Implats falls most in a month as profit tumbles on work stoppages
JOHANNESBURG – Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s second-largest miner of the metal, headed for the biggest decline in more than a month after the company said full-year earnings will tumble as much as 75% because of lower local prices and production stoppages.
The shares slid 4.6% to R58.95 as of 9:52 a.m. in Johannesburg, the largest decrease in the five-member FTSE/JSE Africa Platinum Mining Index. A close at this level will mark the biggest one-day drop since July 20. Earnings before one-time items are expected to be between 9 cents to 16 cents a share for the year ended June 30, compared with 36 cents a year earlier, the Johannesburg-based company said in a statement Monday.
The world’s top platinum miners, including Anglo American Platinum Ltd. and Lonmin Plc, have seen earnings squeezed by a more than 40% plunge in platinum prices in the past five years. Platinum averaged R13 825 ($1 026) an ounce in the year to June 30, almost 3% below the mean a year earlier. The metal is Impala’s main earner and the company has also been plagued by safety-related stoppages in the past year.
Impala’s Number 14 shaft, which produces almost a fifth of its metal, “has had a horrific year,” said Rene Hochreiter, a Johannesburg-based analyst at Noah Capital Markets (Pty) Ltd.
On May 17, two miners at the shaft were killed after an underground area caved in and CEO Terence Goodlace announced his resignation a day later. As of June, eight workers have been killed at Impala’s operations this year. Every fatality causes lost production while government inspectors examine the site.
Impala shares have more than doubled this year amid a broader rebound in mining stocks. The company also produces palladium, rhodium, nickel and copper.
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