Letter to Shareholders in the 2022 Annual Report
pershingsquareholdings.com · 2023-03-29 · tier T1
Source: Letter · pershingsquareholdings.com dated 2023-03-29. Auto-generated factual summary. Not investment advice. Verify before acting.
Pershing Square Holdings reported -8.8% NAV performance in 2022 versus -18.1% for the S&P 500, with total shareholder return of -14.6% as the discount to NAV widened to 33.2%. Day One Investors since 2004 have compounded at 15.7% annually, generating 1,557% cumulative NAV return versus 427% for the index. Over the last five years, PSH generated 25.1% compound annual returns. The firm attributes outperformance to refocusing on core investment principles and stopping capital raises for open-ended hedge funds. Ackman highlighted elevated geopolitical and banking risks in 2023, including potential systemic banking stress, and advocated for expanded FDIC deposit guarantees. PSH continues opportunistic share repurchases at large discounts to NAV and is pursuing transformational transactions to address the persistent discount.
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“In 2022, Pershing Square Holdings generated strong relative NAV performance of negative 8.8% versus negative 18.1% for our principal benchmark, the S&P 500 index.”
p#2 · confidence 95%
“Over the last five years, PSH has generated a compound annual rate of return of 25.1%, even better than the results of our first nearly 12 years during which time we compounded investor capital at a 21% annual rate”
p#5 · confidence 95%
“Our losses on equities were offset somewhat by interest rate hedges, which contributed 14.3 percentage points of positive performance in 2022...have generated approximately $5.3 billion in total hedging proceeds to date versus a cost of $446 million”
p#16 · confidence 95%
“There are reportedly ~$620 billion of mark-to-market losses on banks' security portfolios that are not currently reflected on bank's financial statements...we believe it can be helpful to share our views”
p#42 · confidence 90%
“Day One Investors have grown their equity investment at a 15.7% compounded annual rate over the last 19 years, compared with a 9.0% return had they invested in the S&P 500 during the same period.”
p#1 · confidence 95%
“we purchased 8.3 million shares representing 4.1% of shares outstanding at an average price of $31.94 and a discount to NAV of 33%...we have acquired 59.8 million shares or 25% of our shares outstanding at an average price of $18.80 and discount of 28%, which has added 1.2% per annum to our annual NAV returns”
p#1 · confidence 95%
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