Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KPLIF) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
February 3, 2026
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesGood morning, everyone. Welcome to the FY '25 Results Audio Webcast for Keppel Infrastructure Trust, or KIT. I'm Marine from the Keppel IR and sustainability team. Let me introduce the KIT management team. We have with us this morning, CEO, Mr. Kevin Neo, CFO; Mr. Ruben Bay and Director of Portfolio Management, Mr. Gan -- they will be making a presentation that will counter KIT's FY 25 highlights and business strategy, followed by the FY 25 business and financial update. [Operator Instructions] I will now hand the time over to Kevin for the presentation. Kevin?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesAll right. Thanks, Marilyne. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. 25 marks a 10 year of KI's trading commencement as an enlarged trust, and we are glad to report a strong Knit order return of 36% in the last 10 years. This compares very well against the 61% achieved by the REIT index over the same period. We only 18 years of infrastructure investment and management experience, Klas built a strong record and continue to grow through acquisitions and paceation. We have accumulated a portfolio of very attractive assets that are essential to our daily lives. We are the sole producer and retail of pipe down gas in Singapore. We supply 13% of commercial power in Singapore, we produced more than 30% of a printing water in Singapore as well. We are the sole producer and distributor of chlorine gas for water treatment in Australia, and we maintained 31% of global subsea cables plant. As at 31st December 2025, K AUM stood at approximately $9.1 billion. This is anchored by essential businesses and assets in developed markets across all segments, namely energy transition environmental services, distribution and storage and digital infrastructure. The next slide. KIT's portfolio is well positioned to capture tailwinds driven by long-term structural trends of energy transition digitalization and repo the notation. Our strategy is focused on essential infrastructure that provides stable cash flows and has long-term growth potential. Our assets are located developed markets in Asia Pacific and Europe, where there's strong legal and regulatory frameworks in place. And last but not least, we are in sectors where we have opportunity expertise either in capital or in [indiscernible] local teams on the ground. Overall, 2025 was a good year for KIT unitholders. We reported DI of $249.5 million for the year, which is an increase of 24% year-on-year. We achieved total unitholder return of over 17% for the year. We continue to add value to the trust, having unlocked over $300 million in net proceeds from capital recycling and deployed $130 million to acquire GMG, marking offers for rate into the digital infrastructure segment. We have the financing flexibility to utilize the remaining proceeds of about $180 million and heavy debt came room for other operative acquisitions. As at end 2025, the giving levels at ICR for KIT remained strong at 39% and 7.6x, respectively. KIT received industry awards last year, and our appreciation goes out to the Edge Singapore and Auchan Singapore for these accolades. KIT was named the over sector winner and recognized as a top performer in shareholder returns over the past 3 years at the second billion dollar 1 was KRW 130 billion. This achievement reflects our sustained focus on long-term value creation for our unitholders. At the Astem Singapore, Australia Business Alliance award 2025, KIT was recognized as a Singaporean company with a significant contribution towards advancing sustainable infrastructure and a support communities in Australia. We are declaring a DPU of $0.17 for the second half of 2025, and this will be paid on 20th February 2026. This aggregates to the full year 2025 BP or $34 which is an implied yield of 8% based on the year and closing unit price of $0.49 for 2025. Looking back on the track record, KIT's transformation and asset recycling strategy since it -- the chart on the left shows illustratively the income profile for the DI from initial portfolio without acquisition versus the chart on the right that shows that actually reported to unit orders. The Green pass rebursrepresents an income contribution to Kais popular derived from various acquisitions and realization made since 2019. We have been very successful in investing and replacing the reduction of DI where certain construction assets were extended. We have also grown our Evergreen businesses within the initial portfolio. For instance, City Energy accounts for 22% of DI in FY 2018 but contributed more than 60% of the initial populate in FY 2025. Our focus is to deliver resilient cash flows to unitholders through active portfolio management to strengthen portfolio constitutions and cutout essential businesses very cash flows that are very defensive on business market disruptions. This is how we managed to maintain our DPU through COVID-19, which is one of the most significant market disruptions in the last 10 years. Next slide. in this portfolio of essential businesses and assets provide products and solutions, owedemand remains steady because of economic cycles. These are business strategies that we look to drive the next stage of value creation for First, portfolio cash flow stability remains a key priority, and we will continue to be our proven capital recycling approach on invest, divest and reinvest discipline to build a resilient portfolio of strength in underlying cash flows. Second, you want to strengthen the operating cash flows for assets and businesses by driving value-creating initiatives and capitalizing on sector specific growth drivers. Third, we will employ active capital management to support sustainable distributions and continued growth in Unitrans. With these strategies in mind, we have potline specific objectives and are to share with our unitholders. As an active manager, we will continue to evaluate our portfolio on an ongoing basis to recycle capital from divested assets or redeployment into accretive assets or businesses with stable cash flows. The goal is to manage APO stability and offset the expected decline in concession assets. The focus on new acquisition is expected to be on energy transition, digital infrastructure and environmental solutions. This is in line with the recent OCBC report where analysts expect doing adoption of AI to drive demand for fiber connectivity, data centers, power generation and grid infrastructure. Our objective is to build and on an optimal portfolio and stable assets and growth assets to achieve DPU stability and growth. Currently, we have $180 million of divestment proceeds remaining from the sale of building Coastal and Ventura for immediate redeployment. In addition, KIT's net gearing of 39% is healthy. Therefore, because we make use of debt hearing to acquire. Concurrently, we are focused on driving organic and inorganic growth in revenue and achieving operational cost efficiency or existing assets in our portfolio. In tandem, we work with the respective operating teams from the other green businesses such as City Energy, Island GMG to execute on the planned growth strategies to grow operating earnings. As part of active capital management, we have been monitoring the market for opportunities to undertake early refinancing amidst the conductive interest rate environment. We expect to complete and execute on as FY 2026, refinancing needs well ahead of maturity. Raman, our CFO, will cover this in greater details. Financial flexibility is key as we pursue various options, including utilizing recycled capital, pre-invested cash and cadet with prudent spot print acquisitions. Our main goal is to achieve EI and DPU continuity into the long run, and we are working to achieve this truly successful execution of our planned at acquisitions and value creation initiatives. But with that, let me hand over to China for the FY '25 business updates.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesThanks, Kevin. Hello, everyone. I'm Jim Dan joined the team as Director of Portfolio Management since November. I'll take you through the KIT portfolio business updates in the next few slides. Going to Slide 12. FY '25 saw stable operations for our assets and businesses in the energy transition segment City Energy achieved higher FFO of $62 million for the year, mainly through its core operations. We track total gas water sales and the increase in market share in the residential market has been meaningful. -- with potential for future growth. Growth opportunities are also present in the commercial and industrial market in new developments and in retrofit projects for existing properties. The FFO for the transition assets was an aggregate $124 million for FY '25, which included a cash surplus from capital management of AGPC 4Q -- for AGPC, we had higher volumes in FY '25 compared to the prior year, underpinned by stronger demand. The FFO for the wind farms portfolio came in lower year-on-year mainly due to BCR2. However, wind resources in the second half of '25 has recovered compared to the same period last year. The European onshore wind platform saw stable production levels in FY '25 at lower power prices. The FFO for the German solar portfolio was $16.46 million for FY '25, up 18% year-on-year, underpinned by stable performance. For the Environmental Services segment, the Singapore concession assets contributed an aggregate $52 million for FY '25. We maintained stable operations and met all contractual obligations with the regulators, such as NEA and PUB in the financial year. We continue to pursue potential opportunities for concession extensions following Sing Springs extension to 2028, noting that our land lease is only due in 2033. Moving on to MK. Pricing in the private landfill business is expected to remain largely sideways. We continue to stay disciplined on pricing and focused on optimizing the NAV of our asset. For the incineration business, starting 1st of Jan this year, the -- so Metropolitan area or SMB, implemented a direct landfilling ban for municipal solid waste. With this in place, we see pricing upside for private incineration facilities. Public incineration facilities are running near full utilization, and this ban is expected to drive higher demand for private incineration facilities such as ENK, which are located near the SMA. Therefore, ENK plans to grow its incineration capacity, which is also running at full utilization to capture this tailwind and increase FFO for the Distribution & Storage segment. The FFO for exam was $71 million for an increase of 42% year-on-year, underpinned by strong operating earnings. The bolt-on acquisition of the Hedge base oil import and distribution business in Q2 is expected to drive continued revenue and EBITDA growth in 2026. Citic earns a stable margin per unit volume and is expected to benefit from near-term kill wins from Australia's new fuel emission standards supporting demand for refined and cleaner based models. The FFO for Ventura was $23 million for FY '25 and was higher year-on-year on a 100% basis, underpinned by higher EBITDA. For the year, it achieved 100% service reliability and on-time performance exceeding 90% and secured new charter contracts. Pancras maintenance CapEx is mainly debt funded. And for FY '25, the maintenance CapEx of $21 million was added back to derive. Ventura's business model requires ongoing maintenance CapEx, and the company will fund this CapEx in the near term. We completed the acquisition of GMG on 25th of November 2025. Hence the income contribution to KIT of about a month of about SGD 1 million is in line with our deal underwriting. Since completion, the team has successfully extended a long-term charter to 2028 and are maintaining zone contract to 2030. Similar to Ventura, GMG is a business which requires ongoing maintenance CapEx for vessel upkeep, such as dry docking and we expect to be debt funding lease in the near future. In the next 2 slides, we will outline the strategic priorities for our evergreen businesses. We continue to work closely with the respective operating teams on the ground to execute these strategies and drive future operating earnings. These essential businesses have established strong local brands and local market positions in markets with high barriers to entry. They are long-term platforms focused on delivering customer-led solutions and creating sustainable value over time. For City Energy, our focus is on driving further market share gains in residential water heaters from the current 20%, increasing commercial and industrial gas usage and raising consumer awareness of the benefits of gas water heater to support broader adoption. To exam, the key priority is to strengthen our market-leading positions across the core manufactured and traded product segments supported by long-standing relationships with key customers in the water utilities, manufacturing and resources segments. Other initiatives include continued growth in the bitumen business supported by disciplined growth CapEx and unlocking revenue and cost synergies from the recently acquired Hilda business. For Ventura, we aim to maintain our strong track record in service delivery and standards, grow market share in the charter business for both public and public runs and position ourselves in a public bus service contract renewals coming up in 2028. ENK has the potential to further strengthen its position as one of the largest private incinerators in South Korea. The key caters a hit is the scaling up of incineration capacity to capture demand tailwinds driven by favorable policy changes. For GMG as one of the leading independent providers of subsea fiber optic maintenance, installation and support vessels, the focus is on maintaining strong operational reliability and a track record of vessels. At the same time, we aim to grow our fleet of specialized cable installation and maintenance vessels, underpinned by strong global demand for subsea cable connectivity. Moving on to the ESG slide, we met our ESG targets for the year across the 3 pillars of our sustainability framework, environmental stewardship, responsible business and people and community. In addition, we achieved a rating of A in MSCI ESG ratings assessment in recognition of the strong management of financial and industry relevant ESG risks and opportunities. I will now hand the presentation to Raymond for the financial and capital management of KIT.
Teong Ming Bay
ExecutivesThank you, Tina. Hello, everyone. I'll kick off my action with this slide that demonstrates KIT strong earnings track record in the last 5 years. Moving to the next slide. The DI for FY 25 increased over 24% year-on-year to approximately $250 million. Asset DI before corporate cost was higher at $349.1 million. This is underpinned mainly by higher contribution from City Energy, the German solar portfolio, IXM and Ventura. This included a cash surplus for AGBC, which was substantially used for debt repayment at KID trust level. In the Environmental Services segment, lower income from Sono Go after concession renewal was partially offset by the full year contribution from MEDP in FY '25. Corporate expenses, excluding the debt repayment, were lower year-on-year, mainly due to no performance fee accrued in FY '25. We recognized a divestment gain of $49 million from the sale of interest in Philippine Coastal and Ventura. Moving to the next slide. This is the second half FY 2025 DI. The DI increased about 21% year-on-year to $130.1 million. Asset DI before corporate cost was higher at $199 million, underpinned by higher DI for City Energy, the wind farm portfolio, AGPC and the German solar portfolio. In the Environmental Services segment, lower income from Sunoco after concession renewal was partially offset by the full year contribution from MEDB in the second half of FY '25. Corporate expenses, excluding the debt repayment, were higher year-on-year, mainly due to higher trustee manager base fee. We recognized a divestment gain of $27 million from the sale of interest in Ventura in the second half of FY '25. Moving to the next slide. On to the balance sheet. KIT reported net gearing of approximately 39% with interest carbonate ratio at 7.6x. The consolidated debt for KIT aggregated to about $3.2 billion as at end FY '25. Pending capital deployment, about $180 million of the remaining divestment proceeds have been used to pay down existing borrowings at the trust level. The weighted average cost of debt at the group was lower year-on-year at 4.4%, the weighted average cost of debt at the trust level was also lower at 3.4%. KIT has hedged approximately 73% of the trust's foreign income and approximately 72% of the KIT total borrowings are hedged. Moving to the next slide. We have received firm commitments to refinance ICM's loan subject to documentation and expect to complete the early refinancing ahead of its expiry in the second half of this year. We are also evaluating refinancing options for the remaining $330 million debt at trust level maturing later in the year. To date, we have approximately $239 million of committed RCF that is undrawn. To conclude, the refinancing needs for FY '26 will be met as we look to complete the refinancing ahead of expiry. With $180 million of remaining divestment proceeds and ample debt headroom, we are well positioned to execute our planned accretive acquisitions and value creation initiatives to achieve and continuity into the long term. Thank you. With that, I will now hand over the time back to Marilyn.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesThank you, Kevin Gintama. We will now proceed to the Q&A session. [Operator Instructions] Okay. We have the first question from Sika. Asia, go ahead with your questions.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsWelcome to [indiscernible]. Okay. Good, good set of numbers. Really impressed but I have a few things to ask about 2026. How should I look at GMG's distributable income in 2026? Like the 1-month contribution we should look at annualizing it?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesCorrect. Yes. So as you correctly mentioned, GMG contributed $1 million 1 million. Going forward, the DI run rate is expected to remain for FY '26. And -- but I think 1 thing we would like to note is that GMG is a business which requires regular maintenance CapEx from vessel dry docking, right? But most of this maintenance CapEx is expected to be debt funded. So the focus is on [indiscernible].
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesSo maybe I could at that can be something like what we did with Ventura, when we bought the business, we are aware that there is certain CapEx or maintenance requirements, which could be a bit lumpy, right? So when we enter into the transaction, we kind of size the capital structure such that we could use the debt capacity to debt fund certain expenses. This have to maintain a daily blend there.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsOkay. That helps. Just continuing on the same topic. You said there's now a long-term charter extended to 2028 maintenance contract. Can I get a sense on what percentage of your revenue or EBITDA from GMT is now covered with multiyear agreements?
Teong Ming Bay
ExecutivesSo to give you a sense, right, we have 6 vessels to our long-term charters. We have already secured why not those. We are in the process of negotiating another one. And all 4 maintenance vessels, which are under the consortium model have been recontracted. So to answer your question, it's MXN 5 or 6 half Tata certainty.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesSo I think when we announced the acquisition during our AGM last year, I think certain contracts was coming up. But other projects was renewed even before we entered into the transaction. And I think there was 1 contract that will come soon after the AGM, and that contract was renewed. And I think this basically plays to what we have been saying, right? There is a lot of demand for such vessels given the outlook for CapEx requirements to build new cables to maintain cables in the disease. So this is where I think we want to write that macro trend.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsUnderstand, understand. Okay. I just have 2 more questions before I jump back in the QIC. There's a lot of other people waiting to ask. On BKI 2, can I get an update on the win situation? How should we look at 2026. You did mention in the slides that second half is looking better than year-on-year. but on half-on-half and how should we look at the 2026 DI for it?
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesYes. So as a recap, thinking about the factors which drive PKR performance, number 1 is mainly related to wind, right? Because the pricing is actually locked in by a feed-in contract -- feeding tariff contract backed by the German government. So if you look at the wind speeds in second half of 2025 and compare that against second half of 2024, the art or already above levels in the previous period.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesSo I think last year, I think there was a lot of concerns around BK2, given the wins, yes, we have said that in the first half of the dubiswas very bad due to prewar climate phenomenon I think we are glad to share that as what Cintas mentioned, the rise for second half has recovered. And the we for second half 25% is higher than debt of the second half of 2024. But we hope that this will continue. And with this -- if this continues in 2026, hopefully, the performance from BTI better than that in 2025, if we have a full year of proper wins.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsOkay. Okay. Fair enough. So we still look at it we see how the first quarter goes and then reassess is it?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. Yes. So unfortunately, win is not something that we can control. But like I said, when we look at win -- we have to look at it from a long-term perspective. There will be years where it may be below average, there'll be years where it gave average. But long term wise, over the midterm, we should average out.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsOkay. Fair enough. Just 1 more question and then I'll jump back in the queue. In terms of pipeline, anything from Keppel's ecosystem where you -- and which verticals where you think most actionable ideas would come through or needs could come through over the next 12 months?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesSorry, Sika, I missed your question. If you do.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsI'm saying from Kappa's ecosystem, if you have to look at deal flows, which verticals where you think will be the most actionable deal flow would be in the next 12 months?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. So I think Keppel is across the verticals that we are in at the moment. I think certain assets are being constructed, and I think some of them were probably coming online over the period of time. as and when they come due and in the core for ID, we will definitely put our hands up to kind of -- to express our etesequiring them. But this will be done on a scale very unplanned basis. But we do expect to call it a bit of activities in the energy transition sector, not just from the Keppel table of assets. But I think globally, right, we do expect a lot of activities around the energy transition and digital infrastructure segment.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesOkay, the next would be Ezien Hoo. Can you identify which house you're from?
Ezien Hoo
AnalystsSure. For the presentation. It's Ezien Hoo from OCBC's credit research team. So my question is on AGPC. I think I may have missed a bit of what metrics were saying. There was a cash surplus from capital management at AGPC. Was that used to pay debt at the trust level. And if so, can you please explain more what actually happened at AGPC and what was done with the capital.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesThat's thanks for the question. I'll take that. So yes, so what happened was there was a refinancing activity in HPC level. When the refinancing happened, there is a need to relook into the hedge position. that led to a certain IRS has been unwind unwise certain IRS, which resulted in a gain. So the gain is approximately $51 million. This is -- I would like to stress that this is a one-off. -- right? And what happened is we -- this $51 million has been utilized to repay debt. And this debt will basically is an RCF facility. When we part out, it would become a war chest for us. We will have extended financial flexibility for acquisitions.
Ezien Hoo
AnalystsSo the RCF facility is at the trust level.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesThat's right.
Teong Ming Bay
ExecutivesSo just to be clear, right, total DI is not impacted by this because the proceeds is used to completely pay down debt at a CT level. So it's a flat true.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesNext question we have from Charlie.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsCongrats on strong results. This is Carlin from CSI. I have 3 questions before I jump back to the queue. So the first 1 could you walk through the CapEx for FY '26, I think especially for ENK, Bandra and GMG where you see strategic opportunities to grow. So what's the quantum of CapEx we are talking about. Should I finish all my questions before we dive into the answers? Or?
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesYes. Sal, it would be good if you give us all 3 questions.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsOkay. Can Yes. So my next question is on GM -- so if we just focus on BI management guided just not, right? So can we think of resemble distributable income as a so-called clean DI meaning without debt repayment without CapEx? And is it how we should be looking at FR 26 DI? And my third question is looking at distribution for next year, right? What's your thoughts around distribution trajectory for next year?
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesYes. Go ahead. Yes. So maybe I'll touch on the CapEx slide, right? So I think going on the CapEx plan for EMK, as we previously alluded to, we are dedicating some CapEx towards incinerator capacity expansion this year. This is to account for the fact that our incinerators today are 100% utilized, coupled with the fact that we are seeing incremental demand from the direct landfilling ban in sold which is supportive of pricing. So we are actually expanding capacity in 2 of the 4 siratose ENK cover operates. So that's an E&P. For Ventura, we are -- on the concerned lookout to replace and deploy maintenance and growth CapEx towards the bus fleet.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesSo maybe I can just share a bit of light on the CapEx plans for both EMT and Ventura. I think as what Citi mentioned, I think our incinerator is at maximum utilization. -- we do expect ways for institution to increase especially given the policy change in the sole metro protein area, our land yields, so our cars are located just on set of SMB. So we are well positioned to receive the additional waste, right? And in order to capitalize on debt, that long-term trajectory really to expand our capacity, right? And we do not expect this expansion to have an impact on MK's cash flow because they're rebounded by cash on the books or by debt facilities that we have size for these papers. And I think this will be done over basis, right? And I think what I would like to point out is that this year, the incinerator and B&K is scheduled for some refurbishment. And we are just using that period of time to undertake the expansion. So this is a very efficient way of undertaking expansion. As probably everyone knows, Keppel as a group, my sponsor, has very strong operating and technical expertise in this area. We have obtained support in helping EMT to expand. And this is something that we spoke about last year. And I think we are -- we are seeing all this execution panning out as we speak. All right. And I think that's this question about the DI for December. Yes, that's clean where you can almost for the full year in 2026, you can annualize that to get to a estimates of the DI forecast. So last year, there's a 1 month or year over month of contribution. This year, you see the 12 months of contributions. So the DI from 2025 had to be adjusted for that to get up to a more accurate estimation for 2026. Have we answered your question? Anything that's unanswered?
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsYes. I think maybe 1 follow-up question is on CapEx, whether we could share certain amount like planned for plant or site for CapEx just for modeling propers. And another -- the last question was on distribution trajectory for next year.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesIf you don't mind, could you refer to Slide 34 of our presentation slide, we have disclosed our CapEx guidance and also the debt amortization over there. Okay. And I think on the distribution guidance, right, I mean, we don't want to give profit guidance. But I would say, I think we are in a good position. Our -- 2025 DI on certain assets does not reflect the full contributions, but once need to annualize the DI from GMG to project what we will get for the full year of 2026. And I think we have -- last year, we realized about $300 million of capital from recycling of the big coastal and a stake in Ventura we have report $100 million of debt as an $180 million that we can employ this year. In addition to that, our balance sheet is very strong at 39%. So there's additional headroom that we can leverage on undertaking accretive acquisitions there.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesNext in the queue would be questions from [indiscernible].
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsI just -- the first question from me is on the divestment gains part of it. So I'm a bit confused by the classification of divestment gains as part of our DI -- so I mean, I always thought that divestment gains or losses, whatever it means is an accounting item and not a cash item, the whole cash sale proceeds should be a cash item -- so how does it fit in with the DIA, which is the cash flow difficulty. And if you're using divestment gains to the distributions, then how come we are still saying that we have EUR 180 million remaining from the EUR 300 million sales proceeds for -- so there must be some cash that has been used for the distributions from this side.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. So thanks for the question. So in fact, the divestment gain is an actual gain. What we have done with the divestment gain is you could think of it of a real gain, the principal reason, right? What we have done is we have taken debt meanwhile to repay the debt at trust level as a cash management basis.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesYes. So maybe Soothe way I would explain is that we sold PSBC last year, we saw a 25% stake in Ventura, right, at a very good gains. I think the gains over there is about over 30% in a year, right? So we make profit on the sale of a 25% stake in on GMG, that's on the real cash gain, right? So we recognize that a part of that real catenin -- and the vast majority of that proceeds is not recognized in. We only recognize a gain in. The principle is still left in our balance sheet. -- which we have used part of it to reinvest in GMG. So of the $300 million, $120 million is used to take like a very silicastake in GMG. And we have about $180 million left, right? And part of this $180 million, we have used to pay down debt. The reduced interest expense across KIT, right? And that basically lowers our gearing down to 39%, which is very healthy, right? So we have those person proceeds as well as the additional debt headroom that we can do that can utilize to make further accretive acquisitions. Okay, that clarifies.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsYes. So you're talking about the debt headroom not actual. So -- because you have to pay distributions of $240 million this year if you're distributing $0.0395. And your DI is $250 million. So at least of the $50 million divestment gains have to pay out at least 40 million to -- from that to the unitholders. So how do you classify it as a increased debt headroom?
Teong Ming Bay
ExecutivesOkay. Sure. So maybe let me just take a step back and explain it. We have certain proceeds from the sale, right? And not -- we did not get because we did not recognize the full sale proceeds into the DI, we only recognize the gain that we make right on Ventura the DI, right? So yes, we have about $20 million, $40 million is about -- or $40 million is from the sale of Ventura. So that still reflects well against the delivery performance is because it's still higher DI. But more importantly is I do not -- I think we want to kind of make it clear that recurring DI that you're trying to back so for 2025 results, does not reflect the full DI generation potential of [indiscernible] because that operating or recurring Database only includes 1 month of contribution from GMG, right? So if you annualize that, then you'll get to a better amount. And there's also a certain growth that we are trying to achieve in our portfolio that also had to give additional vis-a-vis 2025. And what we would also like to say is that the deficit proceeds, right, have not been fully redeployed is some of it has been used to pay down debt. Some of it as cash on balance sheet. And these are the amount, right, that we can use to reinvest that will create additional TI plus for our Bocian orders about it.
Unknown Analyst
AnalystsOne other question on the CapEx front. In terms of growth CapEx versus maintenance CapEx spread down -- so I see the 2026 numbers on Slide 34. So we are projecting around $100 million growth CapEx in total for next year. How does that compare with the growth CapEx in 2025? Is it higher and how do we finance this growth CapEx? Yes. So maybe I can take this. So the growth CapEx is largely stable. I wouldn't say there's a huge increase on this. In terms of growth CapEx, I think it's largely going to be funded through internal cash of the respective business or debt facilities. Okay. So shouldn't affect DI to a lot extent.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesNo, no. So maybe just 1 point that I'd like to just add because I think what we're trying to do is tensor the recurring DI, if it and I think your question is about that gain in DI. The way I'd probably look at it is that if we did not sell a 25% stake in Ventura, our DI will also be higher than what you are projecting here. or yes.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesThanks, Peter, for the questions. We have another question from [indiscernible].
Jialin Li
AnalystsYes. Sorry, it's me again. Yes, I have a follow-up couple questions on Ion. So just wondering whether you could share details on the acquisition of its subsidiary happened this year? And also because I saw the CapEx breakdown for next year, there is quite some amounts back on X. So just wondering whether you have plans for another acquisition of -- well it's I don't know maybe like subsidiary under Exxon or whether this is just expanding its current project line.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. So thanks, Jialin, for the question. So I think sharing more details around the High acquisition. So this is a base oil importer and distributor -- so these are actually like engine oils and lubes used for vehicles typically for long-distance transport. So these are like logistics vehicles. And the business is expected to benefit generally from a tightening of fuel emission standards towards higher spec type of base oils. So the acquisition is expected to contribute roughly about a single-digit percentage EBITDA to exomes pre-acquisition levels. Maybe again, just a bit more. Dixon, as we always say, there is 2 key businesses in Dice. One is the chlorine business, the other is the chemical description business varistors Australia. And it owns these fleets of very specialized chemical hazardous chemicals distribution fees, right? So this acquisition is done by -- it's a bolt-on for this chemical distribution business. So the thing behind that is to use the same infrastructure to distribute that product to retain customers. So we basically increase as revenue to us. I think this acquisition was done pretty late last year. So our DI for last year does not reflect the full contribution from these acquisitions. So come 2026, if you see the full year contribution over that. So we expect an uplift over there as well. And more importantly, it's because we are using the same infrastructure to distribute more products to the same customers -- there's also some operational efficiency that we can realize over there.
Jialin Li
AnalystsOkay. Clearly like me of your -- because just now you mentioned the financial implication is on the EBITDA level, right? So could you maybe remind us of the EV EBITDA before this acquisition or maybe at the acquisition of Exxon itself.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesSo I believe we had disclosed in one of our previous slides that exams EBITDA is roughly 10 million. In the current slide, we also have the EBITDA levels, for Exxon, if you refer to our business updates.
Jialin Li
AnalystsOkay. Got it. And sorry, just to clarify. So the financial implication of this new acquisition is -- should we look at it via EBITDA? Or should we look at a certain percentage increase in EBITDA?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. So as I previously mentioned, it's going to be a single -- mid-single-digit EBITDA contribution to exempt pre-acquisition EBITDA.
Teong Ming Bay
ExecutivesSo the way, I mean I put a little bit more -- so Excel last year, full year ending 2025, I think it's doing over 200 million -- slightly over 300-plus million EBITDA. This acquisitions is done late last year. So it's not fully reflected into the number. As what [indiscernible] has mentioned, this acquisition on a full year basis could result in a mid-single-digit increase to Exxon's EBITDA. So this is then flows down to DI.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesDo we have any other questions from the analyst community? Okay. If not, then let me just quickly raise -- first and foremost, thank you to our public audience for your questions posed. I believe most of the questions have been addressed earlier through the common questions raised by the analysts. I just have 1 or 2 other additional questions that I will pose to our management team now. The first question is on Exxon's debt. The question is whether -- is there an expected refinancing cost for the XM debt that we should be considering and whether or not it is significant.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesI can take that. So we do not foresee an increase in refinancing costs. In fact, we do see a loan margin compression for Exxon. But do think -- note that the current markets situation in Australia. They are talks about RBA may increase the base rate. So I think at the end of the day, would be a net of position. So to answer your question, there will not be an increase in refinancing cost for Exxon.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesOkay. Thank you, Ramon, for the response. The second question is on the query on the projected CapEx for GMG, can management please advise CapEx?
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. So I think when we sort for this approval for these acquisitions, I think we have disclosed that there is a lot of growth potential in this business. Our verses uptilized. We want to grow the business, and we want to either buy new vessels from new vessels or buying vessels and compare them into playing vessels. I think I'll say we are making good projections over there. I think we have acquired a vessel that's being repurposed into Kimblin vessels, which we hope once it's been completed, can be deployed and we should then add to revenue, right. The -- and when we look at these acquisitions, right, we are aware of certain growth CapEx that will be coming up. And our plan right is to actually -- we have a size debt facility that we plan to use the debt fund all the CapEx. And so as a result, which is a result of this funding method, the impacts to our DI -- of the open is not going to be material. But of course, we have also set aside at this close certain equity commitments that we have been better to put in to buy even more vessels, right. At this stage, we have not utilized -- or we have not planned to put in that equity yet. But as a plan, we are able to see on new vessels, we will inform the market accordingly.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesThanks, Kevin, for response. Let me just quickly chat to see if there are any additional questions that have come through. Okay. I think we just have 1 more question to -- from the public. So the question here is how big is our onshore wind farm capacity. And then the second part of the question is whether we intend to buy more of assets.
Tzu Chao Neo
ExecutivesYes. I would say we have about 1.3 gigawatts of renewable capacity, right, of which, I would say, 450 megawatts of 470 megawatts is for the German BK2, the offshore wind farm. Then a big chunk of the remaining actually goes to our -- comes from our solar asset Gensler portfolio is doing very well. I think he has received register good increase in DI from the German solar portfolio. And our wind farm is basically onshore inform is basically distributed across Norway and Sweden. From an investment quantum perspective, it's a relative small part of our portfolio. Do we have more plans to buy more genba. I think SFN, we find good assets in this sector, if we will do it. But if there isn't any attractive assets, I think we're happy to kind of consider other sectors as well.
Unknown Executive
ExecutivesThanks, Kevin. I think with that, we have completed all the questions that have been posed to us by analysts and the public. Thank you so much, everyone, for making time to attend our call. If there are no further questions, we will now close this morning's call, and have a good day ahead. Thank you.
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