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Vedanta Plans To List Two Units Over Next 5 Months
U.K.-listed, India focused Vedanta Resources PLC (VED.LN) may offer to the public some shares in two of its divisions within the next five months to reap more value from surging commodity prices and robust emerging-market demand for copper and electricity.
Vedanta is considering listing its Zambian Konkola Copper Mines division on the London Stock Exchange by the end of 2010, and is considering listing its Sterlite Energy division around March, the company's chairman, Anil Agarwal, said in an interview Thursday. Sterlite Energy currently produces power for commercial consumption in India.
Nothing has been set in stone and the timing of the Zambian copper listing could be delayed by a couple of months, Agarwal said, but he noted that "it's the right time" to be considering listing these two divisions given the completion of each division's current expansion plans, supply shortfalls in the global copper market and Indian power market, and future growth prospects for each division.
Agarwal wasn't able to provide valuations for each of the divisions but Liberum Capital's equity analyst Ash Lazenby valued Konkola Copper Mines conservatively at $5.6 billion and Sterlite Energy at $4 billion based on a 100% ownership of the two divisions.Vedanta currently owns a 79.4% stake in KCM and a stake in Sterlite Energy through its 54% ownership in dually-listed Sterlite Industries Ltd (SLT), which owns 100% of the energy company.
Vedanta plans to list at least 25% of the share capital of each division in accordance with the requirements of the London and Mumbai stock exchanges, but will retain a majority stake in both divisions once shares have been floated, Agarwal said.
Vedanta is considering listing its KCM division at a time when the global copper market is facing a supply deficit, partly due to declining ore grades at maturing copper deposits in Chile and the U.S., and burgeoning demand from such countries as India and China, which use the red metal to build, for instance, transmission lines as they pursue rapid urbanization and industrialization.
KCM expects to increase its copper cathode production capacity to more than 400,000 tons in 2012, up from 173,000 tons of copper cathode production in the last fiscal year ending in March 31.
Vedanta is also planning to float Sterlite Energy after first launching a draft prospectus on such a floatation in October 2009. The project was shelved due to timing concerns and a desire to complete construction of the company's first 600-megawatt turbine, Agarwal said. Vedanta had hoped to raise INR51 billion ($1.08 billion) from the listing last year.
The first out of four 600MW turbines has been built and Sterlite Energy is now on track to build 5,040 megwatts of power generation capacity by the end of fiscal 2014, up from about 2,000MW in the current fiscal year.
Vedanta Thursday reported a 79% rise in first half net profit attributable to shareholders of $337 million for the first six months of the fiscal year ending Sept 30, due to rising commodity prices and output.
Vedanta is currently in the midst of two large acquisitions. It offered in August to purchase a 60% stake in Cairn India Ltd (532792.BY) for up to $9.6 billion and expects the deal to close in the first quarter of 2011.
It also said it's on track to complete the acquisition of Anglo American's (AAL.LN) zinc assets, valued at $1.34 billion, before May.
Vedanta declared an interim dividend of 20 cents a share and said it has hired consultancy firm Scott Wilson at the behest of its lenders to help review the company's sustainable development policies. The company's aluminum business has suffered temporary setbacks after it failed to get government approval to build a bauxite mine and expand an alumina refinery in the eastern India state of Orissa, due to environmental and social concerns.
-By Alex MacDonald, Dow Jones Newswires; 44 20 7842 9328;
alex.macdonald@dowjones.com