Lighthouse Properties’ offer to shareholders to acquire new Lighthouse shares has closed with the company issuing 7,692,308 new shares at R6.50 per share. The R50 million capital raise will provide the company with additional liquidity primarily for capital expenditure at its shopping centres.
York Timber intends to raise R250 million by way of a partially underwritten renounceable rights offer of 142,857,142 ordinary shares at a price of R1.75 per share. A2 Investment Partners will underwrite between R111 million and R160 million of the offer for a fee of R4,78 million. The proceeds of the offer will be utilised to preserve the timber volumes by procuring more timber externally and will be applied towards capital investment in manufacturing plants.
In terms of the scrip distribution alternative, Datatec will issue 3,171,196 new Datatec shares resulting in a capitalisation of distributable retained profits of R137 million.
Oasis Crescent Property Fund will issue 901,099 new units in terms of its scrip distribution alternative resulting in a capitalisation of distributable retained profits of R21,08 million.
As part of its capital optimisation strategy, Investec Ltd acquired on the open market a further 1,359,287 Investec Plc shares at an average price of 500 pence per share (LSE and BATS Europe) and 1,716,167 Investec Plc shares at an average price of R104.32 per share (JSE). Since October 3rd the company has purchased 12,58 million shares.
Transpaco has announced its intention to repurchase 1,56,000 shares from Samuel Abelheim Holdings at R27.48 per share for an aggregate of R42, 87 million, to be drawn from cash resources. The repurchase, which represents 4.95% of the issued share capital of the company, is a related party transaction and thus requires the approval of shareholders.
A number of companies listed on one of South Africa’s Stock Exchanges have initiated share buyback programmes and each week update shareholders. They are:
Glencore this week repurchased 16,100,000 shares for a total consideration of £89,20 million. The share repurchases form part of the second phase of the company’s existing buy-back programme which is expected to be completed by February 2023.
South32 has this week repurchased a further 1,021,256 shares at an aggregate cost of A$4,09 million.
Prosus and Naspers continued with their open-ended share repurchase programmes. During the period November 28 – Dec 2, a further 5,156,456 Prosus shares were repurchased for an aggregate €315,53 million and a further 850,610 Naspers shares for a total consideration of R2,21 billion.
British American Tobacco repurchased a further 580,373 shares this week for a total of £19,77 million.
Two companies issued profit warnings this week: Marshall Monteagle and Sebata.
Three companies issued or withdrew cautionary notices. The companies were:
Jasco Electronics, Murray & Roberts and Jasco Electronics.
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