Thursday, June 2, 2011

First Ship Lease Trust

First Ship Lease Trust: to acquire its first Long Range II Product Tanker for US$46m. Vessel will be leased back to TORM on a 7yr bareboat charter. Deal will be cash flow accretive and will boost the Trust’s total remaining contracted revenue to US$602m. Average remaining lease term of the Trust to remain at 6.8yrs...

Acquisition will be fully financed by the drawdown of US$23m from the Trust’s existing revolving credit facility and the utilization of US$23m from the previous equity issue. Secured debt of the Trust to increase to US$460m due to the deal.
Stock currently trades at 0.54X P/B.
Dahlman Rose (also FSL's principal American liaison) has a Buy rating with $1 TP.
DBSV has a Hold with TP $0.43.
Annualized 1Q11 DPU of US 3.8cts represents a 12.3% yield at current price of $0.38.

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