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Half Year Performance Update
for the 6 months to 30 September 2021
Our Performance in 2021/22
The Guinness Partnership Limited (TGPL) is pleased to report our results for the Half Year to 30 September 2021. These results are based upon unaudited management accounts and operational performance reports.
Our Annual Financial Statements and our Annual Report for the year to 31 March 2021, are both available on our website.
Half Year Performance Update
In the half year to 30 September we have continued to deliver services to our customers and our new homes programme against a backdrop of the ongoing Covid pandemic, as well as rising inflation and labour market challenges.
Performance highlights for The Guinness Partnership Limited for the half-year to 30 September
2021 include:
· Turnover of £187.1m
· Total surplus of £26.3m - £5.1m higher than at September 2020
· Operating surplus of £46.9m - £3.3m lower at September 2020
· Operating margin of 25.1%
· Surplus on sales of existing homes of £5.5m
· Proceeds from sale of first tranche shared ownership homes of £15.8m
· High levels of liquidity retained - £987m of available loan facilities and cash
· Current tenant arrears of 3.37%
· 157 new affordable homes completed
· 293 homes started on site
Key Financial Results
Half Year Performance Update for the 6 months to 30 September 2021
Financial Indicators | Q2 2021/22 | Year Ending 31 March 2021 | Q2 2020/21 |
Operating Surplus | £46.9m | £169.1m | £50.2m |
Operating Margin | 25.1% | 21.6% | 29.4% |
Total Surplus | £26.3m | £71.7m | £21.2m |
Net Margin | 14.1% | 20.4% | 10.1% |
EBITDA-MRI Interest Cover | 165.2% | 145.4% | 183.1% |
Gearing | 42.8% | 44.5% | 42.2% |
Performance update
TGPL's operating surplus of £46.9m is lower than that reported in 2020/21. This reflects a range of
pressures including the costs of addressing post-lockdown backlogs in responsive repairs service and increased
insurance premiums.
Net interest costs of £26.9m were incurred in the period on total drawn debt of £1.3bn.
The overall surplus of £26.3m includes shared ownership staircasing with 75 transactions
completing in the first 6 months of the year which have generated a surplus of £4.7m.
During the period £94.7m has been invested in our development programme and a further £25.2m
invested in existing homes. This includes building safety related expenditure of £7.9m.
Closing cash balances at the end of September were £65.1m. Our liquidity position remained strong
with total available funds standing at £987m (undrawn loans and cash), covering 59 months of projected
cash flow.
Development and business update
Our Strategy targets delivery of 5,500 new homes by March 2025 with a significant proportion delivered
with the support of Homes England and GLA funding through Strategic Partnerships.
We are currently on site with over 3,300 of these homes with 157 being completed in the first 6 months of the year.
During the year we were successful in our applications for funding from Homes England and the GLA under extended Strategic Partnerships. This additional funding will support development of 1,800 new affordable homes by 2029.
An increasing proportion of the new homes that we deliver will incorporate some form of
Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). In August 2021 our subsidiary, Guinness Developments Limited, acquired a minority shareholding in Ilke Homes Holdings, an established MMC manufacturer.
During October 2021 we completed the transfer of 432 homes in Liverpool to Riverside Housing Group. We took
transfer of 115 homes in Chesterfield and 356 homes in Derby from Clarion Housing Group in October and November respectively.
Credit and regulatory ratings
Our credit ratings with Standard & Poors and Moody's remained unchanged during the period at A- (stable)
and A3 (stable) respectively.
On the 27 October 2021 the Regulator of Social Housing confirmed our regulatory ratings were
unchanged at G1 for Governance and V2 for Viability.
Contact details
Rob Elliott, Director of Corporate Finance robert.elliott@guinness.org.uk
https://www.guinnesspartnership.com/about-us/for-investors/
Disclaimer
The information contained herein (the "Trading Update") has been prepared by The Guinness Partnership
Limited ("TGPL") and is for information purposes only. The Trading Update should not be construed as
an offer or solicitation to buy or sell any securities issued by TGPL or any of its subsidiaries ("the Group"),
or any interest in any such securities, and nothing herein should be construed as a recommendation or
advice to invest in any such securities.
Statements in the Trading Update, including those regarding possible or assumed future or other
performance of the Group as a whole or any member of it, industry growth or other trend projections
may constitute forward-looking statements and as such involve risks and uncertainties that may cause
actual results, performance or developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Accordingly, no assurance is given that such forward-looking statements will
prove to have been correct. They speak only as at the date of the Trading Update and neither TGPL nor
any other member of the Group undertakes any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments, occurrence of unanticipated
events or otherwise.
None of TGPL, any member of the Group or anyone else is under any obligation to update or keep
current the information contained in the Trading Update. The information in the Trading Update is subject
to verification, does not purport to be comprehensive, is provided as at the date of the Trading Update
and is subject to change without notice. Financial results quoted are unaudited.
No reliance should be placed on the information or any projections, targets, estimates or forecasts and
nothing in the Trading Update is or should be relied on as a promise or representation as to the future.
No statement in the Trading Update is intended to be an estimate or forecast. No representation or
warranty, express or implied, is given by or on behalf of TGPL, any other member of the Group or any of
their respective directors, officers, employees, advisers, agents or any other persons as to the accuracy
or validity of the information or opinions contained in the Trading Update (and whether any information
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nor is it legal, tax, accounting or investment advice.