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Brikor (BIK) is a company that manufactures bricks, roof tiles, and clay pipes. It was listed on the Alt-X in August 2007 and describes itself as "...a diverse manufacturer and supplier of building and construction materials across a broad spectrum of the market from low-cost housing, residential to commercial, industrial, civil engineering and infrastructure...

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Brimstone (BRT) is a black-controlled investment holding company with a diverse portfolio of holdings. It owns: 1. 54,2% of Sea Harvest, which is a listed fishing company and has a market capitalisation of just over R4,5bn. 2. 100% of Lion of Africa, a loss-making insurance company, which decided in November 2018 to cease operations and close its doors. 3....

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Hyprop (HYP) is a leading property real estate investment trust (REIT) that specialises in high-quality shopping malls in South Africa and some interests in Eastern Europe and Africa to the North. It owns some of South Africa's best-known shopping malls like Rosebank, Canal Walk, Hyde Park, and Clearwater. It has been impacted to some extent by the fall-off in...

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Nampak (NPK) is Africa's largest packaging company with interests in South Africa and ten other African countries. About 60% of its turnover comes from South Africa, but only 36% of its trading profit. The rest of Africa accounts for 59% of trading profit and only 31% of turnover. The company also has small interests in the UK and Ireland. It produces four kinds...

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Purple Group (PPE) is a dynamic player in the financial services industry, offering accessible trading and asset management services with a focus on affordability for private investors. Its three core divisions: 1. Easy Equities: Known for democratizing access to the stock market, it allows small investments at minimal costs, such as just 64c for a R100...

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Stefanutti (SSK) is a South African construction company which offers roads and earthworks, marine construction, concrete structures, bulk pipelines, piling, geotechnical services, open pit contract mining, affordable housing, mine residue disposal, and other services. It operates in sub-Saharan Africa and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The company is...

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Murray and Roberts (MUR) is a large South African construction company which has suffered from the sub-prime crisis and then the slump in construction spending following the 2010 World Cup. This brought the share down from a massive double-top formation at around R100 per share to a low below R5 in May 2020. The company has been consolidating and reducing costs....

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Novus (NVS) is South Africa's largest printing company with 11 printing plants. Until recently, it had the monopoly contract to do all of Media24's printing. With effect from 1st April 2018, that contract was reduced to roughly 58% of Media24's printing, and the price paid by Media24 for printing was also reduced. The company appointed a new CEO, Neil Birch, who...

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Visual International Holdings (VIS) is a small, cash-strapped property development company operating in the Cape Town area. The company announced on 2nd July 2018 that publication of its financial results would be delayed. At that time, it was anticipated that the financials would be published before the end of July 2018. As a result of this delay, trading in the...

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Previously known as Net1 UEP Technologies, Lesaka is listed on the Nasdaq and the JSE (LSK). It is a provider of fintech products in a number of countries. Its universal electronic payment system (UEPS) uses biometrically secure smart cards that operate in real-time but offline, which allows users to enter into transactions at any time. In its results for the...

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African Media Entertainment (AME) is a company which specialises in running radio stations and whose revenue comes principally from advertising on those stations. It has four divisions: (1) Algoa, which broadcasts from the Garden Route to the Wild Coast, (2) OFM, which broadcasts in the Free State, North-West province, Northern Cape, Southern Gauteng, and...

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Momentum Metropolitan (MTM) is a JSE- and Namibian-listed insurance company, formed through the merger of Momentum and Metropolitan in December 2010. The company provides a wide range of short- and long-term insurance products and financial services. It was the first insurance company to achieve level 1 BBBEE status. However, it has been scaling back its African...

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Reinet (RNI) is an investment holding company with its main asset being a 2.12% stake in British American Tobacco (BAT), valued at approximately $1.8 billion, which constitutes about 31% of its net asset value (NAV). This is a significant reduction from 85% a decade ago, primarily due to the decline in BAT's share price as the tobacco industry faces increasing...

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Naspers (NPN) is Africa's largest company and an international giant in social media, gaming, and IT. Its primary asset is a 73% stake in Prosus (PRX), which owns 26% of Tencent, a Hong Kong-listed company providing social media services and gaming in China. Tencent dominates the Chinese market with 10 of the top 20 mobile applications, reaching over 1.1 billion...

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PPC is a major producer of cement, aggregates, ready-mix, lime, limestone, and fly-ash in Africa, with a production capacity of 11.5 million tons across eleven cement factories in South Africa, Botswana, the DRC, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, and Ethiopia. It also operates the Mooiplaas quarry, the largest aggregates producer in South Africa, and has twenty-six batching...

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Naspers (NPN) spun off Prosus (PRX) on 11th September 2019, listing it on the Euronext in Amsterdam to hold its international assets, including Tencent, Mail.Ru, and other internet brands. Naspers retains a 73% stake in Prosus, while 25% is free float. This listing mitigates rand risk, making Prosus a rand-hedge investment that benefits from rand weakness. As...

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Sirius (SRE) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) listed on the JSE and the London Stock Exchange (LSE), focusing on office, manufacturing, and warehousing properties in Germany. The company owns 141 assets valued at approximately €2 billion, making it a significant player in the European property market. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Sirius was benefiting...

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Telkom (TKG) historically served as the government-controlled provider of fixed-line telephone services in South Africa. With the rise of mobile networks, Telkom was compelled to subsidize competitors like Vodacom, MTN, and Cell-C through termination rates, which have since been phased out. Over two decades, Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko estimated that these subsidies...