Schiehallion says that over the year to 31 January 2024, the NAV returned negative 0.9% and share price returned negative 22.3%. The share price discount to NAV widened from 23% to 40% as sentiment remained against growth stocks and private company investments. The net revenue return was negative and there will be no dividend. From […]
Over the 12 months ended 31 January 2024, Dunedin Income Growth generated an NAV return of 6.7%, well ahead of the 1.9% return posted by the All-Share Index and other UK equity income trusts. However, a widening discount (finishing the year at 10.7%) left investors with a return of -1.6%. The dividend was increased by […]
Invesco Bond Income Plus delieved an NAV return of 11.7% over 2023 and a 10.5% return to shareholders. The 11.7% NAV return was slightly below the 13.8% achieved by the ICE Bank of America Merrill Lynch European High Yield Index. Dividends totalled 11.5p (up marginally from 2022’s 11.25p) and these were covered by earnings of […]
Temple Bar posted a decent set of results for 2023. NAV and shareholder returns were 12.3% and 12.5% respectively, both well-ahead of the 7.9% return generated by the All-Share Index. The dividend grew by 2.7% to 9.6p. This was not quite covered by earnings, which were 9.3p, but the company still has over £12m of […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 April 2024: Manulife’s acquisition of CQS is now complete. There are no planned changes to the management teams of Golden Prospect (GPM), Geiger Counter (GCL), CQS New City High Yield (NCYF), and CQS Natural Resources Growth & Income (CYN). The manager’s business will be rebranded as Manulife | CQS Investment […]
Since February, two institutional shareholders, who were supportive of Downing Strategic’s managed wind-down, and who had voted in favour of adopting that investment policy, sold their holdings to Milkwood, an investor opposed to the managed wind-down. Milkwood now has a 28% stake in the company. Downing Strategic was planning to return cash to shareholders via […]
Nippon Active Value Fund (NAVF) announced its annual results for the year ended December 31, 2023. The company saw a strong NAV total return of 23.1%, with a share price total return of 41%, ahead of the benchmark MSCI Japan Small Cap index which returned 7.8% in sterling terms. The share price returned +41.1% over […]
Baillie Gifford China Growth announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The company’s net asset value total return was negative 40.9% and the share price total return was negative 40.8%, compared with a total return of negative 30.5% for the MSCI China All Shares Index (in sterling terms). In the period from 16 […]
HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN) has announced a strategic investment by Baker Hughes in portfolio company Elcogen AS as part of an overall funding package totalling €140 million. This funding will be used to continue to scale up Elcogen’s leading solid oxide cell technology for green hydrogen. HGEN noted that the investment by Baker Hughes, which […]
CT Private Equity Trust (CTPE) formerly BMO Private Equity Trust announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The company saw a NAV total return of 2.8% while shares were up 17.6%, although the discount remains considerable, at 38% at the time of publishing. During the year the company made new investments, […]
Pantheon Infrastructure (PINT) announced its annual results for the period ended 31 December 2023. NAV total return for the year was 10.4% while shares fell over 10%, causing a considerable widening of the discount, which stood at 30% at the time of publishing. Notably, the company has now fully deployed its funds into a portfolio […]
QuotedData’s morning briefing 4 April 2024: Literacy Capital (BOOK) announced the completed refinancing of one of its largest portfolio companies with new lenders. This resulted in new debt facilities allowing the company to return cash to shareholders, including Literacy, with the fund’s share amounting to £20m. Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR) has increased its unsecured debt […]
In QuotedData’s morning briefing 2 April 2024: Third Point Investors (TPOU) has announced a redemption offer to shareholders for up to 25% of the issued share capital of the company at a discount of 2% NAV after its average discount over the six-month period ended 31 March 2024 exceeded 10%. Shareholders will be entitled to […]
The UK has become a bit of punching bag in recent times, stumbling from one crisis to another while presiding over an economy stuck in neutral. In many respects, it’s of little surprise its benchmark index has trailed the MSCI All Countries World index by almost 50% over the last five years. Of late, stubborn […]
Henderson High Income says its NAV total return for 2023 was +9.8% compared with the benchmark return of +8.1%, an outperformance of +1.7%. Unfortunately, the emergence of a discount meant that the share price total return was +0.9%, with the share price ending the year at a discount to NAV of 7.7% having started 2023 […]
RTW Biotech Opportunities had a great year in 2023, returning 23.5% in NAV terms and 16.0% in share price terms, both well ahead of the 10.6% return posted by the Russell 2000 Biotech index and even further ahead of the 3.7% return generated by the Nasdaq Biotech Index. Some highligts: During the year ended 31 […]
VH Global Sustainable Energy Opportunities has agreed to acquire and build two fully-permitted solar PV sites with co-located battery energy storage systems in New South Wales, Australia for a total consideration of £16.9m. This investment is part of the Australian solar PV and storage investment programme that was announced on 2 August 2021. With this […]
Schroder Capital Global Innovation reports an 11.2% fall in its NAV over 2023, but is encouraged by the positive NAV move in the final quarter of the year. The share price fell by 5.3% as the discount narrowed, helped by buying back 45.1m shares. The negative performance during the first three quarters of the year […]
India Capital Growth Fund reports NAV growth of 28.6% and share price growth of 34.1% for 2023. However, the benchmark S&P BSE Midcap Total Return Index rose by 38.4% The share price discount to NAV narrowed over the year to just over 3.9% at the year end. The board intends to continue to repurchase shares […]
International Public Partnerships says that over 2023 its NAV fell by 4.1% to 152.6p [like BBGI, it doesn’t say what the NAV total return was, it was 1.0%, and while there is room to say that the share price correlation with the All-Share is just 0.4, there wasn’t room to say that the return to […]
BBGI Global Infrastructure’s NAV total return for 2023 was 3.9% [we had to work that out, for some reason, the company went out of its way to avoid saying it, resorting to publishing an annualised NAV return since IPO instead, but if you think that’s odd, the really damning thing is the absence of any […]
M&G Credit Income returned 10.4% in NAV terms over 2023, ahead of the 9% return on its benchmark. The statement says that outperformance came from tightening credit spreads, which drove capital growth and strong income returns supported by higher yielding private assets. The portfolio was substantially protected from interest rate rises and rate-driven volatility by […]
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. […]
The proposed and recommended merger of abrdn Property Income Trust (API) and Custodian Property Income REIT (CREI) is off after not receiving enough support from shareholders. Just over 60% of votes cast were in favour of the merger, below the 75% threshold to sanction the deal. The API board will now take steps to implement […]
BioPharma Credit (BPCR) announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The company saw NAV growth of 1.5% over the period while maintaining its record of paying a dividend of at least 1.75 cents per share every quarter since that quarter ending 30 June 2018. Three dividends paid during the year totalled 7.25 cents per share, […]
The Aurora Investment Trust (ARR) announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. Performance for the year was very positive, with a NAV total return of 36.3%, well ahead of the benchmark UK index return of 7.9%. The share price return was 28.5%. The portfolio saw strong performance across the board with […]
JPMorgan American (JAM) announced its annual results for the period end 31 December 2024. The company generated a NAV total return of 24.7% in 2023 compared with 18.9% for its benchmark Index. Its share price total return was +26.6%. Since the change in investment approach on 1st June 2019 to the end of February 2024, […]
abrdn Asian Income Fund (AAIF) announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The company saw a NAV total return of 2.5%, slightly ahead of the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan Index total return index which returned 1.6%. Shares rose 1.9%, with the discounting widening to 14% at the time of […]
Sirius Real Estate has acquired Vantage Point Business Village, a multi-let business park in Gloucestershire, for £48.25m (€56.4m), representing a net initial yield at acquisition of 10.2%. The acquisition was made using the proceeds of the company’s £147m capital raise in November 2023. The company has bought four assets so far this year, following the […]
BlackRock Latin American Investment Trust (BRLA) announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2023. The company’s NAV was up 37.8% in US Dollar terms, which compares to the benchmark returns with dividends reinvested of 32.7%. The share price rose by 35.3% in US Dollar terms (but increased by 27.6% in sterling terms). […]
