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SAP - Sappi Ltd

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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 group’s 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 81st most valuable stock on the JSE with a market capitalization of ZAR 19.3 billion, which is about 0.088% of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange equity market.

SAP31.99 ▾ 1.32 (3.96%)
Yesterday
Last Trading Results
Opening Price
Day’s Low Price31.99
Day’s High Price33.53
Traded Volume2.8M
Number of Deals2,275
Gross Turnover91.8M
Growth & Valuation
Earnings Per Share4.8242
Price/Earning Ratio6.63
Dividend Per Share2.47
Dividend Yield7.72%
Shares Outstanding605M
Market Capitalization19.3B
Monetary values are quoted in South African Rand (ZAR) unless otherwise stated

SAP Stock Market Performance

1WK4WK3MO
+4.37%-9.5%-25.9%
6MO1YRYTD
-39.1%-42.8%-35.1%

The current share price of Sappi Ltd (SAP) is ZAR 31.99. SAP closed its last trading day (Friday, May 16, 2025) at 31.99 ZAR per share on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), recording a 4% drop from its previous closing price of 33.31 ZAR. Sappi began the year with a share price of 49.26 ZAR but has since lost 35.1% off that price valuation, ranking it 399th on the JSE in terms of year-to-date performance. Shareholders’ worries are compounded by the fact that SAP has lost 10% of the stock’s value from April 14th to date.

Sappi is the 30th most traded stock on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange over the past three months (Feb 12 - May 16, 2025). SAP has traded a total volume of 159 million shares—in 125,366 deals—valued at ZAR 5.73 billion over the period, with an average of 2.53 million traded shares per session. A volume high of 8.3 million was achieved on April 22nd, and a low of 314,768 on February 17th, for the same period. The table below details the last 10 trading days of activity of Sappi on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

DateVolumeCloseChangeChange%
2025-05-162,800,52431.99-1.32-3.96%
2025-05-152,870,88233.31+0.23+0.70%
2025-05-145,436,45133.08+0.81+2.51%
2025-05-133,599,42132.27+1.00+3.20%
2025-05-125,231,25231.27+0.62+2.02%
2025-05-095,354,00330.65+0.71+2.37%
2025-05-087,676,87929.94-2.94-8.94%
2025-05-073,626,86432.88+0.24+0.74%
2025-05-062,308,50032.64-1.27-3.75%
2025-05-052,147,61233.91

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

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.

CodeNameM. Cap.CloseYTD
MNPMondi plc128B290.20+4.58%
YRKYork Timber Holdings Ltd967M2.04-11.3%
ANGAnglogold Ashanti Ltd363B720.73+71.2%
HARHarmony GM Co Ltd163B257.50+70.9%
DRDDRD Gold Ltd21.9B25.36+53.4%
GFIGold Fields Ltd329B367.90+48.9%
KP2Kore Potash plc4.06B0.84+44.8%
SSWSibanye Stillwater Limited60.5B21.36+42.6%
NPHNortham Platinum Holdings51.7B130.36+33.8%
IMPImpala Platinum Hlgs Ltd101B111.27+26.8%

Index of African Stock Exchanges:

  1. Botswana Stock Exchange
  2. BRVM Stock Exchange
  3. Ghana Stock Exchange
  4. Johannesburg Stock Exchange
  5. Lusaka Securities Exchange
  6. Malawi Stock Exchange
  7. Nairobi Securities Exchange
  8. Nigerian Stock Exchange
  9. Uganda Securities Exchange
  10. Zimbabwe Stock Exchange

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