Imagine you’d bought shares in a little-known JSE company for R4.18 just two months ago. Today, someone is offering you R10.06 for those same shares. That’s a potential profit of more than 140%. And it’s exactly the situation shareholders in Mahube Infrastructure (JSE: MHB) now find themselves in.
Read MoreImagine opening your brokerage account one morning and discovering a notice for an odd-lot offer from a JSE-listed company you own.
Read MoreA reader emailed me this week, and I could feel the excitement coming off the screen. His argument for Wesizwe Platinum (JSE: WEZ) went like this…
Read MoreMarkets love noise: wars, oil prices, interest-rate calls. But some of the best opportunities come from companies that simply get on with fixing themselves while everyone’s distracted. The three small caps I’m sharing today have each done exactly that.
Read MoreEarly Friday morning, a SENS announcement landed that took me by surprise.
Omnia Holdings (JSE: OMN), South Africa’s largest integrated chemicals group, issued a cautionary notice to shareholders. The company is in advanced discussions regarding a potential offer for all its issued ordinary shares.
The share price responded immediately jumping more than 10%.
From Wednesday 2 September 2026, something took effect that will work its way through the South African economy for months. The wholesale price of the premium grade of diesel rose over 11% – pushing the inland wholesale price back above R30 a litre in Gauteng for the first time since May.
Read MoreA Red Hot Penny Shares subscriber wrote in last week with a question I’ve been wanting to address for a while. They noticed something that’s been quietly frustrating income-focused investors for the past few years. Where have all the small cap dividend payers gone?
Read MoreEvery JSE small-cap investor has experienced this. A company you own reports disappointing results. Revenue falls. Earnings miss expectations. The share price drops 30% in a day. Before asking whether you should sell, ask a different question: Is this demand destruction or demand deferral?
Read MoreFor years, South Africa’s mobile operators have competed by building bigger networks, rolling out faster 5G and convincing us to buy ever-larger data bundles.
Read MoreIn March 2020, the single best investment skill you could have had was courage. The market had collapsed. Everything was cheap. The only question was whether you could override the fear response long enough to buy. 2026 is different. The market isn’t in freefall. Most assets aren’t universally cheap. Nor are the opportunities obvious.
Read MoreIn September 2024, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority approved a two-tier reform – the JSE’s split of its Main Board into two segments – Prime and General – with simplified Listings Requirements taking full effect in early 2026.
Read MoreEvery investor knows what brokerage costs. It’s on the contract note, in rand and cents, impossible to miss. What almost no retail investor calculates, and what can dwarf that brokerage fee many times over, is liquidity cost. The price you actually pay to get into a small cap, and the price you actually receive to get out of one, when very few shares change hands on any given day.
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