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Simon Shares Really strong November for stocks. France and Italy had their best months ever, S&P500 +11% and JSE +10%. The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine has been approved for use in the UK starting next week. Limited supplies so front line workers and old people first. But this is good news and suggests that the news for 2021 will be more about rolling out of the vaccine albeit probably also lots of second and third waves. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it's not a train. Upcoming events; 03 December ~ JSE Power Hour: Position your portfolio for 2021 Subscribe to our feed here Subscribe or review us in iTunes Bytes UK (JSE code: BYI) JSE listing is confirmed for next Thursday. Purple Group* (JSE code: PPE) very strong results for the year ending August 2020. Sygnia (JSE code: SYG) issue a strong trading update, HEPS expected 62%-67% stronger, results due on Tuesday. ASISA report record inflows into CIS in SA in Q3 while Q2 saw R88billion added as markets were collapsing. Peeps are s

Offshore / U.K. economy is forecast to contract by 11.3% this year, "the largest fall in output for 300 years," Chancellor Rishi Sunak tells MPs / Musk now the worlds second richest person / Janet Yellen tipped for Biden cabinet as Treasury Secretary / China imposing tariffs on Australia, especially their wine. / Down Jones trades above 30,000 for the first time. / Black Friday 2020 online shopping surges 22% to record $9 billion, Adobe says Local / Huge $5billion share buy-back from Prosus and Naspers / Firstrand update "the earnings trend for the four months from 1 July 2020 to 31 October 2020 is reflecting a better than anticipated rebound." / EOH CEO, Steven van Collier testifies at the Zondo Commission / Lewis results and dividend results on a dividend yield of +11% / Acquisition and baby range expand Mr Price’s markets / Gold under serious pressure

Simon Says Another week another vaccine. U.K. economy is forecast to contract by 11.3% this year, "the largest fall in output for 300 years," Chancellor Rishi Sunak tells MPs. US Jobless Claims +30K To 778K In Nov-21 Week, secondly weekly rise. Continuing Claims -299K to 6,071,000 for Nov-14 week. Dow Jones trades above 30,000 for the first time on Tuesday & S&P500 closed at a new all-time high. Dow 20,000 was 25 January 2017 and 10,000 29 March 1999 (12,000 was September 2007). Lewis (JSE code: LEW) results with a 133c interim dividend. Double that for the full year makes for a yield fo some 11.9%. Stor-Age* (JSE code: SSS) offering their dividend as cash or new shares issued at 1240c. People asking what I'm doing? Taking the shares. Adcorp (JSE code: ADR), stock was 130c on 15 October ahead of their trading udate. Results in Wednesday saw it trading at 600c [caption id="attachment_24206" align="aligncenter" width="888"] Adcorp Daily[/caption] * I hold ungeared positions. Upcoming events; 03 Decem

Offshore / Another Monday another vaccine ~ Moderna / 12 million Americans are on track to lose unemployment benefits in December if Congress doesn't extend key programs that were part of the CARES Act passed in March. / JPMorgan forecasts negative GDP in the first quarter, the first Wall St. bank to begin forecasting a negative reading. JPM expects the economy to bounce back in / Amazon moving into the pharmacy business / Boeing 737 Max is back / Bitcoin heading for new highs & FSCA proposes making cryptocurrencies an asset class. Local / Moody’s & Fitch downgrade SA further into junk. / Somebody wants City Lodge East Africa hotels / Results; Stor-Age*, Astral Spar

Simon Shares Another week, another vaccine. This time from Moderna and also using the Messenger RNA as does the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine. Stor-Age* (JSE code: SSS) results very solid. Wilson Bayly Holmes (JSE code: WBO) results not great as Australia hurts, again. Raubex (JSE code: RBX) announces an R2.87billion contract win from Sanral. Strong Spar (JSE code: SPP) results. Boeing 737 MAX 8 returns to skies as FAA lifts grounding order. Brait (JSE code: BAT) net asset value 771c (based on 9x EV/EBITDA), share price 388c.   [caption id="attachment_24160" align="aligncenter" width="888"] Brait monthly chart[/caption] * I hold ungeared positions. ETF: Low fees double your investment* Upcoming events; 05 November ~ JSE Power Hour: Searching for income 19 November ~ JSE Power Hour: Twenty years of ETFs Subscribe to our feed here Subscribe or review us in iTunes Owning unlisted shares In the last few years, we've seen a bunch of stocks being delisted from the JSE and in pretty much all cases existing sha

Offshore / Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine news / U.K. economy expands by 15.5% in the third quarter, the most on record yet adds another Sterling150billion in stimulus / Disney reports first loss in 40 years, but Disney+ hits 73m subs / Emirates eyes return to profitability in 2022 only / Deutsche Bank proposes a 5% tax for people still working from home after the pandemic / DoorDash files IPO plans, NYSE listing Local / Lockdown level 1 lite? / Growth Point raises R4.3billion / SA’s unemployment rate 30.8% in Q3 / Sun International update gives great insight into leisure locally. / Telkom results / MultiChoice results

Simon Shares US elections, everybody nows who won except the orange one and the GOP. Vaccine news from Pfizer and BioNTech has changed market behaviour. Banks and consumer stocks now the rage while tech and gold is falling. Locally banks are flying. Fini15 daily chart Interesting to see the JSE All Share up circa 14.4% over the last 6. months yet its biggest constituent Naspers only up 3.71% over the same period. A lot of underlying and broad strength. @SimonPB @CAPITALSIGMAza @smalltalkdaily — Mark Tobin (@mtobinwex) November 11, 2020   Searching for income Upcoming events; 05 November ~ JSE Power Hour: Searching for income 19 November ~ JSE Power Hour: Twenty years of ETFs Subscribe to our feed here Subscribe or review us in iTunes Bombastic billionaires* Somebody strikes it big in one field, and now they think they're the smartest person in any field. A CEO of a successful company leaves to start a new company, they just assume it'll work and investors believe them. We see this all the time.

Offshore / US elections over / US unemployment rate 6.9% / Ant IPO cancelled / BoE no change & QE increased by £150 billion to £895 billion / Berkshire Hathaway bought back a record $9 billion in stock in the third quarter Local / Rand strength / Results; Dis-Chem, Richemont & Foschini / Aspen vaccine JV with J&J

Simon Shares US Election results pretty much playing as expected. Trump doing well in early counting but some important states still to come but he has declared victory and is heading for the courts. Upcoming events; 05 November ~ JSE Power Hour: Searching for income 19 November ~ Twenty years of ETFs Subscribe to our feed here Subscribe or review us in iTunes Finding infrastructure stocks Globally one of the key responses to the pandemic is and will be, infrastructure spend. Who are the potential winners? PPC (JSE code: PPC) Sephaku (JSE code: SEP) Reunert (JSE code: RLO) Consolidated Infrastructure Group (JSE code: CIL) WBHO (JSE code: WBO) Murray and Roberts (JSE code: MUR) Aveng (JSE code: AEG) Raubex (JSE code: RBX) Afrimat (JSE code: AFT) Brikor (JSE code: BIK) Stefanuti Stocks (JSE code: SSK) Kumba (JSE code: KIO) ArcelorMittal SA (JSE code: ACL) JSE – The JSE is a registered trademark of the JSE Limited. JSE Direct is an independent broadcast and is not endorsed or affiliated with, nor has

Simon Shares Distell Group (JSE code: DHG) issued a solid update albeit short on numbers with one exception. They reduced net debt by some R1.7billion which is a massive number. Pick n Pay (JSE code: PIK) is heading into Nigeria and the market is worried as Nigeria is littered with the bodies of corporate South Africa. But they are doing so in smaller regional malls and not going big, so if it fails it won't be costly. The Standard Bank (JSE code: SBK) update fits in with news out of a press conference of last week. 90%-95% of loans that took payment holidays are back and paying. A sold number, but it does show lenders are not yet out of the woods. Absa changing their distribution policy for the NFGOVI (tracking the top 10 bonds issued by the South African Government). Instead of reinvesting they will now payout distributions. Very strong update from Cashbuild (JSE code: CSB) with Q1 revenue up 22% and stock is up some 9% in the news. Upcoming events; 05 November ~ JSE Power Hour: Searching for income S

Simon Shares PPC (JSE code: PPC) results. The $150million debt in the DRC is the problem. If they solve that they'll do a rights issue. If not they're bankrupt. The president's speech on Thursday should give them some hope as he likely promises lots of energy and infrastructure spending. Balwin (JSE code: BWN) results. Not bad considering, they paid a dividend and I like them at current prices. Coronation* (JSE code: CML) issued a good trading update. With Purple Group* (JSE code: PPE) they are my two preferred financial stocks for the post-pandemic bounce (actually making money during the pandemic. Keillen Ndlovu on local and offshore listed property. * I hold ungeared positions. Subscribe to our feed here Sign up for email alerts as a new show goes live Bankrupt There are a number of listed stocks in business rescue and I am getting asked all the time about when they start trading again. Intu Comair Basil Read Phumelela Others I forget about Short answer, they won't start trading again and you'll g

Offshore / The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, for the 2020 fiscal year, the U.S. deficit will be $3.13 trillion (15.2% of GDP). This number would cause the total U.S. national debt to come in at 102% of GDP in 2020, the first time since 1946 that the U.S. debt has been larger than its economy. / A new stimulus package on or off the table? / The U.K. economy grew by 2.1% in August, less than half the pace anticipated / JPMorgan says U.S. Capital Gains Tax hike (proposed by Biden) may briefly hit stocks / Robinhood says some customer accounts may have become the target of hackers / New iPhones expected on Tuesday, with 5G Local / President Cyril Ramaphosa will address both houses of parliament on Thursday to unveil the long-awaited economic recovery plan for the country. / PPC results / Canal+ buys 6.5% in Multichoice / Spur update, strong recovery but early days. / FNB lists 20 ETNs over US-listed stocks. / Balwin results and the scuffle around Mooikloof

Simon Shares How to fix the JSE, some great ideas by Keith McLachlan. SARB buys R39.4billion of local government bonds in the secondary market in September. French Canal+ takes 6.5% stake in Multichoice (JSE code: MCG). Shoprite* (JSE code: SHP) says their loyalty program is a huge part of them gaining R4billion in market share? Launched a year ago it has over 5million members. Pick n Pay (JSE code: PIK) date saw "core retail sales - including food, groceries and general merchandise, but excluding liquor, clothing and tobacco - grew 8.7% year-on-year (6.4% like-for-like)." Sasol (JSE code: SOL) sells some LCCP for US$2billion, reduces debt burden to $8billion. Zeder (JSE code: ZED) keeps dividend and says conditions are improving. But no news on the new strategy. AdaptIT (JSE code: ADI) results after I recorded last Wednesday. The stock was at 120c and HEPS expected at +65c. The stock now 250c. The market gets it wrong sometimes, especially in the small-cap space. Fed chair Powell commenting Wednesday evenin

Offshore / Trump Covid-19 with elections 4 weeks away. / US unemployment 7.9% / Disney to lay off 28,000, American Airlines 19,000 & 12,000 United Airlines / Palantir lists with direct listing / Airbnb listing progressing with $20billion valuation Local / Unemployment numbers / August CPI 3.1% / Capitec results / Alviva results / Ascendis Health results (issued, cancelled and re-issued) / Remgro results, discount to NAV at 40% (lots of deep discounts to NAV) / Sasol sells 50% for $2billion

Simon Shares Day 188 of lockdown. August CPI 3.1%. Everybody now suddenly knows about the expanded unemployment rate? Capitec* (JSE code: CPI) results were as always solid. Hit hard by the pandemic, but resilient. Valuations are rich, as always. Alviva (JSE code: AVV). Remember old Pinnacle, once a darling and then hit by claims of dodge tenders. They bought Datacentrix changed their name to Alviva and issued decent results. Everybody asking me about Ascendis Health (JSE code: ASC). To me it is binary, either they sell Remedica for a good price and they can bumble along, or they go bust. Debt is huge and risks are massive, sure some potential reward but why rush it? Remgro (JSE code: REM) results, +40% discount to net asset value (NAV). Either you view this as a cheap entry into some listed businesses inside Remgro. Or your view is that holding structures are value destroyers. PSG also at a massive discount to NAV. Typically discount used to be around 15%, but now we're seeing 40% discounts. Now the trade

Simon Shares Day 181 of lockdown. The Tongaat (JSE code: TON) deal to sell their starch unit to Barloworld for R5.35billion is happening and the Tongaat share price loved the news. We're seeing a strong bounce locally while the US markets are also having a better run, risk back on (for now). But what was odd was gold. It didn't run as stocks were selling off and has actually weakened. The point is that if fears were of a longer sell off gold should do better, except for two things. Firstly nothing is linear and secondly when there is real fear as we saw back in March everything is correlated at 1 and everything sells off. The UK back into lockdown, not the hard lockdown of March / April. But lockdown that the government is saying may last six months. This pandemic is not over. Property stock results are coming thick and fast and frankly, most are not as bad as I expected. Make no mistake, they're ugly. But I had expected worse and while distributions are being delayed and valuations were written down they'

Offshore / BoE, Fed and BOJ all left rates unchanged, BoE ‘explores’ negative rates. / TikTok deal with Oracle (and Walmart) confirmed. / Wechat ban from midnight, 3.3million users in America and China threatens to expand its “unreliable entities list”. But “TRUMP'S PROHIBITION ON WECHAT IN U.S. IS PUT ON HOLD BY JUDGE” / OECD ups global 2020 gdp, but drops ours / Snowflake IPO price of $120 and it opened $245. / Apple has lost 22.6% from its intraday record high of $137.98 on 2 September, losing around $532 billion in market value. Local / MPC no change and next move expected to be up, late 2021. / Level 1 and open borders / Comair rescue plans approved and will delist from the JSE, will resume flying in December / Eskom takes 139 farms from Municipality of Matjhabeng as security against R3.4bn debt. / Results; Pan African Resources, Woolies and Discovery.

Simon Shares Day 174 of lockdown. Level 1? The Foschini Group (JSE code: TFG) trading update spooked the market, but it was the six months to end September. In other words, all lockdown. African Rainbow Capital (JSE code: AIL) results including an R750million non-renounceable rights issue. Trading at some 75% discount to the net asset value (NAV). Sure some decent assets, but the market has hated this one since listing. Super Group (JSE code: SPG) results were tough, especially as they have vehicle dealerships locally and in the UK. Pan African Resources* (JSE code: PAN) results saw debt halve and profits and cash flow essentially doubling. Remains the best gold miner on the JSE. Very solid Metrofile* (JSE code: MFL) results and I would think the delisting at 330c remains on track. Brexit deals seem stuck again over the hard border. * I hold ungeared positions. Two new ESG ETFs from Satrix. Upcoming events; 08 October ~ JSE Power Hour: Investing in local and global listed property Subscribe to our

Offshore / US markets remain volatile as Nasdaq has worst week since March / LVMH Tiffany deal is off/delayed / Brexit talks going all messy / UK economy grew 6.6% in July as gradual recovery continues / Opec turns 60 Local / Q2 GDP -51%, or -16.4% / Firstrand results / Shoprite results / Aspen sale & results / Zeder CEO quits and the company is looking for a new strategy / White & yellow maize above R3k a ton

Simon Shares Day 167 of lockdown. Local Q2 GDP -16.4% (-51% if you annualise it). Makes us one of the worst-hit economies for Q2, not surprising as we did very hard lockdown. Now to get out of the hole and that's going to be the hard part. Of our three main political parties, the honest answer is none of them really have a workable economic policy that we need right now. Serious buying of SA inc shares the last two days. Jeez peeps are buying SA Inc Top movers in Top40 and MidCap pic.twitter.com/6zgQO5DmHS — Simon Brown (@SimonPB) September 9, 2020   Shoprite* (JSE code: SHP) results knocked it out the park. Their Sixty60 app is killing it. My local Checkers has a bunch of full-time staff packing and scores of motorcycles outside. Right now they are well ahead of the local competition and even ahead of Amazon Fresh in the US. Aspen (JSE code: APN) sells commercial rights and intellectual property for the thrombosis business in Europe for R12.6billion. They'll still manufacture & supply the prod