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As ECB, Fed & the Bund Implement Negative Interest Rates, PEI Sports Negative Asset Values
In continuing my proclamation of truth, my rant in favor of that long lost art of investment valuation known as old fashioned fundamental analysis, I bring to the BoomBustBlog reading public my 3rd installment of PEI - Dead REIT Walking (or, the short candidate from hell). If you haven't yet readparts one andtwo, they are necessary in order for you to get the full picture. I'm releasing this proprietary blog research for two reasons:
- the share price has risen materially since the research was released, primarily due to the fact that so very little has been done to shed light on this company's true financial situation, and
- this gives us a prime opportunity to once again demonstrate the thoroughness and rigor of BoomBustBlog forensic analysis.
In Excellent Short Candidate Also Known As Dead REIT Standing! I left off posing the question of PEI breaking covenants. While it hasn't happened yet, methinks it's simply a matter of time. OF course, since the banks involved are engaged in their own incessant can kicking exercises, this may very well be a moot point - at least for now, but more on that later when I not only list the banks that have lent to PEI but show how far underwater their loans are and exactly how, why and where those properties have tanked.

There are only three options of PEI:
Scenario I : Refinancing through debt based on recapitalization of properties
Scenario II: Foreclosure of select properties
Scenario III: Firesale of select properties
Of course, there's always the possibility of the company mixing and matching these three scenarios.
Scenario I : Refinancing through debt based on recapitalization of properties
Refinancing requirement for 2012...
PEI has a total shortfall of around USD 295 million which it needs to finance. We have projected its operating results and have looked at available resources (cash balance, unused credit lines, etc). The following table shows the summary of the Company’s finances for 2012.
|
Amount (USD million) – 2012 |
|
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Cash at the beginning – Jan 2012 |
93.94 |
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Cash flows from operations |
77.34 |
|
Unused credit lines |
155.00 |
|
Debt due for repayment |
621.08 |
|
Shortfall |
294.80 |
Under the current scenario, we have assumed that the Company would try to avail itself of an increased loan on its properties, particularly on those which have (relatively) reasonable cap rates and debt-to-market value (LTV) ratios. Consequently, we looked at the company’s portfolio of 27 properties,each of which were valued independently by our team.
The table below shows that while there are quite a few properties with Debt-to-Net WDV (written down value) ratio of less than 100%, those with Debt-to-Market Value ratio are only three in number (where market values is defined as the value derived by our proprietary analysis based upon market-based inputs and actual cashflows). Put another way, out of 27 properties analyzed, only three of them actually had any value to shareholders from a sale perspective. That's right, 88% of the properties of examined by us were underwater!!! Of the three that weren't underwater, all had reasonably good cap rates (more than 6% in all cases) and would therefore, in our opinion, enable the company to avail itself of incremental loans from its existing lenders on the properties. We (over)optimistically assume that the Company would be able to raise up to 100% of market value on these loans. From a realistic perspective, this is probably unlikely - highly unlikely actually. Remember, we are being optimistic here.
Portfolio of 27 properties valued – Table showing incremental finance that can be availed.![]()
Despite all of this, the stock is actually close to its highs!
I will continue this analysis in several other separate posts - there's a lot more material to cover, nearly all of it drastically negative!!! In the meantime and in between time I'm available to discuss the finer aspects of the analysis in the subscriber retail investor's discussion forum and individual property valuation discussions and higher end questions will be answered in the professional/institutional discussion forums. I will also be available to chat there as well.
The complete REIT analysis referred to in the chart can be found here for subscribers (the property by property valuations are for Professional/Institutional subscribers only):
Fire Sale Scenario Analysis
(Commercial Real Estate)
Foreclosure Scenario Analysis
(Commercial Real Estate)
Sample Property Valuation
(Commercial Real Estate)
Cashflows and Debt Preliminary Analysis
Our valuation is based upon the independent analysis of the key properties of the company, which together accounted 78% of the total portfolio in value terms. The actual valuation models are available (on an individual basis) upon request by institutional and pro subscribers.
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Hi Reggie, have you incorporated PEI's recent sale of $100 mln in preferred shares (April 2012) into your analysis?
Good to see you Reggie.
How will pension plans handle this NIRP? They base their 'defined benefit plans' on a return of 8%. Any ideas how this will play out for them? Or will NIRP be the Fuki of the pension plan system?
If they have ~$600 million of debt maturing, what prevents them from simply rolling over the debt?
Make new loans to pay off the ones that are coming due?
Is there something that prevents this?
Good stuff...
When the facts will be open for all to see it will be too late to short...
The time to do it is when no one cares...like now....
Keep up the good work!
Always appreciate the analysis, too bad true price discovery is no longer allowed.
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