London Stock Exchange (LSE) · Basic Materials
Serabi Gold plc SRB
MonitorScore band: 60–70
The thesis, in one sentence
A small Brazilian gold producer that looks cheap once gold is renormalized upward, with net cash worth a fifth of the market value and a high cash yield, but no moat, short reserve life and two unmodellable binary risks.
Written for this site in plain English, without figures. The arithmetic is in the full report.
The thesis is from the deep report of 2026-09-04; the verdict badge reflects the latest scoring of 2026-09-06.
Key risks
- A provisional operating licence covering most of production expires next year
- Proved and probable reserves cover only about four and a half years
- The long-serving finance chief left just before the half-year accounts
What would change the verdict
- Operating margin falls below the mid-cycle level for two consecutive quarters
- The provisional licence expires without the permanent one being granted
- Free cash flow yield compresses, removing the cash anchor
- Shares are issued under the newly granted acquisition mandate
Read it yourself
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Next report expected 2026-09-17. The deep report was written against the filings available on 2026-09-04; anything published since is not in it.
Price, one year
DCF valuation range
range of the DCF modelsbase casetoday's price
Valuation range, shape only. Figures in the full version.
Monte Carlo outcome shape
scenarios below today's pricescenarios above today's pricetoday's price
Distribution of simulated outcomes around today's price. Bar heights only; the scale and the percentiles are in the full version.
Where the money goes
Last four reported quarters, 2025-06 → 2026-03, in USD. Filings data as gathered on 2026-09-04. Figures rounded to three significant digits.
Chapter one: Executive summary (1 page: thesis, estimated value, verdict)
Deep-value report: SRB — Serabi Gold plc
Ticker: SRB (LSE AIM) / SBI (TSX-V) / SRBIF (OTC) · Yahoo symbol: SRB.L · Sector: Basic Materials / Gold
Price as of analysis date: … (close 03.09.2026, yfinance SRB.L; the same-day tracker snapshot showed … — I use the HIGHER figure, i.e. more conservative for the margin of safety)
Shares: 75,731,000 (31.03.2026 balance sheet) / 76,307,760 total voting rights (01.06.2026)
Market cap: …M / …M (GBP/USD 1.3524) · Cash 30.06.2026: …M · Debt: ~…M (leasing only) → net cash ~…M (20.2% of market cap)
Reporting currency: USD · Trading currency: GBp (pence)
⚠️ Identification and source limits. SRB is not an SEC filer —
edgar_10k_downloader.py SRBagain returned "CIK not found" (run 04.09.2026). No 10-K/20-F/10-Q, and noSEC-Filings\SRB\. Primary sources are the issuer's AIM/GlobeNewswire releases (audited FY2025 results from 01.05.2026 + the 11.05.2026 correction, H1 2026 interims from 29.05.2026, Q2 2026 production from 23.07.2026, the AGM result from 19.06.2026, the 01.09.2026 management change); yfinance fills in the quarterly series. The rawSRBsymbol returns the wrong company ("1314") and an EMPTY data pack — the valid data pack for this analysis isdata-pack-SRB.L-20260904.md.⚠️ What does NOT exist yet: the H1 2026 financial statements. AIM requires them before 30.09.2026, and the 01.09.2026 RNS confirms they'll be published by then. So the latest complete financial figures are Q1 2026 (31.03.2026); for Q2 2026 I only have production and cash. Any statement about Q2 margins is an inference, flagged as such.
Executive summary (1 page: thesis, estimated value, verdict)
Serabi Gold is a micro-cap gold producer with two high-grade underground mines in the Tapajós district, Pará state, Brazil — Palito (the central plant, in production since 2012) and Coringa (in production since 2022, no plant of its own, with ore pre-concentrated and trucked to Palito). In 2025 it delivered a record year: 44,169 oz (…), revenue …M (…), net profit …M (…), the first dividend in company history (…, ~…M), and, since January 16, 2026, a balance sheet with no financial debt. At 30.06.2026 it held …M cash and zero bank debt.
The central thesis, versus the 26.07.2026 report, has partly flipped — and the reason is arithmetic, not narrative. The prior report normalized gold at …/oz and came out with an intrinsic value of 165-… against a price of …, i.e. "expensive." That normalization is no longer defensible in September 2026: gold's annual average was … (2024), … (2025), and … in 2026 so far, with spot at … on 03.09.2026 (GC=F). Using … means assuming a 43% crash from spot — a legitimate bear scenario, not a base case. Renormalized at …/oz (roughly the 3-year average, … i.e. minus 20% versus spot) and with the already-observed elevated costs (Q1-2026 cash cost …/oz, AISC …/oz), normalized owner earnings come out at …M/year, and intrinsic value at ~… — 29% above the current price.
The reverse check is the figure that matters most: at …, the market is paying for a gold price of …/oz sustained forever (perpetual EPV, 50,000 oz/year, cash cost …/oz, 12% discount rate, plus net cash). I.e. the market already assumes a permanent 27% decline versus spot and 4% below the last-three-years average. That's a real margin of safety on the single most important assumption for a commodity producer — not an extrapolation of the peak.
The five triangulated models give … (bear, gold …) … … (bull, gold … sustained 10 years), with the median at … (…). Monte Carlo (20,000 scenarios over the same DCF model as the tracker, with OE …M ± 25%) gives median … MOS, P10 …, P90 …, and ** … probability of undervaluation**. Earnings quality is HIGH: CFO has exceeded net profit in each of the last four years (Sloan ratio … in 2025), the effective tax rate rises (13.8% → 21.5% → 23.5%), amortization grows faster than revenue, and exploration was tripled, not cut.
What keeps the verdict in check are two concrete things, not vague ones. (1) Coringa's licensing: the provisional GUIA license, capped at 100,000 t/year, expires January 29, 2027 — under five months away. The permanent installation license (LI) still needs the land-use-change approval from INCRA and the filing of the indigenous-component study with FUNAI. The 53,000+ oz guidance is explicitly conditioned on "LI granted by Q4-2026." Coringa produced 14,988 of 23,049 oz in H1-2026 — 65% of the group's production hangs on an authorization that doesn't yet exist. (2) A cluster of governance issues, not an isolated incident: at the 18.06.2026 AGM shareholders rejected both the remuneration report (52.34% against) and the remuneration policy (50.37% against); the largest shareholder (Classe Roca Magma FIP, 24.99%, managed by Starboard Asset Ltda) abstained on ALL resolutions — only 20.2% of share capital actually voted; a director who sits simultaneously on the audit committee AND the remuneration committee took 28.87% against; and the 13-year CFO, re-elected with 95.83% on June 18, left on August 28, with no stated reason, four weeks before the half-year results, and the interim isn't a board member.
Estimated value: 224-…, center 374-…. Verdict: PARTIAL BUY — small tranche (max. 1/3 of normal allocation), with explicit triggers. The valuation justifies a position; the governance cluster and the January 2027 deadline justify the small sizing and deferring the rest until (a) publication of the H1-2026 statements and (b) the LI is granted. Prior GBL score from tracker: 56.7% → MONITOR (evaluated 26.07.2026). The divergence is real, but smaller than it looks — see the final chapter.
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Full report contents
- Executive summary (1 page: thesis, estimated value, verdict)
- 🔒 Business and moat (how it makes money, competitive advantage, durability) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Management and capital allocation (track record, buybacks/dividends/acquisitions, skin in the game) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 What changed over the last 4 quarters (balance sheet line by line from the data pack, margins, cash conversion) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Balance sheet analysis — Quality of Earnings (Thornton O'Glove method) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 CEO profile — Outsider traits (William Thorndike method) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Accounting red flags (accruals, dilution, one-offs, accounting-policy changes) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Triangulated valuation (conservative DCF, EPV, multiples, Monte Carlo) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Pre-mortem (why the thesis could be wrong — 3 concrete scenarios) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Verdict compared with the GBL score in the tracker (convergence/divergence and why) (Available in the full report)
- 🔒 Sources (Available in the full report)
Evaluation history
| Date | Verdict |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-12 | Interesting |
| 2026-07-26 | Monitor |
| 2026-09-04 | Monitor |
| 2026-09-06 | Monitor |
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