Third Avenue Management, a disciplined, value-oriented asset manager and investment fund, published its third-quarter 2020 Investor Letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here. A return of 10.94% was recorded by the fund for the 3rd Quarter of 2020, ahead of its FTSE EPRA NAREIT Developed benchmark that returned 10.32%. You can view the fund’s top 10 holdings to have a peek at their top bets for 2021.
Third Avenue Management in their Q3 2020 Investor Letter said that they were able to distinguish a value in American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) and initiated a position in the company. American Homes 4 Rent is a real estate investment trust that currently has a $9.5 billion market cap. For the past 3 months, AMH delivered a 3.88% return and settled at $30.24 per share at the closing of January 15th.
Here is what Third Avenue Management has to say about American Homes 4 Rent in their Investor Letter:
“During the quarter, the Fund initiated a position in the common stock of AMH—a US based Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) that is the second largest owner of single-family homes for-rent (“SFR”) in North America with more than 52,000 homes throughout the Sunbelt region that are more than 94.0% leased on average. In addition, the company controls one of the few SFR build-to-rent platforms of scale with land secured to accommodate an additional 6,000 homes, including 1,200 currently under development.
AMH is a very well-capitalized issuer with a net debt to asset ratio of 25% and a fixed-charge coverage ratio in excess of 4.5 times. The company also retains substantial free cash flow despite its REIT tax status (which requires 90% of net income to be distributed via dividends annually) given legacy net
operating losses. As a result, the company seems poised to self-finance the expansion of its portfolio through its unique build-to-rent initiative (which would likely ramp up considerably to the extent that anticipated reform at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac increases the cost of conforming loans). Further, the
very-much aligned control group (with strong ties to the self-storage industry) likely recognizes the opportunity to monetize the company’s scale in a capital-light manner by undertaking property management for third-parties and securing a future pipeline of acquisition opportunities in the process.”
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Last October 2020, we published an article telling that American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) was in 23 hedge funds’ portfolio, almost making to its all time high statistics of 27. American Homes 4 Rent proved its worth by giving a 12.21% return in the past 12 months.
As of September 2020, Third Avenue Management had a 461K share position in AMH that amounted to $13 million. This made Third Avenue Management a part of the top 8 hedge funds that holds most of AMH’s stake, just behind Islet Management with $14 million worth of AMH shares, while Echo Street Capital Management tops the list with $78 million. However, our calculations showed that American Homes 4 Rent (NYSE: AMH) isn’t ranked among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds.
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