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Keppel DC REIT | Asia Pacific Risk Reward Update
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Keppel DC REIT | Asia Pacific Risk Reward Update
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RiskRisk RewardReward– Keppel- DCKeppelREIT (KEPE.SI)DC REIT (KEPE.SI)
Data centre and growth story well in the price
PRICE TARGET S$2.30 EQUAL-WEIGHT THESIS
exposure to data centres:Base case, 50/50 weight of dividend yield and price to book. Our target dividend yield of ▪Positive
5.5% is 75bp tighter than our industry-wide forecast. Our target P/B on 1H25 trailing NAV is KDCREIT is one of Singapore's few pure-play
1.6x, at the five-year historical average. data centre REITs, a segment that enjoys
robust underlying demand from cloud and S$2.67
hyperscaler players, as well as structural
Consensus Price Target Distribution S$2.30 S$2.95 tailwinds from AI adoption.
MS PT delinquency in China: The rentalSource: Refinitiv, Morgan Stanley Research Mean Morgan Stanley Estimates ▪Tenant
default of KDCREIT's master tenant in China
persists, and we expect continued tenant
delinquency.
appears fair: KDC enjoys theRISK REWARD CHART ▪Valuation
tightest trading dividend yields within our
coverage, and also trades well above NAV, SGD S$2.70S$2.70(+22.73%)S$2.70(+22.73%)(+22.73%)
even as acquisitions have slowed since 2019.
We thus think the market has fully priced in
2.4 inorganic growth, also giving appropriate
S$2.30S$2.30(+4.55%)S$2.30(+4.55%)(+4.55%) credit for KDCREIT's data centres. S$2.20S$2.20S$2.20
1.8 S$2.05S$2.05(-6.82%)S$2.05(-6.82%)(-6.82%) Consensus Rating Distribution
93% Overweight
1.2 7% Equal-weight
0% Underweight
0.6 MS Rating
Source: Refinitiv, Morgan Stanley Research
AUG '25 FEB '26 AUG '26 AUG '27 Risk Reward Themes
Key: Historical Stock Performance Current Stock Price Price Target Disruption: Positive
Source: Refinitiv, Morgan Stanley Research View descriptions of Risk Rewards Themes here
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