Almonty's Australian Exit Caps a Month of Structural Change
Published on 08/28/2026 at 10:41 | Editorial boerse-global.de
Tungsten producer Almonty Industries has formally suspended trading in its Chess Depositary Interests on the Australian Securities Exchange, with the delisting taking effect on September 1. The move leaves the company's ordinary shares trading solely on the Nasdaq and in Frankfurt — a deliberate consolidation that management first flagged alongside the half-year results in August.
The ASX departure follows the voluntary withdrawal from the Toronto Stock Exchange at the end of July, completing a rapid reshaping of the company's listing footprint. For Australian investors holding CDIs, the September 1 cutoff is a hard deadline: positions must now be managed through one of the two remaining venues.
A Stock in Overdrive
The structural housekeeping arrives as the shares enjoy their strongest run in years. The stock changed hands at €16.16 on Friday, barely moved from Thursday's close of €16.20, when it had gained 3.5 percent. Over the trailing 30 days, however, the equity has appreciated by 70 percent, and the year-to-date advance stands at roughly 104 percent — more than a doubling.
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That momentum traces back to a cluster of operational milestones. Production at the Sangdong mine in South Korea's Gangwon province is ramping up, a buyback program of up to $300 million was unveiled on August 17, and second-quarter revenue surged 498 percent to C$43.0 million. The shares remain a volatile holding — annualized 30-day volatility sits at 91 percent — and sit about 21 percent below the 52-week high of €20.61 touched in April.
Diverging Analyst Views
The news flow has produced a split on the Street. GBC AG issued a buy recommendation on Tuesday, endorsing the operational trajectory. Diamond Equity Research struck a more cautious tone in an August 14 update, trimming its 2026 earnings estimate to $0.39 per share from $0.55, even as it acknowledged the progress at Sangdong and the strength of the quarterly numbers.
Why Fewer Listings Can Mean More Liquidity
The rationale for trimming the exchange footprint is straightforward: the bulk of trading volume already concentrates on the Nasdaq and Frankfurt, making the Australian and Canadian listings administrative overhead with little offsetting benefit. Consolidating order flow into fewer venues can deepen the book and improve price discovery — a consideration that may enhance the stock's appeal for institutional investors requiring deep liquidity on a single market.
The trade-off is the loss of direct access to Australian capital markets, historically a natural funding source for a miner with Asian operations. But for a company transitioning from a development-stage story into a cash-generating producer — one now buying back its own shares — the streamlined structure reflects a broader maturation. The question of whether GBC's optimism or Diamond's more conservative earnings view proves correct will be settled by the next set of quarterly figures.
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