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FORTRESS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS LIMITED - Results of the capitalisation issue

Fortress Real Estate Investments Limited
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What this filing means

Fortress B shareholders holding 513 523 470 shares, or 39.9% of the FFB shares in issue before the capitalisation issue, elected new shares instead of the 90.91 cents cash dividend, so 19 451 831 new FFB shares are issued and R466 844 186.60 of cash stays in the company. Total FFB shares in issue rise to 1 306 737 793, with the new shares and the cash dividend to non-electing holders both settling on Monday, 19 October 2026.

Fortress gave B shareholders a choice: take 90.91 cents a share in cash, or take new shares instead. About four in ten of the shares eligible chose the shares, which means Fortress keeps R466.8 million it would otherwise have paid out and hands over 19.45 million new shares instead. Existing holders own a slightly smaller slice of a slightly bigger company — the trade-off every scrip dividend makes.

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AI-generated summary by SENS-AI, based on the original JSE SENS filing.

SENS-AI conclusion

This is the administrative close-out of a dividend decision the market already had: the 17 September declaration set the 90.91 cents and the 2 400 cents reference price, and this filing only reports how many holders chose shares over cash. The 39.9% election rate is a fact about shareholder preference, not about Fortress's earnings, and it changes nothing in the FY2027 guidance of roughly R1.92 per share. So what: nothing here re-prices the equity; the FY2027 interim results are where the raised distributable earnings guidance gets tested.

The FY2027 interim results are where the market will test whether distributable earnings are tracking the raised guidance of approximately R1.92 per share.

Evidence from the filing

  • Election outcome and resulting share count.

    “Fortress B shareholders holding 513 523 470 FFB shares, or 39.9% of FFB shares in issue (prior to the capitalisation issue), who qualify to receive the cash dividend elected to receive the capitalisation shares, resulting in the issue of 19 451 831 new FFB shares, thereby retaining R466 844 186.60 in cash.”

  • Post-issue share count.

    “the total number of FFB shares in issue post the issue of the capitalisation shares pursuant to the capitalisation issue will be 1 306 737 793”

  • Terms were set in the earlier declaration.

    “Shareholders are referred to the declaration announcement released on SENS on 17 September 2026 in respect of the cash dividend of 90.91 cents per Fortress B ordinary share ("FFB share") for the year ended 30 June 2026 (the "cash dividend") with an option for eligible Fortress B shareholders to elect to receive new fully paid-up FFB shares (the "capitalisation shares") (the "capitalisation issue"), as well as the reference price per capitalisation share (being 2 400 cents per share) applicable to eligible Fortress B shareholders electing the capitalisation issue.”

  • Settlement date for the new shares.

    “Eligible Fortress B shareholders who elected the capitalisation issue for all or part of their Fortress B shareholding will receive their new FFB shares on Monday, 19 October 2026.”
Category
General Share Issue
Event posture
No Edge
Published
Oct 19, 2026

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