Preferred copper mine exposure

Global Mining Research

With copper trading above US$4.00/lb the ability for copper miners to fund initiatives is strong, providing a boon especially for small capitalisation base metals companies. In such a group, David Radclyffe’s preferred exposure is through BUY-rated Capstone Mining and Sandfire Resources, both offering a blend of value and growth, and which have benefited from M&A accelerated growth. Tony Robson considers Ero Copper after its massive underperformance; it is now more attractively priced and the company is pushing exploration hard, but growth is some time out, so he maintains his HOLD rating.

- 01 April, 2022

Capstone Mining (CS CN) Canada

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Global Mining Research

There is a lot to like regarding Capstone's proposed US$1.3bn merger with Mantos Copper - it delivers meaningful scale and makes the new group very much a Chilean-focussed copper producer (Mantos Blancos and Mantoverde projects add ~100kt/yr of copper). There are also clear district level synergies with Mantoverde and the Santo Domingo development project only ~30km apart. The deal appears accretive to NPV (+9%) and 2023E EPS (+19%) and CFPS (+25%). CS at 1.0x P/NPV is attractively priced vs. midcap peers.

- 10 December, 2021