Overview
Digital 9 Infrastructure’s investment objective is to generate a total return for investors comprising sustainable and growing income and capital growth through investing in a diversified portfolio of resilient digital infrastructure projects.
Digital 9 Infrastructure plc will look to invest in:
- Subsea fibre-optic networks
- Data centres
- Terrestrial fibre-optic networks
- Wireless via macro cell towers and small cell networks
These investments that provide key infrastructure for global data transfer (subsea fibre-optic networks, wireless networks and terrestrial fibres) and data storage (data centres), all contribute to meeting the increasing global demand for improved speed, reliability and accessibility of internet connection.
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Fundamentals
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Research History
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17 Oct 2023 14 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2023
Third quarter of 2023 Investment Companies | Quarterly roundup | October 2023 Kindly sponsored by abrdn ‘Uncomfortable’ Following a fast start to the first half of the year, globally equities took a breather in Q3, as markets assessed the implications of the worst bond sell-off in a generation. Yields on 10-year US treasuries and UK […]
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13 Oct 2023 10 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – October 2023
October 2023 Monthly roundup | Investment companies Kindly sponsored by abrdn Winners and losers in September 2023 September was defined by the ongoing US bond selloff, with global markets trending down in sympathy. Investment trust returns were negative on average for the month, although several sectors still achieved positive returns. The Royalties sector was the […]
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07 Dec 2022 8 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Roundup – December 2022
Investment Companies Monthly Roundup Kindly sponsored by abrdn December 2022 Monthly | Investment companies Winners and losers in November 2022 As discussed in this month’s economic and political roundup, lower US inflation triggered a fall in the US dollar and drove equity markets higher over November. The big surprise was the resurgence of Chinese markets […]
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13 Oct 2022 14 min read
QuotedData’s Investment Companies Quarterly Review – Third Quarter 2022
Third quarter of 2022 Kindly sponsored by Baillie Gifford and Aberdeen Standard Investments Piling on the misery In the face of rising inflation, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, central bankers have condemned for their relative inaction. However, in the third quarter of 2022, they stepped up a gear. Last month’s economic and political roundup […]
News
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11 Oct 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 11th October 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Tritax EuroBox (0:19) Digital 9 Infrastructure (3:07) UIL (5:09) This week’s interview was with James Armstrong from Bluefield Solar Income – watch it again here
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3 min read
InfraRed Capital Partners to manage Digital 9 Infrastructure
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that it has entered into an agreement to appoint InfraRed Capital Partners Limited as the company’s investment manager and AIFM in charge of implementing DGI9’s previously announced managed wind-down. The appointment is subject to regulatory approvals and third-party consents although the board anticipates the appointment will become effective in […]
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01 Oct 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 October 2024 – BGCG, DIG, AIE, VNH, PEY
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 October 2024: Baillie Gifford China Growth Trust (BGCG) announced its interim results for the six months to 31 July 2024. The company delivered a NAV total return of 10.2%, trailing the benchmark index return of 12.0%. The share price rise was 4.1% as the company’s discount to NAV expanded from […]
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06 Sep 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 6th September 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today on our YouTube channel. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: PRS REIT (0:41) SEGRO / Tritax EuroBox (4:02) Balanced Commercial Property Trust (6:41) Artemis Alpha / Aurora (8:10) JPMorgan Core Real Assets (10:33) Digital 9 Infrastructure (11:51) Andrew McHattie covered: Major rises over the […]
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2 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure NAV collapses to 45p
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has published a company update including details of an unaudited portfolio valuation and updated net asset value and the news is not good – its board believes that “the aggregate portfolio valuation as at 30 June 2024 is likely to be materially below the latest published portfolio valuation as at 31 […]
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13 Aug 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 August 2024 – NESF, SYNC, WTAN, DGI9, VSL
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 August 2024: Pleasingly, at yesterday’s AGM, NextEnergy Solar Fund’s (NESF) shareholders overwhelmingly backed the company (94:6) to carry on with its existing objective. Syncona’s (SYNC) NAV has slipped again – by 4.9% over the three months ended 30 June. The value of its life science portfolio fell by 8.3% and […]
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23 Jul 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 July 2024 – DGI9, PAC, WHR
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 July 2024: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) announced the appointment of Mr Philip Braun as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from 22 July 2024. Further to the company’s announcement on 12 June 2024 and following Mr Philip Braun’s appointment to the board of DGI9, Mr Aaron Le […]
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05 Jul 2024 8 min read
An update on our analysts’ top picks for 2024
At the outset of 2024, we challenged our analysts to come up with some ideas for investment companies that they liked, and thought could do well over the course of this year (click here to read the original article which set out our analysts’ thinking and why they liked the stocks). We also promised to […]
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13 Jun 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 June 2024 – RTW, FAIR, FSFL, DGI9
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 13 June 2024: RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW) says its largest (13.4% of the portfolio) holding, Avidity Biosciences Inc. has announced positive initial data from its Phase 1/2 trial of AOC 1020, an investigational therapy that targets DUX4, the root cause of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). AOC 1020 demonstrated unprecedented and consistent […]
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30 Apr 2024 2 min read
Digital 9 results see NAV slashed again
Digital9 Infrastructure has published results for 2023. It published an NAV as at 31 December 2023 on 28 March of £728m or 84p per share. At that time, the board had obtained an independent valuation of Aqua Comms, Elio Networks, Arqiva Group and the potential earn-out payment of up to US $135m from the sale […]
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29 Apr 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 April 2024 – BOOK, DGI9, SBSI
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 April 2024: Literacy Capital (BOOK) has announced its Q1 2024 NAV as well as providing a quarterly trading update. It generated a NAV total return of 2.0%, an uplift of £6.0m (10.0p per share), bringing its NAV per share to 510.4p, or total NAV of £306.2m. BOOK had cash inflows […]
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28 Mar 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 March 2024 – IVPB, IVPG, IVPM, IVPU, RIII, TENT, DGI9, HOME, BHMG, BHMU, ESO, SMIF, SONG
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 March 2024: Not enough shareholders of Invesco Select Trust (IVPB / IVPG / IVPM / IVPU) voted on the plan to merge the four asset classes into just the global equity income class. The percentage voting requirement to get the deal approved has been relaxed and the timetable pushed back. […]
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25 Mar 2024 1 min read
DIGITAL 9 serves notice to its managers while also paying off its debt
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that it intends to serve a notice of termination to its current investment managers, Triple Point Investment Management, subject to the required consents. The board expects the termination to take effect on 31 March 2025. The board has chosen Liberum Capital as its financial adviser, in order to aid […]
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15 Mar 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 March 2024 – DGI9, AJOT, PSDL, HLCL
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 March 2024: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that its much publicised sale of Verne Global to funds managed by Ardian France SA for up to US$575m (approximately £450m) has completed. The sale price is variable as there is an earn out feature built in that could enhance the price […]
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06 Mar 2024 1 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure takes a big step towards realisation
The board of Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that the Icelandic regulator has given its approval for the sale of the Verne Global group of companies (which included Verne Iceland). As a result all closing conditions related to the Verne Transaction have now been satisfied. However, the change of control consent is still conditional […]
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04 Mar 2024 1 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure provides an update on its debt repayment
The board of Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has provided a progress update on the closing conditions required for the sale of the Verne Global group of companies, a transaction that is key to repaying DGI9’s revolving credit facility (RCF). The board notes that the RCF lenders have granted their approval to proceed with the completion […]
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28 Feb 2024 3 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure outlines the details of its wind down, and provides a portfolio update
Further to the announcement made on 29 January 2024, the board of Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has provided greater clarity around how it foresees its wind down taking shape, and has proposed a change of investment objective and policy to facilitate this. A change which shareholders will be able to vote on in the forthcoming […]
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09 Feb 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 9th February 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Pershing Square Holdings (0:31) • Gore Street Energy Storage (9:11) • Digital 9 Infrastructure (12:35) This week’s interview was with Kartik Kumar from Artemis Alpha Trust […]
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08 Feb 2024 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 February 2024 – DGI9, BIPS, APAX, SYNC, HEIT, SHIP, AIRE, HLCL
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 February 2024: Digital 9’s (DGI9) sale of Verne Global may take longer than expected to close as the Icelandic anti-trust authority wants to look at the transaction. The company warns that this could add between 90 and 135 days to the wait for the final sign off of the deal. […]
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02 Feb 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 2nd February 2024
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Batteries – Gresham and Harmony (0:56) • Digital 9 Infrastructure (9:40) Andrew McHattie explained how it has been a better month for growth stocks […]
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29 Jan 2024 2 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure announces wind-down
The board of Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that following the conclusion of its strategic review, announced in November 2023, it has decided to propose a managed wind-down. The decision was made in consultation with DGI9’s financial advisers, as well as taking into account feedback received from a large number of shareholders and institutional […]
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05 Jan 2024 4 min read
QD view – Our analysts’ top picks for 2024
As we begin another year here at QuotedData, we thought we’d have some fun and challenge our analysts to come up with some ideas for investment companies that they like and think could do well over the course of 2024. To keep things interesting, each analyst has been asked to select two ideas – one […]
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04 Jan 2024 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 January 2024 – DGI9, LABS
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 January 2024: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) says that Keith Mansfield has decided to step down as a director with immediate effect. The board has made some changes: Aaron Le Cornu is appointed chair of the Audit Committee and Brett Miller will join the Audit Committee. Brett Miller is appointed chair […]
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22 Dec 2023 3 min read
QD – review of the year
This is the last of our weekly emails for 2023. We hope that you have been finding them useful. We will be publishing our annual roundup in January. Ahead of that however, I thought it might be worth pulling out a few of the year’s highs and lows. In January, China’s market shone as hopes […]
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01 Dec 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news update 1st December
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: abrdn China and Fidelity China Special Solutions (1:08) Troy Income and Growth and STS Global Income and Growth (4:33) Vietnam Holding (8:16) Digital 9 Infrastructure […]
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3 min read
QD view – a sector in turmoil
Another week, another bout of corporate activity. Subject to shareholder approval, abrdn China is to be absorbed by Fidelity China Special Situations, and Troy Income and Growth will merge with STS Global Income and Growth. In addition, abrdn European Logistics Income announced a strategic review, Downing Renewables and Infrastructure Trust said that it would consider […]
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28 Nov 2023 4 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure sells Verne Global and announces strategic review
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its entire stake in the Verne Global group to funds managed or advised by Ardian France SA for up to US$575m (approximately £456m). The sale price has deferred and contingent elements as explained below. There are also a number […]
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30 Oct 2023 3 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure strikes back against activists
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) published a letter sent in response to the one sent by Aqua Ventures Limited (AVL) last week, which owns 3.5% of DGI9, outlining AVL’s desire to implement an immediate strategic review of DGI9. Aqua Ventures claims to have consulted, and have the support of, 20% of DGI9’s shareholders. AVL’s letter outlined […]
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27 Oct 2023 1 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure mulls total sale of Verne Global
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that after considering feedback received from its shareholder consultation (announced on 17 October 2023), its board is assessing the possibility of divesting the company’s entire stake in the Verne Global group of companies. DGI9’s board says that it has already received indicative offers for the entire position during the […]
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17 Oct 2023 1 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure provides shareholder update
The board of Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) provided an update on its recent shareholder consultation. Further to the announcement of 28 September 2023, the company’s board of directors confirms it has engaged with shareholders, representing approximately 74% of the issued share capital, in conjunction with the investment manager and the company’s joint corporate brokers, J.P. […]
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06 Oct 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news update 6th October 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Henderson High Income / Henderson Diversified Income (0:40) • Pershing Square (7:16) • Octopus Renewables (10:00) Andrew McHattie spoke about Regional REIT and Digital […]
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29 Sep 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news update 29th September 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Gulf Investments (0:34) • Digital 9 Infrastructure (6:20) • HICL Infrastructure (13:32) • Hipgnosis (14:58) This week’s interview was with Carlos Hardenberg from Mobius […]
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28 Sep 2023 2 min read
Digital 9 will not pay a dividend for Q2 2023
Digital 9 Infrastructure says that its board has elected to not declare its Q2 2023 dividend. Higher interest rates and the inability to raise fresh equity have put pressure on its liquidity. At 30 June 2023, the Group had about £47m of unrestricted cash available and £18.8m remaining undrawn from its £375m revolving credit facility […]
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21 Jul 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 21st July 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • abrdn New Dawn/Asia Dragon (0:27) • Digital9 Infrastructure (7:44) This week’s interview was with Ian Lance from Temple Bar – watch it again here.
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18 Jul 2023 2 min read
Interest grows as DGI9 provides company update
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has provided a company update on its recent and ongoing activities. The key highlights from the report were: Considerable investor interest in equity syndication Continued evaluation of additional complementary sources of growth capital Reaffirmed target aggregate dividend of 6.0 pence per ordinary share for the year ending 31 December 2023 Operating […]
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05 Jul 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 July 2023
RTW Biotech Opportunities (RTW) provided an update on its intended use of proceeds from its holding in Prometheus Biosciences, Inc., following its acquisition by Merck. The sale resulted in total proceeds of $99.1 million on total invested capital of $8.4 million, representing a 11.8x multiple. RTW plans to split the proceeds across a series of […]
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13 Jun 2023 3 min read
Better times ahead for new management of DGI9
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9), has announced the appointment of additional personnel to the Triple Point Investment Management digital infrastructure team. Further to the previous announcement on 1 December 2022, Triple Point has completed the competitive recruitment and selection process to appoint a new Head of Digital Infrastructure. Triple Point and the board of D9 have […]
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05 Jun 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 June 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing for 5 June 2023: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced a $100m green loan debt facility, and an update on the syndication of one of its invested companies. The $100m debt facility is being utilised by Verne Global Iceland, one of DGI9’s invested companies. Verne Global is a leading data centre […]
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04 Apr 2023 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 April 2023
Digital 9 infrastructure (DGI9) issued a statement regarding its share price. The board and the investment manager confirmed that they are not aware of any portfolio-specific factors that have led to the recent decline in the share price. The board believes that the discount to NAV at which the company’s share price currently trades materially […]
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31 Mar 2023 3 min read
QD View – Discount opportunity on digital disruptor, DGI9
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) is a good example of a fund which has been caught up in the global market rotation despite impressive underlying fundamentals and long-term thematic tailwinds. At its heart, the company offers targeted exposure to digital infrastructure, which leverages cleaner, greener power. This provides the foundation for the rapidly accelerating digital transition, […]
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09 Mar 2023 2 min read
Digital9 may have a new manager by Q2 2023
Digital9 Infrastructure says it delivered an NAV return of 10.4% over 2022. The results statement notes the fall in its share price – blaming market volatility, the mini budget and the walkout of the investment management team in November 2022. The shares went from an 8.1% premium at the start of 2022 to a 21% […]
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13 Jan 2023 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 13th January 2023
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Digital 9 Infrastructure (0:47) • AT85 Infrastructure (11:51) This week’s interview was with Thao Ngo from Vietnam Enterprise – watch it again here. previous […]
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11 Jan 2023 3 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure highlights significantly increased growth capital expenditure pipeline
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has released a trading update that covers its performance to the 30 September 2022. The key highlights are as follows: The Group’s diversified portfolio of eight high-quality data centre, subsea fibre, and wireless network assets (together, the “Investee Companies”) has performed strongly during the period to 30 September 2022. The Company […]
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QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 January 2023
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 11 January 2023: PRS REIT (PRSR) provided a trading update for the quarter to 31 December 2022 in which it completed 57 new rental homes brining the company’s portfolio to 4,913 as at 31 December 2022. The delivery programme is around 85% complete, with 613 additional homes contracted and at various […]
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25 Nov 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 25th November 2022
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: • Renewables/infrastructure NAVs • Digital 9 Infrastructure • NB Global Monthly Income • Home REIT This week’s interview was with Bruce Stout from Murray International […]
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22 Nov 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 November 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 22 November 2022: Aquila European Renewables (AERI) says that 95% of all 72 turbines at its Norwegian Rock project are now in operation, whilst the remaining turbines are subject to corrective maintenance. A production-based availability warranty will cover any losses if availability is below 97% in the first year of operations […]
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14 Sep 2022 4 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 September 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 14 September 2022: Middlefield Canadian Income (MCT) has posted its half-year results for the six months to 30 June 2022, during which time its NAV rose by 3.4% while its share price was also up by 2,5%. The Canadian stock market outperformed most global indices even though over the period. Two […]
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30 Aug 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 August 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 30 August 2022: Digital 9 Infrastructure’s shares commence trading on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange with effect from 8 am this morning. Octopus Renewables Infrastructure (ORIT) has announced that its investment manager will be presenting via the Investor Meet Company platform on Wednesday 7 September 2022 at 12pm […]
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26 Aug 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 26th August 2022
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Matthew Read covered the week’s top stories: Urban logistics REIT Rockwood Strategic Digital 9 Infrastructure This week’s interview was with Nick Brind of Polar Capital Global Financials Trust– watch it again here.
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15 Aug 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 August 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 15 August 2022: Seraphim Space (SSIT) holding D-Orbit, a market leader in space logistics and orbital transportation services, and Breeze Holdings have mutually agreed to terminate their previously announced merger agreement effective immediately. Both companies have agreed that financial markets have changed substantially since the proposed transaction was originally agreed upon […]
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08 Jul 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 8th July 2022
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Jayna Rana covered the week’s top stories: • Round Hill Music/Hipgnosis Songs • Octopus Renewables Infrastructure • Fundraising HICL Infrastructure Impact Healthcare REIT Digital 9 Infrastructure This week’s interview was with David […]
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1 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure fundraise pulls in £60m
Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has announced that it has raised £60m via the placing and offer for subscription that was announced on 27 June 2022. DGI9 says that 48,335,287 new ordinary shares will be issued in relation to the placing and 6,210,167 new ordinary shares will be issued in relation to the offer for subscription, […]
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27 Jun 2022 3 min read
Digital 9 buying Arqiva stake
Digital 9 Infrastructure has agreed the terms of an acquisition of a 48.02% voting stake in Arqiva Group Limited. The completion of the acquisition is subject to customary regulatory approvals, and it will be funded through a combination of £300m in cash and a £159.3m (not £135.5m – the two announcements this morning don’t tie up) […]
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25 Apr 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 April 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 April 2022: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has signed a sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of Nordic data centre and cloud services provider, Ficolo Oy for a total consideration of €135m. The acquisition is expected to complete later this year following customary regulatory approval. It builds upon DGI9’s strong […]
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13 Apr 2022 1 min read
Digital 9 buys data centre in London
Digital 9 Infrastructure has signed a binding sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of GAData Holdings Limited (trading as Volta Data Centres) for £45m. Volta wholly owns and operates a premier data centre facility based in central London, providing co-location services. The investment forms part of Digital 9’s metro edge data centre strategy of […]
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05 Apr 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 April 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 5 April 2022: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has completed the acquisition of Leeson Telecom (Host Ireland), a leading enterprise broadband provider in Greater Dublin. The purchase price was about €60m. Host Ireland owns and operates the highest capacity licensed microwave-based Fixed Wireless Access network in Greater Dublin. It provides high quality, […]
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17 Mar 2022 1 min read
Digital 9 makes a good start
Digital 9 makes a good start – Digital 9 Infrastructure has published its first set of results since its IPO in March 2021. It raised £300m then and expanded that by a further £450m over the course of the year. The year end NAV was 104.6p. The company also declared dividends totalling 4.5p (6p annualised), in […]
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25 Feb 2022 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 25th February 2022
Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on YouTube. In this week’s show, Matthew Read covered the week’s top stories: • Digital 9 Infrastructure – SPA terminated • Crystal Amber and Allied Minds • Bluefield Solar – strong inflation linkage • Jupiter Emerging & Frontier […]
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21 Feb 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 February 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 21 February 2022: Following Digital 9 Infrastructure’s (DGI9) announcement on 13 January 20221 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Digital 9 Wireless Limited, had signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement to acquire a majority stake in Tetra Ireland Communications Limited, the company has received notice that one of the other shareholders […]
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26 Jan 2022 1 min read
Another £300m for 2021’s IPO stars Digital 9 Infrastructure and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure
Another £300m for 2021’s IPO stars Digital 9 Infrastructure and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure – Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) and Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD), both of which only launched in March last year before going on to raise further funds during 2021, have raised almost £300m between them via their respective placing programmes. Digital 9 Infrastructure […]
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24 Jan 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 January 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 January 2022 Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) will hold a general meeting on 14 February to ask shareholders to consider, and if thought fit, approve the amendment to the company’s investment policy. It is proposed that the existing policy is amended, inter alia, by replacing the size restriction and change the […]
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17 Jan 2022 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 January 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 17 January 2022: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has started a consultation process with shareholders regarding potential amendments to its investment policy which currently restricts its ability to invest more than 20% of gross assets in any single asset or investee company. It is proposed that this is increased to 25%. Meanwhile […]
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13 Jan 2022 2 min read
Digital 9 buys Irish wireless network
Digital 9 buys Irish wireless network – Digital 9 Infrastructure says that its subsidiary, Digital 9 Wireless has signed a conditional sale and purchase agreement to buy a majority (56%) stake in Tetra Ireland Communications, the exclusive operator of public safety wireless networks across the Republic of Ireland. The total price is about €76m and […]
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10 Jan 2022 4 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 January 2022
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 January 2022: Following its decision to terminate its investment management arrangement with KKV Investment Management, Secured Income Fund (SSIF) is now a self managed AIFM. The company has entered into a consultancy agreement to secure the services of one of the individuals previously employed by KKVIM and who has the […]
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09 Dec 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 December 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 9 December 2021: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has bought a data centre asset and subsea fibre landing station, SeaEdge UK1, on the UK’s largest data centre campus in Newcastle for a purchase price of £15m. SeaEdge UK1 has a capacity of 10.6MW and a direct connection to the 275KV National Grid […]
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29 Sep 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 September 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 September 2021: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has decided to increase the amount raised for its placing from £200m to £275m due to a significant oversubscription. A number of directors and members of the investment management team of DGI9 were among the biggest subscribers. 255,813,953 new ordinary shares will be issued […]
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13 Sep 2021 2 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure launches placing with £200m target
Digital 9 Infrastructure launches placing with £200m target – Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has launched a placing of new ordinary shares at a price of 107.5 pence per ordinary share pursuant to the terms of its existing placing programme. It is targeting gross proceeds of approximately £200m, which could be exceeded subject to demand, to […]
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06 Sep 2021 3 min read
Strong start for Digital 9 Infrastructure as it announces another equity raise
Strong start for Digital 9 Infrastructure as it announces another equity raise – Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has completed the acquisition of Verne Holdings (or Verne Global), a data centre platform in Iceland, operating on a former NATO site near Keflavik for a valuation of approximately £231m in cash. Verne Global is the leading Icelandic data […]
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28 Jul 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 July 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 July 2021: Literacy Capital (BOOK) has acquired a majority stake in OFJ Spring Topco Limited, the holding company for Oxygen Freejumping, which is an operator of trampoline and adventure parks in the UK, with four sites in England. The investment will provide Oxygen Freejumping with fresh capital enabling the business to […]
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11 Jun 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s weekly news show 11 June 2021
QuotedData’s weekly news show 11 June 2021 Thank you to everyone that listened in today, whether you watched the Zoom live, on Facebook or on Youtube. In this week’s show, James Carthew covered the week’s top stories: Pacific Horizon’s Markson-Brown departs Baillie Gifford for Crux BB Biotech’s Biogen bet plays out successfully Digital 9 Infrastructure […]
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08 Jun 2021 1 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 June 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 8 June 2021: Aberdeen Smaller Companies Income (ASCI) has appointed Christopher Metcalfe, a former investment manager at Newton IM, Schroders and Henderson Administration Group, as an independent non-executive director, following the retirement of former director Barry Rose. The board also said an additional independent non-executive director will be recruited before the company’s […]
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01 Apr 2021 2 min read
QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 April 2021
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 1 April 2021 – no April Fools, we promise: UK Commercial Property REIT (UKCM) has sold its Kew Retail Park asset in London to a leading UK housebuilder for £41m. The sale price is marginally below the end 2020 book value. Of the complete 10 acre retail park, the trust owned 4.7 […]
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22 Oct 2024 1 min read
Shuttered infrastructure trusts struggle in buyers’ market
by Val Cipriani, Investors Chronicle, October 21, 2024: Packing up the house always takes longer than you think. For investment trusts that have started the winding-up process, clearing the portfolio can be long and complicated, especially when illiquid assets need to be offloaded. Earlier this month, beleaguered infrastructure trust Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9), which is […]
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07 Oct 2024 1 min read
When will these high-income investment trusts recover?
by Jennifer Hill from interactive investor, 7th October 2024: For income-seeking investors, the attraction of allocating to traditional infrastructure or renewable energy was clear: long-term, stable revenues that are often government-backed and inflation-linked. However, as interest rates rocketed and demand for alternative sources of income plummeted, these investment trust sectors seriously sold off, causing share prices to plunge […]
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09 Sep 2024 1 min read
Investment trust insider on AVI Global Trust
Investment trust insider on AVI Global Trust – James Carthew: AVI Global can extend its excellent track record Discounts across global markets present opportunities for the UK-based bargain hunter, which recently cashed in on Starwood’s Balanced Commercial Property bid. The investment companies sector continues to shrink. So far in September, we have seen bids for Tritax […]
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02 Apr 2024 1 min read
The real reasons investment trusts are so cheap
By Matteo Anelli, Senior reporter, Trustnet, 27 March 2024: Investment companies are notoriously cheap, with more than 30% currently trading at double-digit discounts, as a recent study showed. Yet there is no single headwind that has caused this phenomenon, and no silver bullet that will get discounts back to more normal levels, according to QuotedData […]
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19 Mar 2024 1 min read
Have investment trust dividend cuts created bargains?
by Dave Baxter, Investors Chronicle, March 19, 2024: While far from universally popular among investors, dividend cuts can sometimes be a blessing in disguise. They can drive share prices down to attractive levels while also allowing companies to put cash to better use. This is a premise that can feed into how some funds are […]
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18 Dec 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on 2023
Investment trust insider on 2023 – James Carthew: Dramatic 2023 leaves sector radically different The rationalisation of the sector continues. There has been a flurry of announcements over the past couple of weeks: Abrdn Diversified Income and Growth (ADIG) announced a managed wind down; Triple Point Energy Transition (TENT) declared it will begin an orderly […]
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09 Nov 2023 1 min read
Shareholder activism and M&A surge is a mixed blessing for investment trust sector
Valeria Martinez, Investment Week, 09 November 2023: Discounts not seen since the Global Financial Crisis are driving a fresh surge in shareholder activism and M&A across the UK investment trust space. While this is likely to help lift prices in the short-term, it could also lead to a significant shrinkage of the sector… Alternative trusts […]
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09 Oct 2023 1 min read
James Carthew: I’ve bought DGI9 but I’m voting against Hipgnosis
James Carthew: I’ve bought DGI9 but I’m voting against Hipgnosis It feels sometimes as though an all-pervading gloom has descended on the investment companies’ sector as share price discounts continue to widen. It does not seem to matter how often you point out the illogicality of share prices (as I did in last week’s article), […]
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02 Oct 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on discount disconnects
Investment trust insider on discount disconnects – James Carthew: The SONG and dance about alternative NAVs One argument used by investors who justify the wide discounts on investment companies in ‘alternative’, non-equity assets is that the underlying net asset values (NAV) of their portfolios are overstated. Sometimes this is easy to counter, but in other […]
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29 Sep 2023 1 min read
Digital 9 Infrastructure shares plummet by 40% as turnaround hopes slump
Valeria Martinez, Investment Week, 29 September 2023: Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) shares fell by nearly 40% on Thursday (28 September), as shareholder confidence and hopes for the successful turnaround of the troubled trust dwindle. The share price plunge followed the board scrapping its 6p dividend target for the 2023 financial year and not declare a […]
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05 Sep 2023 1 min read
Options to resolve Digital 9 Infrastructure’s ‘material uncertainty’ narrow as ‘funding crisis’ persists
Valeria Martinez, Investment Week, 05 September 2023: From trading at a premium less than a year ago, Digital 9 Infrastructure (DGI9) has rapidly reversed to a discount, with share prices falling over 40% as investors digested a series of problems, including a funding crisis that has yet to be resolved. The FTSE 250 trust, managed […]
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02 Aug 2023 1 min read
Eight investment trusts that could be takeover targets
by Sam Benstead from interactive investor, 2nd August 2023: Wide investment trust discounts are making them appealing takeover targets, with rumoured or confirmed deals likely to lead to sudden share price jumps… Discounts have widened due to negative sentiment about the economy, and therefore private company valuations, but also due to the impact of higher […]
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03 May 2023 1 min read
Alternatives de-rating throws up opportunities
James Carthew for Investment Week, 3 May 2023: Over the past 12 months or so, the disconnect between the net asset values of a wide range of investment companies and their share prices has widened considerably. The problem seems particularly acute in the area of alternative assets, which includes private equity, property, infrastructure and renewable […]
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18 Apr 2023 1 min read
Investment trust insider on discounts
James Carthew: This selloff has gone too far Looking at my portfolio, the past few months have felt a bit frustrating. Investment companies that I am convinced are sound have been derated, sometimes aggressively. Investors seem irrational, perhaps even panicky. Fundamentals are being ignored and sentiment rules all. Fortunately, the bulk of my investments are […]
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05 Apr 2023 1 min read
Infrastructure trusts ‘cheaper than they should be’
By Val Cipriani, Investors Chronicle, April 4, 2023: Social and economic infrastructure trusts continue to trade below their net asset value (NAV) despite an encouraging set of financial results, as worries over interest rates and valuations spooked investors. In the month to 31 March, share prices in the Association of Investment Companies’ infrastructure group dropped […]
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11 Jan 2022 1 min read
Investment trust insider on digital infrastructure
Investment trust insider on digital infrastructure – James Carthew: Exciting growth of digital infrastructure One of the first investment companies to launch in 2021 was Cordiant Digital Infrastructure (CORD). Its £370m initial public offering (IPO), coming soon after the £243m flotation of VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities (GSEO), set the scene for a bumper year […]
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15 Nov 2021 2 min read
Investment trusts rediscover their roots with a 21st century twist
The listed fund vehicles are financing innovation in clean fuels, space and digital infrastructure Mary McDougall, Financial Times, NOVEMBER 12 2021 Investment trusts seem to be coming full circle. For most of the 20th century, they gradually moved away from their origins as entrepreneurial schemes investing in specific targets, often in Britain’s colonies, to running […]
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The alternative trusts allowing investors to capture new trends
Investment trusts enjoy record year for fundraising as they back a new wave of innovation November 11, 2021, Investors Chronicle, By Mary McDougall Investment trust fundraising amounted to £11.4bn in the first 10 months of the year, a record for the ancient fund structure which is now financing a new wave of innovation. Most striking is the […]
