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Market Cap: $616.8 million
2031 % Change: 51.82%
ASX listed but Malaysian OM Holdings has benefitted from the supply crunch in a couple of key but relatively obscure commodities, ferrosilicon and silicomanganese, two alloys used in steelmaking.
Ferrosilicon in particular has been hard to come by, with prices soaring 116.2% to US$4,150 per tonne CIF Japan at the end of September 2021 compared with US$1,920 in the June quarter.
OM owns the Bootu Creek manganese mine in Australia, which is wrapping up at the end of 2021, an indirect 13% interest in the Tshipi manganese mine in South Africa and processing operations in Sarawak, as well as an exploration JV with WA explorer Bryah Resources (BYH) .
The company banked a $23.5 million net profit after tax in the first half of 2021, and its second half results could be an interesting read with both prices and production of ferrosilicon on the up subsequently.