Chase Room Keys, Ignore the Debt Wall: A Forensic Review of the Institutional 'BUY' on LHN | EP1634🦖

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Chase Room Keys, Ignore the Debt Wall: A Forensic Review of the Institutional 'BUY' on LHN | EP1634🦖

The strange thing about this LHN story is that the one number that looks the best on paper is also the one that could get a 55-year-old in trouble. A 6.5 percent dividend sounds like a gift when CPF SA pays 4.0 percent, but once I stripped out the broker optimism and just lined up the revenue decline, the 10.39 times net debt to EBITDA and the marginal interest coverage miss, it started to look less like “bond replacement” and more like a leveraged co-living bet dressed up as income.

If you are running CPF, SRS and a REIT portfolio to fund your MRT rides and HDB expenses in retirement, the question is not whether the Coliwoo brand can hit 10,000 keys, it is whether that 6.5 percent payout can survive one bad year of execution without forcing a cut. In this breakdown I walk through why a 6.9 percent premium to S$0.58 forensic fair value and a 14 percent drop in revenue push LHN into my Zone 3 conditional bucket, and what that means if you are using each S$1,000 of capital to secure a reliable second payslip rather than chase an institutional S$0.77 story.

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