中国地产公司碧桂园(Country Garden Holdings Co.)的债权人正在密切关注该公司亿万富翁董事长杨惠妍,想知道她是否会动用自己的个人财富,解救陷入困境的公司。
据彭博亿万富翁指数显示,杨惠妍的资产净值超过50亿美元。据彭博社计算,她凭借在碧桂园服务部门的个人持股,将获得约2,800万美元股息。这足以偿还碧桂园本周未能偿还的2,250万美元债券。她的家族拥有的基金会还能获得3,500万美元现金收益。
如果杨惠妍自掏腰包偿还碧桂园的债务,那么她将步许家印的后尘,许家印是中国恒大集团(China Evergrande Group)的董事长。恒大集团的债权人曾向许家印施压,要求他自掏腰包向公司注资。
碧桂园曾经是中国规模最大的房地产开发商,也被投资者评价为“模范企业”,但如果它不能在30天宽限期内偿还债务,碧桂园将与恒大一样成为众多暴雷的地产商之一。
碧桂园2026年到期的美元债券交易价格约为10美分,投资者已经在估算碧桂园违约的代价。上周四,穆迪投资者服务(Moody’s Investors Service)将碧桂园的信用评级从B1下调三级至Caa1。这家地产商表示,预计其上半年亏损高达76亿美元。
彭博亿万富翁指数显示,杨惠妍从她控股的两家上市公司碧桂园和物业服务公司碧桂园服务控股有限公司(Country Garden Services Holdings Co)领取的股息总计已经接近50亿美元。碧桂园于2007年在中国香港上市。碧桂园服务控股有限公司在2018年上市。她是如何处理这些收入的,目前仍不得而知。碧桂园本月需要偿还的债务为78亿元人民币(约合11亿美元),如果杨惠妍决定动用私人财富帮助公司,那么这笔金额有可能相当巨大。
Creditsights新加坡高级信用分析师曾竹君(音译)表示:“过去12个月,与旭辉集团(CIFI)和恒大等其他民营房地产开发商相比,碧桂园表现出更高的偿债意愿。然而,随着合同销量持续下降,很难说他们是否会动用自己的资金偿还债务。”
上个月,杨惠妍将其在碧桂园服务的很大一部分个人持股,转让给由妹妹控股的慈善基金会。杨惠妍目前还担任碧桂园服务的董事长。瑞银集团分析师表示,此次转让的时机“不同寻常”。几天后,该物业管理公司将2022年股息和特别股息的发放日期提前。
发放股息的碧桂园服务在给彭博新闻的一份声明中称,该项股息发放计划在5月份就得到了批准,与“任何第三方因素”无关。该物业服务公司称,之所以将股息发放日期从8月30日提前到星期五,是因为公司有充足的现金,并且希望打消外界对公司资金稳定性的担忧。
财富缩水
虽然亿万富翁杨惠妍依旧能领取股息,但随着碧桂园陷入债务危机,她的财富较最高点缩水了84%。彭博的富豪指数显示,她的资产净值目前为55亿美元,与2021年6月的286亿美元相比已经大幅减少。
如果以恒大许家印的财富状况作为参照,她可能很快就要动用自己的个人资产。今年早些时候,一批债权人要求许家印向恒大至少个人出资20亿美元,作为同意公司提出的任何方案的条件之一。他之前已于2021年向恒大注资约10亿美元。
研究公司Lucror Analytics的信用分析师何瑞英(音译)表示,出售股份可在短期内帮助碧桂园融资。他表示,碧桂园没有大量投资地产可供出售,而且其资产对于其他开发商或投资者而言没有吸引力。
除了数十亿美元股息以外,杨惠妍家族还通过一个家族信托,持有碧桂园价值20亿美元的股份、碧桂园服务价值12亿美元的股份以及美国上市公司博实乐教育集团(Bright Scholar Education Holdings Ltd.)价值2,000万美元的股份。
快速崛起
杨惠妍的父亲杨国强于1992年在佛山市参与创建了碧桂园,后来杨惠妍加入碧桂园并担任杨国强的个人助理,学习管理技能,并最终接替杨国强。2005年,杨国强将控股股份转让给杨惠妍。
随着中国房地产市场进入数十年繁荣期,碧桂园快速发展,凭借“给您一个五星级的家”这样一句脍炙人口的口号,在比邻香港的广东省名声大噪。
25岁时的杨惠妍就已成为中国女首富。杨惠妍毕业于俄亥俄州立大学。2012年,杨惠妍担任碧桂园副董事长,2018年担任联席董事长。今年3月,杨国强辞职,杨惠妍成为碧桂园的唯一董事长。(财富中文网)
—— 艾玛·董为本文提供了协助。
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
中国地产公司碧桂园(Country Garden Holdings Co.)的债权人正在密切关注该公司亿万富翁董事长杨惠妍,想知道她是否会动用自己的个人财富,解救陷入困境的公司。
据彭博亿万富翁指数显示,杨惠妍的资产净值超过50亿美元。据彭博社计算,她凭借在碧桂园服务部门的个人持股,将获得约2,800万美元股息。这足以偿还碧桂园本周未能偿还的2,250万美元债券。她的家族拥有的基金会还能获得3,500万美元现金收益。
如果杨惠妍自掏腰包偿还碧桂园的债务,那么她将步许家印的后尘,许家印是中国恒大集团(China Evergrande Group)的董事长。恒大集团的债权人曾向许家印施压,要求他自掏腰包向公司注资。
碧桂园曾经是中国规模最大的房地产开发商,也被投资者评价为“模范企业”,但如果它不能在30天宽限期内偿还债务,碧桂园将与恒大一样成为众多暴雷的地产商之一。
碧桂园2026年到期的美元债券交易价格约为10美分,投资者已经在估算碧桂园违约的代价。上周四,穆迪投资者服务(Moody’s Investors Service)将碧桂园的信用评级从B1下调三级至Caa1。这家地产商表示,预计其上半年亏损高达76亿美元。
彭博亿万富翁指数显示,杨惠妍从她控股的两家上市公司碧桂园和物业服务公司碧桂园服务控股有限公司(Country Garden Services Holdings Co)领取的股息总计已经接近50亿美元。碧桂园于2007年在中国香港上市。碧桂园服务控股有限公司在2018年上市。她是如何处理这些收入的,目前仍不得而知。碧桂园本月需要偿还的债务为78亿元人民币(约合11亿美元),如果杨惠妍决定动用私人财富帮助公司,那么这笔金额有可能相当巨大。
Creditsights新加坡高级信用分析师曾竹君(音译)表示:“过去12个月,与旭辉集团(CIFI)和恒大等其他民营房地产开发商相比,碧桂园表现出更高的偿债意愿。然而,随着合同销量持续下降,很难说他们是否会动用自己的资金偿还债务。”
上个月,杨惠妍将其在碧桂园服务的很大一部分个人持股,转让给由妹妹控股的慈善基金会。杨惠妍目前还担任碧桂园服务的董事长。瑞银集团分析师表示,此次转让的时机“不同寻常”。几天后,该物业管理公司将2022年股息和特别股息的发放日期提前。
发放股息的碧桂园服务在给彭博新闻的一份声明中称,该项股息发放计划在5月份就得到了批准,与“任何第三方因素”无关。该物业服务公司称,之所以将股息发放日期从8月30日提前到星期五,是因为公司有充足的现金,并且希望打消外界对公司资金稳定性的担忧。
财富缩水
虽然亿万富翁杨惠妍依旧能领取股息,但随着碧桂园陷入债务危机,她的财富较最高点缩水了84%。彭博的富豪指数显示,她的资产净值目前为55亿美元,与2021年6月的286亿美元相比已经大幅减少。
如果以恒大许家印的财富状况作为参照,她可能很快就要动用自己的个人资产。今年早些时候,一批债权人要求许家印向恒大至少个人出资20亿美元,作为同意公司提出的任何方案的条件之一。他之前已于2021年向恒大注资约10亿美元。
研究公司Lucror Analytics的信用分析师何瑞英(音译)表示,出售股份可在短期内帮助碧桂园融资。他表示,碧桂园没有大量投资地产可供出售,而且其资产对于其他开发商或投资者而言没有吸引力。
除了数十亿美元股息以外,杨惠妍家族还通过一个家族信托,持有碧桂园价值20亿美元的股份、碧桂园服务价值12亿美元的股份以及美国上市公司博实乐教育集团(Bright Scholar Education Holdings Ltd.)价值2,000万美元的股份。
快速崛起
杨惠妍的父亲杨国强于1992年在佛山市参与创建了碧桂园,后来杨惠妍加入碧桂园并担任杨国强的个人助理,学习管理技能,并最终接替杨国强。2005年,杨国强将控股股份转让给杨惠妍。
随着中国房地产市场进入数十年繁荣期,碧桂园快速发展,凭借“给您一个五星级的家”这样一句脍炙人口的口号,在比邻香港的广东省名声大噪。
25岁时的杨惠妍就已成为中国女首富。杨惠妍毕业于俄亥俄州立大学。2012年,杨惠妍担任碧桂园副董事长,2018年担任联席董事长。今年3月,杨国强辞职,杨惠妍成为碧桂园的唯一董事长。(财富中文网)
—— 艾玛·董为本文提供了协助。
翻译:刘进龙
审校:汪皓
Country Garden Holdings Co. bondholders are setting their sights on the company’s billionaire Chair Yang Huiyan to see if she will use her vast personal fortune to support the struggling Chinese property firm.
Yang, who the Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimates has a net worth of more than $5 billion, will get about $28 million in dividends Friday for her personal stake in the firm’s services unit, according to Bloomberg calculations. That’s enough to cover the $22.5 million bond payments Country Garden missed this week. A foundation owned by her family could bag another $35 million in cash payouts.
If she does use her own money to pay Country Garden’s debts, she would follow the lead of Hui Ka Yan — founder of defaulted developer China Evergrande Group — who was pressured by creditors to dip into his pocket to back his firm.
Once China’s largest builder and seen by investors as a “model enterprise,” Country Garden will join a slew of defaulters such as Evergrande if it doesn’t make the payments within a 30-day grace period.
Investors are already pricing in a likely default, with the company’s dollar bond maturing in 2026 trading at about 10 cents on the dollar. Country Garden was downgraded three notches Thursday by Moody’s Investors Service to Caa1 from B1. The developer said it expects a first-half loss of as much as $7.6 billion.
Yang has collected almost $5 billion in dividends over time from two of the listed companies controlled by her — Country Garden, which started trading in Hong Kong in 2007, and property management firm Country Garden Services Holdings Co., trading since 2018, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It’s unknown how she has dealt with the proceeds to date. Still, it could be a sizable pool as the company faces a 7.8 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) payment wall this month.
“Over the past 12 months, Country Garden has shown higher willingness to pay compared to other privately-owned developers such as CIFI and Evergrande,” said Zerlina Zeng, senior credit analyst at Creditsights Singapore. “However, with contracted sales continuing to tumble, it is hard to say whether they will continue to use their own funds to keep the bondholders afloat.”
In a move that spooked the market, Yang last month transferred a substantial part of her personal stake in Country Garden Services, which she also chairs, to a charity foundation controlled by her sister. UBS Group AG analysts said the timing was “unusual.” Days later, the property manager brought forward the payment date of its 2022 dividends and special dividends.
Country Garden Services, the unit paying the dividends, said the payout plan, approved in May, doesn’t relate to any “third-party factor,” in a statement to Bloomberg News. The services company said it brought forward the dividend payment date to Friday — from Aug. 30 — because it has ample cash, and it hopes to alleviate concerns about its stability.
Fortune Slumps
While the billionaire keeps getting dividends, her fortune has slumped 84% since its peak as Country Garden falls deeper into a debt crisis. She now has a net worth of $5.5 billion, down $28.6 billion from June 2021, according to Bloomberg’s wealth index.
If the fortunes of Evergrande’s Hui are any guide, she may soon have to begin dipping into her assets. Earlier this year, a group of creditors asked Hui to inject at least $2 billion of his personal wealth into Evergrande as a condition for agreeing to any proposal from the company, after he injected some $1 billion into the firm in 2021.
Selling shares may help Country Garden raise cash in the short-term, said Ruiying He, a credit analyst at Lucror Analytics. The company doesn’t have a large amount of investment properties to sell and its assets likely won’t be attractive for fellow developers or other investors, He said.
Other than the billions of dollars from dividends, the family still controls a $2 billion stake in Country Garden, a $1.2 billion stake in Country Garden Services and a $20 million stake in US-listed Bright Scholar Education Holdings Ltd. through a family trust.
Rapid Rise
Yang’s father Yeung Kwok Keung co-founded Country Garden in 1992 in the southern Chinese city of Foshan, and transferred a controlling stake to her in 2005 after she joined the company as his personal assistant to learn the ropes and eventually succeed him.
The developer grew rapidly over several decades as the nation’s housing market boomed, making a name for itself in the Guangdong province bordering Hong Kong with a catchy slogan to “get yourself a five-star home.”
By age 25, the Ohio State University alum Yang was China’s richest woman. She became Country Garden’s vice chair in 2012 and its co-chair in 2018. In March, she took over as the sole chair after her father resigned.
–With assistance from Emma Dong.