Why does price deviate from net asset value? The case of Singaporean infrastructure REITs

Calvin Kumala, Zhen Ye, Yite Zhu and Qiulin Ke

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2024, vol. 93, issue C

Abstract: This paper examines the determinants of the changes in premiums to Net Asset Value (NAV) in infrastructure REIT (infra-REIT) share prices in Singapore over the 2017–2021 period. Samples of 11 listed Singaporean REITs (S-REITs) are selected to create a balanced panel data for the analysis. Our finding shows that infrastructure S-REITs have generally been trading at premiums to their NAVs. The first part of the analysis shows that REIT premiums are positively related to REIT size (market cap) and percentage of institutional ownership. On the other hand, REIT premiums are negatively related to dividend yield. Volatility, volume, ROE and liquidity are found to be insignificant in explaining price and NAV divergence. The second part of the analysis finds that there is a higher proportion of uninformed (noise) traders when infrastructure S-REIT prices are diverging from their NAV. This finding supports the Noise theory which implies that there is some evidence that noise traders are present in the infrastructure S-REIT market and their actions might cause irrational departure of REIT prices from the underlying NAV.

Keywords: Infrastructure; Investment; Net asset value; REIT; Singapore; Noise trading (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103172

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