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Master Drilling (MDI) is a South African company that specialises in drilling exploration and other holes for the mining industry, and which has diversified into drilling for hydro-electrical projects and construction. The company has moved away from the South African mining industry and now provides services in North and South America, Europe and elsewhere. It...

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Redefine (RDF) is the second largest real estate investment trust in South Africa (after Growthpoint) with assets worth R72,9bn against a market capitalisation of R25,1bn. The company mainly holds industrial and office properties with investments in Poland, the UK and Australia. In our view, this is a massive REIT which has a large exposure to South African office...

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Northam (NPH) is a fully empowered platinum mining company which operates in the Bushveld complex. In the current difficult legislative environment where the 3rd mining charter is regarded as unfriendly from an investment point of view, Northam is probably the only mining house which is buying up new properties. It has come to an arrangement with Anglo American to...

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Sibanye (SSW) is a mining house which has been on a rapid acquisition trail accumulating platinum and gold mines in South Africa and America and is now broadening its scope to include base metals and minerals, especially so-called "green" metals. The company is run by Neal Froneman who is well-known in the mining industry for his toughness, expertise, and...

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Master Drilling (MDI) is a South African company that specialises in drilling exploration and other holes for the mining industry, and which has diversified into drilling for hydro-electrical projects and construction. The company has moved away from the South African mining industry and now provides services in North and South America, Europe and elsewhere. It...

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Super Group (SPG) is a large international logistics group offering transportation to the industrial sector. The company has a policy of not paying dividends, preferring to undertake share buy-backs and investing in organic and acquisitive growth. Its policy of diversifying outside South Africa has paid off with as much as 51% of operating profit now coming from...

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Transpaco (TPC) is a small manufacturer of paper and plastic packaging. It is also involved in re-cycling. In its results for the year to 30th June 2023 the company reported revenue up 10,8% and headline earnings per share (HEPS) up 19,4%. The company's net asset value (NAV) increased by 12,6% to 2958c per share. The company said, "Notwithstanding a flat economy,...

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The sad fall of the Woolworths share (WHL) price was occasioned by the decision of previous CEO, Ian Moir, and his board to buy David Jones in Australia for AU$2,1bn which has now had R12bn written off its original purchase price of R20bn in 2014. The only aspect sustaining the Woolworths group was its food sales. Woollies announced on 14th January 2020 that they...

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Advtech (ADH) is one of three listed commercial educational companies on the JSE (the others are Curro and its separately listed sister company, Stadio). Advtech has two divisions - a schools division (including Crawford, Trinity House and Abbots) and a tertiary division (including Varsity College, Rosebank College and a variety of specialist tertiary offerings)....

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CA Sales listed on the JSE on 27th June 2022 and traded 34 deals on the day opening at 505c and closing at 745c. The company supplies food, health, alcohol and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) to a wide range of companies. It is involved in warehousing, distribution, marketing and point-of-sale. In its results for the six months to 30th June 2023 the company...

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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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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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Cognition (CGN) is a group of companies which specialises in agency-based payment systems, fax to e-mail services, knowledge creation and management. Cognition describes itself as "...a multi-disciplinary data collection, communication, research and marketing company that provides a broad range of services to Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies, media and...

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Momentum Metropolitan (MTM) is an insurance company listed on the JSE and the Namibian stock exchanges. It was formed by the merger of Momentum and Metropolitan in December 2010. The company participates in all aspects of short and long-term insurances and various financial services. The company was the first insurance company to achieve level 1 BBBEE status. The...

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South 32 (S32) was spun out of BHP Billiton in 2015 and contained all of BHP's South African coal assets. It is, in its own right, a diversified miner of base metals and minerals such as zinc, coal, aluminium, silver, lead, nickel and manganese. It operates in South Africa, South America and Australia. The company has separated out its coal assets in South Africa...

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Workforce (WKF) is a labour broker that also does recruitment, specialist staffing, training, consulting, employee health management and sells financial and insurance products. The Constitutional Court decision known as the "Assign" case found that a tri-partite relationship existed between the labour broker, the employee and the client and that temporary...

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Grindrod (GND) is an international freight and financial services company which operates in twenty-eight countries. In mid-June 2018, Grindrod unbundled and separately listed its loss-making shipping division (Grinship - GSH). This accounts for the "cliff" in the share price at that time. The company is now focused on its two remaining divisions - freight and...

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Stadio (SDO) is a tertiary education institution that offers a wide range of post-school training. The company offers higher education through five universities offering higher certificates, degrees, masters, and PhD qualifications. It currently has over 38300 students enrolled in 6 faculties offering more than 50 accredited training programmes. 80% of these...