After completing major developments last year, Helical (HLCL) is tasked with letting the remaining office, retail and residential space - which is proving more cumbersome in a post-Covid 19 business world. The commercial landlord said that lettings progress at the Kaleidoscope in Farringdon and the Trinity scheme in Manchester - 15 per cent of the portfolio’s estimated rental value (ERV) - had been slower than expected. Chief executive Gerald Kaye is hopeful that this is a short-term issue. “When people are confined to their homes it’s quite tricky when they can’t come and look at it,” he said.
Lower expected sales proceeds on the remaining apartments in the first phase of residential at Barts Square also resulted in a provision of £1.5m, although overall development profits were lifted by fees from the completion and letting of One Bartholomew at Bart’s Square. However, like-for-like ERVs rose 5 per cent across the portfolio, helping push EPRA NAV growth ahead of market forecasts at 6 per cent.
Panmure Gordon forecasts adjusted NAV of 502p at the end of March 2021, rising to 523p the same time the following year.
| HELICAL (HLCL) | ||||
| ORD PRICE: | 397p | MARKET VALUE: | £ 794m | |
| TOUCH: | 391-398p | 12-MONTH HIGH: | 540p | LOW: 200p |
| DIVIDEND YIELD: | 2.2% | DEVELOPMENT PROP: | £0.8m | |
| DISCOUNT TO NAV: | 20% | |||
| INVESTMENT PROP: | £900m* | NET DEBT: | 48% | |
| Year to 31 Mar | Net asset value (p) | Pre-tax profit (£m) | Earnings per share (p) | Dividend per share (p) |
| 2016 | 425 | 114.0 | 91.3 | 8.17 |
| 2017 | 442 | 41.6 | 34.0 | 8.6 |
| 2018 | 450 | 30.8 | 22.3 | 9.5 |
| 2019 | 475 | 43.5 | 35.8 | 10.1 |
| 2020 | 499 | 43.0 | 32.3 | 8.7 |
| % change | +5 | -1 | -10 | -14 |
| Ex-div: | 25 Jun | |||
| Payment: | 27 Jul | |||
| *Includes investments in joint ventures | ||||
