Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC Edison review: Standard Life Equity Income Trust
08 August 2017 - 4:01PM
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Standard Life Equity Income Tst PLC
07 August 2017
London, UK, 7 August 2017
Edison issues review on Standard Life Equity Income Trust
(SLET)
Standard Life Equity Income Trust (SLET) aims to generate
above-average income and real capital and income growth from a
relatively concentrated portfolio of c 50-70 UK equities. Since
2011, SLET has been managed by Thomas Moore, who says that the
trust's strong revenue growth is leading to higher dividend growth.
The board has indicated that the FY17 annual dividend will be at
least 9.1% higher than in FY16. Following a tough period of
relative performance surrounding the Brexit vote, as companies with
domestic businesses underperformed those with overseas operations,
the manager is now more positive on the outlook. SLET's performance
is improving versus both the FTSE All-Share benchmark and its peer
group. Moore is placing greater emphasis on higher-growth smaller
companies that are reasonably valued and have faster-than-average
dividend growth.
In recent months, SLET's share price discount to cum-income NAV
has narrowed meaningfully from abnormally wide levels, which
occurred during a period of heightened investor risk aversion ahead
of the US presidential election. Its current 5.4% discount to
cum-income NAV is narrower than the 6.4% average of the last 12
months (range of 2.8% to 11.3%), but modestly wider than its
average discounts of 3.4%, 2.9% and 4.1% for the last three, five
and 10 years respectively.
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