Basic Profile & Key Statistics
CapitaLand Retail China Trust is a pure retail REIT that invests in 13 retail properties in China.
Lease Profile
Occupancy is healthy at 93.4%. WALE is short at 2.2 years where the highest lease expiry of 28% falls in the year 2021. All of its income is received in RMB. Weighted average land lease expiry is short at 24.05 years.
Debt Profile
Gearing is healthy at 33.6%. Cost of debt and fixed-rate debt % are moderate at 2.8% and 82.9% respectively. Unsecured debt % is high at 93.5%. Interest cover ratio is slightly high at 4 times. WADE is moderate at 2.75 years where the highest debt maturity of 22.8% falls in the year 2022.
Diversification Profile
Top geographical contribution is moderate at 57.5%, top property contribution is slightly high at 24.4%. Top tenant and top 10 tenants contributions are low at 4.1% and 17.6%.
Key Financial Metrics
Property yield is low at 4.5%. Management fee is high in which unitholders receive S$ 5.81 distribution for every dollar paid. Distribution on capital is slightly low at 3%. Distribution margin is low at 40.4%.
Related Parties Shareholding
As compared to SREITs median, sponsor and manager holding a higher stake while directors of REIT manager holding a lesser stake.
Trend
If we look at pre-COVID time, DPU is on a slight downtrend while distribution margin is on an uptrend. NAV per unit is on a slight downtrend but improved in 2Q 2020 due to divestment gain from Capitamall Erqi.
Relative Valuation
i) Average Dividend Yield - Average yield at 6.59%, apply the past 4 quarters DPU of 7.79 cents will get S$ 1.18.
ii) Average Price/NAV - Average value is at 0.93, apply the latest NAV of S$ 1.635 will get S$ 1.52.
Author's Opinion
| Favorable | Less Favorable |
|---|---|
| Unsecured Debt | WALE |
| Well Spread Debt Maturity | Income Received in RMB |
| Top Tenant & Top 10 Tenants Contribution | Weighted Average Land Lease Expiry |
| Distribution Margin Uptrend | Property Yield |
| Management Fee | |
| Distribution Margin |
2Q shopper traffic has increased by 25.9% as compared to 1Q 2020. Tenant sales have also increased month on month since March, albeit drop slightly in June due to COVID 2nd wave in Beijing which was quickly abated. Its latest acquisition, Yuquan mall is expected to open by the end of 2020. In July, China also reported 2Q 2020 GDP grew by 3.2% year-on-year and 11.5% quarter-on-quarter. Moving forward, CRCT performance is likely to be improved.
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Hi Vince. May I know how you calculated your weighted average land lease expiry? Compared to your 24.05 years, I got a higher value of 29.6 years.
ReplyDeleteThere are 4 properties having 2 land use rights within same property. I am conservative and took the shorter years. I believe you are taking the longer years for your calculation. I re-calculated with both low and high value, my value should be 24 year (have corrected) and higher 1 would be 29.27 years, which is close to yours.
DeleteI see... thanks for the clarification! It's funny how a single property can have 2 land use rights.
DeleteSometimes this is because of different phase of acquisition or construction. Happened got other REIT too. Generally, I take the conservative site, unless the area is very small.
DeleteHi Vince, if the WALE is 2.2 years and 28% of the leases expire in 2021, isn't there a high risk that a number of tenants do not renew their leases, affecting the REITs performance next year
ReplyDeleteHi Mark,
DeleteRetail WALE generally is short. For SREITs, median value of highest lease expiry within 5 years is 26.4%, so 28% is slightly high. There will always be risk of no renewal or renewal at lower rate. So I think what you could do is refer to the trend section to assess how a REIT perform previously.