In February I was asked to pick a selection of stocks — a proverbial power portfolio — to hedge against Eskom’s inability to supply sustainable electricity.

Stretching the brief somewhat, I included industrial conglomerate enX, which holds a small power solutions cluster under New Way Power (NWP). In results to end-August 2022 the load-shedding regime had switched NWP from a R37m loss to a profit of R10m off a 24% jump in revenue to R397m. While that represented a flicker of hope, at the time I suggested NWP was probably too small to really move the needle at enX. ..

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