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Macro outlook supports the mining sector but further upside remains muted

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ETF Securities Equity Research: Macro outlook supports the mining sector but further upside remains muted

Highlights

Demand for metals remains well supported by a favourable macro-economic backdrop but China’s reform policy is expected to soften future metal demand.
The benefits of the weaker US dollar on higher commodity prices are outweighed by higher local currency input costs for producers in the mining sector.
Capex growth has turned positive for the first time in five years and the electric car revolution opens further avenues of investment for the mining sector.
Strict capital discipline among the miners has improved operational efficiency but miner’s valuations are not cheap.

Macro outlook supports demand

The global economy looks set to embark on a strong growth trajectory evident from the improvement in global purchasing manufacturing indices (PMI) since the second half of 2016. The optimism over global expansion increasing consumption of metals has led to a revival in the price of most metals this year. As a consequence, we have witnessed the top 100 diversified miner’s aggregate price appreciate 86% since 31 January 2016 (Source: Bloomberg).

Added to that, the current weakness of the US dollar is acting as an important catalyst in fuelling the commodity price rebound. As the world’s largest economy enters the late stage of the economic expansion cycle we expect to see tightening of the labour market combined with rising inflation, commodity prices and interest rates as the Federal Reserve normalises policy. The raw industrials index and the trade weighted US dollar tend to move inversely to each other with a negative 0.80 correlation. This counter cyclical relationship bodes well for base metal prices as investors look towards metals as a store of value versus the greenback. While the mining sector will benefit from higher commodity prices, the weaker US dollar could temper the benefits for producers that have a high proportion of costs in local currency.

China’s reforms take centre stage

A government led initiative in China’s construction industry since early 2016 underpinned the rebound of industrial metal prices. The emphasis on reforms as highlighted by President Xi at 19th National Party Congress in October 2017 suggests Chinese economic growth will gravitate more towards services and consumer spending. These activities are significantly less resource intensive and could soften demand for industrial metals. Added to that, the ongoing cooling of fiscal stimulus to the manufacturing and construction industries that kick started in H217, will further dampen new demand for industrial metals.

That being said, China’s supply side reform, to tackle environmental pollution, address unlicensed production and excess supply, resulted in significant escalation in metal prices last year. The widespread efforts improved capacity utilization rates within the aluminium, coal and steel industries. To a large extent, the impact of the capacity reductions in steel and coal appear to have already passed their peak, as the Chinese governments met their targets late last year.

Miners are back in business

After five consecutive years of negative growth in capex, total spending has finally turned positive, rising 8% since the prior year. A large part of the spending has been dedicated to sustaining production rather than expansionary projects. Miners are tapping into the new sources of growth led by technology driven innovation. At the forefront of this revolution, electric car production is expected to bolster demand for lithium, cobalt, copper and aluminium. Mining companies owning lithium and cobalt deposits are well positioned to benefit from rising demand owing to their use in battery cathodes.

Ongoing supply deficits projected

A vast variety of metals are projected to continue to extend their supply deficits into 2018 as demand outstrips supply. Declining inventory levels of global metals stocks namely – zinc, copper, aluminium, platinum, palladium and tin remain supportive of their price recovery. However deteriorating ore grades and falling reserves, make it vital for miners to undertake further exploration projects to maintain their current production.

Miners are not cheap

Owing to the challenging pricing environment between 2011 and 2016 the mining sector imposed a stricter capital discipline in an effort to shore up their balance sheet. Since mid-2016, valuations for the sector have climbed in lock step with rising profitability. Mining stocks currently trade at 17x earnings compared to the long term average of 10x, supported by higher earnings growth (Source: Bloomberg, as of 30 January 2018). Meanwhile, the current price to book ratio at 2x trades in line with its long term average of 1.7x as impairments charges reduced significantly. Recovering commodity prices, an emphasis on debt repayments and improving liquidity have helped alleviate pressure from ratings agencies as ratings outlooks for base and precious metal miners turn positive.

For more information contact:

Catarina Donat Marques
ETF Securities (UK) Limited
T +44 20 7448 4386

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