the Outsider - PSE Points to Ponder

We’ve been blogging for free. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us! Disclaimer:  This is for informational purposes and is  not  investment advice. Figures are taken from company disclosures and exchange data; valuation ratios include the author’s calculations based on cited inputs. If investors are looking at Filinvest Land, Inc. primarily as a dividend name, the 2025 results offer more reassurance than alarm. The company kept its cash dividend at ₱0.05 per common share in 2025, the same rate as in 2024, and paid a total cash dividend of about ₱1.123 billion , including the preferred payout. That matters because FLI did not defend the dividend with accounting smoke: it reported ₱4.81 billion in consolidated net income , ₱4.17 billion attributable to the parent , and ₱7.88 billion in operating cash flow for 2025. On the face of it, that is the profile of a company that can still write the check.  The first reason the dividend looks sustainable is that F...

As of the end of first half of 2020, Filinvest Land, Inc. ( FLI ) has debts becoming due in the current period of 9.3 Billion Pesos while cash is only at 3.9 Billion Pesos. As with everyone else, FLI ‘s revenue is down for the first half of 2020. FLI’s revenue from real estate sales went down by 46% but rental revenues held up. Mall rentals may have been significantly affected by COVID-19 pandemi c restrictions but office leasing remained strong. FLI earned around 3 Billion Pesos in the first half of 2020 from office rentals. The office rentals is expected to be the main cash generator for FLI in these times. In the first half of 2020 FLI generated cash from operations of 0.9 Billion Pesos only. Although FLI has an inventory of real estate units for sale of around 65.8 Billion Pesos of 1H 2020, we can not expect for sales of real estate units to be buoyant during these times. Judging of the first half results of FLI, real estate sales have come to a standstill. Thus, ...