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Channel VAS Investments Ltd. FINANCIAL STATISTICS Jun 25 Jun 24 Jun 23 Jun 22 Jun 21
(BWP million) Final Final(rst) Final Final(rst) Final(rst)
ISIN: VGG2072E1016 SHORT: OPTASIA CODE: OPA Turnover 9 107 7 940 6 433 6 042 5 331
REG NO: 1750790 FOUNDED: 2012 LISTED: 2025 Op Inc 318 335 274 279 226
NATURE OF BUSINESS: Optasia is an AI-enabled fintech platform NetIntPd(Rcvd) 100 105 109 99 110
that provides Micro Financing Solutions (“MFS”) and Airtime Credit Minority Int - 2 - 2 3 5 - 9
Solutions (“ACS”). Its AI powered Financial Services platform and
credit decisioning algorithms process and analyse multiple customer Att Inc 97 138 147 140 68
data points generating credit scoring and a credit decision. TotCompIncLoss 138 102 97 107 19
SECTOR: Fins--FinServcs--Finance&CreditServcs--Consumer Lending Fixed Ass 908 754 632 538 507
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 356 Inv & Loans 40 9 7 8 8
DIRECTORS: Dunne R J (ind ne, Ireland), Farroukh A (ind ne, Canada), Tot Curr Ass 1 088 1 123 847 691 544
Haidar B S (ne, Ireland), Human L (ind ne), Ogunsanya O Ord SH Int 351 261 141 - 252 - 355
(ind ne, Nigeria), Jordaan Dr M (Chair, ind ne, German), Anglada S Minority Int - 127 - 125 - 99 - 102 - 106
(CEO, Spain), Dabrowski M (CFO, Polish) LT Liab 790 1 012 899 1 133 1 207
POSTAL ADDRESS: 61 Katherine Street, Sandhurst, Johannesburg, 2196 Tot Curr Liab 1 921 1 679 1 236 1 107 958
MORE INFO: www.sharedata.co.za/sdo/jse/OPA
COMPANY SECRETARY: Margarita Evangelou PER SHARE STATISTICS (cents per share)
TRANSFER SECRETARY: Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Ltd. HEPS-C (ZARc) 12.60 13.15 15.10 15.72 9.00
SPONSOR: Standard Bank of SA Ltd. DPS (ZARc) 2.98 4.06 - - -
AUDITORS: Ernst & Young Inc. NAV PS (ZARc) 25.59 19.18 14.67 - 24.01 - 27.23
CAPITAL STRUCTURE Authorised Issued 3 Yr Beta - 0.24 0.05 0.05 0.30 0.46
OPA Ords USD 0.0004 ea - 1 235 061 843 Price High 225 84 113 140 205
Price Low 50 48 50 42 54
Choppies Enterprises Ltd. Price Prd End 172 67 63 57 75
RATIOS
ISIN: BW0000001072 SHORT: CHOPPIES CODE: CHP Ret on SH Fnd 42.41 100.00 357.14 - 40.96 - 12.93
REG NO: 2004/1681 FOUNDED: 1986 LISTED: 2015 Oper Pft Mgn 3.49 4.22 4.26 4.62 4.24
NATURE OF BUSINESS: Choppies was initially established in Lobatse, D:E 4.58 8.80 26.93 - 3.64 - 2.95
Botswana in 1986 and has since grown into the largest retailer in Current Ratio 0.57 0.67 0.69 0.62 0.57
Southern Africa, outside of South Africa, with 11 388 employees Div Cover 2.38 2.56 - - -
(10 289 Choppies, 1 099 Kamoso) in 287 stores (185 grocery retail,
75 liquor stores, 27 hardware stores) across Botswana, Namibia, Cilo Cybin Holdings Ltd.
Zambia and Zimbabwe with 10 distribution centres and a market
capitalisation of BWP949 million. In 2023 Choppies diversified with
the Kamoso acquisition adding liquor stores, hardware retailers, ISIN: ZAE000310397 SHORT: CILOCYBIN CODE: CCC
milling production and distribution, grain packaging operations, REG NO: 2022/320351/06 FOUNDED: 2022 LISTED: 2024
a tissue converting manufacturer and water bottling operations. NATURE OF BUSINESS: The Company was incorporated as public
SECTOR: CnsStp--PcDrugs&Groceries--PcDrugs&Groceries--Food company on 23 February 2022 by Gabriel Theron under the name
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 11 388 of Cilo Cybin Holdings Ltd. and was listed as a Special Purpose
DIRECTORS: Chitalu V (ind ne), De Silva R P (ind ne), Graaff N (ne), Acquisition Company (“SPAC”) on the AltX on 25 June 2024. As a
Harward C (ne), Corea U (Chair, ne), Pieterse K (COO), Ottapathu R SPAC, the company has not carried on any commercial or business
(CEO, Botswana), Ismail F E (Dep Chair, ne, Botswana) operations since the date of incorporation.
MAJOR ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS as at 30 Jun 2025 SECTOR: Fins--FinServcs--OpEnd&Miscel Inv Veh--OpEnd&Miscel
Ramachandran Ottapathu 28.96% Inv Veh
Farouk Ismail 17.18% NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 0
Ivygrove Holding (Pty) Ltd. 12.36% DIRECTORS: Tham Dr S K (Non-Executive, ne), Baduza S (ind ne),
POSTAL ADDRESS: Private Bag 00278, Gaborone, Botswana Chew Y L (ne), Low W S (ind ne), Mohd Razef B A (ind ne),
MORE INFO: www.sharedata.co.za/sdo/jse/CHP Moodley Theron J (ne), Teoh L (ne), Theron G (CEO), Ledwaba R M (CFO)
COMPANY SECRETARY: BP Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd. MAJOR ORDINARY SHAREHOLDERS as at 31 Mar 2025
TRANSFER SECRETARY: Central Security Depository Botswana ALPS Global Holding Berhad 41.00%
(CSDB) Dr Tham 41.00%
SPONSOR: Motswedi Securities (Pty) Ltd., PSG Capital (Pty) Ltd. Gabriel Theron 5.00%
AUDITORS: Forvis Mazars POSTAL ADDRESS: 7 Sterling Street, The Point Office Park, Unit C1,
Samrand, 0157
CAPITAL STRUCTURE Authorised Issued MORE INFO: www.sharedata.co.za/sdo/jse/CCC
CHP Ords no par val - 1 824 461 674 COMPANY SECRETARY: Acorim (Pty) Ltd.
DISTRIBUTIONS [BWPc] TRANSFER SECRETARY: Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Ltd.
Ords no par val Ldt Pay Amt SPONSOR: DEA-RU (Pty) Ltd.
Final No 7 21 Oct 25 5 Nov 25 0.60 AUDITORS: Nexia SAB&T Inc.
Interim No 6 22 Apr 25 8 May 25 1.60 CAPITAL STRUCTURE Authorised Issued
LIQUIDITY: Oct25 Avg 317 166 shares p.w., R373 805.1(0.9% p.a.) CCC Ords no par val 2 000 000 000 230 475 136
LIQUIDITY: Oct25 Avg 21 359 shares p.w., R86 695.2(0.5% p.a.)
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