Shariah Stock Status Report
:: Mindspace Business Parks REIT::
INDIA :: NSE :: BSE :: 23rd July 2020

The tricky areas from a Shariah perspective for a REIT:

The revenue derived from non-permissible tenants needs to be reviewed:

Review the tenant portfolio for:

- Conventional Financial services providers such as banks/Insurance companies. Even thier in-house backend processing is considered non-compliant
- Entertainment venues such as theaters and Cinemas
- Casinos
- Hotels and resorts serving alcohol, pork, tobacco products as well as for housing night clubs.
- Restaurants/Bars/clubs selling alcohol, pork and tobacco
- Retail stores/supermarkets selling alcohol, pork, tobacco, music

MINDSPACE Business Parks REIT Tenant portfolio:

The company's portfolio consist of only office buildings. Hence, tenant profile of the same needs to be analyzed.

The company states that its largest tenants include affiliates of Accenture, Qualcomm, BA Continuum, JP Morgan, Amazon, Schlumberger, UBS, Capgemini, Facebook, Barclays and BNY Mellon.

The ten largest tenants contributed 41% of total revenue and no single tenant contributed more than 8.7% of total revenue.

The company states that tenants from Financial Services sector contribute 18.8% of its Gross contracted rentals and occupies 16.8% of its leased area as on 30th June 2019.

Mindspace Business Parks REIT Prospectus further elaborates that companies from the conventional financial services sector like Bank of America Continuum, JP Morgan, and UBS contribute 3.3%, 3.3% and 2.5% of Gross Contracted Rentals respectively as of 30th June 2019.

These three named conventional financial services sector tenants contribute 8.8% revenue for Mindspace Business Parks REIT

Let's analyze the revenue streams of Mindspace Business Parks REIT to ascertain its business sector compliance from a Shariah perspective

Segment break up

Operating Revenue in Millions of INR for Year ended 3oth June 2019

Segment Description	Segment Revenue	Non-permissible Revenue	% non-permissible revenue	Non - permissible segment classification
Facility rentals	₹ 2,883	₹ 542	18.80%	Revenue from Conventional Financial services tenants
Maintenance services income	₹ 727
Revenue from power supply	₹ 117
Other operating income	₹ 32
TOTAL	₹ 3,759	₹ 542	14.42%

Total Revenue	₹ 3,759
Non-permissible Operating revenue	₹ 542
% of non permissible revenue	14.42%

Since the revenue from non-permissible operating income of the company is more than 5%, Mindspace Business Parks REIT FAILS the BUSINESS SECTOR Screening

Sector Compliance	FAIL

Non-operating Revenue in Millions of INR for year ended 30th June 2019 - Other Income

Segment Description	Segment Revenue	Non-permissible Revenue	% non-permissible revenue	Non - permissible segment classification
Other income (including interest income)	₹ 654	₹ 654	100%	Interest Income
TOTAL	₹ 654	₹ 654

Dividend Purification calculation

Revenue Description	Non permissible Revenue (millions of INR)
Non-permissible operating revenue	₹ 542
Non-permissible non-operating revenue	₹ 654
Total Non-permissible revenue	₹ 1,196
Total Revenue of the Company (Gross)	₹ 4,413
Dividend purification ratio	27.10%

"This will not be displayed in Islamicly as the sector of the company is non-compliant i.e. investment in this stock is not permissible hence dividend purification would not be applicable"

Financial Ratio Screen:
(All figures in millions of INR as on 30th June 2019)

Particulars	Amount	Remarks
Estimated market value based on issue price band	₹ 2,36,750	This is estimated by considering the total outstanding shares with the higher band of the issue price. Upon listing, please check the current compliance of the stock on Islamicly
Total Debt	₹ 62,432
Islamic Debts
Adjusted Debts	₹ 62,432
Debt Ratio	26%	- Within limits
Cash	₹ 502
Cash Ratio	0.21%	- Within limits
Accounts Receivables	₹ 28,695
Accounts Receivables Ratio	12%	Within limits

Since all the Ratios are within the limit, the stock passes the Financial ratios screen

Financial Ratio compliance	PASS

Source:
All the above information is based on the website of the company and Annual financial report for June 2020.

Conclusion:
Given the above information, we believe Mindspace Business Parks REIT (IPO) is a Shariah NOT COMPLIANT company company as per the Shariah screening Criteria.

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