First Rock heads to market for US$18m

First Rock Capital Holdings, the real estate owners and developers in January next year open their public share offering to the Jamaica capital market to raise up to US$18,487,465 in added capital.
The Company issued 166 million class A shares before commencing commercial operations in the first quarter of 2019, following the successful closure of its private placement in March 2019 that raised US$15.5 million.
The Initial Public Offer by First Rock is up to 106,083,332 Shares in two classes with Class A comprising 51,053,333 US$ Class A Ordinary Shares at 12 US cents each and 10.8 US cents for Reserved shares. Additionally, 55,029,999 Class B Ordinary shares are Jamaica dollar-denominated and priced similar to the class A share. The company reserves the right to upsize the offer by an additional 53,041,666 shares in the event of oversubscription.
The general public will be offered Shares of 16,250,000 Class A Ordinary shares, with 14,553,333 units reserved for Key Strategic Partners and 20,250,000 reserved for First Rock Affiliates. Of the 55,029,999 units of the Class B Ordinary shares, 37,916,666 are available for the general public, with 3,613,333 shares are reserved for subscription to Key Strategic Partners and 13,500,000 shares are reserved for subscription by First Rock Affiliates. Application to list on the JSE is dependent upon the Company’s raising at least $200 million or the US dollar equivalent.
The company owns properties in Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica and in the USA.
Opening Date January 13, next year and scheduled to close on January 31.
First Rock reported a loss from operations of US$203,648 before a US$374,301 forex gain to September resulted in a pretax profit of US$170,653.
The forecasted is for the profit of US$2,647,696 in 2020, US$4,653,992 in 2021 and US$6,614,802 in 2022 with income coming from rental and from 2021 includes revenues from the sale of units. The projections have annual inflows from foreign exchange gains and fair value increase in investment properties.  While the fair value gains may well occur as forecasted, there is no certainty that there will be annual forex gains.
The company’s directors are, Dr. David Lowe, Douglas Halsall, York Page Seaton, Kisha Anderson, Norman Reid 8 Davis Avenue, Alton Morgan and Lisandra Rickards. Sagicor Investments are brokers to the issue.