South African Miners Still Cheap After Annus Mirabilis

(Bloomberg) -- Investors who bought South Africa's mining index at the bottom of an 18-month slump would have doubled their money in the past year as the recovery in commodity prices sparked the best annual rally since 2001 for the 16-member gauge. Even after the index extended gains in 2017, the country's miners remain near their cheapest on record relative to emerging-market peers, suggesting the rally may have legs.

To contact the reporters on this story: Srinivasan Sivabalan in London at ssivabalan@bloomberg.net, Neo Khanyile in Johannesburg at nkhanyile@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: Dana El Baltaji at delbaltaji@bloomberg.net, Celeste Perri at cperri@bloomberg.net, Robert Brand, John Viljoen

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