VGP NV: Reports Results for First Half 2020
24 Agosto 2020 - 7:00AM
VGP NV: Reports Results for First Half 2020
24 August 2020, 7:00am, Antwerp
(Berchem), Belgium: VGP NV (‘VGP’ or ‘the Group’), the
Antwerp-based European provider of high-quality logistics and
semi-industrial real estate, today announces the results for
half-year ended 30 June 2020:
- Operating performance resulting in a net profit of € 196.9
million
- Result positively affected by the entering into a new 50:50
joint venture with Allianz Real Estate in respect of VGP Park
München
- € 20.1 million worth of signed and renewed lease agreements
during H1 2020, bringing total annualised rental income to € 165.2
million (+6.6% YTD)1
- Delivered 12 projects for a total of 190,000 m2 of lettable
area in first half of 2020
- 33 projects under construction for a total of 795,000 m2 of
lettable area as of 30 June 2020
- Total portfolio value increased to €3.23 billion
(+16.6%YTD)1
- VGP invested in its future pipeline with 1.17 million m2 of new
land bought and a further 1.97 million m2 committed subject to
permits
- Impact of Covid-19 remains limited so far
- All our construction activities have resumed in full
- The impact on rental payments is very limited: nearly all due
payments were received on time with very limited rental payment
reprofiling
- Broadened partnership with Allianz through launch of third
joint venture for VGP Park München
- Balance sheet further strengthened through €200.0 million
capital raising reducing gearing to 35.0% as of 30 June 2020
VGP’s Chief Executive Officer, Jan Van
Geet, said: “Despite the challenging market environment
due to the various Covid-19 lockdowns, we have achieved many new
milestones during the first half of 2020. Demand for our
buildings remained strong resulting in a broad-based and mostly
pre-let construction pipeline. Furthermore, our new joint
venture with Allianz in our VGP Park München has taken our
cooperation to a next level and made our balance sheet stronger
than ever before.”
Jan Van Geet added: “We have acquired a couple
of big trophy land plots during the period, despite fierce
competition on the market, thanks to the agility of our team and
our reputation. I expect these land plots to be the main driver of
value creation going forward as we already register a lot of
appetite for these new locations.”
Jan Van Geet concluded: “We permanently focus on
opportunities to continue to expand our portfolio pipeline;
besides, we are working hard to become a major supplier of
renewable energy for our tenants.”
FINANCIAL AND OPERATING HIGHLIGHTSNew
leases signed
- Signed and renewed rental income of € 20.1 million driven by
200,000 m² of new lease agreements signed, corresponding to € 11.4
million of new annualised rental income2
- During the period for a total of 164,000 m² of lease agreements
were renewed corresponding to € 8.8 million of annualised rental
income of which 30,000 m² (€ 1.7 million) related to the own
portfolio and 134,000 m² (€ 7.1 million) related to the joint
ventures3. Renewed contracts within the joint ventures portfolio
included various prolongations by 1-5 years.
- Terminations represented a total of € 1.2 million or 25,000 m²,
all within the joint ventures’ portfolio
- The signed annualised committed leases represent € 165.2
million4 (equivalent to 2.84 million m² of lettable area), a 6.6%
increase since December 2019.
Construction activity
- A total of 12 projects completed delivering 190,000 m² of
lettable area, representing €9.9 million of annualised committed
leases (as of 24th of August 2020 this has increased to 311,000 m2
of lettable area)
- Additional 33 projects under construction which will create
795,000 m² of future lettable area, representing €49.5 million of
annualised leases once built and fully let – the portfolio under
construction is 73.4% pre-let
Implications of Covid-19
- VGP’s business is progressing well in 2020 despite the Covid-19
pandemic. The entire VGP team has been operational throughout the
crisis with full access to central systems. None of the VGP
workforce has been furloughed and the Group has not taken any
government support.
- The lockdown measures implemented by governments across Europe
to combat the spread of the virus resulted in widespread disruption
across many sectors of the economy. In some cases, this has
impacted the operations and cash flows of VGP's customers, which
has in some limited cases affected the level of rent we were able
to collect from such customer. VGP has worked constructively
to support customers facing genuine cash flow challenges by
offering to reschedule rental payments or reprofiling. None of our
customers so far has requested to return their rented space.
Land bank has continued to expand
- Acquisition of 1.17 million m² of development land and a
further 1.97 million m2 committed subject to permits which brings
the remaining total owned and secured land bank for development to
6.89 million m², which supports 3.12 million m² of future lettable
area.
- A further 0.85 million m² of new land plots identified which
are under negotiation and having a development potential of 0.41
million m² of future lettable area.
Setup of new business line VGP Renewable
Energy driving increase in photovoltaic investments
- In July 2020, our first photovoltaic project was delivered in
Nijmegen, Netherlands (1.5MWP) and further 16 photovoltaic projects
are under construction for total 17.6 MWP. This is split between
Germany (10.4MWP) and the Netherlands (7.2MWP). In addition,
several pipeline projects are currently being identified in Germany
and Spain. As of year-end 2019 we had 16.5MWP installed on VGP’s
roofs which are owned and operated by third parties.
Expansion of partnership with Allianz Real Estate
through launch of third joint venture
- In June 2020, VGP and Allianz Real Estate entered into a new
50:50 joint venture for the development of VGP Park München.
This is the third joint venture with Allianz Real
Estate.
- The managerial and governance setup of the new partnership is
similar to the first two joint ventures between the two partners
with VGP serving the new joint venture as its sole asset, property
and development manager. Contrary to the two existing joint
ventures which concentrate on the acquisition of income-generating
assets developed by VGP, this new joint venture will initially be
focussed on the development of VGP Park München.
- Once fully developed the park will consist of five logistic
buildings, two stand-alone parking houses and one office building
for a total gross lettable area of approx. 270,000 m2. The park is
almost entirely pre-let to KraussMaffei Technologies and BMW. BMW
has formally taken the decision to also move its competence centre
for batteries to VGP Park München. This will result in the park
being 100% pre-let. This new lease contract is currently being
exchanged with BMW.
- There are currently already 3 buildings and 2 parking houses
under construction. The delivery of the first building to BMW
occurred at the beginning of August 2020. The subsequent
completions are scheduled to occur in November 2020 (1 parking
house), 1 building (currently under negotiation) by mid-2021 with
all but one of the remaining buildings being delivered by November
2022. The last building is expected to be delivered by the
beginning of 2026.
Balance sheet further strengthened through capital
raising whilst two additional joint venture closings are
anticipated before the end of the year
- On 21 April 2020 VGP successfully completed an offering of new
shares for a total consideration of €200.0 million by means of a
private placement via an accelerated bookbuild offering to
international institutional investors.
- In the offering a total of 2,000,000 new shares (approximately
10.8% of VGP's outstanding shares on completion of the offering)
were placed at an issue price of €100.00 per share, representing a
discount of 4.58% compared to the last traded price of the Group’s
share on 21 April 2020 of €104.8.
- In line with their pre-commitments, Little Rock SA, controlled
by Mr Jan Van Geet, and VM Invest NV, controlled by Mr Bart Van
Malderen, have each subscribed for 33.81% and 20.16% of the new
shares respectively, and received full allocations.
- In terms of further expansion with the joint ventures we
anticipate two additional closings before the end of 2020.
The seventh closing with VGP European Logistics (first joint
venture) is anticipated with a transaction value5 of >€150
million as well as the second closing with VGP European Logistics 2
(second joint venture) with a transaction value of > € 200
million
- These steps will ensure VGP can maintain its financial
purchasing power and to be able to finance the investment pipeline
and to benefit from additional investment opportunities.
KEY FINANCIAL METRICS
Operations and results |
H1 2020 |
H1 2019 |
Change (%) |
Committed annualised rental income (€mm) |
165.2 |
129.3 |
27.8% |
IFRS Operating profit (€mm) |
217.9 |
96.1 |
126.7% |
IFRS net profit (€mm) |
196.9 |
75.0 |
135.7% |
IFRS earnings per share (€ per share) |
10.19 |
4.04 |
152.3% |
Portfolio and balance sheet |
30 Jun 20 |
31 Dec 19 |
Change (%) |
Portfolio value, including joint venture at 100% (€mm) |
3,231 |
2,771 |
16.6% |
Portfolio value, including joint venture at share (€mm) |
2,167 |
1,897 |
14.3% |
Occupancy ratio of standing portfolio (%) |
99.9 |
99.8 |
- |
EPRA NAV per share (€ per share) |
52.42 |
39.89 |
31.4% |
IFRS NAV per share (€ per share) |
50.28 |
37.66 |
33.5% |
Net financial debt (€mm) |
685.8 |
604.2 |
13.5% |
Gearing6(%) |
35.0 |
37.2 |
- |
CONFERENCE CALL FOR INVESTORS AND ANALYSTS
VGP will host a conference call at 10:30 (CEST) on 24
August 2020The conference call will be available on:
- Belgium: 0800 58228 (toll free) / +32 (0)2 404 0659
- UK: 0800 358 6377 (toll free) / +44 (0)330 336 9105
- US: 866-548-4713 (toll free) / +1 323-794-2093
- Confirmation Code: 3420218
A presentation is available on VGP website:
https://www.vgpparks.eu/en/investors/publications/
CONTACT DETAILS FOR INVESTORS AND MEDIA
ENQUIRIES
Martijn Vlutters (VP – Business Development & Investor
Relations) |
Tel: +32 (0)3 289 1433 |
Petra Vanclova (External Communications) |
Tel: +42 0 602 262 107 |
Anette NachbarBrunswick Group |
Tel: +49 152 288 10363 |
ABOUT VGP
VGP is a leading pan-European developer, manager
and owner of high-quality logistics and semi-industrial real
estate. VGP operates a fully integrated business model with
capabilities and longstanding expertise across the value chain. The
company has a development land bank (owned or committed) of 6.89
million m² and the strategic focus is on the development of
business parks. Founded in 1998 as a family-owned real estate
developer in the Czech Republic, VGP with a staff of over 230
employees today owns and operates assets in 12 European countries
directly and through three joint ventures with Allianz Real Estate
(VGP European Logistics, VGP European Logistics 2 and VGP Park
München). As of June 2020, the Gross Asset Value of VGP, including
the joint ventures at 100%, amounted to €3.23 billion and the
company had a Net Asset Value (EPRA NAV) of €1,079 million. VGP is
listed on Euronext Brussels and on the Prague Stock Exchange (ISIN:
BE0003878957).
For more information, please visit:
http://www.vgpparks.eu
Forward-looking statements:
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Such statements reflect the current views of management regarding
future events, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
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providing the information in this press release as of this date and
does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking
statements contained in this press release considering new
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to buy securities in VGP or an invitation or inducement to engage
in any other investment activities. VGP disclaims any
liability for statements made or published by third parties and
does not undertake any obligation to correct inaccurate data,
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relation to this or any other press release issued by VGP.
1 Compared to 31 December 2019; inclusive of
Joint Ventures at 100%
2 Of which 160,000 m² (€ 8.3 million) related
to the own portfolio
3 Joint ventures refers to VGP European
Logistics, VGP European Logistics 2 and VGP Park München, All
three 50:50 joint ventures with Allianz Real
Estate
4 For joint venture at 100%
5 The transaction value corresponds to
purchase price (at fair market value) for the completed income
generating buildings which are transferred to the respective joint
venture.
6 Calculated as Net debt / Total equity and
liabilities
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