Elikhulu (55koz), now incorporating the Evander Tailings Retreatment Project, or ETRP (10koz).

Next events

AGM

26 November 2020

Ex-dividend LSE date

3 December 2020

Dividend payment date

15 December 2020

H121 results

February 2021

Analyst

Charles Gibson

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Pan African Resources is a research client of Edison Investment Research Limited

Pan African Resources (PAF) has announced that it is to acquire 100% of Mogale Gold and Mintails SA Soweto Cluster from Mintails’ liquidator for ZAR50.0m (US$3.2m). Combined, the two assets host a mineral resource of 243Mt (in tailings), containing 2.36Moz gold. As such, consideration equates to US$1.31 per oz of contained gold cf an average valuation of US$9.88/oz for London-listed pre-production gold assets (see Gold stars and black holes, published in January 2019). Closure of the deal is subject to the usual due diligence, including the evaluation the assets’ amenability to retreatment.

Year end

Revenue (US$m)

PBT*
(US$m)

EPS*
(c)

DPS
(c)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

06/19

218.8

37.1

1.64

0.15

18.1

0.5

06/20

274.1

80.8

3.78

0.84

7.8

2.8

06/21e

307.9

129.5

6.42

1.36

4.6

4.6

06/22e

316.0

142.1

6.42

1.20

4.6

4.0

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles and exceptional items. Note: Our estimates have changed only marginally as a result of the proposed Mogale/Mintails transaction to reflect capex in FY21 and net interest in FY22.

Perhaps a second Elikhulu (also tailings retreatment)

Mintails’ and Mogale’s aggregate resource of 2.36Moz compares favourably to Elikhulu’s original resource of 1.7Moz and its initial reserve of 1.5Moz, but at a fractionally higher grade of 0.30g/t (cf Elikhulu’s 0.29g/t). PAF announced the results of an independent definitive feasibility study (DFS) on Elikhulu on 5 December 2016, which demonstrated an NPV9 of US$75.9m (or, then, 5.0cps, or US$40.95 per resource oz) at a gold price of US$1,180/oz and a forex rate of ZAR14.50/US$. At the time, Edison estimated Elikhulu to be worth US$69.9m (or 4.6cps) at a 10% discount rate and to be capable of adding 1.33p to EPS in the first eight years of its operation (albeit there are now 28.0% more shares in issue). Now however, with capex having been expended (but with not all associated debt repaid), we estimate a valuation for Elikhulu of US$286.5m, or 14.9cps, or US$151.32 per initial resource oz or US$184.08 per remaining resource oz. As such, PAF has acquired for US$1.31/oz an asset that might be worth US$9.88/oz, could be worth US$40.95/oz (pre-production) and may be worth US$159.33/oz (post-debt repayment – albeit after c US$71/oz in initial capex).

Valuation: Steady at 40.48cps plus Mintails/Mogale

For the moment, we have left our absolute valuation of PAF unchanged at 40.48c (31.31p) per share based on its four main currently producing assets plus Egoli. To this must then be added the value of c 19.2m underground Witwatersrand ounces which we estimate could lie anywhere in the range of 0.22–5.24c per share, depending on market conditions and the value of Mintails/Mogale as discussed above. As an alternative means of valuation, if PAF’s historical average price to normalised EPS ratio of 9.1x in the period FY10–20 is applied to our FY21 forecasts, then it implies a share price potentially as high as 45p in the current financial year. In the meantime, on the basis of its FY20 dividend, PAF is among the top 20 yielding precious metals companies globally. Based on our forecasts, we believe that this could improve to within the top 10 in FY21.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

US$'000s

2018

2019

2020

2021e

2022e

Year end 30 June

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

145,829

218,818

274,107

307,883

316,019

Cost of sales

(107,140)

(152,980)

(158,457)

(152,913)

(146,967)

Gross profit

38,689

65,838

115,650

154,969

169,052

EBITDA

 

 

38,131

65,484

115,176

153,552

164,506

Operating profit (before GW and except.)

31,506

49,256

93,673

134,555

143,589

Intangible amortisation

0

0

0

0

0

Exceptionals

(16,521)

10,596

(28,593)

(8,905)

(1,618)

Other

0

0

0

0

0

Operating profit

14,985

59,852

65,079

125,649

141,971

Net interest

(2,222)

(12,192)

(12,881)

(5,015)

(1,483)

Profit before tax (norm)

 

 

29,284

37,064

80,791

129,540

142,106

Profit before tax (FRS 3)

 

 

12,763

47,660

52,198

120,635

140,488

Tax

2,826

(8,174)

(7,905)

(5,709)

(18,338)

Profit after tax (norm)

32,110

28,890

72,887

123,831

123,768

Profit after tax (FRS 3)

15,589

39,486

44,293

114,926

122,149

Average number of shares outstanding (m)

1,809.7

1,928.3

1,928.3

1,928.3

1,928.3

EPS - normalised (c)

 

 

1.31

1.64

3.78

6.42

6.42

EPS - FRS 3 (c)

 

 

0.87

2.05

2.30

5.96

6.33

Dividend per share (c)

0.00

0.15

0.84

1.36

1.20

Gross margin (%)

26.5

30.1

42.2

50.3

53.5

EBITDA margin (%)

26.1

29.9

42.0

49.9

52.1

Operating margin (before GW and except.) (%)

21.6

22.5

34.2

43.7

45.4

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed assets

 

 

315,279

361,529

314,968

354,533

387,383

Intangible assets

56,899

49,372

43,466

45,710

47,955

Tangible assets

254,247

305,355

270,286

307,606

338,211

Investments

4,134

6,802

1,216

1,216

1,216

Current assets

 

 

29,009

31,601

53,648

106,239

129,286

Stocks

4,310

6,323

7,626

10,271

10,543

Debtors

22,577

18,048

11,245

21,948

22,530

Cash

922

5,341

33,530

72,773

94,966

Current liabilities

 

 

(44,395)

(63,855)

(78,722)

(82,076)

(37,799)

Creditors

(37,968)

(39,707)

(62,806)

(66,160)

(61,883)

Short-term borrowings

(6,426)

(24,148)

(15,916)

(15,916)

24,084

Long-term liabilities

 

 

(152,906)

(145,693)

(106,276)

(106,385)

(107,573)

Long-term borrowings

(112,827)

(109,618)

(73,333)

(73,333)

(73,333)

Other long-term liabilities

(40,078)

(36,076)

(32,943)

(33,052)

(34,241)

Net assets

 

 

146,988

183,582

183,620

272,311

371,296

CASH FLOW

Operating cash flow

 

 

5,345

59,822

73,399

127,119

160,828

Net Interest

(6,076)

(14,685)

(10,834)

(5,015)

(1,483)

Tax

(1,634)

(4,497)

(5,804)

(5,600)

(17,150)

Capex

(127,279)

(52,261)

(30,849)

(58,561)

(53,767)

Acquisitions/disposals

6,319

466

207

0

0

Financing

11,944

(0)

0

(0)

0

Dividends

(11,030)

(2,933)

(2,933)

(18,700)

(26,235)

Net cash flow

(122,411)

(14,088)

23,186

39,244

62,193

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

3,138

118,332

128,424

55,719

16,475

Exchange rate movements

(619)

537

1,663

0

0

Other

7,836

3,459

47,856

0

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

118,332

128,424

55,719

16,475

(45,717)

Source: Company sources, Edison Investment Research.


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