RE: Platinum18 Jul 2025 08:46
Papaki .... the business was vastly undervalued BEFORE the deal was even announced. To "misleadingly" attribute the undervaluation to the proposal is "disingenuous" ..... to say the least. You are as guilty as all of the others of posting volumes of sheer conjecture, as you have no more actual knowledge than anyone else until the next company announcement. "The market is also assuming that JLP is not a copper business and will not achieve their target" This statement might seem to be true but the "market" has always "assumed " incorrectly and is very often wrong with regard business value, and nowadays particularly so, as it is made up of people whose time horizon is a matter of days or weeks. Warren Buffet became one of the richest men in the world by buying businesses that the market mis-valued. What the market doesn't like is uncertainty, and it is the uncertainty about the operational state of the copper operation that has caused the depressed share price. When, as I believe will be the case, the current production is proven to be stable and growing fast and how the proceeds of the PGM business sale, at whatever price is finally negotiated, will be employed to turbocharge that, then the share price will react accordingly, as the business will be producing hitherto unknown quantities of cash and the vision for the future will be clear. The company will have to work hard to persuade us that divesting the chrome/PGM operation is the right thing to do, at any price, and in that they will never convince everyone, particularly those that just and simply look at the price of the metals without considering the bigger picture in South Africa where business, economic, political and infrastructure issues all combine to make Zambia a far better place to be operating. The simple fact is that no one posting here, even those based in Africa, have a true understanding of the reality and complexity of operating these businesses in the two countries concerned, and that includes you.