Отправлено 27 February 2014 - 16:21
Если вкратце JP Morgan может поднять оценку с 3,2 до 5,87 GBP, если реструктуризация будет сделана.
Kazakhmys Plans Split to Focus on Highest-Grade Copper Assets
2014-02-27 09:32:18.561 GMT
By Firat Kayakiran
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Kazakhmys Plc, Kazakhstan’s biggest
copper producer, plans to reorganize into a slimmed-down company
focused on its highest-grade and lowest-cost mines, reducing its
size by two-thirds. The stock surged by the most on record.
The streamlined entity will remain listed and have annual
copper production of 80,000 to 90,000 metric tons, Chief
Executive Officer Oleg Novachuk said on a conference call today.
Its workforce will drop to 12,000 from 56,000 now under the plan
that will be put to shareholders once it gains board approval,
he said. The goal is complete the reorganization this year.
Kazakhmys has been disposing of some assets as it pursues a
lower-cost and more profitable operation. The London-based
company today reported a second consecutive full-year loss after
a slump in global commodities prices. Its older, lower-margin
operations will be spun off to former Chairman Vladimir Kim,
Novachuk said.
“Game-changing restructuring proposal outshines solid
2013 financials,” Fraser Jamieson, an analyst at JPMorgan
Securities Plc in London, wrote in a note to investors today as
he upgraded Kazakhmys to overweight. “If delivered, we estimate
a group net present value of 587 pence a share, more than 160
percent above the current share price.”
Kazakhmys surged as much as 33 percent to 297.4 pence in
London, the biggest intraday gain since it was listed in 2005,
and was at 268.5 pence at 9:06 a.m. The volume of shares traded
was more than three times the daily average for the last 90
days.
Net Loss
The grade of copper mined by the reorganized Kazakhmys will
rise to about 2.4 percent from 0.99 percent last year, while
cash costs will drop to 130 cents to 150 cents a pound from 328
cents in 2013, Novachuk said.
The company had a net loss of $2.03 billion for 2013 after
a loss of $2.27 billion a year earlier, it said in a statement.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
fell to $1.15 billion from $1.36 billion in 2012.
After producing 294,000 metric tons of copper last year,
Kazakhmys targets output of 285,000 to 295,000 for 2014. Copper
prices slid 7.6 percent to average $7,352 a ton last year.
Kim will gain control of low-grade copper, higher-
production costs in Kazakhstan’s Zhezkazgan and Central regions,
Novachuk said on the call.
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--Editors: John Viljoen, Alex Devine
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