Worldwide Healthcare Trust PLC Edison issues review on Worldwide Healthcare Trust

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Worldwide Healthcare Trust PLC

12 June 2019

London, UK, 12 June 2019

Edison issues review on Worldwide Healthcare Trust (WWH)

Worldwide Healthcare Trust (WWH) is managed by Sven Borho and Trevor Polischuk at OrbiMed, a major global specialist healthcare investor. They remain constructive on the outlook for the sector, citing strong industry fundamentals, including a 'golden era' of innovation, a favourable regulatory environment and undemanding company valuations. There is also the potential for further industry mergers and acquisitions, which should be supportive for the sector's performance. While WWH suffered a tough period of performance in H218, it maintains a very strong long-term record; over the last five and 10 years, it has generated NAV and share price total returns between 14.6% and 19.2% pa and has outperformed its benchmark over these periods in both NAV and share price terms.

WWH's shares regularly trade close to NAV. Its current 1.4% share price premium to cum-income NAV compares with a 0.6% average premium over the last 12 months and average discounts of 0.9%, 2.5% and 4.7% over the last three, five and 10 years respectively. Although WWH aims to generate long-term capital growth, it also offers a 1.0% dividend yield. Gearing of up to 20% of NAV is permitted (net gearing of 7.4% at end-April 2019).

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