Solid real estate industry fundamentals in Ukraine have created a favorable environment for domestic developers who are increasingly tapping the international equity market. With the arrival of several new placements, the issue of increased guidance in the sector is coming to the forefront and with this in mind our report is focused on a quantitative comparison of the developers’ project portfolios.
Ukrainian real estate investors tend to focus their attention on the size of project portfolios. With new stocks flooding into the sector, this approach is becoming less effective in stock selection. In this report, we introduce a set of metrics that will help investors make a more informed choice. The metrics take into account portfolio quality and consider its risk characteristics related to construction schedule feasibility, cash flow timing, concentration and sensitivity to underlying assumptions. We compare the project portfolios of Ukraine’s public developers using the same uniform approach