Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) has announced that its placing, which was announced 25 May 2022, has raised gross proceeds of £150 million. The proceeds, in conjunction with GRID’s available debt facilities, will allow it to fund the majority of its existing pipeline. GRID says that the placing was significantly oversubscribed and a scaling back […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 27 May 2022: Worldwide Healthcare (WWH) has announced that it is terminating its placing programme, which was established on 13 July 2021, with immediate effect. WWH expects to publish its annual results later today and, if the placing programme was still in effect, this would have required WWH to publish a […]
LondonMetric Property reported a profit uplift in annual results of 185% to £734.5m, with its focus on the urban logistics sub-sector boosting values. The group’s portfolio valuation was up £1bn in the year to £3.6bn, helped by valuation gains and new acquisitions. EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) increased by 37.2% to 261.1p, driven by 67.9p […]
Picton Property has reported impressive annual results for the year to 31 March 2022, with profit after tax of £147m – its highest since launching in 2005. Net asset value (NAV) was up a massive 24.4% over the 12 months to £657m or 120p per share (2021: £528m and 97p), helped by a 21% like-for-like […]
Edinburgh Investment Trust shareholders may be disappointed that their return for the year ended 31 March 2022 failed to match that of the All-Share. The problem though was one of a widening discount rather than the underlying NAV return. Over the period, the NAV return was 14.1% to the index’s 13.0%, but the return to […]
Over the year to end March 2022, Caledonia Investments produced an NAV return of 27.9%. The dividend was increased by 3% to 64.8p (55th consecutive year of dividend increases), but on top of that the board is proposing a special dividend of 175p. The special dividend is being funded from the profits of two large […]
Over the 12 months ended 31 March 2022, Shires Income underperformed its All-Share benchmark by 1.6%, returning 11.4% in NAV terms to the index’s 13.0%. A narrowing discount helped shareholders do better, however, giving them a return of 18.4%. It was the portfolio’s structure that held things back. A 2.8% return on the portfolio’s preference […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 26 May 2022: The Financial Times has a story that there will be a windfall tax on oil and gas firms but, not yet at least, one on energy generators. The idea of an energy generation tax is said to be too complex to implement in a short timeframe. The BBC […]
Foresight Solar proposes policy change to allow investment in development stage assets – Foresight Solar (FSFL) has proposed changes to its investment policy to allow it to invest up to 5% of its gross asset value into development stage assets, being solar or battery storage system opportunities that are pre-construction and may not have secured […]
Bluefield Solar Income pushes issue timetable back in response to windfall tax rumours – The board of Bluefield Solar Income (BSIF) has responded to recent articles regarding unspecific rumours of a possible windfall tax on electricity generators including renewable generators. Given the timing of this press speculation relative to the originally planned closing date and […]
HICL Infrastructure credits inflation for strong results – HICL Infrastructure (HICL) has posted its annual results for the year to 31 March 2022. During this time, its shareholder return was 12.8% while its NAV increased by 7.1%. This outperformance was driven by higher than expected inflation feeding through asset-level valuations, continued market pressure on infrastructure […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 25 May 2022: JPMorgan China Growth & Income (JCGI) has posted its interim results for the six months to 31 March 2022. During this time, the trust’s total return on net assets (with net dividends reinvested) fell 30.8%, underperforming the benchmark MSCI China Index’s 17.5% decline (in sterling terms). The total […]
A story in today’s Financial Times seems to have triggered a slide in the share prices of a number of renewable energy companies. Rishi Sunak is said to be exploring the possibility of a windfall tax on all energy generating companies, including those in the renewable energy sector, as well as oil and gas companies. […]
Greencoat Renewables is buying a 65MW portfolio of operating wind farms in France from Axpo, Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy. The acquisition comprises four wind farms, each of which benefits from long-term contracts with the French government. The 16MW Arcy-Précy windfarm is located in the Burgundy region of France and consists of eight Vestas […]
London office developer Helical has posted a 7.3% uplift in NAV for the year to 31 March 2022. The highlights of the results were: EPRA net tangible asset value per share up 7.3% to 572p (31 March 2021: 533p) EPRA net disposal value per share up 13.6% to 551p (31 March 2021: 485p) Net asset […]
Warehouse REIT delivered a NAV total return for the year to 31 March 2022 of 33.2%, as it gears up for a move from AIM to the main market. EPRA net tangible assets (NTA) per share was up 28.6% to 173.8p (31 March 2021: 135.1 pence), thanks to a large increase in the value of […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 24 May 2022: Alina Holdings says that due to “the recent collapse in Global Equity Markets, and the board’s relatively bleak economic outlook with the potential for ‘Stagflation’, leading to further stock market declines” it intends to undertake an accelerated strategic review, including the potential sale of the company or liquidation […]
JZ Capital Partners to benefit from portfolio holding sale in JZHL Secondary Fund – JZ Capital Partners (JZCP), has provided a further update in relation to its interest in the secondary fund, JZHL Secondary Fund, which was the fund it had earlier sold its interests in certain US microcap portfolio companies to. Since JZCP’s last […]
Bluefield Solar Income buys battery storage projects in Derbyshire and Worcestershire – Bluefield Solar Income (BSIF) has acquired two standalone 40 MW battery storage projects from Green Hedge Energy UK Limited for approximately £4.5m. The acquisition represents the development rights, grid connection costs and the leasehold of land for the two projects, which are based […]
Schroder Oriental Income cuts performance fee – Schroder Oriental Income (SOI) has posted its interim results for the six months to 29 February 2022. During this period, the trust delivered an NAV return of 0.9% and a share price return of -0.7%. The share price discount to NAV ended the six month period at 5.2%, […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 23 May 2022: Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT) has invested approximately $46.1m (£37m) in Cartier Energy, a district energy platform in the US. The business is made up of eight district energy systems located across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest and provides diversified energy services such as heat (steam, hot water), cooling (chilled […]
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust’s Claire Shaw explains why investing in the next generation of green technologies requires time and patience. “What is the greater challenge to decarbonisation? The speed at which we need to find breakthrough innovations to reform carbon-intensive sectors at scale or the patience investors require to fund the companies set to do […]
The recent sell-off in growth and technology stocks has seen investment trust superstar Scottish Mortgage’s (SMT) share price plummet by around 50% over the past six months, which led it to announce negative returns in its 2021/2022 annual report for the first time in years. This downturn deviates from the consistent growth usually delivered by […]
JPMorgan Japanese (JFJ) has published its interim results for the six-months ended 31 March 2022. The period is one that has seen investors rotate away from the kind of high quality and high growth companies that JFJ focuses on (its manager runs a high conviction, unconstrained approach focused on finding the best investment ideas in […]
ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt (LBOW) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 January 2022. LBOPW’s chairman, Jack Perry, says that at a domestic level, the UK property market has largely shaken off the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic with occupational, investment and finance market transactions returning to something like normal […]
Securities Trust of Scotland (STS) has announced its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2022. During the period, STS provided NAV and share price total returns of 16.8% and 17.4% respectively, which compared to a total return of 10.8% in the Lipper Global – Equity Global Income Index. These compare to a net […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 20 May 2022: Ecofin Renewables Infrastructure (RNEW) has announced that its fundraising, which was undertaken as both a placing and REX retail offer, has raised gross proceeds of US$13.1m. US$10.8m was raised through the placing and £1.8m (equivalent to approximately US$2.3m) was raised through the REX Retail Offer. RNEW will issue […]
London office landlord and developer Great Portland Estates says it expects positive rental growth over the next year as the supply of new offices are choked off by weaker sentiment and cost inflation. This coupled with a continued “flight to quality” offices by occupiers gives cause for a positive outlook, with the company giving a […]
Over the twelve months to 31 March 2022, Scottish Mortgage returned -13.1% in NAV terms and -9.5% in share price terms as compared to a 12.8% increase in the All-World Index. The chair says “these last couple of years have been extraordinary and do not offer a suitable timeframe over which to judge investment returns” […]
