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EDIN Edinburgh Investment Trust Plc

740.00
-7.00 (-0.94%)
08 Oct 2024 - Closed
Delayed by 15 minutes
Share Name Share Symbol Market Type Share ISIN Share Description
Edinburgh Investment Trust Plc LSE:EDIN London Ordinary Share GB0003052338 ORD 25P
  Price Change % Change Share Price Shares Traded Last Trade
  -7.00 -0.94% 740.00 257,317 16:35:03
Bid Price Offer Price High Price Low Price Open Price
740.00 742.00 742.00 738.00 742.00
Industry Sector Turnover Profit EPS - Basic PE Ratio Market Cap
Unit Inv Tr, Closed-end Mgmt 141.19M 131.71M 0.8818 8.40 1.12B
Last Trade Time Trade Type Trade Size Trade Price Currency
16:35:03 UT 46,022 740.00 GBX

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Posted at 08/10/2024 09:20 by Edinburgh Investment Daily Update
Edinburgh Investment Trust Plc is listed in the Unit Inv Tr, Closed-end Mgmt sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker EDIN. The last closing price for Edinburgh Investment was 747p.
Edinburgh Investment currently has 149,361,525 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Edinburgh Investment is £1,106,768,900.
Edinburgh Investment has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 8.40.
This morning EDIN shares opened at 742p
Posted at 27/4/2024 22:34 by steve3sandal
CTY and MRCH used to trade around par but they’ve caught the discount malaise recently too as there are more sellers than buyers for various reasons. I’m not sure TMPL have done other than fleeting touches at NAV in recent memory though the past 3year managers have produced a good result. EDIN has had a colourful history in the past decade post Woodford when it was on a premium. The Barnett years coincided with poor returns and a discount which hasn’t been shaken off yet despite new manager JDU turning in a good 3year result prior to his retirement. I suspect the newbie will have to earn his spurs before EDIN would be able to issue shares again. Sadly most ITs are in the same position of discounts and it’s not obvious how or when this industry wide issue will be resolved should that be the correct word. There’s always been discounts and currently the challenge includes the cost disclosure, consolidation of wealth managers who’ve got too much money to be able to invest in small ITs, gilts and B Socs offer 4-5%, rise of passives etc. In the long run the EDIN discount might be an opportunity.
Posted at 27/4/2024 21:58 by dickiehh
Can anyone explain why EDIN is ok a persistent 8-10 percent discount while other less well performing UK trusts like TMPL, CTY and MRCH often trade around par? EDIN's performance has been better over almost every period over the last 3 years plus
Posted at 30/5/2023 20:10 by steve3sandal
Yes good show over 1/2/3 years v benchmark. More evidence should it be needed that I’m a better allocator of capital than an individual stock picker. EDIN remain in my first eleven.
Posted at 26/4/2023 08:06 by spoole5
The Directors of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc announce that they have declared a third interim dividend for the year ended 31 March 2023 of 6.70 pence per ordinary share (2022: 6.40p). The dividend is payable on 26 May 2023 to Ordinary Shareholders on the register on 5 May 2023. The shares will be quoted ex-dividend on 4 May 2023.
Posted at 25/1/2023 07:09 by spoole5
Declaration of second interim dividendThe Directors of The Edinburgh Investment Trust plc announce that they have declared a second interim dividend for the year ending 31 March 2023 of 6.40 pence per ordinary share (2022: 6.00p). The dividend is payable on 24 February 2023 to Ordinary Shareholders on the register on 3 February 2023. The shares will be quoted ex-dividend on 2 February 2023.The first interim dividend of 6.40 pence per share was paid on 25 November 2022 to shareholders on the Company's register on 4 November 2022 (ex-dividend date being 3 November 2022).
Posted at 29/11/2022 17:46 by boystown
Featured on Master Investor this evening:

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A lot has happened to the £1.2bn Edinburgh Investment Trust (LON: EDIN) in the last few years. In March 2020 the board replaced Invesco’s longstanding manager Mark Barnett after three years of underperformance and put in place a team from Majedie, a firm which was subsequently taken over by Liontrust.

Barnett’s value-based approach had been out of favour for a considerable time, but there were also question marks over some of his stock selection decisions. Once he had been sacked the board took the opportunity to reduce the annual management fee and switch to a tiered charging structure.

It looks like the changes are starting to pay off as James de Uphaugh and Chris Field, who have been running the fund since the removal of Barnett, have done a good job improving the performance. Since March 2020 the trust has generated NAV and shareholder total returns of 56.9% and 66%, significantly ahead of the FTSE All Share total return of 43.3%.

A key recent development has been the re-financing of the expensive 7.75% long-term debt, with the fund issuing £120m of loan notes at an average interest cost of 2.44% and average maturity of 25 years. This cheap source of capital should give it a competitive advantage in the years to come.

A new approach
EDIN offers a diversified portfolio of 40 to 50 listed equities based on fundamental company research. There are no in-built style biases with the fund typically containing a mixture of growth, value and recovery stocks, the aim being to add value regardless of the economic and market conditions.

The stock-driven analysis focuses on the identification of companies with strong and sustainable business models, multiple drivers of returns and quality management teams. It’s a high conviction approach with capital protection a key element, with the manager considering the downside risk for each holding and scaling the position accordingly.

At the end of September the largest holdings included the likes of: Shell, Unilever, BAE, AstraZeneca, Tesco and NatWest. The key sector weightings were retailers, biotech and medical, banks, oil and gas. Overall the historic dividend yield was an attractive 4.2% and the ongoing charges a competitive 0.52%.

Solid footing
Having taken over at the height of the pandemic the first step was to re-balance the portfolio and rebase the dividend to a more sustainable level. The long-term objective is to grow the distributions ahead of inflation with the first interim dividend having recently been increased by 6.7%. A decision is yet to be taken about the total pay-out for the financial year.

James de Uphaugh has put together a well-diversified portfolio with multiple drivers of returns that should be able to withstand the uncertain economic environment. He believes that the inflationary pressures are easing and draws attention to the low valuations that look cheap on pretty much whatever metric you want to use.

The broker Investec believes that the Edinburgh Investment Trust has made solid progress in rebuilding credibility after what was a traumatic period, while stronger foundations bode well for the future. They have a buy rating on the fund and say that if the healthy absolute and relative performance can be maintained then the discount should narrow from the current level of seven percent.
Posted at 16/9/2022 15:05 by essentialinvestor
In their last report both MSLH and EZJ highlighted as examples of great
businesses taking market share in their respective sectors, their share prices
since may tell a different tale.
Posted at 16/6/2022 00:14 by steve3sandal
I suspect Cazoo is the stub following the take private of Daily Mail. The Board haven’t covered themselves in glory for a long time. From the outside even I could see that the previous manager had gone wrong in his stock picking. At YE the NAV is the same as 2015 and the Trust is £200m smaller after buybacks. Chair stepping down is more tenure than any admission of, well, add your own word.
But I do like what JDU has done and I keep adding when I see the portfolio and share price dips. Liontrust takeover of the manager promised a higher level of promotion but not happened yet. The rebased dividend won’t help Edin reissue shares at a premium which they aspire but they might trade close to NAV with 3 years of JDU outperformance of the All Share and a quieter macro background. One of my larger holdings.
Posted at 02/6/2021 17:33 by boystown
Master Investor - Nick Sudbury says:

Edinburgh Investment Trust’s first full year’s results under new manager James De Uphaugh show clear outperformance and a narrowing of the discount.

Edinburgh Investment Trust (LON:EDIN) had struggled for years under Invesco’s Mark Barnett, so it was no great surprise when the board appointed Majedie’s James De Uphaugh to take over last March. It was fortunate timing with the transition period coinciding with the onset of the pandemic.

In its final results for the year to 31 March, the UK equity income fund made a NAV total return of 34.8%, which was well ahead of the 26.7% recorded by the FTSE All-Share as markets recovered from their March 2020 lows. The share price return was even stronger at 46.4% due to the narrowing of the discount.

Turnover was much higher than normal at 39% as the manager re-positioned the portfolio and reacted to the rapidly changing events during the year. Significant additions included Standard Chartered and Acsential, while legacy holdings in Glaxo, Legal & General and Barrick Gold were sold or reduced to increase the pro-cyclical tilt following the development of the first vaccine last November.

Plenty of upside potential

De Uphaugh believes that the UK is rich in stocks that are exceptionally well-placed both operationally and in valuation terms. In order to take advantage he uses a flexible total return approach with the concentrated 50-stock portfolio consisting of a mix of growth, value and recovery names.

Despite the recent strong performance, many British companies continue to trade at a discount to their international peers. It is possible that the successful vaccine rollout and the fact that Brexit is now behind us could enable the valuation gap to close, but the focus continues to be on fundamental research with the aim of identifying the stocks with the greatest upside potential.

Many of the largest positions are regarded as leaders in their fields and are likely to emerge from the crisis stronger. In order to protect capital, the manager considers the potential downside risk for each holding and scales the level of investment accordingly.

New starting point for the dividend

Lots of UK companies reduced their dividends during the pandemic and because of this the board decided to rebase the fund’s underlying distribution to 24 pence per share, a level from which it should be able to achieve sustainable growth ahead of inflation. This gives the shares a prospective yield of 3.75%, which is marginally below the four percent average from the UK equity income sector.

A special dividend of 4.65 pence has also been declared in respect of the year ended 31 March. It will be paid from the revenue reserves with the ex-div date being 24 June and will maintain the annual income in line with the previous year’s so as to protect investors.

A 12-month period is too short to properly assess the performance of the new manager, but it is reassuring to see that the fund has continued to outpace the index since the end of its financial year. The broker Investec has recently issued a buy recommendation with the shares available on a 4.5% discount to NAV.
Posted at 08/4/2021 21:37 by ec2
The effective double discount relates firstly to the shares in the portfolio which are mostly good quality value stocks that IMO can be considered cheap and at a discount to their longer term intrinsic value. The second discount is that of the EDIN share price to NAV. The NAV discount has in fact narrowed quite a bit of late, probably down to the new manager outperforming his benchmark over the last year since taking over. If he can continue to build out a good track record, I can see the discount narrowing further and even more so if the UK market in general re-rates. This combined effect would give continued double upward benefit to the share price. The shares and the market may have got a bit ahead of themselves in the last day or so, so I put a little bit of cheap and crude downside protection on yesterday, but will take off if I see continuing upward momentum which is appearing to be the case. EDIN is my largest position having averaged in over the last year whenever the share price was below 450p coupled with at the same time the NAV discount being over 10%.
Edinburgh Investment share price data is direct from the London Stock Exchange

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