It’s a buy signal to me |
LondonMetric Property Plc ("LondonMetric") has been notified of a dealing in LondonMetric ordinary shares ("Shares") by Prestbury Management Holdings Limited ("PMHL"), a company closely asociated with Nick Leslau and Sandy Gumm, both of whom are Non-Executive Directors of LondonMetric.
On 13 March 2025, PMHL sold 26,379,367 Shares at a price of 178.72 pence per Share ("Transaction"). This Transaction follows the expiry of a lock up period after LondonMetric's takeover of LXi in March 2024 where PMHL was a material shareholder.
Following the Transaction, Mr Leslau, together with connected companies, continues to hold 26,408,757 Shares, representing approximately 1.3% of the issued share capital of LondonMetric. Ms Gumm separately holds 351,640 Shares. As Non-Executive Directors, both Mr Leslau and Ms Gumm are fully supportive of the Company and remain committed long-term shareholders.
Just in case people missed the RNS |
Hi Hindsight,
Yes I still pay the 20% withholding tax. Still better than if I had remained UK resident for my circumstances. |
Pyufak, you will still pay the 20% with-holding tax ? |
Was pretty surprised to see this go to a 6.9% dividend yield; covered and increasing for the past decade while a bid was revealed for WHR assets and SHED changed its management fee. I continue to like the REIT for income even if I do expect it to be a bit zzz. I can understand why people buy gilts as opposed to this for the tax free income but as an offshore resident I find the 7% very appealing. |
The 12p full year dividend target was already known so the Q3 increase was simply part of that. It means that the Q4 dividend should be 3.3p
TOTAL FY 2024/25 (E) - 12.00p
Q4 (Jul 25) - TBC
Q3 (Apr 25) - 3.00p (PID 3.00p)
Q2 (Jan 25) - 2.85p (PID 2.85p)
Q1 (Oct 24) - 2.85p (PID 2.85p) |
So nary a comment?
FY25Q3 divi up 5.3% on Q2's. Up 25% on FY24Q3. Pay up for quality. |
Slow slow and slow we go |
Jones said in the Nov statement 'it takes two to tango' so need a willing seller.
I'd love to see LMP merge with SHED (which I also own) just because I think scale is everything going forward |
@EI sorry meant they could be ready to hoover up another IT laggard |
Acquisition announced with the disposals Nick. |
LMP doing well in offloading assets from the two ITs they acquired and looks like have Mucklow squared off with offices gone so maybe ready to go shopping again. |
Yes it's a fair point, however for this purpose I don't calculate on (expected) future dividends.
The yield currently sits at 5.81%, so 6% is
not that far off. |
CEO has already pencilled in a 12p total div for this year - that's 6.75% this afternoon. |
Market may want a 6% yield here,
as mentioned last week. |
Would expect the sector to be hit hard at the open, gilt yield movements beginning to hang heavy in the air like a dulling wine. |
Thats a reasonable director buy 100k shares |
Yep - sell of is driven by gilts falling out of bed Today's wage growth was a bit of a shocker and that's before we get the 6.7% min wage growth and there's more public sector pay deals that haven't been reflected in the data |
 It might. Back in the mid-90s to mid-2000s a 6%DY for a diversified property co was par for the course even if the CE was not highly adept and very good at talking up his book.
I suspect that the share price is largely reacting to 5yr gilt yields (thanks Rachel) to maintain the ERP and perhaps starting to price in the possibility of an economic downturn. It's happening to lots of similar assets - nothing co specific.
Once the div reaches 12p I'm telling myself to expect(wetted finger in the air)around 5%pa div growth thereafter. At 180p that's a DY of 6.6% plus 5%pa - so a simple Gordon Growth Model says total long-term return of c. 11%pa. Frankly, that seems perfectly reasonable for a property company. With LMP we get a FTSE 100 company, actively managed by a pragmatic CEO who takes a long-term view.
There is a baby version of LMP called Picton Property Income - slower moving, opertes at a much smaller scale but is also self-managed (and well managed) and no stamp duty on share purchases. The kicker here is a low-cost long-term debt c. 3.7% for around 7 years. Shares trade at quite a wide discount to NAV. |
Segro now on a 19% discount to NAV.
LMP at the current share price yields significantly more than SGRO, however unlike Segro, it's not a specialist.
Might the market want a 6% yield on LMP?
it's a possibility. |
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