BlackRock World Mng Portfolio Update
March 25 2020 - 12:41PM
UK Regulatory
TIDMBRWM
BLACKROCK WORLD MINING TRUST plc (LEI - LNFFPBEUZJBOSR6PW155)
All information is at 29 February 2020 and unaudited.
The information contained in this release was correct as at 29 February 2020.
Information on the Company's up to date net asset values can be found on the
London Stock Exchange Website at
https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/news/market-news/
market-news-home.html
Performance at month end with net income reinvested
One Three One Three Five
Month Months Year Years Years
Net asset value -9.9% -8.9% -7.0% -0.2% 30.9%
Share price -10.5% -8.5% -5.8% 1.9% 35.6%
EMIX Global Mining Index (Net)* -9.4% -8.5% -2.5% 8.2% 34.2%
MSCI ACWI Metals and Mining 30% -9.2% -9.3% -6.8% -4.3% 23.2%
Buffer 10/40 Index (Net)*
* (Total return)
Sources: BlackRock, EMIX Global Mining Index, MSCI ACWI Metals and Mining 30%
Buffer 10/40 Index, Datastream
At month end
Net asset value including income1: 368.63p
Net asset value capital only: 357.86p
1 Includes net revenue of 10.77p
Share price: 319.50p
Discount to NAV2: 13.3%
Total assets: GBP744.7m
Net yield3: 6.9%
Net gearing: 15.6%
Ordinary shares in issue: 173,605,020
Ordinary shares held in treasury: 19,406,822
Ongoing charges4: 0.9%
2 Discount to NAV including income.
3 Based on three quarterly interim dividends of 4.00p per share declared on
20 August 2019, 2 May 2019 and 14 November 2019 and a final dividend of 10.00p
per share announced on 27 February 2020 in respect of the year ended 31
December 2019.
4 Calculated as a percentage of average net assets and using expenses,
excluding finance costs, for the year ended 31 December 2019.
Sector % Total Country Analysis % Total
Assets Assets
Diversified 38.7 Global 64.4
Gold 26.4 Australasia 9.9
Copper 15.7 Latin America 8.3
Silver & Diamonds 5.8 Canada 5.9
Industrial Minerals 4.5 United Kingdom 3.3
Nickel 2.7 South Africa 3.1
Platinum Group Metals 2.3 Russia 1.1
Iron Ore 2.0 Other Africa 1.1
Diversified Mining 0.8 Sweden 0.8
Coal 0.4 Indonesia 0.7
Aluminium 0.1 USA 0.7
Zinc 0.1 Argentina 0.1
Steel -0.1 Current assets 0.6
Current assets 0.6 -----
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100.0 =====
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Ten Largest Investments
% Total
Company Assets
Vale:
Equity 4.6
Debenture 3.8
BHP 8.4
Rio Tinto 8.2
Anglo American 6.2
Barrick Gold 5.4
Newmont Mining 5.3
First Quantum Minerals 4.2
Wheaton Precious Metals 4.1
OZ Minerals Brazil:
Royalty 2.5
Equity 1.3
Franco-Nevada 3.4
Commenting on the markets, Evy Hambro and Olivia Markham, representing the
Investment Manager noted:
Performance
The Company's NAV decreased by 9.9% in February, underperforming its
reference index, the MSCI ACWI Metals and Mining 30% Buffer 10/40 Index (net
return), which returned -9.2%. (Figures in GBP)
Global equity markets fell sharply in February as it became apparent that
the coronavirus was spreading globally with a likely greater impact on
economic activity. For reference, the MSCI World Index fell 8.5%. China's
response to attempt to contain the spread of the virus included placing a
number of cities and towns on lockdown, which meant Chinese factories could
not operate. This caused supply issues across many industries, whilst air
travel was restricted to certain high virus risk destinations.
Mined commodity prices came under pressure, with zinc and iron ore returning
-9.1% and -12.7% respectively. Aluminium and copper were broadly flat over
the month returning -1.7% and +1.2% following price declines last month. The
gold price was flat on the month and remains 5% higher than at the start of
the year at $1,587/oz, reaffirming its safe haven status in times of market
volatility. Similar to last month, gold equities lagged the gold price,
partly reflecting the strong performance of the mid-cap gold companies in Q4
2019.
Strategy and Outlook
We see an attractive valuation opportunity in mining today. Mining companies
have sold off in recent weeks in anticipation of a lower level of global
economic growth in 2020. We expect any economic stimulus measures from China
to disproportionately benefit the mined commodity sector.
The mining sector is generating close to record free cash flow, whilst
balance sheets are in strong shape and companies remain focused on capital
discipline. Our base case remains that we have positive global economic
growth for the next 12-18 months, albeit at a slower rate than was expected
this time last year. Barring an economic recession, we expect the mining
sector to re-rate into a post coronavirus economic recovery as the miners
continue to generate robust free cash flow and return capital to
shareholders through dividends and buybacks.
We expect most mined commodity prices to be stable to rising through 2020.
On the commodity demand side, we do not anticipate a hard-landing type event
in China and we have been encouraged by stimulus measures beginning to feed
through into improvements in some economic data points. On the commodity
supply side, supply is tight in most mined commodity markets and, given the
cuts in mining sector spending since 2012 (down 66%), we expect it to
remain so.
All data points are in USD terms unless stated otherwise.
25 March 2020
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