Bt back in for a few at 93.9p |
Ex div today |
Sold 2/3 of my holding on today's bounce |
Recording available :- |
Same as you ...sold some on that bounce and keeping some |
Great call at post 1609. |
Out at EXACTLY the same price! Only bought on Thursday, an hour after the NAV update. Actually, still keeping a few. |
Out again @ 99.44p... |
Those figures suggest that these should now bounce back up to the 100p level. |
AEW UK REIT Plc is pleased to announce that Henry Butt (Assistant Portfolio Manager) and George Elliot will provide a live presentation relating to the three-month period ended 30 September 2024 via the Investor Meet Company platform on Tuesday 29 October 2024 at 14:00pm BST.
The presentation is open to all existing and potential shareholders. Questions can be submitted pre-event via your Investor Meet Company dashboard up until 09:00am BST the day before the meeting or at any time during the live presentation.
Investors can sign up to Investor Meet Company for free and add to meet AEW UK REIT Plc via: |
 We are delighted to have won the listed property category in the 2023 MSCI UK Property Investment Awards. This award is given to the Company that has delivered the highest annualised property total return over the three years to December 2023. Achieving this award is testament to the Company's strategy of delivering total return through active asset management."
Highlights
· NAV of £172.76 million or 109.05 pence per share at 30 September 2024 (30 June 2024: £167.79 million or 105.91 pence per share).
· NAV total return of 4.85% for the quarter (30 June 2024 quarter: 5.04%).
· 2.94% like-for-like valuation increase for the quarter (30 June 2024 quarter: 2.41% increase).
· EPRA earnings per share ("EPRA EPS") for the quarter of 2.68 pence (30 June 2024 quarter: 2.26 pence). Underlying EPS of 2.17 pence (30 June 2024 quarter: 1.92 pence).
· Interim dividend of 2.00 pence per share for the three months ended 30 September 2024, paid for 36 consecutive quarters and in line with the targeted annual dividend of 8.00 pence per share.
· Loan to GAV ratio at the quarter end was 25.04% (30 June 2024: 25.66%). Significant headroom on all loan covenants.
· Company continues to benefit from a low fixed cost of debt of 2.959% until May 2027.
· Disposal of Oak Park, Droitwich, for £6.30 million, reflecting a 33% premium to the 31 March 2024 valuation.
· Three new lettings increasing annual contracted rent by £598,470 per annum. |
Bought a few myself yesterday |
Morning carcosa
There doesn't seem to be much about AEWU in there. Is this just spam, or have I missed something? :-) |
Wrong Thread. Sorry!
(Thanks, CWA1) |
gco - a good trade. AEWU now a good buy again at 93.5p. |
Divi yield now back at top of the REIT leader board |
Sold a little over half my position at 100.5 a month ago and pleased to buyback today after the sharpish reversal |
Nice over 100 on the bid |
Certainly has; but IMO now over-priced on a mere 5% discount & an unexceptional 8.2% yield - still uncovered! Expect a minor pullback from the 98p level. |
This been a fantastic recovery since mid summer despite no real change to fundamentals. |
£1 has proven a tough barrier for the last 18 months - maybe with some momentum - this time. |
Another Director share purchase. This is recovering nicely over the last 3 months! |
Thanks for posting |
AEWU pops up in The Telegraph's Questor column this morning!(apologies for formatting)
The prospect of further interest rate cuts by the Bank of England as inflation falls, lifting the pressure on businesses and consumers, has sparked a recovery in real estate investment trusts (Reits).
This makes it a good time to review our tip of AEW UK Reit, which we first recommended in July 2020 when shares in the top-performing commercial property fund languished 22pc below asset value in the first coronavirus lockdown, and offered an attractive 11pc dividend yield.
Our timing was good and the shares have gained 28pc since then as we correctly bet the company – now on an 11pc discount and still offering a high 9pc yield – would continue to pay shareholders 2p a share each quarter.
AEW UK has delivered its 8p annual payout for nearly nine years. This is an impressive feat given the dividend cuts and suspensions some Reits were forced into, either during the pandemic when many tenants couldn’t pay rents, or when borrowing costs soared as the Bank hiked base rate from nearly zero in December 2021 to 5.25pc 20 months later.
However, it’s not been a smooth ride for shareholders in the portfolio of 33 offices, shops, retail warehouses and industrial parks. The shares have tumbled 22pc since we last assessed them two years ago, shortly after they peaked at 128.6p in April 2022.
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The decline to 93p today largely reflects the indiscriminate selling of listed property funds in 2022 and the mark-down of real estate as the yields on benchmark government bonds rose in response to rising interest rates.
In AEW’s case there was also concern about whether the dividend could survive intact, as for a few years there wasn’t sufficient rental income to fully cover the payments.
The uncovered dividend was mostly a byproduct of the trust’s buy-low, sell-high investment approach. Henry Butt, Assistant fund manager, says he and lead manager Laura Elkin are value investors who buy smaller commercial properties at low prices and high yields on comparatively short leases of four to six years. They then refurbish them and sell at higher prices when their rental values improve.
Because it can be easier to sell properties unlet and because it can also take time to reinvest the proceeds of property sales, this strategy can lead to periods when quarterly earnings per share slip below 2p.
Concerns about the dividend cover were heightened last year when a couple of tenants, including hardware retailer Wilko, fell into administration. This is why we didn’t include AEW UK in our roundup of generalist Reits in June when we picked Picton Property Income, up 10pc since we recommended it on a 30pc discount.
Happily, an update in July saw AEW UK take a big step towards restoring dividend cover with underlying quarterly earnings rising from 1.75p to 1.92p per share. A 2.4pc increase in its properties following a meagre 0.4pc rise in the previous three months provided evidence that commercial real estate had bottomed out.
AEW UK key facts
Market value: £147m
Year of listing: 2015
Discount: 11.7pc
Ave discount over past year: 11.1pc
Yield: 8.6pc
Most recent year’s dividend: 8p
Gearing: 35.8pc
Annual charge: 1.6pc
News of the £6.3m sale of an industrial estate in Worcestershire for 33pc more than its valuation in March also showed an improving market and highlighted the fund managers’ successful record in locking in good gains.
Over five years, the trust’s net asset value has grown 61.9pc, well ahead of the 10.8pc average of its rivals. Despite the setback of the past two years, the shares have largely passed on this growth with a total return of 55.2pc.
With further rental growth in prospect and £8.3m of cash on hand to buy or upgrade properties, this trust continues to be a good way to capture the recovery in commercial property. With two other Reits, Balanced Commercial Property and Tritax Eurobox, falling to bids this week, it’s possible predators will eye AEW UK Reit which we continue to rate a “hold”.
Questor says: Hold
Ticker: AEWU
Share price at close: 93.2p |
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