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ADITYA BIRLA MINERALS LIMITED (ABY)

ADITYA BIRLA MINERALS LIMITED (ABY)

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General Information
Company Name: Aditya Birla Minerals Limited
Stock Code: ABY
Website: www.adityabirlaminerals.com.au
GICS Sub-Industry: Diversified Metals & Mining
Market Cap ($M): 282
Equiv. Shares (M): 313

Current Price Data+
Current Price Open High Low Last Close Volume Price Movement
$ 0.900 $ 0.905 $ 0.910 $ 0.890 $ 0.900 638,301 0%

Current Broker Consensus Recommendation more
Recommendation: Hold
Recommendation Date: 3rd Sep 2010
12 Month Target Price (average): $1.6
Brokers Surveyed: 2

Company Overview

Business Description:
Aditya Birla Minerals Limited (ABY) is a copper mining, development and exploration company with operations in Western Australia and Queensland. ABY's projects include the Nifty Copper Operation and Mt Gordon Copper Operation. Concentrates produced are shipped to the Hindalco-owned 500,000 tpa rated Dahej copper smelter in India.

Strategy Analysis:
ABY plan to maximise total shareholder returns over the long term via targeting both organic and inorganic growth. In order to implement a strategy of organic growth ABY focuses on: 1. Scale efficiency: pursuing expansion opportunities that generate additional economies of scale at its existing operations. 2. Operational productivity: continuing existing operation productivity programmes at both the Nifty and Mt Gordon mines and achieving resource and reserve expansion. 3. Commodity price exposure consistent with the policy of minimal commodity and currency hedging in order to leverage the market price for copper. 4. Resource renewal: seeking to extend the economic life of existing mines and leverage existing infrastructure through exploration in the vicinity of current operations. Recent economic uncertainty has prompted ABY to place the Nifty oxide and Mammoth projects on care and maintenance whilst near term exploration has been limited to high potential targets. ABY is also targeting additional cost and efficiency initiatives. Aditya Birla Minerals reported NPAT down 58% to $12.84m for the half-year ended 30 September 2011. Revenues from ordinary activities were $234.04m, down 10.7% from the same period last year. Basic and diluted EPS were 4.10 cents compared to 9.76 cents last year. Net operating cash flow was $5.12m compared to $34.35m last year. No dividend was declared.


Financial Summary
Year to Mar NPAT EPS EPS chg (%) PER DPS Yield (%) Franking (%)
2013  F 50.9 16.2 -5.9 5.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
2012  F 54.0 17.3 -5.8 5.2 9.0 10.0 0.0
2011  A 57.4 18.3 -6.6 6.0 9.0 8.1 0.0
Source: Morningstar analyst estimates.

Peer Comparison
EPS Growth (%) P/E (%) Dividend Yield (%)
Company Mkt Cap 2011 A 2012 F 2013 F 2011 A 2012 F 2013 F 2011 A 2012 F 2013 F
Aditya Birla Min (ABY) $282 M -0.0657 -0.0584 -0.0586 4.9127 5.2174 5.5419 0.0000 0.1000 0.0000
BHP Billiton (BHP) $122,719 M 0.3914 0.0692 0.1948 10.4826 9.8037 8.2054 0.0246 0.0309 0.0329
Iluka Resources (ILU) $7,599 M -- 12.8318 1.1768 210.5568 15.2227 6.9931 0.0044 0.0344 0.0731
Rio Tinto (RIO) $31,505 M 0.7519 0.2220 0.0027 10.3368 8.4589 8.4357 0.0147 0.0177 0.0202
Sims Metal Management (SGM) $3,154 M 0.4412 0.1511 0.4209 16.4802 14.3164 10.0756 0.0307 0.0371 0.0433

Market Comparison
Earnings P/E Ratio P/B Ratio P/E Growth P/S Ratio
ABY 0.38 5.17 0.53 10.00 0.61
Market 0.82 12.5 1.38 1.18 1.90
Sector 0.63 12.4 1.31 0.66 20.8

Directors
Name Position Start Date
Mr Debu Bhattacharya Chairman 18 April 2003
Sunil Kumar Kulwal Chief Executive Officer,Managing Director 22 April 2008
Mr Dilip Gaur Non-Executive Director 06 October 2010
Mr Mysore Prasanna Non-Executive Director (other) 28 January 2003
Mr Maurice Anghie Non-Executive Director (other) 21 November 2007
Mr Suresh K Bhargava Non-Executive Director (other) 20 August 2007
Mr Narayan Krishnan Non-Executive Director (other) 21 November 2007

Management
Name Position
R Gupta Chief Financial Officer
U Goel Chief Financial Officer
Peter Patrick Torre Company Secretary
D Whittle General Manager - Birla Nifty Pty Ltd
C Dawson General Manager - Birla Nifty Pty Ltd
R Jose Group Chief Mining Engineer / Acting General Manager ? Birla Mt Gordon Pty Ltd
D Greenaway Group Manager - Business Development and Geology

Substantial Shareholders
Holding Name
18,887,500 (6.03%) JP Morgan Chase & Co and its affiliates
159,820,001 (51.00%) Hindalco Industries Limited

Calendar of Events
Date Event
29 January 2013 Report (Quarterly)
29 October 2012 Report (Quarterly)
29 October 2012 Report (Interim)
30 July 2012 Report (Quarterly)
27 July 2012 Report (Quarterly)
16 July 2012 Report (Annual)
26 April 2012 Report (Prelim)
26 April 2012 Report (Quarterly)
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