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Is the valuation fair?

sibanye-Stillwater concluded an R8bn share repurchase programme earlier this month, but its success belies no small degree of frustration at the gold and platinum group metals (PGM) miner. While a buy-back is a viable form of shareholder return – less shares in issue mean more earnings per share – its evil twin is a recognition that the market isn’t fully valuing the company.

This notion of fair valuation was at the heart of recent comments by Laurent Charbonnier, Sibanye-Stillwater’s

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