Keppel Pacific Oak US Reit (KORE) announced suspension of dividends this week for 2H 2023 - end 2025. This is becaue they need to conserve cash for capex for office improvements and reduce debt. This caused the share price to drop sharply from $0.25 to $0.15.
As noted earlier, I sold KORE at $0.315 (missing the subsequent run-up to $0.36), as I was not comfortable with US office risks.
Given that KORE has suspended its dividend, if I want to buy it again, I will wait for price to drop to $0.10, which is at 15% of NAV. The lower price is to compensate for the lack of dividends and the US offices risk.
Nonethless, I have switched to avoiding companies in net debt lately, after reading 'What I learn from Investing from Darwin'. The book is great and espouses on 'avoid risk, buy quality companies and hold' based on evolution ideas. The book can be borrowed as e-book from NLB.
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