Platinum group metals (PGMs) mid-cap Sylvania Platinum is sizing up new opportunities in an effort to inject esprit into its share price. So far, the company’s approach of sure and steady has failed to ignite the imagination.

This is despite it declaring a special dividend for its 2024 financial year — which took the full year’s payout to 3p a share. While industry peers are lucky to be generating cash at all, shares in Sylvania struck a four-year low. True, the company posted an 84% year-on-year decline in full-year basic earnings, surprising analysts on the downside, but Sylvania remains $98m net cash...

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