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Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd / Equity Bottom-Up

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  <li>Harmony Gold is strategically transitioning from a pure gold producer to a diversified gold-copper miner to enhance long-term value and cash flow stability.</li>
  <li>The company's key growth project is the Eva Copper Mine in Queensland, Australia, which is fully permitted and under construction, with first production anticipated in the second half of 2028.</li>
  <li>Despite a favorable commodity price environment, Harmony faces significant operational headwinds, including rising All-In Sustaining Costs (AISC), production disruptions, and the inherent risks of operating in South Africa.</li>
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  Harmony Gold is strategically transitioning from a pure gold producer to a diversified gold-copper miner to enhance long-term value and cash flow stability.
  The company's key growth project is the Eva Copper Mine in Queensland, Australia, which is fully permitted and under construction, with first production anticipated in the second half of 2028.
  Despite a favorable commodity price environment, Harmony faces significant operational headwinds, including rising All-In Sustaining Costs (AISC), production disruptions, and the inherent risks of operating in South Africa.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

Primer: Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd (HMY US) - Aug 2026

Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

<ul><li>Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited reported half-year results highlighting a strategy focused on building a resilient and geographically diversified portfolio, anchored by gold production while deliberately expanding its copper assets.</li><li>The company emphasizes prioritizing safety first, with a record low lost time injury frequency rate of 4.23 and improved safety indicators across operations.</li><li>Operationally, gold production totaled 724,000 ounces during the period, impacted by an industry-wide cyanide shortage and plant recovery issues, especially in South Africa.</li></ul>

Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited reported half-year results highlighting a strategy focused on building a resilient and geographically diversified portfolio, anchored by gold production while deliberately expanding its copper assets.The company emphasizes prioritizing safety first, with a record low lost time injury frequency rate of 4.23 and improved safety indicators across operations.Operationally, gold production totaled 724,000 ounces during the period, impacted by an industry-wide cyanide shortage and plant recovery issues, especially in South Africa.

Harmony Gold Mining: Initiation of Coverage- Eva Copper

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Since late-February (2/25/25 Compass and 2/27/25 Int'l Compass) we expected an 8-10% pullback to provide a buying opportunity.</li>
<li>But that all changed last week (4/1/25 Compass and 4/3/25 Int'l Compass), when we downgraded our outlook to bearish/cautious, citing several concerning developments.</li>
<li>Despite the 90-day pause, we remain cautious and we continue to favor defensives as long as the S&amp;P 500 and ACWI-US are below their 200-day MAs.</li>
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Since late-February (2/25/25 Compass and 2/27/25 Int'l Compass) we expected an 8-10% pullback to provide a buying opportunity.
But that all changed last week (4/1/25 Compass and 4/3/25 Int'l Compass), when we downgraded our outlook to bearish/cautious, citing several concerning developments.
Despite the 90-day pause, we remain cautious and we continue to favor defensives as long as the S&amp;P 500 and ACWI-US are below their 200-day MAs.


Still Favor Defensives Until Market Dynamics Improve; EURO STOXX 50 Testing Crucial 5000 Level

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>There are 44 adds, 1 delete and 2 listing changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vaneck-vectors-junior-gold-miners-etf" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32845:1" rel="noopener">VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ US)</a> in September. There are capping and float changes too.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 15% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$3.2bn. There is a lot of stock to buy in the inclusions.</li>
<li>There are a number of adds in Asia that will have same-way flow from passive trackers of other local and global indices on the same day.</li>
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There are 44 adds, 1 delete and 2 listing changes for the VanEck Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ US) in September. There are capping and float changes too.
Estimated one-way turnover is 15% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$3.2bn. There is a lot of stock to buy in the inclusions.
There are a number of adds in Asia that will have same-way flow from passive trackers of other local and global indices on the same day.


MV Global Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ) Index Rebalance: 44 Adds; 1 Delete; US$3.2bn Trade

<ul>
<li>Snap-Back rallies have continued in the largest global equity markets (U.S., Japan, and Europe).</li>
<li>Japan's TOPIX is still below 2690-2700 and the EURO STOXX 50 is below 4884, and whether they roll over here or from marginally higher levels, lower highs remain likely.</li>
<li>It all fits with our ongoing belief (since our July 25, 2024 Int'l Compass) that MSCI ACWI is going through a 1- to 4-month pullback/consolidation (we are one month in).</li>
</ul>


Snap-Back rallies have continued in the largest global equity markets (U.S., Japan, and Europe).
Japan's TOPIX is still below 2690-2700 and the EURO STOXX 50 is below 4884, and whether they roll over here or from marginally higher levels, lower highs remain likely.
It all fits with our ongoing belief (since our July 25, 2024 Int'l Compass) that MSCI ACWI is going through a 1- to 4-month pullback/consolidation (we are one month in).


Shift Now to Defensives; Snap-Back Rally Testing Resistance $ACWI $SPX; Neutral Outlook Intact

South Africa

Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited is a gold-mining and exploration company which produces gold from its operations in South Africa and Papua New Guinea.

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Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd (HMY US)

Primer: Harmony Gold Mining Co Ltd (HMY US) - Aug 2026

Harmony Gold is strategically transitioning from a pure gold producer to a diversified gold-copper miner to enhance long-term value and cash...

αSK Primers

Harmony Gold Mining: Initiation of Coverage- Eva Copper

Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited reported half-year results highlighting a strategy focused on building a resilient and geographically...

Baptista Research

Still Favor Defensives Until Market Dynamics Improve; EURO STOXX 50 Testing Crucial 5000 Level

Still Favor Defensives Until Market Dynamics Improve; EURO $STOXX 50 Testing Crucial 5000 Level; Watch for Resistance at $105-$117.69 on $ACWI. Buy...

Vermilion Research

MV Global Junior Gold Miners (GDXJ) Index Rebalance: 44 Adds; 1 Delete; US$3.2bn Trade

There are 44 adds and 1 delete in Sep. Estimated one-way turnover is 15% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$3.2bn. Lots to sell in Evolution...

Brian Freitas

Shift Now to Defensives; Snap-Back Rally Testing Resistance $ACWI $SPX; Neutral Outlook Intact

Shift Now to Defensives (Health Care, Telecommunications, Utilities, and Consumer Staples); Snap-Back Rally Testing Resistance $ACWI $SPX; Neutral...

Vermilion Research

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