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BBH Bellevue Healthcare Trust Plc

139.40
-0.80 (-0.57%)
03 Dec 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Bellevue Healthcare Trust Plc LSE:BBH London Ordinary Share GB00BZCNLL95 RED ORD 1P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -0.80 -0.57% 139.40 2,975,910 16:26:39
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
139.40 139.60 141.40 138.80 140.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Trust,ex Ed,religious,charty -107.16M -121.04M -0.2675 -5.21 634.27M
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
16:35:15 UT 87,337 139.40 GBX

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Posted at 03/12/2024 08:20 by Bellevue Healthcare Daily Update
Bellevue Healthcare Trust Plc is listed in the Trust,ex Ed,religious,charty sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker BBH. The last closing price for Bellevue Healthcare was 140.20p.
Bellevue Healthcare currently has 452,403,541 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Bellevue Healthcare is £628,840,922.
Bellevue Healthcare has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of -5.20.
This morning BBH shares opened at 140p
Posted at 02/12/2024 08:47 by speedsgh
Proposed changes to:

~ articles of association to replace Annual Redemption Facility with conditional tender offers and continuation vote;
~ investment policy (increase maximum number of stocks the Company's portfolio can hold from 35 to 45);
~ investment objective/returns objectives

Circular and Notice of General Meeting -
Posted at 15/11/2024 13:10 by speedsgh
All rather depressing here. 3 years of share price decline and underpeformance leading to shareholders marching for the exit via the annual redemption offer leaving a trust that has been severely reduced in size. Of their 6 peers in the AIC Biotech & Healthcare sector, only SYNC have performed worse over the past 5 years. The investment managers really need to reverse the fortunes of this trust if it isn't going to wither away completely.
Posted at 28/10/2024 20:54 by xtrmntr
Over a third of Bellevue investors head for the cash exit36.3% of shareholders take up the annual redemption offer, reflecting disgruntlement over underperformance in recent years, which will shrink net assets from £741m to £472m.More than a third of Bellevue Healthcare (BBH) shareholders have cashed in their shares in the annual redemption offer, highlighting discontent after a prolonged period of underperformance.A total of 36.3% of investors in the £663m portfolio of global healthcare stocks tendered their shares, marking a huge increase on the annual redemption offer from 14.3% a year ago.In light of this, the fund – which is managed by Bellevue Asset Management's Paul Major and Brett Darke – will split the portfolio into redemption and continuing pools. The redemption pool price will be based on the 'realisable value of the redemption pool', with the redemption point being 22 November.The continuing pool will continue to reflect the net asset value (NAV) of the fund.Winterflood analyst Shavar Halberstadt said the level of redemptions was 'notable' and a turnaround from when the trust traded at a 'premium for most of its life prior to mid-2022' – it now trades on an 8.4% discount. He said the discount was the tightest among its peer group and highlighted the 5.5% yield as being the second-highest in its peer group, with a loss of scale in the portfolio potentially leading to 'wider issues'.Deutsche Numis's Ash Nandi it was 'not surprising to see meaningful redemptions given the company has flagged it was expecting them' bearing in mind the 'disappointing' performance of late. She estimated that the redemption would slash the fund's net assets from £741m to £472m in the continuing pool.Over the past three years, the fund has seen NAV decline 8.8% versus a 27.4% increase in the MSCI World Healthcare index due to its concentrated portfolio with a bias to small and mid-caps.'It will be interesting to see how swiftly the redemption pool can be liquidated, and what price impact there is on underlying holdings of BBH Healthcare selling, given that for some portfolio companies, BBH Healthcare represents a meaningful portion of share capital,' Nandi said.While the portfolio is concentrated, returns on winning stocks can be huge, with shares in CareDx, the diagnostic surveillance company for heart transplant recipients, the largest holding at 7.6%, soaring 169% this year. Citywire editor Gavin Lumsden tipped the trust, pointing out that increased healthcare spending as populations age or grow wealthier will remain a continual driver of returns, while falling interest rates should improve sentiment towards the unloved sector.
Posted at 17/10/2024 20:29 by c3479z
any underperformance is punished eg this trust and Miton Microcap both suffering very large redemption requests, think they're paying the price for having missed out on the GLP1 story thus far.
their top ten suffered some heavy falls today....
Posted at 15/10/2024 07:29 by speedsgh
Wow! If I understand this correctly, it looks like BBH is going to be shrinking considerably after Redemption Requests were received for more than 36% of the company's issued share capital!

Update on Redemption Process -

As per its announcement on 30 July 2024, the Company has a redemption facility through which shareholders are entitled to request the redemption of all or part of their holding of ordinary shares on an annual basis.

The total number of ordinary shares as of the record date, in respect of which Redemption Requests were received for the 22 November 2024 Redemption Point was 163,834,887 (representing 36.34% of the Company's issued share capital (excluding treasury shares)).

The Directors have decided to calculate the Redemption Price by reference to the amount generated upon the realisation of a Redemption Pool created for the purpose of funding the redemption. Hence the portfolio will be split into a Redemption Pool and a Continuing Pool from the close of business today. Daily Net Asset Value announcements published from tomorrow will reflect the Continuing Pool.

The Board has engaged a third party to undertake sanctions checking and continues to validate all redemption requests received.

A further announcement will be made by the Company for the redeeming shareholders shortly after the 2024 Redemption Point setting out the redemption details.
Posted at 14/3/2024 15:12 by alter ego
I struggled to find out when the dividend will be paid and when it goes ex div. BBH Corporate Calendar didn't say so I contacted IR. Ex Div on 9 May, paid on 31 May. Apparently it's on page 78 of the Annual Report. I've suggested they might make it a bit more visible and they said yes, they would look at that.
Posted at 12/3/2024 19:28 by xtrmntr
Bellevue Healthcare (BBH) has extended its run of underperformance, with its bias towards small- and mid-cap stocks meaning it has now lagged its benchmark since inception in 2016.The 'classical defensive attributes' of the healthcare sector failed to entice investors for yet another year, said Paul Major, who manages the £699m fund with Brett Darke.The MSCI World Healthcare index fell 1.8% in 2023, underperforming the MSCI World index by 14.8%, which Major said was 'almost a mirror image of what happened in full-year 2022' and marked 'the worst relative annualised performance over this period in the 23 years'.As investors shunned healthcare despite the economic woes faced by markets, the investment trust saw its net asset value (NAV) sink 12.7% in the year ended 30 November 2023 versus a 7.1% slide in the MSCI World Healthcare benchmark. This has challenged the fund's track record, and since inception in December 2016, NAV total returns are now 103% versus 127% for the benchmark.Major said the fall in the year to 30 November was due to several factors, including larger companies not being as defensive as hoped for as mega-cap bellwethers Pfizer and Sanofi cut earnings forecasts. There was also the 'nebulous perception' of research and development disappointments and a lack of mergers and acquisitions.The 'outsize' factor contributing to underperformance over the year was the fund's bias towards smaller companies as the 'past few years have seen investors hiding in the relative safe haven of larger, more liquid and typically more diversified companies'.'Such companies tend to be older and more mature, so less at the mercy of debt and equity markets for additional funding and thus less sensitive to interest rates,' said Major.'They are also easier to exit if the market does look like it is going down and investors wish to reduce equity exposures.'Major added that the 'compression' seen in small- and mid-cap healthcare stocks was 'far beyond anything that could be justified' and the positive trajectory of the same stocks in December 2023 and January 2024 – after the end of the results period – 'attests to the arbitrary and egregious nature of the devaluation that investors have witnessed over the past two years'.To back up his point, Major doubled down on his allocation to smaller companies, ending the year with 3% less exposure to mega- and large-cap companies and increasing at the other end of the size spectrum.The already large exposure to the US was also increased and now sits at 95%, as Major exited Europe and 'rest of world'. And valuations in China continued to experience 'significant pressure' due to a lacklustre post-Covid recovery and overhang from an anti-corruption drive.The portfolio started the year with 29 positions and ended with 27 after five additions and seven exits in another low turnover year.One holding Major reduced mid-year was Apellis Pharmaceuticals as the shares reached fair value but shortly after it slumped more than 70% 'on concerns about side effects for its key drug Syfovre (an eye injection used to treat geographic atrophy)'. 'We felt this was an overreaction so we scaled up the position and rode the recovery to considerable profit,' he said. 'We have since been taking profits again.'Major added that the market has been 'prone to overreactions on the downside' in the past two years and said last summer was marked by the 'frenzy' around the use of GLP-1 obesity drugs that gripped the market and divided healthcare stocks into 'a perceived binary grouping of obesity winners and losers'.In a bid to take advantage of these mispricings in the market, Major has been increasing allocation to tools, healthcare IT and healthcare technology, while reducing exposure to diversified therapeutics.The trust has enjoyed some respite from underperformance since the financial year-end, with the shares up nearly 9% in the past three months, in line with the index but ahead of the underlying 6.9% rise in the portfolio. That's left the shares standing 5.1% below net asset value, narrower than their 7% one-year average discount.He remained committed to investing in 'healthcare change' and said the current model is 'neither scalable nor financially sound' enough to deal with an ageing population and the demand for better products for more people.'If we cannot bend the cost curve and change the delivery paradigm, the services will need to be cut or the system will go bankrupt. Ergo, healthcare must change,' he said. 'There is no alternative.'
Posted at 04/3/2024 20:31 by speedsgh
Annual Financial Report -

Recent trading and outlook

In these fast moving and macro-oriented times, we continue to recommend that investors rely upon the detailed and discursive monthly factsheets for an up-to-date view of the outlook. These can be found on the Company's website1. We are pleased to report that the Company's performance in the three months to the end of February 2024 has been positive on a relative and absolute basis and the macroeconomic situation is coalescing around a more constructive, narrower range of outcomes, even if the geopolitical circumstances remain febrile.

It bears repeating that our strategy of investing in `healthcare change' remains a powerful and compelling one. Healthcare continues to be the secular growth story of our age. Recession or not, there are ever more people and they are ageing. More and more countries are becoming developed economies and scientific progress continues to open up new avenues to relieve the burden of human suffering, raising expectations of what products and services will be available to this ever-greater number of people.

However, society needs to pay for all of this and the current model is neither easily scalable nor financially sound. If we cannot bend the cost curve and change the delivery paradigm, the services will need to be cut or the system will go bankrupt. Ergo, healthcare must change. There is no alternative. We have already seen profound changes implemented since the pandemic. The tools, products and services that are enabling the re-imagining of healthcare can be accessed through the public equity realm, creating a persuasive investment opportunity. The past few years may have been very challenging, but the fundamentals remain very attractive.
Posted at 10/11/2023 13:45 by speedsgh
The latest factsheet contains an empassioned defence of BBH's strategy amid the continued underperformance of the trust. I have to say that I agree with the managers' analysis of the reasons for the underperformance... or is that just my confirmation bias? Time will tell but I suspect that in the goodness of time the current share price will be viewed as having been an excellent opportunity. I have acted accordingly. AIMHO
Posted at 25/5/2023 17:28 by speedsgh
Is it time to buy healthcare? -

The Armenian oil magnate Calouste Gulbenkian was, when confronted with points others believed would hurt his business, fond of issuing a simple retort; “The dogs bark, the caravan moves on.”

It might be easy to dismiss this as flippancy, but given he survived close to 70 years in the oil industry and died the world’s wealthiest man, it’s probably fair to assume he had a good idea of what mattered and what didn’t.

Whether or not we’re quite as astute as Gulbenkian is up for debate, but his favourite retort does come to mind when looking at many listed healthcare companies today. Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen many firms in the sector see substantial drawdowns, albeit after a period of stronger performance that started following the onset of the pandemic.

Some investment trusts that invest in the healthcare industry have managed to weather this storm better than others. However, the average share price total returns for the AIC’s Biotechnology and Healthcare as a whole were negative for the 12 months to 26/04/2023.

Bellevue Healthcare’s (BBH) returns at that time were slightly down in NAV terms, with a fall of 1.7%. The trust’s shares fell further, with a 6.4% drawdown on a total return basis. As that suggests, the trust has seen its discount widen substantially as a result.

Having traded at a 6% premium in May of last year, something that enabled the trust to issue new equity, the trust’s shares are now sitting at a nearly 8% discount to NAV. This is among the lowest levels the trust’s shares have traded at relative to NAV since launch. It is also far below the five-year discount average of 0.2%.

It is easy to see how the events of the last 18 months have made investors feel uneasy. The war in Europe and the highest levels of inflation we’ve seen since the 1970s do not make for the most relaxing of backdrops in which to invest.

But on a macro level; it is hard to see what has changed for the healthcare sector. Reports in January that China’s population is declining for the first time in decades were another reminder that the world is getting older. Readers will know that this is not a new trend.

In 2017, the United Nations published a report noting that the global population of people over 60 had risen to 962m – up from 382m in 1980. The World Health Organisation believes this dynamic is likely to result in a substantial change in the world’s demographics over the next 25 years, with the proportion of people over 60 almost doubling from 12% in 2015 to 22% by 2050.

We can see the impact this is having on healthcare spending. For example, in the UK, total spending on healthcare rose from £78.9bn in 2000 to £222.7bn in 2019, or 5.6% on average annually. GDP rose from £1.62trn to £2.24trn, equivalent to 1.7% per year, over the same period.

More than 80% of that spending normally comes from the state, and a similar picture is evident across the world. As readers can likely infer, this has the potential to create a circular problem. More GDP growth is needed to fund rising healthcare costs. But the lack of spending in other parts of the economy, as well as higher taxes needed to fund those increasing healthcare costs, arguably crimp that growth.

This plays into one of the key themes we see in the BBH portfolio, namely that there are innovative companies attempting to address this problem by providing new solutions to existing healthcare problems.

It also partly explains the company’s recent performance, as these are the sorts of companies that have attracted more investor concern over the past 18 months. Partly that’s because of valuations, but it’s also due to fears that earlier stage firms won’t be able to raise money or make it to profitability.

There are a couple of points that should allay fears here. One is that BBH managers John Major and Brett Darke have repeatedly noted that, even if the discount rate used to value portfolio companies were to rise markedly, they would still think they were fairly valued.

Those are not just idle words, as they have been adding to the portfolio as well as to existing positions over the past 18 months. Both managers have also made substantial additions to their own holdings in BBH during that time.

And in the first quarter of this year, two companies in the portfolio raised money via equity issuance rather than debt. In both instances, the two issuances were oversubscribed, a sign that plenty of institutional investors still believe these companies offer the potential for long-term returns.

That doesn’t mean it’s going to be smooth sailing and that we won’t see further volatility in the near term. But the secular trends described above combined with the managers’ stock picking abilities make it plausible we’ll see returns smooth out over the long-term. Or, as Gulbenkian might have it, the dogs bark, the caravan moves on.

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Bellevue Healthcare Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many Bellevue Healthcare shares are in issue?
Bellevue Healthcare has 452,403,541 shares in issue.
What is the market cap of Bellevue Healthcare?
The market capitalisation of Bellevue Healthcare is GBP 634.27 M.
What is the 1 year trading range for Bellevue Healthcare share price?
Bellevue Healthcare has traded in the range of 128.20p to 159.40p during the past year.
What is the PE ratio of Bellevue Healthcare?
The price to earnings ratio of Bellevue Healthcare is -5.21.
What is the cash to sales ratio of Bellevue Healthcare?
The cash to sales ratio of Bellevue Healthcare is -5.88.
What is the reporting currency for Bellevue Healthcare?
Bellevue Healthcare reports financial results in GBP.
What is the latest annual turnover for Bellevue Healthcare?
The latest annual turnover of Bellevue Healthcare is GBP -107.16M.
What is the latest annual profit for Bellevue Healthcare?
The latest annual profit of Bellevue Healthcare is GBP -121.04M.
What is the registered address of Bellevue Healthcare?
The registered address for Bellevue Healthcare is 4TH FLOOR, 46-48 JAMES STREET, LONDON, W1U 1EZ.
What is the Bellevue Healthcare website address?
The website address for Bellevue Healthcare is www.bbhealthcaretrust.com.
Which industry sector does Bellevue Healthcare operate in?
Bellevue Healthcare operates in the TRUST,EX ED,RELIGIOUS,CHARTY sector.