Eastside Distilling, Inc. Price & Performance (BLNE)

We are already at a very high occupancy level but we still improve it. We also have positive value growth in our portfolio due to unrealized value changes mainly in Poland. Very stable occupancy, as I mentioned, 96%. Surplus ratio improved by 1.7 percentage points. So it's reaching almost 94%. Again, very high figure. And the Board has proposed a dividend of SEK1.2 per share, which is an increase compared to last year. So if we go back a little bit to our key target markets and why we think it's so exciting is actually about growth. Our region, Poland, the Baltic States have been growing faster than most of other European countries over the last twenty five years, and we believe they will continue growing faster for the next coming years. And this is shown, you can see it actually in the figures, but Poland and Lithuania are actually performing extremely well, somewhat lacking in Latvia, but the performance continues very, very strong despite the turbulence that we see globally today. These countries are also very low indebted, which opens up additional possibilities to do infrastructure investments, defense investments, etcetera, etcetera. That is now on top of the agenda.

So all of this, the very positive macro environment. It's also combined with growing office usage and growing demand for office. Our biggest challenge today is not a vacancy, it's actually, it's the lack of premises that we have. We see very, very strong demand primarily in Poland actually for office space as the trend for coming back for office is increasing. At the same time, we see that structurally there is huge potential to grow and especially in combination with lower production numbers of new offices as well. So this all positively drives the rental levels as well. And of course, probably the main point is actually we are in the market with lowest rental levels combined with highest yields, which creates very attractive capital values for investment. Over time, we think this gap should close, should narrow down and definitely it will have a positive impact on the value growth of the portfolio should that trend happen. But we believe that this actually, we see positive signs of this actually moving upwards. We see positive trends in the rental levels and we see positive moves in the yields as well. So if you look on our properties, we have 16 wonderful properties.

There's no change since last year, so I will not probably spend too much time on them. If you look on the distribution overall, 51% of our revenue comes from Poland, Thirty Percent from Warsaw and Poznan Vilnius with 41%. So Lithuania's capital remains our core market and then followed, of course, we have 7% of revenue coming from Riga. Property values and revenues are approximately the same. If you look, we are very sort of on our kind of segmentation in business. Office is 96%, which is, and basically 4% is mainly services surrounding the offices. So we are a very, very pure office play. If we go into the tenant side, the, our tenants are very strong multinational players in many cases. You can see the sort of the top list of the 15 tenants, all multinational names that you would recognize. And if you look on the rental value, basically, the distribution is pretty similar. It's just Warsaw, somewhat lower compared to the values, but it's around onethree. So 51% comes from Poland. On average, we have four years' volt, two twenty one per square meter a year on average in rent and we have approximately more than 200 tenants in our portfolio that we offer services today.

In terms of sustainability, we have very ambitious targets, actually also very strong results. So these are figures as per year end. So sustainability certification is 100 of our portfolio. We received 92 points in GRESP last year and five stars. 78% of our financing is green. And of course, when we do refinancings this figure, we expect to increase even further. Green leases, 45%. It's mainly dominated in the Baltics. Poland is not yet there, but we will be working on that. And as of year, last year, we have 82% of our portfolio au taxonomy aligned. We also worked quite hard to reduce our energy intensity. So if you look on the total energy during January, February, we reduced by 4%. And if we look on just building energy, not excluding the tenant energy, were reduced by 5%. So we continue that work on improving our operations and making our buildings much more efficient even though the portfolio is very modern. We have a very professional, very strong Board led by Lisa Lotte Jut. She will be leaving us as of this AGM. And the new proposed Chairman is Louise Richnow, which we have an AGM tomorrow. So we hope that she will be elected.

And we expanded our executive management team. Before, it was myself and Britmarie only. Now we have Erik, Emil, Julius and Janis joining the team. And well, with this improved team, we hope that we will further run the business in efficient manner. So on this, I will leave to Britt Marie. And yes.

Thank you, Kristy. It's a pleasure to once again present result from Eastline. We start by comparing the first quarter this year with the same period last year. And as you can see, we had a huge increase in profit from property management and also in the profit for the period. The increase in the profit from property management was related to the two acquisitions last year, but the profit for the period was also positively affected by unrealized value changes related to properties in Poland. The interest income decreased during the quarter and the interest expenses increased and both these changes are related to the acquisitions of properties during 2024. The rental income in a comparable portfolio increased by 4%, mainly related to indexation, higher occupancy in average and also compensation for pre terminated leases during the quarter. If we compare the first quarter for 2025 with the last quarter twenty twenty four, we saw an increase in profit from property management with 27% and this is of course related to the fact that Worsa Unit and the income from Worsa Unit was included in the full quarter this year, but in Q4 only for one month. And the figures are also positively affected by the indexation of rents and higher average occupancy and also the compensation from pre terminated leases.

The earning capacity is a theoretical assessment of these lines earnings during a twelve month period based on current agreements, could be lease agreements and loan agreements and certain assumptions. We compare the situation by the end of the last quarter with the previous quarter. And normally, we can see large changes if we acquire new properties, which we didn't during the first quarter, and thereby, we can only see minor changes this quarter. But still, the rental income increases by 1%, and that's due to the indexation. The interest income decreased due to a lower interest rate level. The interest expenses decreases after amortizations and slightly lower interest rate level. And on the bottom line, profit from property management increased by 2%, mainly due to indexation and lower interest expenses. The key ratios, it's positive to see that profit from property management per share continues to increase now up to 0.33 during the quarter, an increase with around 2% and this is related to ation and also lower interest expenses. The surplus ratio is somewhat lower, but stable and the change is mainly due to higher property expenses. The ICR increased somewhat after lower interest expenses and the net debt ratio continues to improve now down to 8.5 due to higher NOI and higher sorry, decreased net debt.

We have a healthy leverage level. The LTV is now down to 48%. It was 50% by year end. The interest bearing debt slightly below 500. Liquidity improved somewhat up a couple of millions to €34,000,000 The interest rate level seems to be the same as previously 4.5, but on the second decimal somewhat lower. The interest coverage ratio 2.4 that is slightly lower than if we compare with the same period last year when it was 2.7. Capital tie up period and fixed interest period slightly lower and compared to year end, but still quite long around two years both of them and the share of fixed interest is high 84% and that's the same level as we had by year end. We didn't have any new financing or refinancing during the quarter. And we have a small amount to be refinanced during the autumn this year, 38,000,000 in September and the interest from banks is very good actually. So we think it will go very smooth. Most refinancing will take place in 2027 and as you can see in 2029. And when it comes to debt sources, the portfolio is very diversified. We have five different banks with approximately 20% each of the loans.

Berlin HIP finances both properties in Postman, SEB properties both in Vilnius and Riga, Hillaver and Ireste Fifty Percent each of Vorso units and Swedbank finances properties in Vilnius and also small amounts from Luminor, LHV and OP Bank. The property value has increased substantially during the plus five years from now from 2020 going forward. And the increase during the last twelve months was 66%. If you look at unrealized value changes for properties, we saw 19,000,000 plus during last quarter corresponding to 2% after a decrease during 2023 and quite stable values in 2024. And this increase was related to properties in Poland. We saw a decrease in the yield requirements in Poland and also an increase in the assessed market trend for properties in Warsaw. We've started evaluated three properties during the quarter of which one in Poland that was one of the properties in Poznan. And the yield requirement in the total portfolio decreased from 6.6 at year end to 6.5 by the end of the quarter. We have a proven growth and strategy execution. If you look at the property value, it has increased by 157% since 2020. And if we look at the profit per share from property management, it has increased from with 128% from 2020.

And if we include also the earning capacity and the figures in the earning capacity, the increase is as high as 182%. So that was the end of the presentation. So now we are ready for questions. Let's see. Do you expect your current average interest rate of 4.5 to decline when you refinance bank loans in the future? Yes and no. Of course, that will vary depending on which level they are financed on today. When it comes to the refinancing during the autumn, these interest swaps that we have today for those loans will probably be lower than the level during at least they are lower than the level for swaps today. On the other hand, we can see that margins have come down also. So it will vary over time. Hi, congrats to a great quarter regarding the one off income from tenants moving out earlier. How much have that affected their rental income in Q1? I don't actually have the exact figure for that, not that much. I can come back to you, Martin. How do you view share buybacks?

I think as before, I think our key target is actually to grow the business. And for that, we need basically all the money we can have. We see that can actually deliver over time significantly higher returns. And of course, but of course, should the discount widen, etcetera, so that will be on the table of the Board anyway. Yes.

Okay. Any more questions, please post them. I think we'll have to wait a little while because it's a delay.

Maybe during this time, Ruwait, I can elaborate a little bit about the strong demand. I think this is really worth mentioning that demand is extremely strong in Poland today. We see basically a recovery in all of our markets, even Latvia that has been lagging a little bit. We see actually positive tendencies in Latvia as well. The rental levels are somewhat lower there, but the market is picking up. Billions has been stable, somewhat softening in the last quarter of last year, but now actually recovering. And Poznan, primarily Poznan received very, very strong demand. And we wish we'd have more space, but in general, worse as well. The rental levels are actually picking up That was actually the question. What rent increase potential do you see for Warsaw units?

Well, today, the average rent is 24 in the building. And we see in the market leases signed closer to 30. So today, so it's difficult to say exactly because we still have quite significant volt coming out, but the tendency is very positive. And in general, I think the market rents have moved, which also resulted in a positive revaluation of the property as well.

And do you expect to keep your high economic occupancy rate?

Yes. We believe that the premises will be well occupied going forward. Of course, there will be moves. And I think having this high level of occupancy will probably have a, there will be some changes in the tenants in the future. So of course, this could decrease somewhat. But in general, we are not concerned. We see that actually today, there's a bigger risk of losing tenants just because we don't have anything to offer if the companies grow. So that could create some volatility. But in general, probably that will also lead to somewhat higher rental levels. So overall, work hard to make sure that our tenants are happy, that we find space for them. And but yes, in general, we see that it looks quite positive actually.

What are the main components for East Main behind the difference in NAV and long term equity value? I hope I understand that question right. Is it the difference between the NAV in SEK and euro?

No, it's the book value and I think it's the deferred tax. Could that be?

No, I don't think so. If it is actually, if you're talking about the NAV and the long term NAV, I guess there is a difference. Long term NAV increases in euro but not in SEK since we can see that the SEK has improved versus the euro during the quarter. The person post the question might send another one if we didn't understand it right. Okay. Any more questions?

Seems that no more questions are coming in. So thank you very much for listening to us today, and we look forward to meet you at the next quarterly presentation, which will be in July.

Yes, in the July. You very Thank you. Goodbye.