GCP Infrastructure
Investments Limited
("GCP Infra" or the
"Company")
LEI:
213800W64MNATSIV5Z47
Company update, NAV and
dividend declaration
25 April 2024
Net Asset Value (NAV)
GCP Infra announces that at
close of business on 31 March 2024, the unaudited net asset value
per ordinary share of the Company was 107.62 pence (31 December
2023: 109.84 pence), a decrease of 2.22 pence per ordinary share.
The net asset value takes into account cash, other assets, accrued
liabilities and expenses and leverage of the Company attributable
to the ordinary share class.
The primary driver of the Company's
NAV movement in the quarter was the changes to the inflation
forecast to reflect the OBR's Spring Budget 2024 figures, that
contributed a negative c. 1.6 pence per ordinary share. Further
reductions in forecast electricity prices, primarily decreases in
short-term power prices, led to decreasing forecast cash
distributions to the Company from certain renewable energy
investments. This power price volatility is partially offset by the
positive performance of the Company's hedging arrangements. The
overall net power price movements negatively contributed c. 0.6
pence per ordinary share.
Increases to discount rates led to a
reduction of c. 0.1 pence per ordinary share, resulting in the
weighted average discount rate used by the Company to value its
investment portfolio of 7.78% at 31 March 2024. A summary of the
constituent movements in the quarterly net asset value per ordinary
share is shown below.
Net
asset value analysis (pence per share)
|
NAV
|
Change
|
31 December 2023 NAV
|
109.84
|
|
March 2024 OBR inflation
forecast
|
|
(1.58)
|
Q1 2024 power price forecast
(inclusive of hedging value changes)
|
|
(0.60)
|
Discount rate increases
|
|
(0.14)
|
Actual generation across the
renewable energy portfolio
|
|
(0.01)
|
Other valuation changes
|
|
0.11
|
31 March 2024 NAV
|
107.62
|
|
Portfolio
Notwithstanding the lower inflation
and electricity price forecasts, the portfolio continues to perform
materially in line with the Company's expectations. The Company's
mature, diverse and operational portfolio provides defensive access
to income against a backdrop of market volatility and uncertainty.
It is the view of the Company that the long-term and structural
demand for infrastructure, and particularly infrastructure debt,
offers investors an attractive exposure to an asset class whose
performance is non-correlated to wider markets and benefits from
long-term and partially inflation protected income. Further
portfolio information is available at: www.graviscapital.com/funds/gcp-infra/literature,
including a line-by-line breakdown of the investment portfolio and
underlying assets that will be updated by the Company
periodically.
Dividend
GCP Infra is pleased to announce a
dividend of 1.75 pence per ordinary share, for the period from 1
January 2024 to 31 March 2024. The dividend will be paid on 4 June
2024 to holders of ordinary shares recorded on the register as at
the close of business on 3 May 2024.
Expected timetable:
Shares quoted ex-dividend
|
2 May
2024
|
Record date for dividend
|
3 May
2024
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Dividend payment date
|
4 June
2024
|
Updates
The Board, and Gravis, are available
to meet with the Company's shareholders. For the release of the 31
March 2024 NAV, Gravis will be holding a webinar on 30 April 2024
at 11.00am. For further details and to book a place please
contact daniela.santos@graviscapital.com
or your usual Gravis contact. Additionally, Gravis
will be hosting a site visit for shareholders on 9 May 2024, if you
would be interested in attending, please contact your usual Gravis
contact.
For further information please
contact:
Gravis Capital Management
Limited
Philip Kent
Ed Simpson
Max Gilbert
|
+44 (0)20 3405 8500
|
RBC Capital Markets
Matthew Coakes
Elizabeth Evans
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+44 (0)20 7653 4000
|
Stifel Nicolaus Europe
Limited
Edward Gibson-Watt
Jonathan Wilkes-Green
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+44 (0)20 7710 7600
|
Buchanan/Quill
Helen Tarbet
Sarah Gibbons-Cook
Henry Wilson
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+44 (0)20 7466 5000
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Notes to the Editor
About GCP Infra
GCP Infra is a closed-ended
investment company and FTSE-250 constituent whose shares are traded
on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. Its objective is
to provide shareholders with regular, sustained, long-term
distributions and to preserve capital over the long term by
generating exposure to UK infrastructure debt and related and/or
similar assets.
The Company primarily targets
investments in infrastructure projects with long term, public
sector-backed, availability-based revenues. Where possible,
investments are structured to benefit from partial inflation
protection. GCP Infra is advised by Gravis Capital Management
Limited.
GCP Infra has been
awarded with the London Stock
Exchange's Green Economy Mark in recognition of its contribution to
positive environmental outcomes.