Looks like 53% - from Pattersons
Wesfarmers Limited (WES and WESN) $17.24
Recommendation: Change from SELL to HOLD
Analyst: Russell Wright Tel: +612-8238-6219
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Investment Highlights
· Retail shareholders apparently took up 53% of their entitlement offer at A$13.50/share and this also now appears unlikely to be scaled back by WES.
· WES has already raised A$2.0 billion through the Institutional Entitlement offer – A$1.5 billion at A$13.50/share and A$0.5 billion at A$15.00/share – and A$0.9 billion via a placement at A$14.25/share to Capital Research and Colonial First State.
· Now through the retail entitlement offer it has raised a further A$1.5 billion. This is A$1 billion more than WES anticipated at the outset of the offer.
· This total of A$4.4 billion makes it the largest secondary offering ever in Australia.
· This takes WES net debt to just A$3.85 billion and its gearing (net debt to equity) to less than 15%.
· The Retail Entitlement Offer settles on 2 March 2009 and the issue of new shares under the Retail Entitlement Offer occurs on 3 March 2009. WES total shares on issue should be 1,125m post the issue.
· Given the high take up of the Entitlement by retail investors our analysis suggests that index funds should be net sellers of much less than 9m WES shares thereafter – an amount readily digested.
· Our revised PE-based valuation of A$18.41/share (our DCF valuation is A$25.67/share).
· Hence we are revising our recommendation from SELL to HOLD.
Russell Wright
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