Town Centre Securities (TCS) has announced it will pay an interim dividend for the six months to the end of December 2019, but has put future payments under review. The company, which owns a portfolio of retail, leisure and car parks, has said it will pay the previously announced 3.25p dividend in June, but its final […]
Hipgnosis (SONG) released a trading update, in lieu of full-year results to be announced in July. Highlights include: 42 Catalogues acquired for £560m taking the total Portfolio to 54 catalogues £422.9m of new equity raised and fully deployed Transfer from the Specialist Fund Segment to the Premium segment of the Main Market of the London […]
Gresham House Energy Storage (GRID) is assessing options to raise debt finance, to fund the acquisition of new battery storage projects. GRID’s previously communicated plans include commissioning a further 190MW of battery storage in 2020, increasing total capacity to 364MW by the end of this year. Civitas Social Housing (CSH), the London-listed REIT dedicated to investing […]
Warehouse REIT is considering an equity fundraise to capitalise on a pipeline of acquisitions as its portfolio proves resilient against covid-19. The group said it was engaging with existing and potential new investors ahead of a potential equity raise, after aborting a fundraise in March as the pandemic took hold. However, the company said it was well placed […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 June 2020: Witan has published an analysis of its performance in 2020. “In broad terms, our 12% underperformance has been due mainly to the underperformance of our underlying portfolio (9%), exacerbated by being geared into a market fall (2%), with an additional 1% being the cost of the early repayment of […]
Can Perpetual Income & Growth find its way? – Perpetual Income & Growth has published results covering the year to the end of March 2020. As we knew it would do, it makes for grim reading. An NAV return of -29.9% and a return to shareholders of -35.5% are set against a return on the UK […]
German business parks owner Sirius Real Estate posted an 8.9% increase in net asset value (NAV) in the year to the end of March 2020. The company said NAV per share increased to 77.35 euro cents (2019: 71.01c), with EPRA NAV per share of 80.62 euro cents (2019: 74.82c). The increase in NAV reflects a like-for-like […]
Capital & Counties has agreed to acquire a 26.3% shareholding in rival West End landlord Shaftesbury for £436m. The group will pay 540p per share for the 80.7 million shares from Hong Kong billionaire Samuel Tak Lee. It represents a discount of 13.9% to the closing Shaftesbury share price on 29 May 2020. The price is […]
Multi-managed global sector company, Witan (WTAN), has announced some changes to management arrangements. Principally, exposures to Europe, through CRUX Asset Management and S.W. Mitchell Capital, have been sold (after having been substantially reduced over February) while the global portfolio managed by Pzena Investment Management has been sold as well. In the latter’s case, the majority of the […]
In an update covering the period from 1 January to 29 May 2020, infrastructure-sector company, International Public Partnerships (INPP), delivered a 1.7% increase in NAV. There has been no operational change to the investment portfolio in the period since year-end results were announced on 9 April. Income-wise, the portfolio maintains a high level of inflation-linkage, […]
The five best performing investment companies over the past year in NAV terms are Golden Prospect Precious Metals, Biotech Growth, Pershing Square, JPMorgan China Growth and Income and Scottish Mortgage. It’s an eclectic bunch and illustrative of just how hard it is to navigate the market in the current turmoil. Golden Prospect is soaring because […]
Capital & Counties this week confirmed it was in talks to buy a 26.3% stake in rival West End landlord Shaftesbury in what would be the first steps in a long-mooted merger of the two groups. Capco, which owns huge swathes of Covent Garden, is in discussions to buy Hong Kong billionaire Samuel Tak Lee’s […]
BMO UK High Income (BHI) reported annual results to 31 March 2020, this morning. Performance highlights include: Total distributions increased by 3.4% to 5.21p per share compared to the prior year. Distribution yield of 7.5% on ordinary shares and 7.7% on B shares at 31 March 2020, compared to the yield on the FTSE all-share index […]
Urban Logistics REIT saw the value of its portfolio rise 4.6% on a like-for-like basis in the year to the end of March, as the sub-sector continues to perform strongly despite the impact of covid-19. The company reported a flat net asset value (NAV), of 137.9p per share, taking into account a £136m fundraise in […]
We have included the following outlook extract from Schroder Oriental Income (SOI)’s management report, as part of its interim results released this morning (to 29 February 2020). ‘The economic impact of covid-19 has made the global financial crisis of 2008 seem like a mild inconvenience’ “It would have been difficult to imagine events that could leave […]
West End property landlord Capital & Counties (Capco) is in talks to acquire a 26.3% stake in rival Shaftesbury, potentially paving the way for a multi-billion pound takeover. Capco, which owns a vast chunk of Covent Garden, confirmed it was in discussions to buy the stake from Hong Kong billionaire Samuel Tak Lee following a […]
GCP Infra trims dividend target to reflect market yields – In its half-year statement, released this morning, GCP Infrastructure has announced that it will trim its dividend target from 7.6p per year to 7p per year. This still leaves it trading on a yield of 5.9%, based on last night’s closing price. 10 years after […]
AVI Global’s (AGT) NAV and shares declined by 24.7% and 24.3% (both in total return terms) over the six-month period to 31 March 2020. AVI targets companies whose shares stand at a discount to their estimated underlying NAV. These can include investment holding companies, investment trusts and other companies. In her outlook statement, chair, Susan Noble, noted: “Having experienced […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 29 May 2020: The balance between re-opening economies around the world and minimising new cases of covid-19 is delicate. South Korea has closed schools, just a day after re-opening, after recording its highest total of new cases in two-months, yesterday. Templeton Emerging (TEM) has received a tax windfall from HMRC. £26.5m or […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 28 May 2020: Aberdeen Standard European Logistics Income (ASLI) posted a NAV total return of 8.6% in 2019 it reported today in full year results. IFRS earnings per share for the year was 9.6 euro cents, covering a dividend of 5.75 euro cents. Earlier this week ASLI made a NAV announcement for […]
Honeycomb let down by widening discount – For the year ended 31 December 2019, Honeycomb Investment Trust reported a return on NAV of 7.8%, a little down from the 8.4% generated in 2018. Shareholders were left with a loss for the year, however, as the shares moved from trading at an 11.3% premium to a […]
US Solar makes fifth purchase – US Solar Fund has signed binding agreements for its fifth purchase. The is buying cash equity interests in an approximately 61MWDC portfolio of four mechanically-complete utility-scale solar power projects located in Oregon. The deal should complete in the near future, simultaneous with financial close of tax equity financing and a […]
British Land has reported a 10.1% drop in the value of its property property as the covid-19 pandemic takes its toll on the group’s retail portfolio. For the year ending 31 March 2020, British Land’s portfolio valuation plummeted by £1.2bn, from £12.3bn to £11.1bn. The FTSE 100 REIT said that the drop was driven by […]
Hammerson chief executive David Atkins has stepped down from the role. Atkins will remain in position until spring 2021 at the latest, while the board conducts a search for his successor, the company announced today. Hammerson, which owns a portfolio of shopping centres, retail parks and outlet centres across the UK and Europe, has suffered […]
Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has acquired a 25.5% stake in a portfolio of Sainsbury’s supermarkets in a joint venture (JV) with British Airways Pension Fund. The JV has acquired the stake in the 26 stores from British Land for £102m. SUPR’s contribution to the JV is £51m, excluding costs, which will be satisfied from its existing […]
In a quarterly update, the growth capital trust, Merian Chrysalis (MERI), noted the trend that digitally-enabled businesses have typically experienced less of an impact on trading performances than “offline” peers over the period affected by covid-19. MERI also said that a number of its shareholdings contain downside protection, often in the form of preference structures, […]
Capital Gearing Trust (CGT) has reported annual results covering the year to 5 April 2020. Total NAV and share price returns came in at +0.1 and +0.5%, respectively, while the premium rose from +2.2% to +2.6%. Investment review – portfolio came through March turmoil well CGT’s managers, Peter Spiller, Alastair Laing and Christopher Clothier, provided the […]
Latin America is now the centre of the pandemic. While Brazil has been in the headlines most, there are concerns that Venezuela is particularly unprepared to cope, were cases to escalate. The BBC reports that on a per capita basis, Ecuador is the worst affected country in the region. Flexible investment company, Caledonia (CLDN), reported […]
An urgent video message from the chairman, Elisabeth Scott A message from the Chairman from India Capital on Vimeo. Additionally: Join one of their two webinars; Read our research note India Capital Growth – Needs more time; And David Cornell, of the manager Ocean Dial will be on our weekly show Friday at 11am (normally […]
AEW UK REIT has sold its largest asset for £18.8m. The car park asset at Geddington Road, Corby, was acquired in February 2018 for £12.4m and is fully let to Gefco UK for just over one year. AEW UK said it had not invested any capital expenditure in the asset during its hold period, which has […]
