Scheming SGDividends Just Playing Around

Cambridge has sort of cleared some issues with their financing. So, what now, can buy, can short? The Article Written by Our Sexy VJC Girl seemed to have drawn an intense discussion Here.Maybe its cos of the word SEXY which after minusing the "Why" gives a pretty nifty,cool word. Anyway, the discussion was on the value to use as a discount factor, k, so that when we discount back to find the fair value of Cambridge, its appropriate. Probabilities, Scenarios, CAPM words were mentioned and its quite an intellectual read actually, which left us starry-eyed.

Ok so we used 6% ( preferential DBS share) as the discount factor(k) used previously to find the $1 value(Max) and it has drawn some different reasonable opinions and they got a point since DBS is less risky than Cambridge REIT. But SGDividends just don't know how to use Probabilities, CAPM, calculate the WACC ( especially the Cost of Equity) e.t.c to find the discount (K) appropraite to discount back to find the value of Cambridge. So can we be more simple?Can we use some scenarios based on comparing with industrial reits in Singapore by using their dividends yield? Is it logical? Hmm, if dividend yield is one of the factors which investors look at when deciding which Industrial reit to invest in , can we consider the dividend yield as an opportunity cost? For example, if we were to invest in Cambridge, we would be forgoing the dividend yield in MapleTree and vice versa. ( OK this is not from CFA textbook, we just play play test test only lah...give chance) We all know that dividends yield is constantly fluctuating too but anyhow lets take it with a pinch of salt and just try using it as the discount rate.

Let's experiment and try it out, shall we? Let's use the values from this fantastic blog .

REIT Dividend Yield
MI-REIT 40.870%

MapleTree 17.671%
A-REIT 13.367%

Average Dividend Yield above ( as at 12 Dec 2008) = 23.96%

Average Dividend Yield for Singapore REITS = 19.314%
( Let's assume their data is correct! Should be lah...randomly tested.)

Growth Rate ( G) = 0,

Discount Rate ( k,Required Rate of return) = Dividend Yield of Peers

Dividend (D) = $0.053 ( after cut of 0.9c).

Years of asset (n) = 65 years

(Pls see our article Titled : Sexy Vjc Girl Analyses Cambrigde REIT to understand the gibberish we are merlion-ing)

Lowest Value of Cambridge ( Using MI REIT yield) = S$0.13

Highest Value of Cambridge ( Using A-REIT yield) = S$0.40

Average Value of Cambridge ( Using Average Yield) = S$0.22

Value of Cambridge when compared with Yield of Singapore REITS = S$0.27

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