Barclays sees cheap debt helping Swiss real estate earnings
** Barclays starts Swiss real estate companies PSP Swiss Property PSPN.S with "overweight" and Swiss Prime Site SPSN.S with "equal weight", saying cheap debt in Switzerland should help earnings
** The broker believes the low cost of debt in Switzerland is advantageous, as earnings are likely to encounter a relatively small headwind on refinancing compared with other markets
** "We find the Swiss companies' earnings would be impacted less than the average for our European office-exposed coverage, assuming a resetting of all finance expenses," Barclays says
** The brokerage is positive on Swiss commercial real estate (CRE) market fundamentals and marginally prefers PSP to SPS thanks to its better located portfolio with a higher earnings yield and lower leverage
** The brokerage notes PSP has well located assets and its lower leverage allows it to focus on external growth opportunities, which should emerge in the coming quarters
Reporting by Amir Orusov
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