Is It Time To Buy Capitaland Integrated Commercial Trust?
🌟🌟🌟Capitaland Integrated Commercial Trust (CICT) is Singapore's very first and largest REIT with a market capitalisation of SGD 15.23 billion. CICT owns and invests in quality income producing assets used for commercial purpose which includes both retail and office buildings.
CICT's properties are predominantly in Singapore which takes up 93.7% of its holdings while its Australian properties only takes up 3.6% and Germany 2.7%.
CICT's Singapore properties include 5 Integrated Developments, 6 Office buildings, and 7 Retail buildings. These include popular malls such as Raffles City, Plaza Singapura, Bugis Junction and many more.
CICT was in the news on September 3 2024,when it announced its proposal to acquire a 50% stake in Ion Orchard from its sponsor $CapitaLandInvest(9CI.SI)$
Analysts have viewed the acquisition favourably as it will enable CICT to diversify into the luxury retail segment in Singapore and increase the dividends payout for investors from 2025 onwards.
CICT has proposed to finance the acquisition partially with net proceeds from a pro rata non renounceable Preferential Offer of 377.3 million new CICT units priced at SGD 2.007 per unit, compared with CICT's last closing price of SGD 2.14 on September 2.
Being a shareholder, I have jumped on this golden opportunity to increase my investment to fully subscribe to the Preferential offering since it is offered as a discount to its share price.
Performance wise CICT is down 1.4% in the last 5 days. However CICT is up 2.9% year todate. In 2023, CICT has risen 14.8%.
Like many other SReits, CICT was affected by the high interest rates environment in the last few years and its share price is down 20% in the past 5 years. However that is about to change with interest rates cuts in the pipeline.
About 24% of CICT's borrowings are on floating interest rates which will benefit from upcoming rate cuts. CICT 's current cost of debt is 3.5% in the first half of 2024.
CICT' s Net Property Income (NPI) for 1H 24 increased 5.4% year on year due to lower utility expenses and savings from the new property management agreement in which reimbursement of staff costs declined 22% year on year.
Financial Analysts are bullish on CICT with a Buy rating, Target price ranging from SGD 2.59 to SGD 2.30.
I have invested in CICT since 2021 as I believe that it will provide me with a steady source of dividend income. The current dividend yield is 6.17% which is much better than putting my money in the savings account.
I also like that CICT has a strong sponsor in $CapitaLandInvest(9CI.SI)$ which is a Temasek owned company.
At the last closing price of SGD 2.09 per share, CICT is undervalued and oversold. Is it time to buy CICT? That is definitely a YES! CICT is a great SReit to buy and hold long term as it ticks all the core fundamentals of a well managed SReit.
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