Sirius Real Estate has issued 1,271,279 new ordinary shares at R19.22 per share in terms of its scrip distribution alternative resulting in a capitalisation of distributable retain profits of R24,43 million.

Industrials REIT has issued 2,134,779 new ordinary shares at R29.80 per share in terms of its scrip distribution alternative resulting in a capitalisation of distributable retain profits of R63,62 million.

The JSE has suspended trading in all securities of Afristrat Investment given that the company’s audited annual financial statements for the year ended March 31, 2022 are only expected to be distributed on or before November 30. Also suspended is the trading of Luxe securities, whose annual financial statement for the year ended February 28, 2022, are still to be published.

Mantengu Mining (formerly Mine Restoration Investments) shares commenced trading again on August 5, 2022, following the lifting of suspension by the JSE. The company was suspended in July 2016 when the Board applied to the JSE for the voluntary suspension of MRI’s shares.

A number of companies announced the repurchase of shares

Argent Industrial has repurchased 1,054,574 shares over the period July 27 to 29, 2022 in terms of the general authority grated by shareholders. The shares, representing 1.77% of the issued ordinary shares capital, were repurchased for an aggregate R13,5 million. The repurchased shares will be de-listed and cancelled.

Industrials REIT has repurchased a further 50,000 ordinary shares at 171 pence per share as it moves to mitigate the dilutive effect of the scrip dividend election.

Naspers and Prosus continued with their open-ended share repurchase programmes. This week the companies announced that during the period 1st to 5th August 2022, a total of 3,885,040 Prosus shares were acquired for an aggregate €245,46 million and 659,095 Naspers shares for R1,58 billion.

British American Tobacco repurchased a further 955,000 shares this week for a total of £31,22 million. Following the purchase of these shares, 204,745,029 shares are held in Treasury. The number of shares permitted to be repurchased is set at 229,400,000.

Three companies issued profit warnings. The companies were: Cognition, CA Sales and Impala Platinum.

Six companies this week issued or withdrew cautionary notices. The companies were: Trustco, Motus, Afristrat Investment, Ayo Technology Solutions, Novus and Nutritional Holdings.

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