This 6% of revenues to be paid as dividends is a big deal. I think it's odd as it places the emphasis on production only rather than managing costs and margins. Anyway, it's going to be lucrative.
If we assume 550k in FY18 at a safe average of AU$1600/oz, that's $880m revenue which means a divvy pool of $52m or 8.7c per share.
If we start to assume higher production and higher POG, the figures get really good.
600ktpa at AU$1650 results in 9.8c per share.
Should gold perform well over the next few years (which I think it will) and our production profile lifts (including some of the volume not included in the published 600k), NST will return a huge amount of cash to SH.
Business first; mining company second. Bill and team are certainly walking the talk.
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