WEDNESDAY, 05 JUNE 2013

SM Prime Holdings, Inc: Transforming into a property giant

Three-step merger plan disclosed
The SM Group announced on Friday a detailed plan for the consolidation of its property assets. The plan involves three steps, with SMPH as the surviving entity. Upon completion, SMPH will become the largest real estate company in the country with a market capitalization of around Php500 Bil. Step 1: SM Land makes tender offer for SMDC and Highland Prime through share swap SM Land will make a tender offer for 34.82% of SMDC shares (SM Land already owns 65.18% of SMDC) and 100% of HP shares by offering shares of SMPH in exchange (SM Land owns 40.96% of SMPH). SM Land will offer 0.472 share of SMPH for 1 SMDC share and 0.135 SMPH share for 1 HP share. Upon conclusion of the tender offer and provided that at least 90% of outstanding shares of SMDC and HP are acquired by SM Land, SMDC and HP will initiate a voluntary delisting. We estimates that a total of 2.02 Bil SMPH shares held by SM Land will be used to acquire 100% of SMPH and HP, leaving SM Land with 5.01 Bil SMPH shares after the transaction.
Exhibit 1. Stake of SM Land

SMDC HPI
Source: COL estimates

Before 47.20% 0%

After 100% 100%

Exhibit 2. Exchange offer by SM Land

# of SMPH shares for SMDC # of SMPH shares for HPI Total number of SMPH to be exchanged
Source: COL estimates

1,715.8 303.2 2,019.1

Exhibit 3. Share of SM Land on SMPH

# of SMPH shares held by SM Land

Source: COL estimates

Before 7,114.8

After 5,095.7

Step 2: SMPH issues new shares to acquire SM Land After consolidating SMDC and HP under SM Land, SMPH will issue 14.34 Bil new shares to acquire 100% of SM Land. From its current outstanding shares of 17.27 Bil, SMPH will increase outstanding shares to 26.64 Bil. Note that SM Land still owned 5.01 Bil shares of SMPH after step 1 of the transaction, and these shares will be put under treasury shares. Step 3: SMPH issues new shares to acquire SMICs other property assets Finally, SMPH will issue another 1.55 Bil new shares to consolidate other property assets held by SMIC and the Sy Family. Companies to be acquired are Tagaytay Resort Development Corp, SM Hotels and Conventions Corp, SM Arena Complex Corp., Costa Del Hamilo Inc.
RICHARD LAEDA, CFA r i c h a r d . l a n e d a @ co l fi n a n ci a l .co m

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After all the transactions, SMPH will have increased its total issued shares to 33.3 Bil while outstanding shares (net of treasury shares) will be around 28.2 Bil. Consolidated revenues of the new company for FY12 is around Php57.4 Bil with a net income of Php16.34 Bil. Net debt-to-equity would drop from 0.60X to 0.42X
Exhibit 4. Summary of changes to SMPH due to merger (data as of FY12)
in Php Mil

Authorized capital stock Issued shares Treasury shares Shares outstanding Revenues Net Income to shareholders EPS (in Php) Net Debt-to-equity ratio (X) ROE
Source: COL estimates

Before 20,000 17,411 19 17,393 30,726 10,530 0.606 0.60 15.05%

After 40,000 33,307 5,115 28,192 57,399 16,337 0.579 0.42 10.99%

An integrated real estate company

The merger is intended to create a large integrated real estate company capable of undertaking larger projects wherein all business units will be able to participate in. Based on our estimates, the merged SMPH will have around 7.7 Mil sqm GFA of mall space (Philippines and China) and 428,412sqm of office GFA by FY14, 1,019 hotel rooms by the end of this year, and over 29,000sqm of leasable convention and exhibit space. In addition to that, SMPH will have more than 3 Mil sqm of condominium inventory. To support its future growth, SMPH will have 920 hectares of raw land.
Exhibit 5. Summary of assets to be acquired by SMPH
100% direct interest in SM Land at least 84% direct interest in SMDC at least 89% interest in Highlands Prime 100% effective interest in Prime Metro Estate 100% direct interest in SM Hotels and Conventions Corporation 100% direct interest in SM Arena Complex Corp. 100% direct interest in Costa Del Hamilo Inc. 100% effective interst in Tagaytay Resort Development Corp. 100% interest in the following assets previously owned by SMIC: Taal Vista Hotel Radisson Cebu Hotel Pico Sands Hotel SMX Convention Center MoA Arena Moa Arena Annex Corporate Office Casino and Waste Water Treatment Plant Tagaytay EDSA West Park Inn Davao
Source: SMPH

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The merged company is expected to have a market capitalization of around US$12 Bil. With a much larger market cap, the company would be able to take advantage of more financing options. Note that with the exception of SMPH, the funding options of the individual companies are limited due to their size. The company will also be able to capitalize on its size operationally and create value through its scale and synergies.

Value-unlocking move by the group

We believe that the merger will unlock a significant portion of the groups value. According to management, the merged companys landbank will rise from 110 hectares to 920 hectares and given the size of the merged entity, it would have the capability to realize the value of these properties by developing them. Recurring income, majority from malls but also from offices and hotels, will still account for more than 50% of the groups income, which would give them the stable cash flow needed for the developments and the ability to take on higher gearing as a group.

Fair value estimate to be re-evaluated

Now that the merger plans have been announced, we need to re-evaluate our FV estimate of SMPH to take into account the consolidation and the increase in outstanding shares. Our valuation of SM would also change as a result of the consolidation of real estate assets under SMPH.

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