Dividend Declaration and Company Update

RNS Number : 1751I

Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC

01 December 2022

 

1 December 2022

DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC

("D9" or the "Company")

Dividend Declaration and Company Update

Dividend Declaration

The Board of Directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (ticker: DGI9) has declared an interim dividend in respect of the period 1 July 2022 to 30 September 2022 of 1.5 pence per Ordinary Share, payable on or around 23 December 2022 to holders of Ordinary Shares on the Company's register on 9 December 2022.

The ex-dividend date will be 8 December 2022.

The Company is targeting an aggregate dividend of 6.0 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ending 31 December 2022.¹

Company Update

The Company's portfolio companies are undertaking their customary annual re-forcasting exercise to update their 5-year business plans. This process is expected to be completed during December 2022 after which the Company will publish a Trading Update in early January 2023. This Trading Update will provide further detail on the performance of the portfolio with the audited Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2022 to follow in March 2023.

Investment Manager Personnel

Further to the Company's announcement on 22 November 2022 regarding the change in Investment Manager personnel, Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple Point" or the "Investment Manager") confirms that it has initiated a formal recruitment and selection process for a permanent Head of Digital Infrastructure and a further update will be provided as soon as practicable. Ben Beaton, Co-Managing Partner of Triple Point, will continue to support the permanent Head of Digital Infrastructure following their appointment.

The recruitment and selection process is being undertaken with oversight of the Company's Board.

As previously announced, Ben Beaton continues to lead the Digital Infrastructure team supported by the existing and established Digital Infrastructure team within Triple Point, which includes Investment Director, Arnaud Jaguin. James Cranmer, Co-Managing Partner of Triple Point, will also continue to support Ben and the wider investment team.

Arnaud joined Triple Point in January 2021 and has over 15 years' experience in telecoms and digital infrastructure. He began his career in telecoms M&A advisory at UBS Investment Bank, advising on £50 billion of transactions. At Level3 Communications, CenturyLink and RETN, he was responsible for corporate development, corporate strategy, marketing, and sales operations.

ENDS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT:

Triple Point Investment Management LLP (Investment Manager)	[phone]
Ben Beaton / James Cranmer / Arnaud Jaguin
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Corporate Broker)	[phone]
William Simmonds / Jérémie Birnbaum (Corporate Finance)
James Bouverat / Liam MacDonald-Raggett (Sales)
Akur Capital (Financial Adviser)	+ 44 (0)207 493 3631
Tom Frost / Anthony Richardson / Siobhan Sergeant
FTI Consulting (Communications Adviser)
Mitch Barltrop Ed Berry Gina Magnin	[phone] [phone] [phone] [e-mail]

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92

NOTES TO EDITORS

¹ The target dividend is a target only and not a forecast. There can be no assurance that the target will be met and it should not be taken as an indication of the Company's expected or actual future results.

About Digital 9 Infrastructure plc

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (DGI9) is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange with ticker DGI9. The Company invests in the infrastructure of the internet that underpins the world's digital economy: digital infrastructure.

The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple Point") which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, with extensive experience in infrastructure, real estate and private credit, while keeping ESG principles central to its business mission. Triple Point's Digital Infrastructure team has c.US$ 300 billion in digital infrastructure transaction experience and in-depth relationships across global tech and global telecoms companies.

The number 9 in Digital 9 Infrastructure comes from the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, which focuses the fund on investments that increase connectivity globally and improve the sustainability of digital infrastructure. The assets DGI9 invests in typically comprise scalable platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data centres, terrestrial fibre and wireless networks.

From its IPO in March 2021 and subsequent capital raises, DGI9 has raised total equity of £905 million and a revolving credit facility of £375 million, invested into the following data centres, subsea fibre, and wireless networks:

· Aqua Comms , a leading owner and operator of 20,000km of the most modern subsea fibre systems - the backbone of the internet - with a customer base comprising global tech and global telecommunications carriers (April 2021);

· Verne Global , the leading Icelandic data centre platform, with 40MW of high intensity computing solutions in operation or development, powered by 100% baseload renewable power (September 2021);

· EMIC-1, a partnership with Meta on a 10,000km fibre system from Europe to India (July 2021);

· SeaEdge UK1 , a data centre and landing station for the North Sea Connect subsea cable, part of the North Atlantic Loop subsea network, improving connectivity between the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America (December 2021);

· Host Ireland, a leading enterprise broadband provider that owns and operates Fixed Wireless Access networks (April 2022);

· Volta, a premier data centre based in central London, providing 6MW retail co-location services (April 2022);

· Ficolo , a leading Finnish data centre and cloud infrastructure platform, with c.23MW of data centre capacity, powered by 100% renewable power and distributing surplus heat to district heating networks (July 2022); and

· Arqiva , the only UK national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting network in the United Kingdom - providing data, network and communications services, as well as a national IoT connectivity platform (October 2022).

The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 March 2021. It was admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and migrated to trading on the premium segment of the Main Market on 30 August 2022.   

For more information on the Investment Manager please visit www.triplepoint.co.uk . For more information, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com .

 

END

 

 

DIVWPGGCGUPPPGU