Dividend Declaration & Scrip Dividend Alternative

RNS Number : 9343N

GCP Infrastructure Investments Ltd

24 January 2019

 

GCP Infrastructure Investments Limited 

("GCP Infra" or the "Company")

LEI 213800W64MNATSIV5Z47

Headline:  Dividend Declaration and Scrip Dividend Alternative

24 January 2019

GCP Infra, the only UK listed fund focused primarily on investments in UK infrastructure debt is pleased to announce a dividend of 1.9 pence per ordinary share, for the period from 1 October 2018 to 31 December 2018. The dividend will be paid on 1 March 2019 to holders of ordinary shares recorded on the register as at the close of business on 1 February 2019.

The Company will also be offering a scrip dividend alternative under which shareholders may elect to receive new ordinary shares in lieu of the cash dividend. The price of a new ordinary share to be issued under the scrip dividend alternative will be calculated by taking the average of the Company's closing middle market quotations of an ordinary share for the four consecutive dealing days commencing on the ex-dividend date of 31 January 2019. 

Full details of the scrip dividend alternative can be found in the Scrip Dividend Circular in respect of the financial year ended 30 September 2019 ("Scrip Dividend Circular 2019"), which will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and be available on the Company's website at https://www.graviscapital.com/funds/gcp-infra/literature.   Copies of the Scrip Dividend Circular 2019  will also be available for inspection at 12 Castle Street, St Helier, Jersey JE2 3RT, Channel Islands.

The reference price for the scrip shares will be calculated and published on or around 7 February 2019.

Shareholders will receive the dividend in cash unless they have completed either an evergreen standing election ("Scrip Dividend Mandate") (for holders of ordinary shares in certificated form only) or a CREST Dividend Election Input Message (for holders of ordinary shares in CREST only).

Holders of ordinary shares in certificated form who complete a Scrip Dividend Mandate will continue to receive scrip shares in lieu of their entire cash dividend entitlement for future dividends unless they revoke their Scrip Dividend Mandate, details of which are set out in the Scrip Dividend Circular 2019. For shareholders who hold their shares through CREST, a CREST Dividend Election Input Message should be issued on each occasion where a scrip dividend alternative is offered.

Expected timetable:

Shares quoted ex-dividend	31 January 2019
Record date for dividend	1 February 2019
Publication of reference price for scrip dividend alternative	7 February 2019
Final time and date for receipt by the Receiving Agent of Scrip dividend mandates and for submission of CREST elections	5.00 pm on 15 February 2019
CREST stock account credited with new Ordinary Shares	1 March 2019
Dividend payment date	1 March 2019
Dealings commence in new Ordinary Shares	1 March 2019

Gravis Capital Management Limited Stephen Ellis Rollo Wright Dion Di Miceli	[phone]
Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited                                      Mark Bloomfield Neil Winward Gaudi Le Roux	[phone]
Buchanan/Quill                                                                 Helen Tarbet Sam Emery Nick Croysdill	[phone]

Notes to the Editor

About GCP Infra

GCP Infra is a closed-ended investment company and FTSE-250 constituent whose shares are traded on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. Its objective is to provide shareholders with regular, sustained, long term distributions and to preserve capital over the long term by generating exposure to UK infrastructure debt and related and/or similar assets. The Company primarily targets investments in infrastructure projects with long term, public sector-backed, availability-based revenues. Where possible, investments are structured to benefit from partial inflation-protection. GCP Infra is advised by Gravis Capital Management Limited.

 

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