Thursday, June 2, 2011

Cache Logistics Trust

Cache Logistics Trust: to buy its first overseas asset, a chemical warehouse facility in Shanghai for Rmb71m (S$13.5m), at 7-8% below valuation. This marks the trust’s entry into China. Property is being acquired from its sponsor CWT under a sale-and-leaseback arrangement. CWT will leaseback the facility for 3 yrs with an option for a further 3 yrs...

The facility is located in the Jinshan District, situated within one of the largest petrochemical bases in Asia, the Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP). It has a built-up gfa of 13.5k sm. Mgt guided that the transaction will be accretive at both net property income (NPI) and DPU levels...

The NPI yield of 8.6% is 1 ppt higher than trust's present 7.6% portfolio yield, while FY11 DPU is expected to see a 0.03c/unit boost. Funding with S$ debt (mgt has no plans to hedge with yuan on the uptrend), and leverage will rise to 29.2% from 27.9% as a result.
Cache trades at 1x P/B and offers fwd DPU yield of 10%. CIMB maintains at Outperform with TP $1.32.

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