Brief IPOs & Placements: Daiwa House REIT Placement – Well-Flagged but Barely Accretive to DPU and more

In this briefing:

1. Daiwa House REIT Placement – Well-Flagged but Barely Accretive to DPU
2. Nomura Real Estate Master Fund Placement – Past Deal Did Well Only After a Slight Correction

1. Daiwa House REIT Placement – Well-Flagged but Barely Accretive to DPU

Daiwa House Reit Investment (8984 JP) (DHR) is raising about US$329m in its placement to fund the acquisition of properties.

The deal scores well on our framework owing to strong price and earnings momentum. The assets to be acquired are a good mix of logistics, retail, and hotel. 

However, the properties to be acquired mostly have an NOI yield lower than the average NOI yield of DHR’s existing assets in the respective asset classes. Despite increasing the portfolio value by almost 10%, the ten properties are only expected to be 1.37% accretive to DPU. 

That said, DHR’s acquisition has been well-flagged as it was highlighted in its September presentation.

2. Nomura Real Estate Master Fund Placement – Past Deal Did Well Only After a Slight Correction

Nomura Real Estate Master Fund, (3462 JP) plans to raise around US$300m to partially fund the acquisition of ten assets. 

The assets are a mix of office, retail and logistics and all were completed only in 2018. The cap rates for the acquisition look reasonable versus the existing assets that the REIT owns and the acquisition will likely be DPU accretive despite the relatively larger share of equity financing in the acquisition.

The deal scores well on our framework. However, the stock hasn’t really corrected post the deal announcement and the prior deal provided decent returns only post a correction in the share price.