Georgia Capital hosts Virtual Investor Day12 Nov 2020 11:26
Georgia Capital PLC (the “Group” or “Georgia Capital”) is today hosting a Virtual Investor Day for analysts and investors. As part of the investor presentations, the Group will update investors and analysts on its strategic goals and priorities as summarised below.
Update on strategic priorities announced in 2019
In 2020, following the buy-out of minority shareholders in GHG, the Group achieved its previously announced strategic priority to reduce the share of listed assets in the Group’s investment portfolio to 20% - listed assets comprised c.15% of the total investment portfolio value as of 30-Sep-20.
Third-party money raising has been put on hold due to COVID-19 outbreak, however, the Group expects to resume efforts, as markets normalise.
Enhanced strategy for 2020 and onwards
The Group has introduced an enhanced strategy, where Georgia Capital will focus on larger scale investment opportunities in Georgia, which have the potential to reach at least GEL 0.5 billion equity value over the next 3-5 years and to monetise investments through exits, as investments mature. This larger size will provide improved liquidity and improved exit opportunities, to support the Group’s desire to reduce the current discount to reported NAV per share.
The group will now focus on a new breakdown of its private portfolio companies, ranking them as Large, Investment Stage, and Other portfolio companies:
Large portfolio companies (64% of total portfolio value at 30-Se-20) are companies that are close to reaching a GEL 0.5 billion+ equity value. These are growing, market leading, cyclically resistant businesses: Healthcare Services, Retail (pharmacy), Insurance (P&C and Medical) and Water Utility.
Investment stage portfolio companies (12% of total portfolio value at 30-Se-20), being Renewable Energy and Education, have the potential to reach a GEL 0.5 billion+ equity value. The Group will be investing only in these two non-cyclical businesses over the medium term, to scale up them and drive value creation going forward.
The remaining 9% is spread across the five companies in the private portfolio, which the Group currently believes offer less scalable growth potential (“other portfolio companies”). Housing Development, Hospitality and Commercial Real Estate, Beverages, Auto Service and Digital Services businesses are included in the “Other” category.
Accordingly, Georgia Capital has adapted its reporting format and moved to quarterly reporting with greater focus on its large and investment stage private portfolio companies.
New strategic priorities
In line with the enhanced strategy, Georgia Capital has introduced two new strategic priorities:
realise the value of one of the large portfolio companies, through a trade sale, over the next 18-24 months;
divest the subscale portfolio companies over the next 2-3 years.
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