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CORESTATE CAPITAL HOLDING S.A. (FRA:LU129675) CORESTATE positions itself to weather the crisis and reports first quarter of 2020

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12/05/2020 07:00

DGAP-News: Corestate Capital Holding S.A. / Key word(s): Quarterly / Interim Statement/Real Estate
CORESTATE positions itself to weather the crisis and reports first quarter of 2020

12.05.2020 / 07:00
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CORESTATE positions itself to weather the crisis and reports first quarter of 2020

  • Aggregated revenues of € 51.7 million, EBITDA of € 20.9 million, adjusted Group earnings of € 14.3 million
  • Postponement of transactions temporarily impacts revenues
  • Assets under management at € 28 billion
  • Focus on securing liquidity and a solid balance sheet
  • Transaction market currently slowed down sharply, recovery expected in second half of 2020

Luxembourg, 12 May 2020. Corestate Capital Holding S.A. (Corestate), a leading independent investment manager for real estate in Europe, generated aggregated revenues of € 51.7 million (previous year: € 58.6 million), EBITDA of € 20.9 million (previous year: € 38.7 million) and adjusted net income of € 14.3 million (previous year: € 26.3 million) in the first quarter of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has been causing significant shifts in the transaction market with increasing momentum since the end of March, resulting in the temporary loss of revenues from warehousing, alignment capital and performance-based fees. Assets under management in the real estate core business rose organically by around 2.2% to € 24.8 billion in the first three months of the year; Corestate managed assets totaling € 28 billion at the end of March 2020.

Lars Schnidrig, CEO of Corestate: "After getting off to a promising start to the year, the crisis hit us - like many other companies - unexpectedly hard. In a very short time, we shifted from an active growth course to consistently limiting entrepreneurial risks. The effects on the transaction market are already reflected in our earnings strength in the first quarter. At the same time, we have launched a comprehensive package of measures in recent weeks aimed at securing our liquidity, cutting costs and reducing warehousing. This puts us on solid and future-proof footing."

Cash and cash equivalents amounted to around € 80 million at the end of the first quarter; moreover, the company has no significant refinancing requirements before the end of 2022. With € 45.4 million, the company generated in the first three months the majority of its revenues in its core business, real estate investment management. In the area of real estate debt (mezzanine), the fund volume was increased to over € 1.3 billion. Regular analyses show no critical findings at the project or the borrower level. In real estate management, the same applies to the residential, logistics and office segments, where there have been hardly any significant impacts to date. Conversely, the retail, hotel and micro-living segments are experiencing in some cases significant volatilities in occupancy rates or even rent defaults at fund level; a significant intensification of the company's own local property management activities has already been initiated here.

Nils Hübener, CIO of Corestate: "Our clients keep telling us that they continue to have an increasing demand for exactly what we can offer them with our current pipeline of over € 4 billion: profitable and sustainable real estate investments. However, the current focus is due to the crisis shifting from value-add properties to the core and core+ segments, which is what we are currently focusing on. We expect the transaction and financing markets to return to normal in the fourth quarter. "Even though we had to withdraw our financial outlook in view of the current high level of uncertainty, we will continue to be clearly profitable with our operating business this year. I am also very confident that catch-up effects from postponed transactions will have a clearly positive impact on our results after the crisis comes to an end," added Lars Schnidrig.

Corestate will publish an updated financial outlook for 2020 as soon as the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic can be reliably assessed and sound planning is possible. This will most likely be in the third quarter. The company believes that the key market drivers of the business model will remain intact in the medium term, so that, if the investment market returns to normal, earnings and profitability figures can be achieved again from 2021 on similar to the figures the company had been achieving before the crisis.


Press Contact
Jorge Person
T: +49 69 3535630-136 / M: +49 162 2632369
jorge.person@corestate-capital.com

IR Contact
Mario Groß
T: +49 69 3535630106 / M: +49 162 1036025
ir@corestate-capital.com


About CORESTATE Capital Holding S.A.

CORESTATE Capital Holding S.A. (CORESTATE) is an investment manager and coinvestor with around EUR 28 billion in assets under management. As a fully integrated real estate platform, CORESTATE offers its clients combined expertise in the areas of investment and fund management as well as real estate management services. The company operates as a respected business partner of institutional clients and wealthy private investors internationally. CORESTATE is headquartered in Luxembourg and has 42 offices, e.g. in Frankfurt, London, Paris, Madrid, Zurich and Amsterdam. The company employs around 800 people and is listed in the Prime Standard (SDAX) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Further information may be found at www.corestate-capital.com.

 

Forward-looking statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by our management. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of our company and the estimates given here. These factors include those discussed in our public reports, which are available on our website at www.corestate-capital.com. The company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.



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Language: English
Company: Corestate Capital Holding S.A.
4, Rue Jean Monnet
L-2180 Luxembourg
Luxemburg
Phone: +49 69 3535630-107
Fax: +49 69 3535630-29
E-mail: IR@corestate-capital.com
Internet: www.corestate-capital.com
ISIN: LU1296758029
WKN: A141J3
Indices: SDAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange
EQS News ID: 1041801

 
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