Kauri
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Zinifix is searching to fill its top job as Greig Gailey decides to leave early from the company for personal reasons and the board has approved it.
It is be interesting to see who takes the top job and where he/she decides to take the company.
Any thoughts?
Zinifex
Merrill Lynch
Sell: ($15.50 to $17.50 range pre-asset sale)
USING comparisons with other miners, notably Canadian lead-zinc play Hudbay, Merrill Lynch has come up with a valuation of the Zinifex mining business worth between $9.50 and $10.50 a share while its smelting assets are worth between $6 and $7 a share. Zinifex is poised to join forces with Belgian materials company Umicore to create pure zinc play Nystar but, instead of retaining a 60 per cent stake in the company, will sell its interest. That will see Zinifex retain its Australian mining assets as well as exploration projects, including Dugald River. "Given that we see little zinc price upside and so no share price upside, we retain our sell recommendation," Merrill Lynch analyst Mike Harrowell told clients
Merrill Lynch rates the stock as Sell, High Risk - The broker, a prominent ZFX-basher, notes quarterly sales were particularly good and it has lifted NPV from $7.65 to $8.15. However, the analysts continue to maintain these zinc prices won''t last more than a year, and that ZFX is a sell down to $6.00.
MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--5th July
Australian copper and gold miner Oxiana Ltd. (OXR.AU) is interested in acquiring zinc miner Zinifex Ltd. (ZFX.AU), the Australian Financial Review reports Thursday.
Oxiana managing director Owen Hegarty told the newspaper there would be synergies in a marriage between the two companies after the Melbourne-based miner sold its smelting assets.
Shareholders in Zinifex will vote on a proposal to spin off the company's zinc-smelting assets, which will be combined with those of Umicore SA (UNI.BT) this month.
The tie-up of Oxiana and Zinifex, both of which are seen as takeover targets by foreign companies such as Xstrata PLC (XTA.LN) and Teck Cominco (TCK), would combine Oxiana's growth portfolio and the strong earnings from Zinifex' Century and Rosebery mines, the AFR says.
I wonder how many ZFX shares Merill Lynch has been accumulating during this period?
I'll bet something special it's been more than zero!:
Zinifex share price is up 4% today after all the juicy gains last week. Is anything going to stop it?
Target $22.50 (was $19.72). Higher commodity price forecasts have seen the broker lift its earnings estimates for the company by 2.6% in FY07 and 4.4% in FY08. This drives the increase in the broker's target price.
An increase in longer dated commodity price forecasts, offset somewhat by the A$, has led to a target increase from $14.89 to $18.12.
I agree.its dropping along with everything else in the market.
zinifex is a "likely" takeover target AFTER the spinning off the assetts with nyrstar
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