Singapore REITs - 2Q23 in line: cost pressures expected to ease - Buy CICT, CLAR, MINT.
Goldman sex
S-REITs 2Q23 results were in line, with most DPUs flat to -3% YoY from higher financing costs. Singapore fundamentals remain healthy while pockets of weakness largely exist in their overseas markets. Forward guidance is broadly positive for operating metrics with cost pressures expected to gradually ease. Within S-REITs, we prefer industrial S-REITs given their stronger fundamentals and most completed acquisitions and fund raisings, with Buys on CapitaLand Ascendas (CLAR) and Mapletree Industrial (MINT). Within commercial, we retain Buy on CapitaLand Int Commercial Trust (CICT).