CAPITALAND MALL TRUST
C38U.SI
CapitaLand Mall Trust - Shining Again
- Near-term price strength will be supported by expectations of delay in rate hike.
- Further announcements regarding Funan’s future plan were largely in line with our expectations.
- Upgrade to BUY, TP S$2.25.
Delay in rate hike will drive near-term price strength.
- With FED’s decision to delay rate hike from September to possibly the end of the year, we believe S-REITS will enjoy a “relief rally’ in the immediate term. CMT, being a proxy to S-REITs will be a beneficiary.
- With a total return of > 12% (5% price upside, supported by 5.2% yield), we upgrade the stock to BUY.
- CMT’s yield spread (yield over 10-year T-bond) is currently 90bps higher than its historical mean, suggesting compression opportunities in the near term.
Funan’s redevelopment plans are within our expectations.
- Further details of Funan 2.0, including a cycle-through mall, two Grade A office towers, and co-living apartment units, were announced early this month and were largely in line with our expectations, highlighted in the scenario study published on 1 July 2016 (Rhapsody of Funan 2.0).
- We are supportive of CMT’s decision to undertake the redevelopment to capture the alpha. Apart from a 4-Sct (or 2.0%) incremental impact forecasted on NAV, we applaud the proactive asset management strategy that turns an ageing mall into thought leadership.
Gearing has room to finance AEIs and other developments.
- As anticipated, CMT will fund Funan’s redevelopment cost of S$560m entirely by debt, comfortably below the S$800m headroom.
- Gearing is expected to increase to 38%, which is still a healthy level in our view. We do not see the need to raise equity in the immediate term.
Valuation
- We raised our DCF-backed TP to S$2.25 from S$2.23 to account for more apartment units than originally estimated for Funan as well as potential increase in leverage due to Funan’s debt financing requirement.
- The stock offers a FY17F DPU yield of 5.3% and a total potential return of > 12%, based on the latest closing price of S$2.10.
- Upgrade to BUY.
Key Risks to Our View
- A rate hike surprise before December. While consensus is still ruling out a hike in November just days before the US election, any surprise move or even alterations in the Fed’s rhetoric may stir ripples in the market.
- In the unlikely scenario of a rate hike ahead of consensus’ year-end expectation, we believe it will be an opportunity for investors to accumulate the stock on the dip.
Derek Tan
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Mervin Song CFA
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Singapore Research Team
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2016-09-22
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