AustraliaDaily Briefs

Daily Brief Australia: Gold Road Resources, SmartPay Holdings, Deep Yellow and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Gold Road Enters Scheme With Gold Fields
  • Gold Road (GOR AU): Gold Fields (GFI SJ) Attractive Scheme Offer
  • Smartpay (SPY NZ/SMP AU) Enters Exclusivity With Shift4 (?) As Tyro Walks
  • DYLLF: The Board has opted for a staged development approach at Tumas until uranium prices justify full-scale construction of a greenfield uranium project meanwhile


Gold Road Enters Scheme With Gold Fields

By David Blennerhassett

  • Back on the 24th March, Gold Road (GOR AU) rejected an unsolicited offer from Gold Fields (GFI SJ) of $2.27/share cash plus GOR’s effective interest in De Grey Mining (DEG AU).
  • GFI has now bumped the cash terms to $2.52/share or an all-in price of ~A$3.40/share, a 43% premium to undisturbed. This includes a A$0.35/share fully franked dividend (if paid).
  • Conditions include the standard Scheme vote plus FIRB. 7.5% of shares out are supportive. Implementation is expected in October 2025.

Gold Road (GOR AU): Gold Fields (GFI SJ) Attractive Scheme Offer

By Arun George

  • Gold Road Resources (GOR AU) has entered a scheme with Gold Fields Ltd (GFI SJ). The consideration is A$2.52 cash + value per share of Northern Star Resources (NST AU) stake.
  • The proposal is a logical consolidation to eliminate dissynergies between the JV partners. The offer is attractive compared to peer multiples, precedent transactions and historical trading ranges. 
  • The vote is low-risk, with irrevocables representing 7.51% of the outstanding shares. At the last close and for an early October payment, the gross/annualised spread was 4.1%/10.0%.

Smartpay (SPY NZ/SMP AU) Enters Exclusivity With Shift4 (?) As Tyro Walks

By David Blennerhassett

  • On the 17th March, eftpos terminal provider Smartpay (SPY NZ/SMP AU) announced the receipt of two NBIOs
  • One from Tyro (TYR AU) (@ NZ$1.00/share) and one from a third party (believed to be Shift4 (FOUR US)). Both parties were granted a limited period of commercial due diligence. 
  • After Shift4 (if indeed them) bumped terms to NZ$1.20/share/A$1.12/share, it was granted exclusivity on the 2nd May. Tyro has now walked. 


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