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Ari Lazar sees value in $KW

Dec 02, 20211 hr 9 min
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Episode description

Ari Lazar, senior analyst at RGA investment advisors, discusses his bull case for KW. Ari believes KW trades at a material discount to NAV, and that discount should shrink as the company's growth starts to ramp up in the near future.

My tweet thread on KW: https://twitter.com/AndrewRangeley/status/1465714725254307840?s=20
RGA's Q3 letter w/ KW discussion: https://www.rgaia.com/commentary/q4-2021-investment-commentary-looking-inward-and-looking-westward/

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:25 KW Overview
2:45 How KW fits into RGA's investment framework
6:35 KW history
8:30 Discussing the KWE / KW deal from ~2017
11:30 What's KW been doing since the KWE deal?
18:35 Diving into KW's SOTP and their multifamily properties
20:45 Slight technical difficulty
21:25 Continued discussion of KW's SOTP / multifamily assets
23:05 KW"s office assets
29:45 How do you get comfortable when cap rates are this low?
32:30 KW's development asset value
40:20 Valuing KW's asset management business
50:10 Don't all real estate companies trade at a discount to NAV?
55:25 Is there financial engineering potential / could KW split into a REIT?
1:02:00 Does KW belong on the Mount Rushmore of value traps?

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