Brewer, Distell Group (+99.5% YTD), rounded out the top-10 performers YTD. Distell's share price rose 5.7% MoM in September, and the company is still in takeover talks with the world's second-biggest brewer, Heineken. Distell said last week that "satisfactory progress" had been made regarding the potential transaction following the Heineken bid to acquire full control of the Group. Figure 4: Bottom-20 September 2021, YTD Source: Anchor, Bloomberg Looking at the YTD worst performers, 13 of the 20 worst-performing shares for the year to end August again featured among the 20 worst performers for the year to end September, with many newcomers from the mining sector. The newcomers in the YTD worst-performing category were African Rainbow Minerals (-16.7% YTD), Fortress Reit -B- (-15.3% YTD), Sibanye Stillwater (-13.9% YTD), Gold Fields (-6.8% YTD), Kumba (-5.6% YTD), Impala Platinum (-5.5% YTD), and Grindrod (-5.0% YTD).