$MPW plainly overpaid an estimated $700m for a portfolio of properties from Steward. It financed Stewards entire purchase of a larger portfolio, and extinguished the entire loan in return for a fraction of the properties. 1/
In 2017, $MPW loaned Steward $1.4b to purchase a Salt Lake City Hospital operator IASIS and their portfolio of 19 hospitals. It also made a further $100m minority interest equity contribution in the transaction. IASIS owned and operated 17 hospitals. 2/
A $700m portion of this loan was immediately extinguished in exchange for 9 properties.
The remaining $700m was a mortgage loan against 2 unnamed properties: Jordan Valley Medical Center and Davis Hospital & Medical Center. $MPW 3/
On July 8, 2020, $MPW acquired the Jordan Valley Medical Center and Davis Hospital & Medical Center in exchange for a total extinguishment of the loan and an additional $200m cash payment it labelled a fair value increase. 4/
The first $700m loan was exchanged for 9 properties, and the second $700m loan was secured against a further 2, but Iasis owned and operated 18 facilities in total at the time of acqusition. Steward basically received 7 of them for free. $MPW 5/
Steward ultimately tried offloading this operations portfolio to HCA Healthcare, but was blocked by the FTC. It is now holding the bag. $MPW 6/6
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$MPW purchased 3 hospitals in Colombia for a purported $135m. One hospital was badly damaged by an earthquake. The marked book value for the hospitals was about half of MPW's consideration, which the vendor did not appear to receive in full. 1/
On November 17, 2020, $MPW claims to have invested in 3 Colombian hospitals for $135m from local operator National Clinics Colombia (NCC) through an unnamed JV . The hospitals acquired were Clinica Centenario, Clinica Los Nevados and Clinica San Rafael. 2/
The ownership structure of the Colombian hospitals suggest it is owned and/or controlled by Steward and/or its executives, not by $MPW. 3/
$MPW finances purchases for distressed tenants via cheap loans, then extinguishes loans *and provides additional consideration* in return for real property. 1/
In October 2016 $MPW acquired 9 Massachusetts facilities from Steward: 5 of them outright for 600m, 4 for 600m in mortgage loans and 50m in equity contributions. 2/
In Q2, Q3 and Q4 2018 $MPW extinguished the mortgages on the 4 facilities by taking ownership, along with an unnamed cash consideration . Steward’s 2018 financials show this was $42.8m. 3/
MPW is an aggressive healthcare property roll-up which caters almost exclusively to distressed tenants. Rent is round-tripped via “fake” purchases of massively inflated assets. $MPW 1/
Viceroy Research is short $MPW: a healthcare property REIT who has engaged in billions of dollars of uncommercial transactions with its tenants and their management teams in order to mask a pervasive revenue round-robin scheme and / or theft. 2/
$MPW assets are massively overstated as a result of capitalizing these transactions. MPW employed also incurred mountains of debt in order to affect these transactions. We believe the true value of MPW’s LTV is ~85%, creating enormous credit risk and risking dividend cuts. 3/
SBB humiliates shareholders with absurd and untrue announcements surrounding the success of its incompetent dealmakers #thread $SBB 1/
SBB claims that this transaction represents a 2.7% discount to a 2.7% premium to book, depending on earnouts. This is creative accounting.
The actual transaction value of the Brookfield deal represents an 11% discount to book value. $SBB 2/
SBB has provided SEK 14.5b in financing to EduCo at 3%, substantially below market rates (most recent USD private placement 2.6%-2.9% + EURIBOR). This is effectively vendor finance for Brookfield to purchase a minority stake in its portfolio for a huge discount. $SBB 3/
Financial data of $HOME's tenants show that many cannot afford rent, have not been paying rent, are in administration, are run by bad actors, and/or simply do not provide social housing services. 2/
Several of $HOME's largest tenants do not appear to be paying any rent. Financial accounts show zero outflow, and charity activities do not appear to include social housing. 3/
Here at Viceroy, we like to keep one in the barrel in case management decide to persist with nonsense narratives. Our latest Truecaller report is now live $TRUE $TRUEB @truecaller#thread 1/
Truecaller released a press statement in response to Viceroy’s report on Oct 3. As expected: Truecaller’s response intentionally misdirects valid criticism of its platform, operations, compliance & risk profile. A link to their response is below $TRUE 2/
“EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS”
$TRUE claims it has diligently reviewed our report, concluding that “allegations of misconduct” are incorrect. It then bizarrely states that the provision of a prospectus somehow absolves it from any wrongdoing. 3/