Energy Split Corp II has announced:
it has revised its Capital Yield Share distribution policy and starting with the next distribution date on June 16, 2009, has determined that it will not pay a distribution on the Capital Yield Shares if the Net Asset Value at the time of declaration, after giving effect to the distribution, would be less than or equal to the original issue price of the ROC Preferred Shares. In such circumstances, any excess distributions received on the royalty trust portfolio minus the distributions payable on the ROC Preferred Shares and all administrative and operating expenses will be reinvested in short-term debt securities or used to purchase ROC Preferred Shares in the market for cancellation under a normal course issuer bid.
However, as long as Net Asset Value at the date of declaration exceeds the original issue price of the ROC Preferred Shares, the Company intends to pay a distribution on the Capital Yield Shares equal to the excess of the distributions received on the royalty trust portfolio minus the ROC Preferred Share distributions and all administrative and operating expenses.
The Company’s ongoing dividend policy entitles holders of ROC Preferred Shares to receive quarterly fixed cumulative distributions equal to $0.1718 per ROC Preferred Share. The Capital Yield Shareholders are provided with a leveraged play on the yield and price performance from a fixed portfolio consisting of 16 oil and gas royalty trusts listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Capital Yield Shares and ROC Preferred Shares of Energy Split Corp. II Inc. are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols EN and EN.PR.A respectively.
The previous policy was:
Holders of Capital Yield Shares will be entitled to receive distributions that the board of directors of the Company may declare from time to time subject to the prior rights of the Holders of the ROC Preferred Shares. Under the distribution policy adopted by the board of directors, it is expected that Holders of Capital Yield Shares will receive quarterly tax efficient distributions to be paid by the Company on or before the 16th day of March, June, September and December of each year in an amount equal to the distributions paid on the units of Royalty Fund II after payment of the fixed distribution payable on the ROC Preferred Shares and operating expenses of the Company.
EN.PR.A was last mentioned on PrefBlog when it was downgraded to Pfd-3 by DBRS. It is tracked by HIMIPref™ and is a member of the “Scraps” sub-index.
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