by winston » Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:03 am
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Sabana REIT’s ($1.045, down ½ cent) 2Q’14 DPU fell 22.5% yoy to 1.86 cents
a) impacted by 429% increase in property expenses due to higher property tax, land rent, maintenance, lease administration expenses as well as higher property and lease management fees;
(b) net finance costs increased by 5.9% due to additional borrowings draw-down in 3Q’13 to fund the acquisition of 508 Chai Chee Lane;
(c) higher straight-lining adjustments on rental income for tenants on rent-free period.
On a sequential basis, DPU fell 1.06% in 2Q’14 to 1.86 cents as a result of the company’s newly established distribution reinvestment plan with 2.7mln new units being issued in 2Q’14, enlarging the unit base of the trust.
On 11 June’14, S&P affirmed the company’s “BBB-“ long term corporate credit rating and “aXA-“ long-term ASEAN regional scale rating with a stable outlook.
The company’s borrowings remain stable at $455.8mln with aggregate leverage of 37% with an all-in financing cost of 4.1%.
The weighted average tenor of debt is 2.5 years and interest coverage is 4.3x. Out of the $455.8mln, $10.2mln is coming due in 2H14, $177.6mln in Aug’15 and $48mln in 2016.
Looking ahead, with the upcoming huge supply of completing industrial properties over the next 1-2 years, the recent changes in government policies on industrial property as well as expiry of 2 master leases in 2H14, management expects the operating conditions to remain challenging.
Annualizing the latest DPU of 1.86 cents would give a yield of 7.1%. Given that this is similar to Mapletree Industrial Trust’s (MINT) yield of 7.05%, we much prefer MINT given its strong government backing, largely unencumbered assets, more than 2,000 customers (versus 152 for Sabana) and it being a likely beneficiary of the
recent government policy changes.
Source: Lim & Tan
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