Disposal & Elikhulu financing
The timing of the Uitkomst sale is with respect to an ‘effective date’, which has yet to be determined. For simplicity however, we have assumed that the ‘effective date’ falls on, or soon after 1 July 2018 (being the first day of PAF’s next financial year, FY18). As a result, our forecasts for FY17 (which include a full contribution from Uitkomst) remain largely unchanged relative to our last note (excepting an adjustment to costs at Evander – see below). Our forecasts for FY18 now include an assumed £3.9m profit on the disposal of Uitkomst (included in ‘Loss in associate etc’ in Exhibit 1, below):
Exhibit 1: Pan African underlying P&L statement by half-year (H114-H218e) actual and expected
£000s (unless otherwise indicated) |
H114 |
H214 |
H115 |
H215 |
H116 |
H216 |
H117 |
H217e |
FY17e |
FY18e |
Mineral sales |
84,637 |
69,914 |
68,126 |
72,951 |
75,632 |
93,728 |
105,046 |
101,256 |
206,303 |
205,021 |
Realisation costs |
(191) |
(159) |
(295) |
(396) |
(269) |
(687) |
(1,548) |
(1,346) |
(2,894) |
(235) |
Realisation costs (%) |
0.23 |
0.23 |
0.43 |
0.54 |
0.36 |
0.73 |
1.47 |
1.47 |
1.40 |
0.12 |
On-mine revenue |
84,447 |
69,755 |
67,831 |
72,555 |
75,363 |
93,041 |
103,498 |
99,911 |
203,409 |
204,785 |
Gold cost of production |
(52,519) |
|
(52,727) |
|
(48,935) |
(51,102) |
(65,188) |
(71,856) |
|
|
Pt cost of production |
(1,590) |
|
(1,797) |
|
(1,651) |
(1,796) |
(2,300) |
(2,529) |
|
|
Coal cost of production |
|
|
|
|
|
|
(10,568) |
(5,972) |
|
|
Cost of production |
(54,109) |
(52,285) |
(54,524) |
(55,889) |
(50,586) |
(57,637) |
(78,056) |
(80,357) |
(158,414) |
(133,356) |
Depreciation |
(5,088) |
(4,935) |
(4,676) |
(5,661) |
(5,277) |
(5,180) |
(6,450) |
(8,032) |
(14,482) |
(10,770) |
Mining profit |
25,249 |
12,535 |
8,631 |
11,005 |
19,500 |
30,225 |
18,992 |
11,521 |
30,513 |
60,660 |
Other income/(expenses) |
(223) |
(1,227) |
523 |
(273) |
(3,486) |
(8,697) |
2,175 |
(2,302) |
(127) |
(1,082) |
Loss in associate etc |
(89) |
(84) |
(128) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
256 |
0 |
256 |
3,913 |
(Loss)/profit on group disposal |
|
|
(140) |
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Impairment costs |
0 |
(12) |
(56) |
(2) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Royalty costs |
(1,747) |
(272) |
(795) |
(852) |
(1,194) |
(1,606) |
(968) |
(1,508) |
(2,477) |
(3,138) |
Net income before finance items |
23,191 |
10,940 |
8,034 |
9,878 |
14,819 |
19,923 |
20,455 |
7,711 |
28,166 |
60,353 |
Finances income |
381 |
306 |
321 |
28 |
144 |
299 |
70 |
|
|
|
Finance costs |
(725) |
(153) |
(498) |
(1,960) |
(558) |
(891) |
(1,079) |
|
|
|
Net finance income |
(344) |
153 |
(177) |
(1,932) |
(414) |
(592) |
(1,009) |
(1,025) |
(2,034) |
176 |
Profit before taxation |
22,847 |
11,093 |
7,857 |
7,946 |
14,405 |
19,331 |
19,446 |
6,686 |
26,131 |
60,529 |
Taxation |
(5,537) |
(1,618) |
(2,310) |
(1,823) |
(3,480) |
(4,754) |
(5,475) |
(1,868) |
(7,343) |
(18,758) |
Marginal tax rate (%) |
24 |
15 |
29 |
23 |
24 |
26 |
28 |
28 |
28 |
31 |
Deferred tax |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Profit after taxation |
17,310 |
9,475 |
5,548 |
6,122 |
10,925 |
14,577 |
13,970 |
4,818 |
18,788 |
41,771 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
EPS (p) |
0.95 |
0.52 |
0.30 |
0.33 |
0.60 |
0.82 |
0.93 |
0.30 |
1.20 |
2.32 |
HEPS** (p) |
0.95 |
0.52 |
0.31 |
0.33 |
0.60 |
0.82 |
0.91 |
0.30 |
1.20 |
2.32 |
Diluted EPS (p) |
0.95 |
0.52 |
0.30 |
0.33 |
0.60 |
0.80 |
0.93 |
0.30 |
1.17 |
2.27 |
Diluted HEPS* (p) |
0.95 |
0.52 |
0.31 |
0.33 |
0.60 |
0.80 |
0.91 |
0.30 |
1.17 |
2.27 |
Source: Pan African Resources, Edison Investment Research. Note: As reported basis; *Profit re Uitkomst sale; **HEPS = headline earnings per share (company adjusted basis).
Note that our group-wide forecasts for PAF are for production of 183.8koz of gold in FY17 compared to management’s guidance of 181koz.
On 12 April, Pan African announced its proposed funding package for its Elikhulu tailings project, comprising:
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A placing to existing and new institutional investors of 291.5m new ordinary shares at an issue price of 14p per placing share to raise £41m, or ZAR705m or US$51m.
■
A ZAR1.0bn (US$76m or £59m at prevailing forex rates) underwritten seven-year debt facility, which has been agreed in principle with Rand Merchant Bank (a division of FirstRand Bank Limited). The debt facility has credit approval, but remains subject to finalisation of definitive legal agreements and the fulfilment of conditions precedent, including licensing approvals and other conditions typical and/or customary for such a facility. Capital is to be repaid through equal quarterly repayments after a grace period of two years. Note that, as part of the credit approval process, RMB appointed Mineral Corporation as its independent technical advisor with a remit to review the Elikhulu DFS for fatal flaws, which it did, but did not identify any such flaws.
Following the placing, Pan African has 2,234.7m shares in issue. However, this includes 436.4m shares that are held by PAR Gold Proprietary Limited (formerly known as Shanduka Gold) and which are treated as treasury shares on consolidation. For accounting and reporting purposes therefore, following the placing, Pan African now has 1,798.3m effective shares in issue (cf 1,506.8m previously).
The decline in Edison’s FY17 EPS forecast from 1.36p per share previously to 1.20p/share currently (on an “as reported” basis – see Exhibit 1) arises, in part, as a result of this increase in the average number of shares in issue during the period and, in part, in anticipation of higher costs than previously expected at Evander to reflect the time period over which the retrenchment process (communicated to shareholders on 10 March) has been implemented. Note that our FY17 EPS forecast of 1.20p per share compares with a mean consensus estimate of 1.94p, within the range 1.40-2.66p, excluding Edison (source: Bloomberg, 15 May 2017).
Similarly, the mining aspects of our FY18 forecasts remain unchanged, with our current forecast varying from our previous forecast only as a result of changes in the average number of shares in issue, the net interest charge and the inclusion of the profit as a result of the Uitkomst colliery disposal. Within this context, note that our forecast EPS of 2.32p/share assumes a gold price for the year of US$1,248/oz and compares with a mean consensus of 2.42p within the range 2.00-2.92p.