LMIR @ $0.5475

Buy @ $0.55, $0.545

Q1 results were out last night and I was impressed by the big jump in DPU,

  • Q1 (Mar13) = 0.89ct
  • Q4 (Dec12) = 0.74ct
  • Q3 (Sep12) = 0.73ct
  • Q2 (Jun12) = 0.79ct
  • Q1 (Mar12) = 0.69ct

They had previously announced the acquisitions of 6 malls in Oct-12 using debts but that results in lower DPU on a Proforma basis. This appeared evident from the subsequent Q4 DPU. However, this time round, it’d appear that there’d been a positive accretion to DPU for Q1.

  • Yield = 6.473% @ $0.55 (5th Highest)
  • NAV = $0.5654 (now at slight discount ; only 4 REITs at discount)
  • Gearing = 24.3% (2nd lowest REIT but was 9.3% before acquisitions)

All indicators look good. Main risk is FOREX & Political as assets are all in Indonesia.

So, with the above positive analysis, I was waiting early in the morning to Jump-Q with friends and family members. Unfortunately, matching was done at 8:58am and I ended up in the Buy Queue for $0.545. When the prices seems to be heading higher, I quickly grabbed some at $0.55. Subsequently, someone dumped in large Qty and my $0.545 ones also got done!

  • Vol = 14,549,000
  • Range = $0.545 to $0.555
  • Open = $0.545 ; Close = $0.55

It looks like someone sure has a lot to sell!

Current intention is to hold for longer term unless I get spooked by new developments. 😀

 

12 May 13

Finally found the time to compile some data,

 

Q113

Q412

Q312

Q212

Q112

Q411

Q311

Q211

Gross Rental Income

39,371

32,959

30,553

30,519

30,441

24,347

22,023

21,917

Net Property Income

37,260

30,798

29,521

30,737

30,857

24,612

22,476

22,570

Distributable Amount

19,619

16,159

15,848

17,121

15,008

11,421

11,494

11,864

Available Distribution per Unit (cents)

0.89

0.74

0.73

0.79

0.69

0.53

1.06

1.09

                 

Total Return For The Period Before Tax

25,929

23,939

26,541

27,124

24,818

14,991

20,868

17,582

Other gains/ (losses)

-1,382

1,896

5,208

1,252

459

-4,585

2,161

-1,173

Add back losses / Remove Gains

27,311

22,043

21,333

25,872

24,359

19,576

18,707

18,755

                 

Financial expenses

-7,023

-6,518

-5,886

-2,503

-4,091

-3,160

-2,061

-2,252

Total Administrative Expenses

-3,053

-2,602

-2,512

-2,533

-2,583

-2,201

-1,979

-1,906

 

What I’m looking at,

  • Gross Rental Income : See the changes due to rental renewals / new acquisitions
  • Net Property Income (NPI) : From Q312, they outsourced the property management (includes collecting fees – reflected in Gross Revenue in prior quarters). Net result is Net Property Income < Gross Rental Income
  • Other gains / losses : The non-cash items, mainly due to their currency forward contracts which are added / deducted. Can be quite substantial from -$4.5M to +$5.2M. Can see the impact on DPU.
  • Financial Expenses : Related to borrowings. Mainly Interest but can also include arrangement / commitment fees eg. Q112
  • Total Admin Expenses : Related to AUM. See the rising trend as they acquire more assets

Have to look at above in the context of the Total Units Issued, Total Assets or Total Debts, depending on the row of interest

 

Comments

  • The DPU = 0.89ct (Q113), which is a good +20% from the previous quarter of 0.74ct (Q412) looks sustainable going forward. Here, I looked at “Total Return For The Period Before Tax” and add back “Other gains / losses” as that ought to give a good picture of the recurring income ie. $27.3M (Q113) vs $22M (Q412).
  • The “Other gains/ losses” figures can result in +/- 10% volatility to DPU in the worst case. Related to FOREX and includes Forward Contracts & Swaps
  • The outsourcing of Property Management to a third party looks suspiciously to me like another source of income for their related parties as the net result is a swing from a previous ~$300k additional income to an additional expense of ~$2.1M. A total impact of ~$2.4M lower in income!
  • Under Financial expenses, the extra couple of $M for arrangement / commitment fees is not small and is likely to happen every time they refinance their borrowings or take on new debts for acquisition

 

KGT @ $1.04

Buy @ $1.04

After the damaging report by AmFraser, may have bottomed, although with NAV = $1.01, may have room to drop further. Am hoping to hold max. 3mths till the next DPU of ~3.13ct (past 2 years) and hopefully, will not drop too much before that. 😀

STX OSV @ $1.08

Buy @ $1.18

Getting cheaper by the day. Dropped to $1.055 day low after my buy but closed @ $1.065. Will become very long term hold if Q1 results is worse than Q4. 😀

Genting @ $1.51

Sell @ $1.51

Hit my target, cleared my last lots. Need to focus my free cash on a few other of my stocks which are getting cheaper by the day. 😀

Genting @ $1.48

Sell @ $1.48

Today's the AGM,  +5.5ct for no reason! My sis-in-law attended the AGM and the only feedback she gave was the lousy food (packed lunch box with packet drink, no hot tea/coffee) + 1 shareholder harrassing CEO during & after AGM.

Scary to see it drop below $1.40 previously and the high volume of Short Selling every day. Cleared my last 2 buys today, left with the original 1st buy. Can sleep better now as I bought a lot more during the 2nd & 3rd time. Q1 results will be out on 2-May, will try to collect back some before that if prices drop. Will sell my last lots if it goes above $1.50. 😀

F&N @ $7.81

Buy @ $7.81

According to a news article which someone posted on VB forum, today is the last trading day where F&N is included as an Index stock (didn't check which Index). As such, it has been facing heavy sell-down by Index Fund Mgr over the past days.

I'd done a quick check yesterday that Cash = $5.14/share & NAV = $8.78. Net Cash (less debts) = $2.35 but the debts are not at the Company level ie. with the subsidiaries and likely non-recourse ie. F&N not liable. The cash is at the company level ie. high chance of some being distributed out as Special Dividend. With the sale of APB, main profit now comes from Properties, where PB <1 (discount to NAV) is common. What's scary is EPS = 3.5ct for Q1 which translates to a PE close to 60! Previous Year was 6.3ct which gives a lower PE closer to 30. But, will need to see the subsequent results.

Today was an interesting day. At 5pm, the low was $7.85, reached earlier at ~4pm and it'd slowly recovered to $8.09. My fingers got itchy when I saw the 5pm matching starting at $7.71.. before it finally matched at $7.81. Guess there were a lot of Index Funds doing their selling literally at the very last minute! I wonder if any will do their selling tomorrow…Big Grin

For the record,

  • Vol = 39,516,000
  • Range $7.81 to $8.23
  • Open $8.10
  • Close $7.81, -39ct
  • G.O. Price = $9.55 (xd $9.43)

 

STX OSV @ $1.125

Buy @ $1.125

Continue to drop… despite an SGX Annc yesterday on the signing of Letter of Intent for 1 PSV (Platform Support Vessel). I estimate NOK250Mil (~S$50Mil) using another 2012 SGX Annc. The contract is expected to be signed in a few weeks' time. 😀

A-HTrust @ $1.0124

Sell @ $1.01, $1.015

Have decided to sell cos' of impending Fund Raising for their proposed $300M purchase of Park Hotel @ Clarke Quay. Most likely, they'll announce the details with the upcoming Q4 Results on 29-Apr. Actually, there's a very strong possibility that share prices will not drop as,

  • REITs are the latest market fad for it's yields during this period of super low bank interest
  • A-HTrust Yield is high, close to 7% with upcoming DPU estimated to be 3.35ct
  • Market is still bullish (when market is bearish, Rights Issues usually results in a sharp fall in share price)
  • Recent Fund Raising Annc by FE-HTrust & AIMSAMPReit had not resulted in any sustained negative price reaction

Nevertheless, I'm currently more likely to continue selling and perhaps even all of it. Main reason is my cash flow is low and A-HTrust is my No.1 candidate to sell to raise funds.. 😀

STX OSV @ $1.175

Buy @ $1,175

New lows! Mkt appears to be shifting from high risks to lower risks like TELCOs and other Blue Chips…:D

Popular Hldgs @ $0.28

Buy @ $0.28

Mr Chou is MIA… Collect some more in case he comes back to buy @ $0.29. If not, then hold till Q4 (Apr) Results sometime in June. 😀