What is the news?
ComfortDelGro Corp (“CD”) and Uber Technologies (“Uber”) jointly announced the agreement to form a joint venture. CD will be taking a 51% stake in Lion City Holdings Pte Ltd, which in turn owns 100% of Lion City Rental Pte Ltd (“LCR”). While LCR owns a private hire vehicle (“PHV”) fleet of about 14,000 vehicles. The sale consideration of S$295mn is based on the net asset value of S$642mn based on 12,450 vehicles.
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Maintain Buy; unchanged target price of $2.69
We have not made any changes to our forecasts, pending more details and conclusion of the deal.
Richard covers the Transport Sector and Industrial REITs. He graduated with a Master of Science in Applied Finance from the Singapore Management University. He holds the CFTe and FRM certifications and is a CFA charterholder.
He was ranked #2 Top Stock Picker (Asia) for Real Estate Investment Trusts in the 2018 Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards, and ranked #2 Top Stock Picker (Singapore) for Resources & Infrastructure in the 2016 Thomson Reuters Analyst Awards.