1. FEBRUARY 2012
Gresham Group 150
February 2012
Darren Martin
Gresham Advisory Partners
dmartin@gresham.com.au
+61 8 9486 7077
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ASX RESOURCES - GRESHAM GROUP 150
We are pleased to present the first edition of ‘Gresham Group 150’ for 2012, a ranking of the top 150 ASX listed resources
companies (excluding oil and gas), by market capitalisation.
Some of the nerves of late 2011 appear to have settled early in 2012, with January recording a solid performance for resource
stocks. The market value of the Gresham Group 150 constituents increased ~$50 billion, or 11.7% from $410.9 to $458.9
billion during the month.
The ASX/S&P 200 Resources Index increased 10.7% for the month, while both the ASX All Ordinaries and ASX/S&P 200 Index
increased 5.2% and 5.1% respectively. The positive sentiment also flowed through to corporate activity with an increase in
the number of announced transactions during December/January, and appears to be continuing into February.
In this edition we have ranked the performance of the Group 150 companies by share price and market capitalisation for the
12 month period to 31 December 2011 (only includes companies currently in the Group 150 and excludes dividends/capital
returns). Interestingly only 24 companies recorded a positive increment in share price over the 12 months and 49 companies
increased their market capitalisation.
2011 Top 10 2011 Top 10
- Share Price Appreciation - Market Capitalisation Appreciation
Azimuth 141.5% Gold African Iron 1168.9% Iron Ore
Rocklands 106.5% Coal Base 276.9% Mineral Sands
Northern Star 101.3% Gold Carabella 259.0% Coal
ABM 89.7% Gold Metrocoal 247.9% Coal
Alcyone 88.1% Silver Azimuth 229.7% Gold
Flinders 86.7% Iron Ore Evolution 227.0% Gold
Iluka 69.6% Mineral Sands Kangaroo 210.7% Coal
Metrocoal 64.4% Coal Cokal 186.4% Coal
Western Desert 62.7% Iron Ore Gold One 175.2% Gold
Gold One 56.9% Gold Alcyone 171.5% Silver
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14. recenT resources TransacTions
Group 150
Mergers and Acquisitions
2011 2011 2010 2009
GRAM
2009 2009 2008
Advised Advised Bathurst Advised BHP Advised BG Advised Guandong Advised Allied Gold Advised Gem
Wesfarmers on Resources on Billiton on its Group on its $1bn Rising on its $216m on its $54m Diamonds on its
the sale of acquisition of $204m offer for takeover offer for cornerstone acquisition of $300m acquisition
Premier Coal to Galilee Resources United Minerals Pure Energy investment in Pan Australian of Kimberley
Yancoal Australia. from Eastern Corporation. Resources Aust. Solomons Gold. Diamonds.
Limited. Limited.
Takeover Defence
2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2007
Advised Aragon Advised Polaris Advised Indophil Advised Advised Energy Advised Brandrill Advised Summit
Resources on $69m Metals NL on on $545m Centaurus Metals on its $86m Limited on its Resources on its
takeover offer by $178m takeover recommended Resources on its proportional takeover $45m takeover A$1.2bn takeover
Westgold offer by Mineral offer from Zijin $20m merger offer by China offer by Ausdrill by Paladin Energy.
Resources. Resources with Glengarry Guangdong Nuclear Limited.
Limited. Resources. Power Group.
Strategic Advisory, Joint Ventures and Capital Markets
2010 2010 2009 2008 2009/08 2008 2008
Advised BHP Introduced Advised BHP Advised Advised Iluka on its Advised Advised Iluka
Billiton on its Denham Capital to Billiton on the Bannerman $114m Murchison Metals Resources on its
US$116bn iron Trans Tasman disposal of the Resources on its institutional on its joint venture $54m Narama coal
ore production Resources resulting Yabulu Nickel financing with placement and with Mitsubishi. divestment to
joint venture with in NZ iron sands refinery. Resource Capital $353m accelerated Xstrata.
Rio Tinto. investment. Funds. right issue.
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