ESR-REIT

On July 16, when ESR-REIT announced its 1H2020 results it also announced a merger with Sabana Shariah Compliant Industrial REIT.

In a world where "bigger is better", analysts are bullish on the merger of ESR-REIT and Sabana REIT.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust (FCT), Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT) and ESR REIT have retained 50%, 30% and 60% of their distributable income figures respectively in light of Covid-19 uncertainties.

Analysts are optimistic of ESR-REIT creating higher shareholder value. Is a re-rating on the cards?

SINGAPORE (Nov 18): Sabana Shari’ah Compliant Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust’s distributions per unit in 3QFY2019 rose 1.3% y-o-y to 0.78 cent. For the nine months to Sept 30, however, DPU continued to show a decline to 2.15 cents, down 13% y

SINGAPORE (June 19): CGS-CIMB Research is maintaining its forecasts on ESR-REIT “pending greater clarity” on details of an equity fund raising to raise up to $150 million.

SINGAPORE (June 18): Units in ESR-REIT took a tumble in morning trading on Tuesday after the manager announced that the price of some 194.2 million new units to be issued under a private placement has been fixed at 51.5 cents per unit.

SINGAPORE (June 17): The manager of ESR-REIT has proposed an equity fund raising exercise to raise gross proceeds of up to $150 million.

SINGAPORE (Jan 18): The manager of ESR-REIT posted a 4Q18 distribution per unit (DPU) of 1.005 cents, 8.2% higher than the 0.929 cents declared from a year ago.

SINGAPORE (Dec 14): OCBC Investment Research is starting coverage on ESR-REIT at “buy” with a fair value estimate of 59 cents, following the recent completion of the REIT’s merger with Viva Industrial Trust (VIT) on Oct 15.