RE: EPS 123 Apr 2022 20:35
Romaron, regarding real estate or land it’s been excellent investment last 30 years due to borrow rate coming down from 15% to 1-2%. Guess it’s similar picture in UK.
Now borrowing rate start to increase due to inflation.
Let’s say if it goes to 5%, then price will come down probably 20-40%. And it’s higher food and energy cost also for a household.
Still it will be as expensive for a first time buyer, gets a cheaper price but a higher borrowing rate..
As energy prices are one of the bigger driver of inflation I consider this investment as good hedge against other bad things in future also.
Just my opinion without being an accountant.
EPS it’s effected by the write down or write back etc based on oil price. Specially during last years.
So it’s better look at the FCF.
Let’s assume they balance the debt this year and make 600m FCF next year.
Then a potential split of this FCF could be 1/3 each to
Further debt reduction
Increased Capex / investment
Dividend
Let’s see how generous they will be and what FCF we get 2023. It might get close to 1b if these prices hold.