Shanta progress...16 Mar 2016 10:07
It's a strange one this... Seems to follow a pattern with the SP. Price drifts lower between operational updates with nervous investors worried about 'old' Shanta performance. Then they issue stonking operational updates and the price goes up, almost in surprise. That's the point. It's new management, who are delivering, but it's as though the market is still not convinced, living in the past. The other thing is we've seen no benefit here for substantially higher gold price. I know there is some hedging but only a proportion of forward sales have been made so SHG will most certainly see additional uplift in profits this year if the gold price at least holds current levels. Shantas hedging strategy has served it well.