Shares & Derivatives
CapitaMalls Asia: Farewell.
By A Singaporean Stockmarket Investor (ASSI)  •  May 3, 2014
I have filled the form in acceptance of the voluntary conditional cash offer for CapitaMalls Asia. Although there are arguments that the offer price is unfair and although I can understand the arguments, I feel that there is a great degree of subjectivity too. Much is relative. Just like how we compare an investment with another to see how it could be undervalued or overvalued, we could also compare an investment with itself in the past to see how its value has changed over time.
CapitaLand’s offer works out to about 1.2x CapitaMalls Asia’s book value now which is cheaper than the 1.5x book value when it listed in 2009. If we want 1.5x book value today, the price is closer to $2.70 a share. So, for someone who bought into CapitaMalls Asia at the IPO price of $2.12 a share, obviously, the voluntary conditional cash offer of $2.22 ......
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