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CAPITEC LIMITED - Dealings in Securities by Associates of a Director

Capitec Limited
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What this filing means

Kalander Sekuriteit has partially cash settled and refinanced the hedging and financing transaction it concluded over part of its Capitec shareholding in July 2025, using new hedging and refinancing deals put in place by two associate companies. Pottwee Proprietary Limited hedged 41,533 shares at a deemed R191.7m, and Potdrie Proprietary Limited hedged 87,880 shares at a deemed R405.5m, both on 26 October 2026. Non-executive director M S du P le Roux is a director of both associates, so his interest is indirect and non-beneficial.

A non-executive director of Capitec is connected to two private companies that hold Capitec shares. Those companies have replaced part of an older hedging arrangement with new option deals and loan financing from the hedging counterparty. The director does not own these shares directly and gains nothing beneficial from the trades themselves. What it tells you is that a large director-linked hedged position remains pledged as collateral rather than sold — the shares stay in the structure, but they are committed.

Bear case

  • The filing gives no shareholding or issued-share figure against which to measure the size of the two option transactions.

AI-generated summary by SENS-AI, based on the original JSE SENS filing.

SENS-AI conclusion

This is a housekeeping notice about a structure, not a view on Capitec. Two companies linked to a non-executive director have re-cut a hedge first put in place in July 2025, pledging 129,413 shares as collateral against loan financing from the hedging counterparty. The filing is careful to say the maximum obligation can never exceed the hedged shares times the put strike, so the associates can always cover the loan with the shares. Nothing here speaks to earnings, capital or the operating business. So what: the next real test of the company is the February 2027 year-end results, not this notice.

The next disclosure on this structure is where the market will see whether the hedged shares are released, extended or further refinanced.

Evidence from the filing

  • The refinancing is explicitly a reworking of a structure already disclosed in July 2025.

    “Shareholders are referred to the announcement released on SENS on 2 July 2025, with regards to the hedging and financing transaction concluded by Kalander Sekuriteit Proprietary Limited (“Kalander”) over a portion of its shareholding in Capitec (the “Prior Transaction”).”

  • Missing evidence: the filing gives no shareholding or issued-share figure against which to measure the size of the two option transactions.

    “The maximum financial obligation under that financing arrangement, including all interest thereon, will never exceed the total number of shares hedged multiplied by the put strike price.”

  • The director's interest is indirect and non-beneficial.

    “Indirect, non-beneficial”

  • The first transaction covers 41,533 shares at a deemed value of R191,666,073.07.

    “41,533”

  • The second transaction covers 87,880 shares at a deemed value of R405,547,745.20.

    “87,880”
Category
Director Dealings
Event posture
No Edge
Published
Oct 28, 2026

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