** Analysts at Jefferies initiate coverage on Australia's Paladin Energy PDN.AX at "buy" rating and give price target of A$9
** PT reflects a 39% premium to stock's last close of A$6.46
** Brokerage is positive on co's Patterson lake south project and expects further updates on the project throughout 2025
** Says ground freezing is a well established mining practice in the northern hemisphere and brokerage examines planned implementation of the practice at the project
** Jefferies values the project at around A$1.47 bln ($926.54 mln)
** We continue to see Paladin as offering the quality ASX exposure to the uranium market - Jefferies
** Nine of 10 analysts rate the stock "buy" or higher and one "hold"; their median PT is A$11 – LSEG data
** Stock down 14.6% YTD
($1 = 1.5865 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Rishav Chatterjee in Bengaluru)
((Rishav.Chatterjee@thomsonreuters.com;))
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