Lowland Investment Co PLC Edison issues review on Lowland Investment Comp
03 May 2017 - 6:10PM
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Lowland Investment Co PLC
03 May 2017
London, UK, 3 May 2017
Edison issues review on Lowland Investment Company (LWI)
Lowland Investment Company (LWI) is a UK equity income
investment trust with a focus on growing capital and income. It has
been managed since 1990 by James Henderson at Henderson Global
Investors; during 2016 Laura Foll, who has assisted Henderson since
2013, was named joint manager. LWI invests in 100+ mainly UK
companies across the market cap spectrum, generally with about
one-third of its portfolio respectively in large, mid-cap and
smaller stocks. It has recently increased its gearing with an issue
of 30-year loan notes, locking in a long-term fixed borrowing cost
of 3.15%. LWI's managers note that they are finding many attractive
opportunities to buy undervalued stocks with good long-term growth
potential, at dividend yields that comfortably exceed the cost of
borrowing. The discount is currently wider than longer-term
averages.
At 25 April, LWI's shares traded at a 5.5% discount to
cum-income net asset value. While in line with the one-year
average, this is wider than longer-term averages (3.1%, 2.0% and
3.7% respectively over three, five and 10 years). NAV total returns
continued strongly into April, running ahead of share price
performance, which led to a widening discount. At 3.1%, LWI's
dividend yield is towards the lower end of its peer group, but
dividend growth has compounded at 10% pa over the last five
financial years, compared with 2.2% for retail price inflation.
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