Sibanye-Stillwater on Thursday reported a half-year profit boosted by higher precious metals prices and a weaker rand currency.
The precious metals producer, said headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the six months to June was 350 cents ($0.21)per share compared with a loss per share of 54 cents a year earlier when output was hit by strikes.
HEPS is he main profit measure used in South Africa.
The company reinstated a dividend and declared an interim dividend of 50 cents per ordinary share.
($1 = 16.9571 rand)
(Reporting by Tanisha Heiberg. Editing by Jane Merriman)
Price
|
Change
|
5d. change
|
Capi.
| ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 454.5 PTS | +0.17% | -0.11% | - | ||
| 154 PTS | +0.87% | +0.92% | - | ||
| 1,947 PTS | +1.05% | +1.69% | - | ||
| 22.4 ZAR | -1.62% | -11.85% | 3.33B | ||
| 1,367 PTS | +1.08% | -2.05% | - | ||
