Capitec fights off the Steinhoff slayer

A former social worker from middle England has suddenly become the biggest influencer in South Africa’s stock market. He called Steinhoff’s collapse correctly. In making banking sector star performer Capitec his next target, has Viceroy Research’s Fraser Perring got it right again? Or, as the bank’s leadership insist, is he a one-hit wonder?

 

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As Cyril Ramaphosa ascends to the presidency in early 2018, not everyone in South Africa is partying. Former president Jacob Zuma’s resignation in mid February has unleashed a burst of optimism about South Africa among emerging market currency investors.

In the stock market, however, the talk is just as much about the spread of an activist short-selling onslaught moving from one of the titans of South African business, Steinhoff International Holdings, to a cornerstone of its financial sector, Capitec Bank.

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