Tag: US Market
power, and connection needs. Along with Equinix, we think this makes Digital Realty one of only two data center providers that can offer this breadth and set itself apart from the pack.
Before its acquisition of Telx in 2015, Digital Realty garnered almost 95% of its total revenue from wholesale data centers and had virtually no interconnection revenue. At the end of 2020, a year in which Digital Realty also acquired Interxion, a firm with almost exclusively co-location and interconnection revenue, we estimate that annualized rent from the largest customers–those taking greater than 1 megawatt of power–made up only about half of total annualized revenue, and interconnection revenue was about 9% of the total.
In Digital Realty’s data centers, tenants can directly connect to their cloud providers or other partners, resulting in reduced latency and superior security. Even when in different Digital Realty locations, customers can bypass the public Internet to connect with other Digital Realty data centers via direct fiber connections within cities or through a software-defined network between cities.
Steady Performance in Q3 for Digital Realty as It Continues Pursuing New Opportunities
Digital Realty’s third-quarter results were consistent with recent performance, with a solid level of new bookings and re-leasing spreads that remain sluggish.
The firm’s 11% year-over-year revenue growth was significantly boosted by higher utilities revenue, which simply reflects higher energy costs that Digital passes on to its customers.Rental revenue, which excludes pass-through revenue, was up 6%. Renewal spreads remain under pressure as the firm continues working off below-market contracts with its larger deployments, but this quarter’s negative 6% cash re-leasing spread was misleading, as it was the result of a 30- megawatt renewal combined with a very large new lease.
New bookings totaled $113 million in annualized revenue, with space and power bookings just over $100 million for the third straight quarter, and interconnection bookings in the $12 million-$13 million range for the fifth straight quarter-every quarter since Digital acquired Interxion. While this level of bookings is solid, it is believed that the moves the firm is making will lead them to pick up in the future. Key moves Digital made during or after the third quarter include entries into both India and Nigeria, both through joint ventures. The firm also made an investment in AtlasEdge data centers in Europe to propel its edge ambitions.
Bulls Say
- Digital Realty’s shift toward connection and colocation exposes it to the most attractive parts of the data center business and the growth tailwinds of cloud providers and data connectivity.
- Digital Realty’s global offering and high exposure to cloud providers gives it an advantage over competitors that operate in more narrow geographies or can only offer retail colocation space.
- Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and other innovations that increase the public’s demand for data and connectivity require more hardware and connections in data centers.
Company Profile
Digital Realty owns and operates nearly 300 data centers worldwide. It has more than 35 million rentable square feet across five continents. Digital’s offerings range from retail colocation, where an enterprise may rent a single cabinet and rely on Digital to provide all the accommodations, to “cold shells,” where hyperscale cloud service providers can simply rent much, or all, of a barren, power-connected building. In recent years, Digital Realty has de-emphasized cold shells and now primarily provides higher-level service to tenants, which outsource their related IT needs to Digital. Digital Realty has also moved more into the co-location business, increasingly serving enterprises and facilitating network connections. Digital Realty operates as a real estate investment trust.
(Source: Morningstar)
General Advice Warning
Any advice/ information provided is general in nature only and does not take into account the personal financial situation, objectives or needs of any particular person.
Last trade price of PM Capital is A$ 1.49. Their Outstanding shares is 390.11 Million. PGF’s provides Public Float which is 279.25 Million. PM Capital Global Earnings Per Share (EPS) is $0.415 while the Price Earning ratio is 3.59 percent.
Currently, PM Capital’s Annual Yield is 5.03 percent while their Annual revenue TTM is $218.56 Million.
On 24th September 2021, Net Tangible Asset backing per ordinary share before tax accruals is $1.63 while NTA after tax is $1.47. Gross Dividend yield per annum is 9.6 percent.
The Company also announced that due to its strong profits reserve position, it intends to maintain a minimum dividend of 5.0cps for both the interim and final dividend for FY22, representing a full year FY22 dividend of at least 10cps. As at 30 June 2021, the Company has 5 years dividend coverage at 10cps.
On 12 August 2021, PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund ((PGF)) announced a final dividend for FY21 of 5.0cps, fully franked, a 100% increase on the FY20 final dividend.
The increased dividend announcement represents a significant uplift in yield. Based on the share price at the close of 19 August 2021, the full year dividend declared for FY21 represented a dividend yield of 4.8%. The forecast FY22 dividend would represent a yield of 6.4%, fully franked, which is strong for a global equity focused LIC.
Company Profile
PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund Ltd. engages in investing in a portfolio of listed securities across global securities markets. Its investment objective is to increase the value of its portfolio by providing long term capital growth. The company was founded on October 1, 2013 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
General Advice Warning
Any advice/ information provided is general in nature only and does not take into account the personal financial situation, objectives or needs of any particular person.
This IPO was led by Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp. Venture capital firm Accel Partners and New York-based technology investment giant Tiger Global Management were early investors in the company.
Freshworks Inc. made a stellar debut on NASDAQ exchange on 22 September, 2021, Wednesday. With this, the company becomes the first Indian ‘SaaS’ company and the first unicorn to be listed on the NASDAQ exchange.
The company was valued at $12.2 billion in its debut after shares opened 21% above the IPO issue price, indicating strong demand for firms that have thrived during the pandemic.
Freshworks boosted revenue about 40% last year after the coronavirus pandemic prompted businesses to go digital, and sales continued to grow in the first half of 2021 while its net loss declined. With 52,500 customers, the company witnessed its revenue growth in the first six months of year 2021 to $169 million, up from $110 million in the first half of 2020. Its net loss shrank to $9.8 million from $57 million which was a year ago, according to its filings.
The shareholding pattern of the company is as shown below:
The company provides a suite of products that helps businesses with customer management, such as a messaging platform and an artificial-intelligence powered chatbot for customer support. The technology offered by Freshworks is used by more than 50,000 companies, including high-profile names such as Delivery Hero SE, Swedish payments firm Klarna, Cisco Systems Inc. and General Electric Co.
About the company:
Freshworks Inc. provides software as a service platform that enables small and medium-sized businesses to support customers through e-mail, phone, website, and social networks. The Company offers multi-product support, a knowledge base, self-service portal, community forums, and tools to leverage mainstream social media for customer support. Freshworks serves customers worldwide. The company was founded by Mathrubootham and Shan Krishnasamy as Freshdesk in 2010 and was rebranded as Freshworks in 2017. Freshworks started from a 700 sq ft warehouse in Chennai and has gone on to disrupt the customer relationship management (CRM) market, where it competes with the likes of Salesforce.
(Source: bloomberg.com, economictimes.com)
General Advice Warning
Any advice/ information provided is general in nature only and does not take into account the personal financial situation, objectives or needs of any particular person.
A blended benchmark of the Bloomberg U.S Government Bond Index (75% weighting) and the Bloomberg U.S Mortgage Backed Securities Index (25%), sticks primarily to government-backed fare (Outside of an occasional in the student loan-backed debt that carries a federal guarantee for atleast 97% of principal and interest) and doesn’t make big interest-rate bets. It plays to its strength in the mortgage portion of the portfolio, which typically accounts for 40% to 60% of assets, drawing on significant investments in proprietary analytics to identify mortgages with more attractive cash flow projections than their prices suggest. As of June 2021, the strategy’s market exposure stood roughly 107% of net assets.
Portfolio
The high-quality, government-focused portfolio tends to hold an overweighting in mortgages relative to its blended benchmark (75% Bloomberg U.S Government Bond Index and 25% Bloomberg U.S Mortgage backed Securities Index), with the team actively adjusting this mix based on valuations. Meanwhile, its allocation to U.S Treasuries accounted for 67% of assets in June 2021, up from 50% at the beginning of 2020. Here, the team favors 30-year fixed rate mortgage with repayment-resistant characteristics. The team has found agency collateralized mortgage obligations to be less attractive recently, trimming its stake to 9% of assets as of June 2021 from 14% at the start of 2020. These securities can be volatile and suffer from bouts of illiquidity, although they typically account for 3% or less of the portfolio and stood at less than 1% as of June 2021.
People
This strategy benefits from experienced leadership and a well-resourced securitized team, supporting a people pillar rating of above average. Sean Corcoran was named as a comanger when lrving left the team. Corcoran, a 19 – year fidelity veteran, previously analyzed commercial MBS and other non-agency fare as an analyst. Corcoran and castagliuolo draw on considerable resources, including eight dedicated structured-products analysts and five macro analysts. Five traders across agency, non-agency and rates markets support the team. In mid-2020, the team hired John Torregrossa, an experienced agency MBS trader with over 15 years experience, to replace veteran trader Steve Langan, who retired in late 2020.
Performance
Well time adjustments have aided recent performance. In 2019, an increase in its Treasuries allocation helped it to a 6.5% return which bested 75% of category peers. In 2020, the team increased its exposure to mortgages amid the first quarter sell-off, helping the strategy to a 6.9% return, which bested over two thirds of peers.
About the Fund
Fidelity Government Income Benefits from a well-resourced team and risk-conscious approach backed by the firms’s deep mortgage analytics. Fidelity’s significant investment in analytics, including a proprietary mortgage model that allows the team to quickly model changes in assumptions regarding borrower repayment behavior to identify mispricings in the mortgage market.
General Advice Warning
Any advice/ information provided is general in nature only and does not take into account the personal financial situation, objectives or needs of any particular person.