Pershing Square Holdings, an investment holding company, released its first half 2023 investor letter. A copy of the same can be downloaded here. The fund generated NAV performance of 10.0% during the first half of 2023 and a total shareholder return of 5.4% due to the widening of discount to NAV at which PSH’s shares trade. Year-to-date, PSH’s NAV return through August 15, 2023, was 13.1% compared to 16.8% for the S&P 500 index. In addition, please check the fund’s top five holdings to know its best picks in 2023.
Pershing Square Holdings highlighted stocks like Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) in the first half 2023 investor letter. Headquartered in Woodlands, Texas, Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) develops and manages commercial, residential, and mixed-use real estate. On September 1, 2023, Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) stock closed at $80.12 per share. One-month return of Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) was -5.72%, and its shares gained 24.27% of their value over the last 52 weeks. Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) has a market capitalization of $4.01 billion.
Pershing Square Holdings made the following comment about Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) in its first half 2023 investor letter:
“Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH)’s high-quality collection of well-located master planned communities (“MPC”) delivered resilient performance in the first half of 2023 led by a strong recovery in the housing market and robust leasing momentum in the company’s income producing operating assets.
Mortgage interest rates have stabilized this year after rapidly rising in 2022. The supply of home resale inventory remains constrained as homeowners are reluctant to sell their existing homes and incur more expensive mortgages. As a result, there has been a resurgence in demand for newly built homes. Amidst that backdrop, the relative affordability of HHH’s MPCs, which are located in low cost-of-living and low-tax states like Texas and Nevada, remains highly appealing to prospective homebuyers. New home sales in HHH’s MPCs increased 11% year-over-year in the first half of 2023, reflecting strong demand for future land sales and causing the company to raise its guidance for full-year 2023 MPC land sale profits by 20%.
In HHH’s income-producing operating assets, net operating income (“NOI”) grew 6% on a same-store basis during the first half of the year driven by improving leasing velocity and strong rental rate growth. The company’s office portfolio is benefiting from a “flight to quality” as companies and their employees are drawn to the desirability of HHH’s walkable and amenity-rich MPCs. Likewise, in the company’s condominium development at Ward Village, Hawaii, HHH continues to experience durable sales momentum with its latest condo tower already 83% pre-sold within nine months of its launch. In the most recent quarter, the company contracted to sell 43 units, representing an impressive 27% of available unit inventory. At its Seaport development in New York City, the company is focused on driving operational improvements at the recently opened Tin Building food hall, which continues to generate operating losses in its first full year of operations.…” (Click here to read the full text)
Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) is not on our list of 30 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds. As per our database, 26 hedge fund portfolios held Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE:HHH) at the end of second quarter which was 24 in the previous quarter. In addition, please check out our hedge fund investor letters Q2 2023 page for more investor letters from hedge funds and other leading investors.
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