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Frasers Centrepoint Trust is divesting White Sands for SGD 467 million and will jointly develop the commercial component at Bayshore Drive with Sunway-MCL and Sekisui House for SGD 613 million. FCT will hold a 50% stake in the project.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located in densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drives sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population in the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With its staggered lease expiration profile and approximately 54% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust's first-half fiscal 2026 (ending September) distribution per unit rose 1.4% year on year, driven by contribution from the acquired Northpoint City South Wing, partly offset by the divestment of Yishun 10 and disruption from Hougang Mall's asset enhancement initiative.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located in densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drives sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population in the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With its staggered lease expiration profile and approximately 54% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust's retail occupancy rate was flat quarter on quarter at 98.1% for the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (ending September 2026). Meanwhile, shopper traffic and tenants' sales increased by 1.3% and 2.7% year on year, respectively.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust's second-half fiscal 2025 (ended September) net property income rose 12% year on year on the back of a 14.3% increase in revenue. The growth was largely driven by the acquisition of Northpoint City South Wing in May.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located in densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drives sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population in the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With its staggered lease expiration profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust's, or FCT's, retail occupancy rate improved 0.4 percentage points quarter on quarter to 99.9% as of end-June 2025. Meanwhile, shopper traffic and tenants' sales for the third quarter of fiscal 2025 (ending September) increased by 2.1% and 4.4% year on year, respectively.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties located in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located within densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drive sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population within the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With a staggered lease expiry profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties located in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located within densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drive sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population within the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With a staggered lease expiry profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust’s first-half fiscal 2025 (ending September) net property income rose 7.3% year on year on the back of a 7.1% increase in revenue. The completion of the asset enhancement initiative at Tampines 1 largely drove the improvement, as well as higher occupancies and passing rents. As the results were in line with our expectations, we retain our fair value estimate of SGD 2.42 per unit. We think the trust is currently undervalued and expect its portfolio of high-quality suburban malls to remain resilient amid economic uncertainties, due to its exposure to nondiscretionary retail spending. FCT has benefited from vouchers and handouts provided by the Singapore government to defray daily expenses, and we expect such support to continue should economic conditions deteriorate further amid ongoing trade tensions.

Narrow-moat Frasers Centrepoint Trust is acquiring Northpoint City South Wing at a total cost of SGD 1.2 billion. FCT intends to fund the acquisition through equity fundraising of SGD 400 million, issuing SGD 200 million in perpetual securities, and debt. The agreed property value of SGD 1,133 million implies a yield of 4.5%, which is tighter than the 4.75% cap rate of FCT’s existing asset, Northpoint City North Wing. This is because South Wing is newer and has a longer leasehold tenure than the adjacent North Wing. FCT expects the deal to be slightly accretive, adding 2.0% to its pro forma fiscal 2024 (ending September) distribution per unit. Management also estimates that FCT’s gearing will rise 1.3 percentage points to 39.8%, from 38.5% at the end of 2024.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties located in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located within densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drive sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population within the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With a staggered lease expiry profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

We retain our fair value estimate of SGD 2.42 per unit for narrow-moat Frasers Centrepoint Trust after an in-line business update for the first quarter of fiscal 2025 (ending September). The trust’s portfolio metrics remain healthy, with an occupancy rate of 99.5% at the end of 2024. Shopper traffic and tenant sales improved 2.7% and 2.5% year on year, respectively, despite a soft December due to Singaporeans traveling overseas. On the basis of the current unit price, we think the trust is undervalued. We like it for its portfolio of high-quality suburban malls, which we believe will stay resilient in times of economic uncertainty and volatility.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust, or FCT, predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties located in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located within densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drive sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population within the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With a staggered lease expiry profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

We retain our fair value estimate of SGD 2.42 per unit for Frasers Centrepoint Trust after its in-line second-half fiscal 2024 (ending September) results. We think the trust is undervalued currently and like it for its portfolio of high-quality suburban malls that targets nondiscretionary spending.

We keep our fair value estimate of SGD 2.42 per unit for narrow-moat Frasers Centrepoint Trust, or FCT, after an in-line third-quarter fiscal 2024 (ending September) business update. The trust’s fiscal third-quarter shopper traffic and tenant sales year-on-year growth slowed to 4.1% and 0.7%, respectively. This is within our expectations, given the strong 16% year-on-year growth in outbound departures of Singapore residents from April 2024 to May 2024, according to the Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority. Nevertheless, FCT’s retail asset portfolio continues to perform well, with every mall achieving more than 99% committed occupancy. Management highlighted that its asset enhancement initiative at Tampines 1 has achieved 100% committed occupancy and is projected to outperform its targeted return on investment of 8%. Besides rejuvenating common areas like the toilets, entrance, and customer service counter, the AEI also introduced 68 new retail concepts to expand the mall’s offerings. Looking ahead, management guided for another upcoming AEI project to drive medium-term growth.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust, or FCT, predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties located in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located within densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drive sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population within the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With a staggered lease expiry profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust, or FCT, predominantly owns a portfolio of income-producing retail properties located in suburban areas across Singapore. Its malls are located within densely populated residential areas that are next to key transportation nodes. The high volume of commuter traffic generated helps to ensure a stable and recurring shopper footfall for the mall and in return drive sales growth for its tenant base. There is also limited direct competition for most of its retail properties, which helps to position it as the main mall serving the population within the vicinity. Favorable locations, high shopper footfall, and growing annual sales are highly desirable features for existing and new tenants, allowing FCT to charge premium rents relative to average market rates. With a staggered lease expiry profile and approximately 53% of its gross rental income contributed by tenants providing nondiscretionary products and essential services, we expect FCT to remain resilient throughout economic cycles.

Frasers Centrepoint Trust’s, or FCT’s, first-half fiscal 2024 (ending September) net property income fell 8.4% year on year to SGD 124.6 million, below our expectations and only making up 46.8% of our full-year estimate. The miss was largely due to lower-than-expected contributions from Tampines 1 mall, which is undergoing asset enhancement initiative. This was offset by lower-than-expected financing cost as the trust paid off higher interest rate debts using proceeds from the equity fund raising exercise in February 2024 and divestment of Changi City Point and Hektar REIT in October 2023 and December 2023, respectively. As such, first-half distribution per unit, or DPU, of SGD 0.06022 remains in line with our estimate. We fine-tuned our leasing and debt assumptions and lift our DPU estimates for 2024-26 by 0.8%-2.5%. Our fair value estimate of SGD 2.42 per unit remains unchanged. Based on current price, the trust trades at a fiscal 2024 distribution yield of 5.6%. Although the trust screens as undervalued, our preference among Singapore REITs is Keppel REIT, which trades at a more attractive distribution yield of 6.8%.