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Profile’s Stock Exchange Handbook: 2020 – Issue 3 About the Stock Exchange Handbook

About the Stock Exchange Handbook

About the Stock Exchange Handbook
What’s in the Stock Using the same example, the full text
description of the classification is:
Exchange Handbook
Basic Materials – Basic Resources –
The Stock Exchange Handbook contains Mining – Platinum & Precious Metals
information on all JSE listed companies, sectors, The associated abbreviated version is:
stockbroking firms and sponsors. Listed Basic Materials – Basic Resrcs –
companies are sorted alphabetically by full name.
Mining – Plat&Prcs Metals
At least a full column (half page) is provided for
each listed company, allowing us to present Where to find more information
important quick-reference information such as the
JSE code, the nature of business, JSE sector, For readerswith accessto theInternet, Profile’s
directors,addressdetails,capitalstructure,liquidity website www.ShareData.co.za can be used as an
stats, summarised financials for the last five years, adjunct to the Stock Exchange Handbook.
key ratios, and important per-share statistics. ShareData.co.za is updated daily and provides
All listed companies are invited to provide additional resources for investors and sharehold-
additional information for the convenience of ers, enabling users to keep abreast of the latest
investors and shareholders by using the full page results and news from listed companies.
format and, where appropriate, additional columns.
The full page format includes detailed activities, Consensus Earnings Forecasts
recent announcements, contribution by activity Listed companies can use the Stock Exchange
(where available), and more detailed financial Handbook to make analysts’ forecasts available to a
information.
wider audience. For participating companies,
consensus earnings’ forecasts appear in an
Sector Descriptions additional column. For a complete explanation of
Since January 2006 JSE securities have been consensusearningsforecastsandtheinformation in
classified according to the Industry Classifica- this book, please visit www.ShareData.co.za/
tion Benchmark (ICB) adopted by both Dow sharepedia/consensus.htm.
Jones and FTSE. The ICB is a four-tier system The majority of consensus forecasts for the
which allows companies to be grouped in Indus- Stock Exchange Handbook are supplied by leading
tries, Super-sectors, Sectors and Sub-sectors. stockbrokers in South Africa. The following stock-
All securities are assigned to sub-sectors and broking firms (which research JSE shares) are
therefore logically belong to sectors, currently contributors of forecasts:
super-sectors and industries. As an example,
Anglo Platinum is in the Platinum & Precious Independent Securities (Pty) Ltd.
Metals sub-sector [Plat], which belongs to the Investec Securities Ltd.
Mining sector [Mng], which is in the Basic J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
Resources super-sector [Res], which is in the Nedbank Capital (Pty) Ltd.
Basic Materials industry [Mats]. Note that in SBG Securities (Pty) Ltd.
some cases sectors and sub-sectors have the
same name. Consensus forecasts are available to subscrib-
ers for all listed companies covered by the above
Abbreviations
firms at www.ShareData.co.za/sharepedia/
Company entries showthefull four-tier clas- consensus.htm.
sification for each company but use sector ab-
breviations. To decipher these abbreviations Analysis Data
please consult the Sector Table, which starts on Anumber ofleadingcompaniesmakeadditional
page 59.
information available to investors in the form of the
The Sector Table has sub-sector headings Analysis Data column. This column provides
which show the full classification descriptions. valuation data, additional ratios and per-share
The Total/Avg lines below each sector, statistics, historical share price performance (total
however, use the same abbreviations used in the return data), risk/return profiles and several other
company pages, making it possible to decipher graphs.
the full text descriptions where the abbrevia-
tions are not intuitive.

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