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| Share Name | Share Symbol | Market | Type | Share ISIN | Share Description |
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| Hicl Infrastructure Plc | LSE:HICL | London | Ordinary Share | GB00BJLP1Y77 | ORD 0.01P |
| Price Change | % Change | Share Price | Shares Traded | Last Trade
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| -2.60 | -2.15% | 118.60 | 1,421,602 | 11:47:05 |
| Bid Price | Offer Price | High Price | Low Price | Open Price | |
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| 118.60 | 118.80 | 120.00 | 118.40 | 120.00 | |
| Industry Sector | Turnover | Profit | EPS - Basic | PE Ratio | Market Cap |
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| Finance Services | 35.2M | 30.5M | 0.0151 | 79.21 | 2.45B |
| Last Trade Time | Trade Type | Trade Size | Trade Price | Currency |
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| 11:51:11 | O | 674 | 118.6711 | GBX |
| Date | Time | Source | Headline |
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| 21/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 20/11/2024 | 10:22 | ALNC |  HICL Infrastructure reports profit recovery and confirms dividend goal |
| 20/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Interim Results for the six months ended 30 Sep 24 |
| 18/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 14/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 13/11/2024 | 15:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Second Quarterly Interim Dividend |
| 13/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 12/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 11/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
| 06/11/2024 | 07:00 | UK RNS | HICL Infrastructure PLC Transaction in Own Shares |
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| 20/11/2024 | 07:31 | H I C L :::::::::::::::: long-term infrastructure investment | 1,244 |
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| 11:51:12 | 118.67 | 674 | 799.84 | O |
| 11:50:39 | 118.60 | 66 | 78.28 | AT |
| 11:50:39 | 118.60 | 853 | 1,011.66 | AT |
| 11:50:36 | 118.62 | 853 | 1,011.83 | O |
| 11:47:34 | 118.67 | 25,870 | 30,700.32 | O |
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Posted at 21/11/2024 08:20 by Hicl Infrastructure Daily Update Hicl Infrastructure Plc is listed in the Finance Services sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker HICL. The last closing price for Hicl Infrastructure was 121.20p.Hicl Infrastructure currently has 2,025,338,061 shares in issue. The market capitalisation of Hicl Infrastructure is £2,422,304,321. Hicl Infrastructure has a price to earnings ratio (PE ratio) of 79.21. This morning HICL shares opened at 120p |
Posted at 19/11/2024 08:20 by sll Not possible to buy via barclays smart investor last week (blocked!) due to a non-compliance issue which I've raised with HICL. If I get a clear answer? will update.Update: One of the advisor group (Aztec) just confirmed to me tonight that 'Infrared Capital' are 'working with' Barclays to resolve whatever the issue is. I suspect it will get fixed soon, but, meanwhile, not a great look! In other news, FD leaving, interim results caused a further hit, not a bounce. Feeling privileged that Barclays (in effect) stopped me buying in. To be clear, have held in the past, liked the stock, exited when I took the view that the Board were over-paying themselves. So no exposure right now (even if I wanted to). In reality, this is an 'Infrared gig'. On the plus side, this is now quoted at a material discount to deemed TNAV. |
Posted at 18/11/2024 15:42 by shawzie Is the current share price now 30% below net assets?Heading towards buy territory? But perhaps not yet. |
Posted at 25/7/2024 06:03 by skinny Key Highlights. Operational performance across the portfolio in the period was in line with expectations, demonstrating the resilient nature of the underlying assets. · The Company is on track to deliver its target dividend of 8.25p per share for the financial year to 31 March 2025, with increased cash generation in line with expectations. · The Revolving Credit Facility ("RCF") was repaid in May 2024 and the Company commenced a £50m buyback programme. · Ofwat's PR241 draft determination received for Affinity Water, reflecting some positive movements as well as some gaps between the determination and Affinity's submitted business plan, as would be expected at this stage. The draft determination aligns with HICL's expectation for Affinity to resume equity distributions in AMP 8. · Highly disciplined capital allocation approach, including the exploration of further strategic asset disposals and highly selective acquisitions where these are accretive and enhance the key portfolio metrics. 1. The Ofwat 2024 price review process that sets prices for the period from April 2025 to March 2030. |
Posted at 17/7/2024 06:13 by rik shaw HICL Infrastructure PLC (the "Company") is pleased to announce the first interim dividend for the financial year ending 31 March 2025 of 2.06 pence per ordinary share (the "Q1 Dividend").The shares will go ex-dividend on 25 July 2024 and the Q1 Dividend will be paid on 30 September 2024 to shareholders on the register as at the close of business on 26 July 2024. a portion of the Company's dividends will be designated as an interest distribution for UK tax purposes. The interest streaming percentage for the Q1 Dividend is 87%. |
Posted at 23/4/2024 11:50 by williamcooper104 And on forward divi yield I'm at INPP - 6.91%HICL - 6.63% BBGI - 6.53% Interesting that BBGI doesn't yield much less than HICL So not sacrificing much in way of short/medium term income If/when HICL are able to get their water company paying dividends it's likely they'll restart growing their divi |
Posted at 23/4/2024 10:38 by mrscruff Hi William (I am not the one who voted you down btw).The trio have all "re-set" to more of a bond proxy by removing the leverage...at least while the normal/nominal rate of interest in years to come is unknown. If your after that growth edge using leverage then only have 3IN and PIN in the generalist space. With that rather simplistic view in mind HICL is probably the best value for now at these prices.... tomorrow could be another day though. |
Posted at 22/4/2024 19:26 by mrscruff Affinity Water is the largest holding at 7 percent however they seem OK and the rest is well diverfide into high quality defensive sectors. Yes I marginally prefer those other two but HICL has come down in price and so the yield for new investors is very attractive nearly 7 percent and that's higher than high quality bonds or gov bonds. It's a buy at these levels to diversify ones portfolio and provide more quarterly dividends that smooth out INPP twice yearly distributions. |
Posted at 14/4/2024 12:00 by petersinthemarket After years of steady dividend growth, HICL has held its dividend at 8.25p a share (yld 6.5% at 126p/sh) since its financial year to March 2020, but the trust doesn't plan to increase its dividend target in respect of financial years to March 2024 and 2025, meaning that the real value of shareholders investment income will decrease significantly. Jefferies analysts find dividend plans disappointing. By estimating future dividend cover based on cash flow projections, they believe that whether HICL will be able to resume dividend growth is largely contingent on inflation outperformance and HICL looks a bit like a bond proxy. |
Posted at 19/7/2023 20:33 by williamcooper104 I'm out of HICL now; with now larger holdings in BBGI and INPP With the dividend growth of BBGI and INPP they end up in next year or so at around the same yield as HICL Of the share price last week the equity discount rate, adjusted for management fees and discount to NAV on share price was 7.3 on HICL and 7.8 on INPP |
Posted at 16/7/2023 00:07 by unastubbs HICL vs IPP: Which infrastructure trust should you buy?International Public Partnerships and HICL Infrastructure are both relatively low-risk, but there are differences to factor in Investor's Chronicle July 14, 2023 A popular asset class until last year, infrastructure has fallen out of favour quite spectacularly as interest rates rise and investors worry about the impact on net asset values (NAV). While it might be some time before a rally arrives, funds in this sector still have much to recommend them for the long term, including high yields, good levels of inflation linkage and government-backed revenues. Sector giants International Public Partnerships (INPP) and HICL Infrastructure (HICL) have hardly ever been this cheap, but choosing between them isn't a simple task. As the chart below shows, over the past five years their performances have been similar, although HICL Infrastructure did better at times during 2022. The two trusts have many features in common, so you need to look below the surface to gauge which of them might be more suitable for your investment approach. Two evolving portfolios Both trusts invest in core infrastructure, which HICL defines as “essential infrastructure assets that deliver resilient cash flows from a protected market position” and “sit at the lower end of the risk spectrum”. And both have exposure to private public partnerships (PPP), through which revenues come from the public sector so are less exposed to economic fluctuations. But like most infrastructure trusts, over the past few years, both portfolios have evolved, reducing their exposure to PPP and ‘social’ infrastructure assets, for example in the health and education sectors, in favour of more economically sensitive projects, such as those in the utilities sector. Despite their names, HICL is more exposed to PPPs than International Public Partnerships, which has significant investments in regulated assets instead. Regulated assets’ revenues are pre-determined for a given period via sporadic regulatory settlements. IPP’s key assets in this area are Cadent, the UK’s largest gas distribution network, and Tideway, which is in charge of building and maintaining the new 25km London ‘super-sewer&# The past few years HICL has shifted towards a higher exposure to demand-based assets, particularly in the transport sector. For example, traffic levels have an impact on the revenues of the trust’s second-largest investment, the A63 motorway in France. HICL's shift away from PPP, health and education is because no new PPP projects are being commissioned in the UK and the price of secondary transactions is rising, detracting from returns. Earlier this year, Stifel analysts argued that moving towards economic assets offers benefits including higher potential for returns and longer portfolio lives. But it also slightly changes the trusts’ risk profiles, leaving them more exposed to economic conditions and regulatory changes. “Given the weaker economic outlook, this is a bit of a concern,” they noted. As well as having fewer PPP projects, International Public Partnerships has greater exposure to construction projects – 14 per cent of its portfolio compared with 3 per cent of HICL's. Both trusts are UK-focused, although HICL is slightly more internationally diversified with a 64 per cent exposure to the UK against International Public Partnerships’ 76 per cent. Mick Gilligan, head of managed portfolio services at Killik, adds: “[Many infrastructure investors will] prefer assets that have low levels of economic sensitivity and execution risk, and high levels of inflation linkage. In effect, closer to an inflation-linked bond than to an equity. On this basis, HICL is more attractive than International Public Partnerships.” Discount rates under pressure While the composition of its portfolio means International Public Partnerships is arguably slightly riskier than HICL, there are other considerations including the discount rate they use – International Public Partnerships’ is 7.5 per cent, on average, while HICL’s is 7.2 per cent. Because of the long lives of their assets, both trusts are heavily impacted by an increase in their discount rates. According to their last financial statements, a percentage point increase in discount rate was expected to result in 11.6 and 8.9 per cent NAV decreases for HICL and IPP, respectively. This helps to explain why these trusts react so negatively to higher interest rates, with their share prices showing high levels of correlation with gilt yields (‘Why it's hard to find funds that benefit from higher rates’, IC, 23 June 2023). Higher rates put pressure on the risk premium offered by these funds, and International Public Partnerships has a bit of extra breathing room. In its latest portfolio update at the end of May, the trust acknowledged the increase in government bond yields since the publication of its December 2022 NAV, although it added that “historically discount rates have not moved in lockstep with government bond yields”. Both HICL and IPP might yet have to increase their discount rates further this year, after increasing them by 60 basis points (bps) and 54bps, respectively, over the course of last year. But this might not be as bad as the discounts in the sector would imply. At the end of June, Stifel analysts estimated that the market was pricing in discount rates of 8.8 per cent for HICL and 9.5 per cent for International Public Partnerships, which they deemed “relatively high". The negative effect of discount rates is partly compensated for by inflation-linked revenues. HICL boasts an inflation correlation of 0.8, meaning that every percentage point increase in inflation is expected to result in a 0.8 per cent increase in its cash flow. International Public Partnerships has an inflation correlation of 0.7. To gauge which of the two trusts looks more attractive at any given time, Gilligan uses a model that adjusts the discount rate to take into account factors such as any leverage or cash at the holding company level, fees and the premium or discount. The model calculates the “steady state return” or the rate of return that investors should receive based on the current share price. As at 4 July, this was 7.9 per cent for HICL and 8.4 per cent for International Public Partnerships. “We like the relatively low-risk nature of both trusts and hold both in portfolios,” says Gilligan. “We tend to have a higher weighting in whichever [one] is showing a higher steady state return, which is currently International Public Partnerships.” 'Disappointing' dividend growth HICL had a slightly wider discount and higher yield than International Public Partnerships. As of 7 July, but despite its high levels of inflation-linkage, the trust doesn't plan to increase its dividend target in respect of its financial years to March 2024 and 2025, meaning that the real value of its shareholders' investment income will decrease significantly. After years of steady dividend growth, HICL has held its dividend at 8.25p a share since its financial year to March 2020. The trust’s board says that this is to future-proof the portfolio as the trust gradually moves to assets other than PPP that offer better growth prospects but tend to provide lower yields at first. The trust’s biggest asset, Affinity Water, which accounts for about 7 per cent of its portfolio, is not currently paying dividends to shareholders and is unlikely to do so until 2025. But HICL hopes to resume dividend growth in future. International Public Partnerships targets annual dividend growth of 2.5 per cent, which is more promising, although still well below the current inflation rate. Jefferies analysts say that the dividend plans of both funds are disappointing. By estimating future dividend cover based on cash flow projections, they believe that whether HICL will be able to resume dividend growth “is largely contingent on inflation outperformance” Yet both trusts could be good additions to a portfolio and their current discounts to NAV look like a solid opportunity to get them on the cheap. They provide a degree of inflation protection and a solid level of income at low risk. Which one you choose partly depends on your investment preferences – HICL looks a bit more like a bond proxy while International Public Partnerships has slightly more potential for growth. |
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