SAP - Sappi Ltd
Sappi is a global company with operations in North America, Europe and Southern Africa and is focused on providing dissolving wood pulp, packaging and speciality papers, printing and writing papers as well as biomaterials and biochemicals to Sappi's direct and indirect customer base across more than 150 countries.
The groupâs dissolving wood pulp products are used worldwide mainly by converters to create viscose fibre for fashionable clothing and textiles, as well as other consumer products; quality packaging and speciality papers are used in the manufacture of such products as soup sachets, luxury carry bags, cosmetic and confectionery packaging, boxes for agricultural products for export, tissue wadding for household tissue products and casting release papers used by suppliers to the fashion, textiles, automobile and household industries; our market-leading range of printing and writing papers are used by printers in the production of books, brochures, magazines, catalogues, direct mail and many other print applications; biomaterials include nanocellulose, fibre composites and lignosulphonate; biochemicals include second generation sugars.
Sappi Ltd produces and sells a variety of paper and paper-related products. The two categories of products are specialized cellulose and paper. Specialized cellulose, which is dissolved wood pulp, is used in the production of...
Sappi Ltd is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). Sappi is traded on the JSE under the ticker symbol “SAP”. The International Securities Identification Number (ISIN) of JSE:SAP is ZAE000006284. Sappi Ltd is currently the 109th most valuable stock on the JSE with a market capitalization of ZAR 10.9 billion, which is about 0.044% of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange equity market.
| Last Trading Results | |
|---|---|
| Opening Price | |
| Day’s Low Price | 16.81 |
| Day’s High Price | 17.92 |
| Traded Volume | 2.65M |
| Number of Deals | 1,482 |
| Gross Turnover | 46.9M |
| Growth & Valuation | |
|---|---|
| Earnings Per Share | -3.0311 |
| Price/Earning Ratio | -5.91 |
| Dividend Per Share | 2.47 |
| Dividend Yield | 13.8% |
| Shares Outstanding | 607M |
| Market Capitalization | 10.9B |
SAP Stock Market Performance
| 1WK | 4WK | 3MO |
|---|---|---|
| +2.23% | -19.9% | -16.6% |
| 6MO | 1YR | YTD |
|---|---|---|
| -38% | -59.4% | -27.1% |
The current share price of Sappi Ltd (SAP) is ZAR 17.90. SAP closed its last trading day (Friday, February 20, 2026) at 17.90 ZAR per share on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), recording a 4.4% gain over its previous closing price of 17.15 ZAR. Sappi began the year with a share price of 24.55 ZAR but has since lost 27.1% off that price valuation, ranking it 397th on the JSE in terms of year-to-date performance. Shareholders’ worries are compounded by the fact that SAP has lost 20% of the stock’s value from January 23rd to date.
Sappi is the 28th most traded stock on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange over the past three months (Nov 20, 2025 - Feb 20, 2026). SAP has traded a total volume of 170 million shares—in 95,256 deals—valued at ZAR 3.62 billion over the period, averaging a volume of 2.7 million shares (valued at ZAR 57.5 million) per session. A volume high of 13 million was achieved on February 4th, and a low of 528,260 on January 2nd, for the same period. The table below details the last 10 trading days of activity of Sappi on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
| Date | Volume | Close | Change | Change% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-20 | 2,647,280 | 17.90 | +0.75 | +4.37% |
| 2026-02-19 | 2,208,342 | 17.15 | +0.48 | +2.88% |
| 2026-02-18 | 1,393,505 | 16.67 | +0.11 | +0.66% |
| 2026-02-17 | 3,181,379 | 16.56 | -0.62 | -3.61% |
| 2026-02-16 | 1,020,768 | 17.18 | -0.33 | -1.88% |
| 2026-02-13 | 1,904,851 | 17.51 | +0.35 | +2.04% |
| 2026-02-12 | 2,251,874 | 17.16 | -0.19 | -1.10% |
| 2026-02-11 | 6,313,436 | 17.35 | -0.65 | -3.61% |
| 2026-02-10 | 2,422,057 | 18.00 | +0.08 | +0.45% |
| 2026-02-09 | 5,013,999 | 17.92 |
Profile of Sappi Ltd.
Sappi Ltd. operates in the Basic Materials sector, specifically, the Forestry & Paper industry.
Factsheet of Sappi Ltd.
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Forestry & Paper
- Address
- 108 Oxford Road, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, 2198
- Telephone
- 011 407-8111
- Website
- www.sappi.com
SAP Industrial Market Competitors
Sappi Ltd., issuers of the SAP stock on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, have a number of market competitors who are also engaged in the Basic Materials sector and/or Forestry & Paper industry. The table below presents an overview of the market standing of the top 10 by year-to-date performance.
| Code | Name | M. Cap. | Close | YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YRK | York Timber Holdings Ltd | 1.06B | 2.24 | +1.36% |
| MNP | Mondi plc | 89.3B | 202.29 | -0.64% |
| ORN | Orion Minerals Limited | 3.43B | 0.42 | +90.9% |
| PAN | Pan African Resource plc | 84.5B | 36.19 | +34.4% |
| SOL | Sasol Limited | 90.8B | 141.00 | +32.8% |
| SOLBE1 | BEE - Sasol Limited | 412M | 65.00 | +27.5% |
| S32 | South32 Limited | 224B | 50.00 | +27.1% |
| ANG | Anglogold Ashanti Ltd | 904B | 1,791.02 | +25% |
| GLN | Glencore plc | 1.45T | 109.92 | +20.6% |
| BHG | BHP Group | 3.07T | 604.00 | +19.1% |