Agellan Commercial REITACR.UN.TOCOMMENTMay 06, 2016Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 29, 2019. Market Open.
Acquired most of their US portfolio while the Cdn$ was still at a high level. The depreciation of the dollar has been very beneficial for them, which hasn’t quite shown up in the price yet. The real trigger for this is if they can start to sell down some of their Canadian assets and focus more exclusively on the US.
They do not have a buy and hold strategy, so you have to get comfortable that management will aggressively be churning the portfolio. Have recently expressed interest in selling their Canadian assets to put the money to work in the US. If there is a drag from selling to deploying, then the dividend is a little bit strained, but at this point the dividend is fully covered. He is watching this one from the sidelines.
Yield of around 8.5% and have about a 90% payout ratio, which is not overaggressive. Just sold 2 Toronto properties Valleywood and Parkway, and they want to focus on the US in office and industrial. There has been a bit of a recovery in the share price. They are more focused on their strategy now. He thinks we are at the end of the bull market in the REIT space, so he can’t get excited about this type of investment.
Recent IPO that he did not participate in. He was concerned with some of the tenant concentration and, one building in particular, where there was a head lease on the building which meant that the occupancy and the rents were being guaranteed, even though they were operating at well below what the company considered normalized. They would have to increase the occupancy significantly in order to achieve the run rate cash flow that they had promised on the IPO.
Owns assets both in Canada and the US. If you are buying something for income, he eventually thinks this company will be sold. Thinks you could do quite well.