What is this IRR for those non-financial people. Basically, what EPF and Ekovest have agreed is a valuation of RM2.825 billion on the DUKE Expressway (DUKE 1 & 2). That valuation has a condition i.e. it must provide a IRR of at least 10% to EPF - a good deal to EPF as it gets guaranteed 10%.
What both parties do is that they most probably use a Discounted cashflow (DCF) method and work backwards whether the revenue, cashflow and profits achieve the intended minimum 10%.
Based on the below table, this is the assumed valuation of the highway in the event there is no dividend paid. It will on compounded basis grow 10% every year. I have provided a row on what would the value be for EPF and Ekovest as well since it still owns 60% of the highway.
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In the event, it does not achieve the intended 10% IRR, it would be however detrimental to Ekovest - which is also why in several news report they have mentioned of their intention to quickly do an IPO probably by 2018.
I however do not think it is that bad as I trust the management to have that confidence that it will achieve 10%. In fact, if I read between the lines, EPF sees it will achieve more than 10%.
By the way, as I know despite I write so much I have not put in my money under this particular personal fund for Ekovest, I have decided to do what is obvious by buying 5000 units of Ekovest-WB (this is how confident I am) as it still has about 2.5 years to go before expiry. I took the opportunity of yesterday's slump to do that.
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Hi felicity,
Hi Felicity, thank you for your sharing and insights on Ekovest. Based on IRR 10%, Ekovest will be worth RM3.42B in 2018. Compared with Litrak today has a market cap of RM3.1B.
DUKE 1&2 span over 37.2 km. Litrak's SPRINT span over 26.5km and LDP has a distance of 40km. Both DUKE and Litrak's SPRINT and LDP are in densely bpopulated areas in the Klang valley.
Do you think DUKE will be able to achieve the 10% IRR target and worth RM3.4B by 2018 ? TQ
HI Tan,
The RM3.42B is for entire DUKE, Ekovest's portion is 60% of it. The look of it Ekovest is confident of the value.
DUKE should be able to acheive this number moving forward. Pay attention to the property around that area. You can look back into LDP 5-8 years ago. I think Duke is at similiar stage at the moment.
The full DUKE I.e. inclusive of setiawangsa Pantai could be exciting. It passes the heaviest traffic part of the KL city. Concession is 53 years. I really do not know how to evaluate as it comes with higher costs of building. But I am confident.
What about the impact of new MRT and LRT to traffic intensity - or too small impact?
Thanks zakaria, it seems like it has been taken into consideration when a question was asked to the CEO. Anyway good question but I guess when EPF looks at it they could not have missed this right?
:)..I think most oil and gas investors before also 'missed' the consideration of exponential growth of renewable energy and adoption of shale technology by US - they presumed other people had calculated those numbers. Same with infrastructures, it's very dynamic - I guess. This is just macro view.
Btw, EPF requested profit guarantee of 10% IRR (if traffic projection not met) from the subsidiary - that is why they are not investing in the holding listed company. EPF came as a PE investor that could dictate with undisclosed clauses, but we common stockholder couldnt. We cant take EPF valuation as a full benchmark.
Zakaria, I agree that EPF is investing into a subsiidiary and the valuation should not be full. However, if you read the announcement, the biggest point (as I said) is the requirement to list (or any other exercise) on DUKE. This hopefully will allow investors to directly participate into the return for DUKE depending on how they structure the deal.
Felicity, thanks. Frankly I do not have the capacity to project the traffic density in future. But, my perspective on the deal between EPF and Ekovest is more on innovative loan program. Which will amplify the stress of financial position of Ekovest if projection did not matched. If projection met, it would be great.
The way I see it, they will try to get it listed as soon as possible. After the DUKE 2 is open i.e. after 1 year.
I think we are all talking about the IRR and DUKE. We need to consider Bandar Malaysia as well for Ekovest valuation.
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