AGM notes6 Dec 2022 15:54
From Peckers56 over on Advfn BB.
At today's AGM. As usual, for a REIT, only ordinary shareholder there and no presentation. In a Q/A, Manager/Board confirmed the following [a] gearing at 20% (which they think is low), [b] nearly every property has an EPC rating in the A-C range so little "money" needed to bring the rest up-to-standard), [c] the current bank loan lasts until 2025, [d[ although rents are inflation linked nearly all have a cap of between 1 and 4 percent, [e] since financial year end there have been no buys and one sale in August (but nobody could remember where it was located), [f] do not do buy-backs. When asked to compare themselves with Impact Healthcare (their only competitor in the PDUHC sector), they agreed IH's SP performance was slightly better and it had a better dividend yield, but put this down to IH having "older/used" properties (which Target had looked at but rejected), which still needed improving to obtain an A-C EPC.