Pan African Resources — On track for 170koz in FY19

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Pan African Resources — On track for 170koz in FY19

On 6 November, Pan African (PAF) announced that it had produced 37,729oz gold in Q119 (an annualised production rate of 150,916oz) and that it was confident of achieving its production guidance of c 170,000oz for FY19 (implying a steady state production rate of 44,090oz per quarter for the remaining three quarters of the year). This should be eminently achievable now that Elikhulu has reached its target throughput rate of 1Mt in October to produce c 145kg (4,600oz) gold per month.

Lord Ashbourne

Written by

Lord Ashbourne

Director of Content, Mining

Metals & Mining

Pan African Resources

On track for 170koz in FY19

Q119 quarterly update

Metals & mining

12 November 2018

Price

8.53p

Market cap

£191m

ZAR18.3443/£, ZAR13.9358/US$, US$1.3159/£

Net debt (£m) at end-June 2018 excluding ZAR45.9m (£2.5m) of MC Mining shares (formerly Coal of Africa)

91.0

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

0.3

11.0

(41.1)

Rel (local)

2.2

20.8

(38.0)

52-week high/low

15.8p

6.5p

Business description

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

Next events

Last trading date re AGM

13 November 2018

AGM proxy deadline

16 November 2018

AGM

20 November 2018

H119 results

February 2019

Analyst

Charles Gibson

+44 (0)20 3077 5724

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

On 6 November, Pan African (PAF) announced that it had produced 37,729oz gold in Q119 (an annualised production rate of 150,916oz) and that it was confident of achieving its production guidance of c 170,000oz for FY19 (implying a steady state production rate of 44,090oz per quarter for the remaining three quarters of the year). This should be eminently achievable now that Elikhulu has reached its target throughput rate of 1Mt in October to produce c 145kg (4,600oz) gold per month.

Year end

Revenue (£m)

PBT*
(£m)

EPS*
(p)

DPS
(p)

P/E
(x)

Yield
(%)

06/17

167.8

19.4

1.22

0.45

7.0

5.3

06/18

154.2

2.4

1.60

0.00

5.3

N/A

06/19e

160.1

31.8

1.09

0.47

7.8

5.5

06/20e

187.1

58.2

1.83

0.86

4.6

10.1

Note: *PBT and EPS are normalised, excluding amortisation of acquired intangibles and exceptional items.

Barberton leads the charge

Barberton Mines produced 27,201oz in Q119 (annualised 108,804oz), of which 21,278oz (annualised 85,112oz) was from underground operations and 5,923oz (annualised 23,692oz) was from the Barberton Tailings Retreatment Project (BTRP). This compares with our full-year estimates of 84,641oz from underground sources and 20,000oz from the BTRP, ie Barberton is currently performing above our expectations. In contrast, the Evander Tailings Retreatment Project (ETRP) produced 3,819oz (15,276oz annualised) cf our expectation of 20,000oz for the full year – probably owing to a reduction in higher-grade material for processing from surface feedstocks (as in H218) – although this is more than made up for by 3,815oz (annualised 15,260oz) of mining and vamping from Evander underground’s remnant high-grade stopes ahead of preparations for 8 Shaft pillar mining from Q319 (cf our prior expectation of zero production from Evander underground sources in FY19).

Valuation: c 100% price upside potential

Our previous headline absolute valuation of PAF was 12.50p from its five producing assets (including Elikhulu) and 17.01p once new projects and other assets are taken into account, plus the value of c 20.1m underground Witwatersrand ounces, which could lie anywhere in the range of 0.17–4.15p per share, depending on market conditions. While there is an upside risk to our forecasts in the light of PAF’s operational update, for the moment, we have opted to leave them and our valuation unchanged (in part, in recognition of the recent strength of the rand), but will reassess both at the time of PAF’s H119 results in February. In the meantime, if PAF’s historical average price to normalised EPS ratio of 9.4x in the period FY10–18 is applied to our forecasts, its share price could be expected to climb to 10.2p in FY19 and 17.2p in FY20. It also remains cheaper than its South African- and London-listed gold mining peers on at least 91% of valuation measures on the basis of our forecasts, or 94% on the basis of consensus forecasts. Finally, based on our assumptions, its dividend yield is the ninth highest of the 64 precious metals companies expected to pay a dividend over the course of the next 12 months.

Exhibit 1: Financial summary

£'000s

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019e

2020e

Year end 30 June

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

IFRS

PROFIT & LOSS

Revenue

 

 

133,308

154,202

140,386

168,404

167,759

154,200

160,111

187,067

Cost of sales

(71,181)

(106,394)

(110,413)

(108,223)

(134,007)

(138,800)

(104,226)

(105,200)

Gross profit

62,127

47,808

29,973

60,181

33,752

15,400

55,885

81,867

EBITDA

 

 

53,276

44,165

28,448

57,381

32,417

14,800

54,491

79,237

Operating profit (before GW and except.)

47,278

34,142

18,110

46,925

21,924

3,800

41,334

66,156

Intangible amortisation

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Exceptionals

7,232

(12)

(198)

(12,183)

(1,248)

(122,300)

(1,252)

(1,252)

Other

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Operating profit

54,510

34,130

17,912

34,742

20,676

(118,500)

40,082

64,904

Net interest

197

(191)

(2,109)

(1,006)

(2,523)

(1,400)

(9,555)

(7,988)

Profit before tax (norm)

 

 

47,475

33,951

16,001

45,919

19,401

2,400

31,779

58,167

Profit before tax (FRS 3)

 

 

54,707

33,939

15,803

33,736

18,153

(119,900)

30,527

56,915

Tax

(12,133)

(7,155)

(4,133)

(8,234)

(243)

26,600

(10,774)

(22,793)

Profit after tax (norm)

35,342

26,796

11,868

37,685

19,158

29,000

21,004

35,374

Profit after tax (FRS 3)

42,574

26,785

11,670

25,502

17,910

(93,300)

19,753

34,122

Average number of shares outstanding (m)

1,619.8

1,827.2

1,830.4

1,811.4

1,564.3

1,809.2

1,928.3

1,928.3

EPS - normalised (p)

 

 

2.18

1.46

0.64

2.08

1.22

1.60

1.09

1.83

EPS - FRS 3 (p)

 

 

2.63

1.47

0.64

1.41

1.14

(5.16)

1.02

1.77

Dividend per share (p)

0.83

0.82

0.54

0.88

0.45

0.00

0.47

0.86

Gross margin (%)

46.6

31.0

21.4

35.7

20.1

10.0

34.9

43.8

EBITDA margin (%)

40.0

28.6

20.3

34.1

19.3

9.6

34.0

42.4

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

35.5

22.1

12.9

27.9

13.1

2.5

25.8

35.4

BALANCE SHEET

Fixed assets

 

 

249,316

223,425

220,150

230,676

273,635

245,100

256,840

253,124

Intangible assets

38,628

37,040

37,713

38,682

41,425

49,200

50,936

52,673

Tangible assets

209,490

185,376

181,533

190,725

224,687

192,800

202,803

197,352

Investments

1,199

1,010

905

1,269

7,523

3,100

3,100

3,100

Current assets

 

 

26,962

23,510

17,218

22,016

37,090

20,000

21,942

52,037

Stocks

6,596

5,341

3,503

4,399

7,583

2,700

5,344

6,244

Debtors

15,384

12,551

10,386

14,891

14,813

14,800

11,859

13,856

Cash

4,769

5,618

3,329

2,659

9,447

700

2,940

30,138

Current liabilities

 

 

(24,066)

(24,012)

(22,350)

(32,211)

(31,251)

(33,400)

(35,902)

(43,660)

Creditors

(23,202)

(19,257)

(17,301)

(25,230)

(27,105)

(28,200)

(30,702)

(38,460)

Short-term borrowings

(864)

(4,755)

(5,049)

(6,981)

(4,146)

(5,200)

(5,200)

(5,200)

Long-term liabilities

 

 

(80,004)

(63,528)

(67,850)

(69,506)

(62,893)

(115,900)

(116,298)

(117,329)

Long-term borrowings

(11,133)

(8,141)

(16,313)

(18,456)

(12,290)

(86,500)

(86,500)

(86,500)

Other long-term liabilities

(68,871)

(55,387)

(51,537)

(51,049)

(50,603)

(29,400)

(29,798)

(30,829)

Net assets

 

 

172,208

159,396

147,167

150,975

216,581

115,800

126,582

144,173

CASH FLOW

Operating cash flow

 

 

61,618

45,996

26,423

47,130

29,945

(1,900)

47,068

75,285

Net Interest

314

(606)

(2,109)

(1,006)

(2,141)

(1,400)

(9,555)

(7,988)

Tax

(13,666)

(8,536)

(3,943)

(7,777)

(8,003)

0

(10,377)

(21,762)

Capex

(27,197)

(21,355)

(19,554)

(14,097)

(36,748)

(94,200)

(24,897)

(9,366)

Acquisitions/disposals

(96,006)

0

(760)

(30,999)

8,364

4,400

0

0

Financing

47,112

349

(235)

15,207

34,638

9,800

0

0

Dividends

0

(14,684)

(15,006)

(9,882)

(13,290)

(8,200)

0

(8,971)

Net cash flow

(27,826)

1,164

(15,184)

(1,425)

12,764

(91,500)

2,240

27,198

Opening net debt/(cash)

 

 

(18,913)

7,228

7,278

18,033

22,778

6,989

91,000

88,760

Exchange rate movements

594

(839)

(276)

812

238

(1,447)

0

0

Other

1,090

(375)

4,705

(4,131)

2,787

8,936

0

0

Closing net debt/(cash)

 

 

7,228

7,278

18,033

22,778

6,989

91,000

88,760

61,562

Source: Company sources, Edison Investment Research

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