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      "text": "Sumitomo Realty is one of Japan’s leading real estate developers, with a dominant position in Tokyo office real estate, an attractive business mix and a high-quality portfolio of assets. Our substantial investment reflects our conviction, based on months of thorough diligence, in Sumitomo Realty’s strengths. However, despite these advantages, Sumitomo Realty trades at just half of the post-tax market value of its real estate (“PNAV”),1 making it the most undervalued real estate developer in Japan. Sumitomo Realty also trades at a depressed multiple of earnings, despite its stable, high-quality core office leasing business.",
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      "text": "Sumitomo Realty’s persistent stock underperformance and valuation discount are not coincidental. The Company is an outlier in several areas: it holds a large portfolio of cross shareholdings, it has a unique policy of not selling property assets or managing REIT assets, and its board and governance structure rank near the bottom of all TOPIX 100 companies on several metrics2. In our view, these self-imposed problems and others we highlight below are responsible for the Company’s significant undervaluation.",
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      "text": "We see a clear opportunity for Sumitomo Realty to close its discount to fair value by taking steps to resolve these issues. The upside potential is significant: Applying a peer-average PNAV multiple – a conservative approach given Sumitomo Realty’s superior asset quality – would imply a share price of just under ¥8,000, over 40% higher than the current level.",
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