COGENT HOLDINGS LIMITED
KJ9.SI
Cogent Holdings Ltd - Expanding Property Management Capability
- Award of three-year lease to operate a student hostel at 362 Holland Road.
- Adding breadth to experience in property management.
- No timeline provided on commencement of operations.
What Is The News?
- Cogent Holdings Ltd (Cogent) has been awarded a three-year lease (extendable by another three-years) by the Singapore Land Authority to operate a student hostel at 362 Holland Road.
- The property comprises two blocks of one-storey buildings with a gross floor area of about 583.4 sqm. The land area is about 2,318 sqm. The property is able to house up to 60 students.
- The property will be managed by Cogent's wholly-owned subsidiary, Cogent Realty Capital Pte Ltd.
How Do We View This?
Builds upon existing property management capability into burgeoning student accommodation market
- Cogent's property management arm currently operates a family lifestyle destination, The Grandstand, at Bukit Timah. This student hostel lease is an opportunity for Cogent to build upon its existing property management capability.
- The prospects for student accommodation is less sensitive to economic cycles, as compared to the rest of Cogent's business segments.
Catchment of educational institutions nearby
- Nexus International School, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore Polytechnic, INSEAD, the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Technology are within the vicinity of the student hostel.
Not a material contribution to Cogent's earnings
- Owing to the size of the property, the operations would be small relative to the rest of Cogent's operations.
- We also note here that Cogent had put in the highest bid of the lease and there were four other bidders. Cogent had a winning bid of $32,362 /month and piped the second-highest bid by S$862 /month for the site.
Maintain Buy; unchanged target price of S$1.12
- The property is currently vacant and no details have been disclosed on start-up capital expenditures or other operational details such as when it will commence operations. We do not make any changes to our forecast for now.
- Our target price represents an implied 16.5x FY17e P/E multiple, compared to the Straits Times Index forward 12-months P/E multiple of 14.7x.
Richard Leow CFTe
Phillip Securities
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2017-09-14
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