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We compare the share price performance of Kumba to Sasol
Date: 2 Aug 2018 Category: Stock Market |
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We take a look at two of South Africa's biggest listed commodity shares, both of which are highly dependent on the commodity prices they specialise in. Sasol (SOL) is highly dependent on crude oil prices while Kumbo Iron Ore, as its name suggests, is highly dependent on Iron Ore prices.
Investors are often told, if you own one commodity share you own them all. So do these two shares who are dependent on different commodities move in a similar fashion? We take a look below. |
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Kumbo (KIO) vs Sasol (SOL)
The interactive graphic below shows the share price history of SASOL for the last year. As soon as users click on Kumbo Iron Ore on the top left of the graphic the graphic recalculates and shows the share price performance for both shares for the last month. Users can then select from various pre set time periods such as:
- 1 month
- 1 year
- Year to Date (YTD)
- Max: which in this graphic is the last 3 years
Over the last month, Sasol has been outperforming Kumbo, with Sasol increasing by 2.94% while Kumba dropped by -5.10%. The two shares do slog it out over the various time periods, Over the shorter term Sasol is outperforming Kumbo, but over the longer term periods Kumbo is outperforming Sasol. The images below shows the share price performance of both over various time periods including:
- Year to Date
- 1 Year
- 3 Year period
Year to date
The summary below provides an indication of the share price performance of both over Year to Date (YTD):
- Kumbo: -27.54%
- Sasol: 19.74%
1 year comparison
The summary below provides an indication of the share price performance of both over 1 year:
- Kumbo: 39.16%
- Sasol: 25.65%
3 year comparison
The summary below provides an indication of the share price performance of both over 3 years:
- Kumbo: 216.3%
- Sasol: 21.1%