Basic Materials
Live Price
Offline$0.82
+0.00% today
1Y Change
+38.98%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Coverage: 245 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
PPC Ltd (PPCLY) is a Basic Materials stock with a market cap of $8.95B and listed on OTC. The stock last traded around $0.82 and up 39.0% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Jun 12, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -1.9%, EPS growth of +18.5%, a dividend yield of 8.4%. What stands out right now is revenue -1.9%, EPS +18.5%, free cash flow +159.5% with operating margin 11.5% and ROIC 9.7%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 8.4%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 17.3 and price/sales 0.9. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a income-oriented value setup than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines PPCLY price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Basic Materials peers on this page.
Benchmark Comparison
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PPCLY
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
PPCLY Max Drawdown
-15.25%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$8.9B
-9.6% YoY
FY Net Income
$189.0M
+415.0% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$981.0M
+107.0% YoY
Revenue Growth
-1.9%
EPS Growth
+18.5%
Gross Margin
20.5%
Net Margin
5.1%
Income statement
ZAR
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 9.9B | 10.1B | 8.3B | 9.9B | 8.9B |
| Gross Profit | 1.9B | 1.6B | 1.1B | 1.5B | 2.1B |
| Operating Income | 1.0B | 619M | 117M | 522M | 1.1B |
| EBITDA | 1.4B | 981M | 836M | 1.4B | 1.6B |
| Net Income | 466M | 406M | -667M | -60M | 189M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
ZAR
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 872M | 857M | 424M | 577M | 457M |
| Total Assets | 9.0B | 9.6B | 10.5B | 15.3B | 15.8B |
| Total Liabilities | 3.3B | 3.7B | 4.1B | 8.0B | 9.1B |
| Shareholder Equity | 5.8B | 6.0B | 5.7B | 7.3B | 6.9B |
| Total Debt | 643M | 933M | 1.3B | 1.6B | 2.7B |
| Net Debt | -229M | 76M | 835M | 1.1B | 2.2B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
1.4B
+30.5% YoY
Capital Expenditures
383M
+32.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
981M
+107.0% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
20.5%
Operating Margin
11.5%
Net Margin
5.1%
ROE
9.0%
Debt / Equity
0.12x
Next Step
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