APA Group increases holdings in Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund to 14.9 per cent

  APA  Group  (APA)  has  purchased  51.6  million  Hastings  Diversified  Utilities  Fund  (HDF)  securities,  taking  its  interest  in  HDF  to  14.9  per  cent.    

 

APA  Managing  Director,  Mr  Mick  McCormack  said:  "This  further  investment  is  consistent  with  APA’s  strategy  of  long  term  investment  in  gas  transmission  pipelines  and  reflects  th  fact  that  APA  understands  well  the  nature  of  HDF’s  gas  transmission  assets.  Each  of  HDF’s  pipeline  assets  delivers  natural  gas  into  existing  APA  infrastructure  investments."     

 

When  coupled  with  APA’s  existing  investment  in  HDF,  APA’s  average  purchase  cost  is  $1.30/HDF  security.  

 

APA  does  not  intend  to  make  a  follow‐on  takeover  bid,  unless  any  future  actions  of  HDF  or  others  make  it  necessary  for  APA  to  protect  the  value  of  its  investment  in  HDF.    

 

The  acquisition  of  this  stake  in  HDF  is  not  expected  to  have  any  impact  on  APA’s  guidance  of  5  per  cent  growth  in  distributionsper  security  in  the  current  financial  year.  

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