Dividend Declaration

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Regulatory News | 02 Sep, 2022

Updated : 07:00

RNS Number : 0297Y
Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC
02 September 2022
 

 

2 September 2022

 

DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC

("D9" or the "Company")

 

Dividend Declaration

 

The Board of Directors of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (ticker: DGI9) has declared an interim dividend in respect of the period from 1 April 2022 to 30 June 2022 of 1.5 pence per Ordinary Share, payable on or around 30 September 2022 to holders of Ordinary Shares on the register on 16 September 2022. The ex-dividend date will be 15 September 2022.

 

The Company is targeting an aggregate dividend of 6.0 pence per Ordinary Share for the year ending 31 December 2022. 1

 

Note:

1 The target dividend is a target only and not a forecast. There can be no assurance that the target will be met and it should not be taken as an indication of the Company's expected or actual future results.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

     Triple Point Investment Management

     Thor Johnsen / Andre Karihaloo 

 +44 (0) 20 7201 8989

     J.P. Morgan Cazenove

     William Simmonds / Jérémie Birnbaum (Corporate Finance)

     James Bouverat / Liam MacDonald-Raggett (Sales)

+44 (0) 20 7742 4000

     Akur Capital 

     Tom Frost / Anthony Richardson / Siobhan Sergeant

+44 (0) 20 7493 3631

     TI Consulting

     Mitch Barltrop / Gina Magnin

 

+44 (0) 7807 296 032

+44 (0) 7815 585 751

dgi9@fticonsulting.com

LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92

NOTES TO EDITORS:

 

Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (DGI9) is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange with ticker DGI9. The Company invests in the infrastructure of the internet that underpins the world's digital economy: digital infrastructure.

 

The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple Point") which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, with extensive experience in infrastructure, real estate and private credit, while keeping ESG principles central to its business mission. Triple Point's Digital Infrastructure team has over US$ 300 billion in digital infrastructure transaction experience and in-depth relationships across global tech and global telecoms companies.

 

The number 9 in Digital 9 Infrastructure comes from the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, which focuses the fund on investments that increase connectivity globally and improve the sustainability of digital infrastructure. The assets DGI9 invest in typically comprise scalable platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data centres, terrestrial fibre, and wireless networks.

 

From its IPO in March 2021 and four subsequent placings, DGI9 has raised total equity of £905 million and a revolving credit facility of £375 million, and invested into the following data centres, subsea fibre and wireless networks:

 

·     Aqua Comms, a leading owner and operator of 20,000km of the most modern subsea fibre systems - the backbone of the internet - with a customer base comprising global tech and global telecommunications carriers (April 2021);

·   Verne Global, the leading Icelandic data centre platform, with 40MW of high intensity computing solutions in operation or development, powered by 100% baseload renewable power (September 2021);

·     EMIC-1, a partnership with Meta on a 10,000km fibre system from Europe to India (July 2021);

·     SeaEdge UK1, a data centre and landing station for the North Sea Connect subsea cable, part of the North Atlantic Loop subsea network, improving connectivity between the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America (December 2021);

·   Host Ireland, a leading enterprise broadband provider that owns and operates Fixed Wireless Access networks (April 2022);

·   Volta, a premier data centre based in central London, providing 6MW retail co-location services (April 2022);

·   Ficolo, a leading Finnish data centre and cloud infrastructure platform, with c.23MW of data centre capacity, powered by 100% renewable power and distributing surplus heat to district heating networks (July 2022); and

·    Arqiva, the only national terrestrial television and radio broadcasting network in the United Kingdom - providing data, network and communications services, as well as a national IoT connectivity platform (announced June 2022).

 

The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 March 2021. It was admitted to the premium listing segment of the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority and migrated to trading on the premium segment of the Main Market on 30 August 2022.

 

For more information on the Investment Manager, please visit www.triplepoint.co.uk. For more information on the Company, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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