Mark Davies
CEO & Director
Good morning. Thanks for becoming a member of us. We’re right here right this moment at a really thrilling time for our firm on the day of publishing a really robust set of outcomes. We lately accomplished a transformational merger with Assura plc, in a brief house of time have made nice progress delivering the strategic and monetary advantages of this transaction.
Since our well-received buying and selling replace on the thirteenth of January, we have made additional progress on our strategic priorities. I am going to convey you updated on that right this moment plus share with you our properly progressed discussions with three way partnership companions on our main care and personal hospital property.
Additionally, you will see from our presentation later, there are a variety of constructive learnings from our enlarged portfolio assessment. And the additional upside we will see will ship worth sooner or later.
This has been a transformational 12 months, and it is a robust set of outcomes. I’ve already alluded to the constructive influence of the mixture with Assura. And I am delighted to say that regardless of doubling in dimension, we have retained a give attention to delivering rising returns for shareholders on each an absolute and a per share foundation.
We have delivered 4% development in adjusted earnings per share and our dividend stays totally lined. This was achieved via over 3% development in rental revenue, which was barely forward of the steering we laid out at our Capital Markets Day in July. And we have maintained