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Sygnia (SYG) describes itself as a "specialist financial services group". It is South Africa's largest provider of exchange traded funds (ETF) and has a number of unit trusts. The company has R217,7bn under management and appears to be taking market share away from other asset managers. Sygnia Itrix makes it possible for Sygnia to attract funds looking for...

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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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Lighthouse Capital (LTE) (previously Greenbay) was one of the Resilient group of REIT's (real estate investment trusts) along with Resilient itself, Rockcastle and Fortress. These companies were the subject of a damning report by 36One Asset Management who said that their share prices were too high because of their cross-shareholdings. Because of this,...

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Capprec (CTA) is a fintech company offering payments and payment infrastructure as well as software and services. Patrice Motsepe's African Rainbow Capital (ARC) owns a stake. The payments side of the business is done through African Resonance and Dashpay. The software side involves systems development and consulting. The company owns 17,5% of Resonance Australia...

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The Resilient group of companies (Resilient, Lighthouse - previously Greenbay, Rockcastle and Fortress) used to be the high-flyers of the property sector until the beginning of 2018 when a damning report was produced by 360ne Asset Management. The report claimed that the high prices enjoyed by the shares of these four real estate investment trusts (REIT) was...

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Reinet (RNI) is an investment holding company whose main asset is a holding of roughly 2,12% of British American Tobacco (BAT) worth about $1,8bn which now accounts for 31% of its net asset value (NAV) - down from 85% ten years ago. This decline from a year ago is because the price of BAT shares has fallen. Most of this reflects the more difficult legal...

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Afdawn (ADW) is a small micro-lending company, listed on the Alt-X in 2004. Its share price rose as high as 550c in November 2007, but has since fallen back to 21c. The company is in the process of transforming itself into a venture capital company, selling non-core assets and settling debt - some of which is owed to SARS. The company has two operating divisions -...

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Hudaco (HDC) is an importer and supplier of "...automotive, industrial and consumer products" mostly in Southern Africa. Its business has two sides (1) supplying automotive security, power tools, communications, and business supply products to the consumer market and (2) supplying mainly the mining and manufacturing industries with mechanical and electrical power...

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Lewis (LEW) is a retailer of furniture and electrical appliances operating through 807 stores under the Lewis (483 stores), Beares (137 stores), Best Home (144 stores), and most recently, United Furniture Outlets (43 stores) brands. Of these, 126 are in neighbouring countries. The company does 65,7% of its business on credit and offers customers credit insurance...

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Purple Group (PPE) is a trading platform and asset management company that is aimed mainly at the private investor and offers the cheapest costs of dealing in shares on the JSE. The company has three divisions: (1) Easy Equities which enables investors to buy very small quantities of shares with very low dealing costs. For example, buying R100 worth of a share...

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The Resilient group of companies (Resilient, Lighthouse - previously Greenbay, Rockcastle and Fortress) used to be the high-flyers of the property sector until the beginning of 2018 when a damning report was produced by 360ne Asset Management. The report claimed that the high prices enjoyed by the shares of these four real estate investment trusts (REIT) was...

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Copper 360 describes its business as follows, "The Copper 360 business is focused on (a) processing historical mined copper rock dumps through a process of environmental clean-up, and (b) mining surface and shallow copper resources". The company has acquired (through SHIP) an extensive database from companies such as American Mining Conglomerate Newmont and Global...

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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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Huge (HUG) is a telecommunications, media, and software company. It has operations in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It has the following main operating subsidiaries - Huge Cellular (49%), Huge Networks (50,03%), Huge Technologies (100%), Huge Telecoms (100%), Huge Soho (49%), Huge Media (96%), Huge Messaging...

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Salungano, previously Wescoal, engages in the mining and trading of coal. The company began production in 2021 producing coal from its Moabsvelden mine for Eskom. Today the company produces 300m tons from five coal mines. Mining accounts for 82% of revenue, but it owns 50% of the Arnot Mine and is looking to broaden its business into other parts of energy. In its...

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Spar (SPP) runs a chain of supermarkets across Southern Africa with 2402 stores. It also operates the Build-It chain in hardware and building materials and the Tops Liquor chain. It has operations in Southern Ireland under the name "BWG" which operates through 1392 stores and the Spar chain of 388 stores in Switzerland. The company is expanding into Poland with...

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Castleview (CVW) is a real estate investment trust that owns two properties - a shopping mall in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, "Pier 14" which the company describes as a "themed lifestyle center" with 75 stores and a gross lettable area (GLA) of 30381 square meters and Cravenby Shoprite which has a GLA of 3301 square meters. It intends to buy other retail...

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Mahube (MHB) is an infrastructure holding company which reversed into Gaia and is involved in large-scale energy transport, water and sanitation projects. It is 41,35% owned by the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF). The company says, "Mahube Infrastructure owns five renewable energy assets – two wind farms and three solar PV (photovoltaic) farms – all of...