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Will Genting Lane Lease Extension and AI Campus Expansion Change Keppel's (SGX:BN4) Narrative

Simply Wall St·01/06/2026 08:15:49
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  • Keppel Ltd. and Keppel DC REIT Management Pte. Ltd. recently secured conditional approval for a 10-year land lease extension to 15 July 2050 for the Genting Lane data centre campus in Singapore, triggering a final payment of S$350 million out of the total S$1.38 billion sale consideration to the Keppel joint venture, of which Keppel’s share is about S$70.9 million.
  • The extended land tenure underpins Keppel DC REIT’s ability to pursue asset enhancement initiatives and develop KDC SGP 9, supporting higher assets under management and reinforcing Keppel’s push into AI-ready data centre infrastructure.
  • Now, we will examine how this 10-year land lease extension and campus expansion opportunity affect Keppel’s existing investment narrative and risk profile.

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Keppel Investment Narrative Recap

To own Keppel, you need to be comfortable with its pivot toward an asset-light, recurring income model anchored by fee-based infrastructure and data center exposure. The Genting Lane lease extension reinforces this data center growth angle, but does not remove short term execution risk around monetizing the S$14.4 billion non-core portfolio or the pressure that negative free cash flow from core businesses can place on the balance sheet.

This Genting Lane news sits alongside Keppel DC REIT’s December 2025 announcement that acquiring the remaining interests in Keppel DC Singapore 3 and 4 would lift its portfolio AUM to about S$6.2 billion. Taken together, these moves tie directly into Keppel’s data center and asset management growth catalyst, while also increasing the importance of disciplined capital allocation as the group continues to recycle out of legacy assets and into digital infrastructure.

Yet, while data center progress looks encouraging, investors should still be aware that Keppel’s non-core monetization could take longer or realize less value than expected, which...

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Keppel's narrative projects SGD6.4 billion revenue and SGD1.1 billion earnings by 2028.

Uncover how Keppel's forecasts yield a SGD10.99 fair value, a 4% upside to its current price.

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Four fair value estimates from the Simply Wall St Community span roughly S$8.06 to S$10.99 per share, underscoring how differently investors are sizing up Keppel’s prospects. As you weigh these views, it is worth setting them against the execution risk in Keppel’s plan to recycle S$14.4 billion of non-core assets and the implications this has for cash flow and balance sheet strength over time.

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