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| We continue to execute in this environment as we benefit from owning a high-quality and diversified asset base across sectors and geographies that we leverage to monetize assets at the highest valuations |
| Our capital recycling success has resulted in a strong liquidity position |
| Beginning with our financial and operating results, we're pleased to report another quarter of excellent financial results due to good operating performance and the successful execution of our asset recycling strategy |
| We've had record sales quarters, like I said, enterprises coming back into retail, colo, hyperscalers are looking for edge applications and AI clients have tremendous demand |
| Results benefited from our businesses unique ability to capture current inflation levels, combined with the commissioning of nearly 1 billion of capital projects over the last 12 months |
| Looking ahead, we are well positioned for a strong end of the year, considering that our European hyperscale data center platform was the only new investment to contribute this quarter, with the remaining $1.6 billion of new investments having closed at quarter end or shortly thereafter |
| I think we're going to benefit from that for the foreseeable future |
| Ultimately, we believe providing strong cash flow and income growth creates unitholder value, which will be reflected in our unit price over time |
| Current quarter results benefited from the expansion of our residential decarbonization infrastructure platform in North America and Europe following the acquisition of HomeServe earlier this year |
| The leading market position and highly cash generative nature of the business provides strong operational flexibility to invest in fleet replacements and growth during favorable markets or to harvest cash in less attractive markets |
| In summary, we have demonstrated our ability to use our size, scale and diversification to continue recycling capital at good valuations, while earning higher returns in our new investments |
| Look I think, first and foremost, we feel very good about our current liquidity position, as you'll see it |
| Fourth, in light of our strong conviction and the intrinsic value of our business and its growth trajectory, we see the merit in deploying capital to repurchase our equity |
| So the growth in the businesses is tremendous |
| Brazil's competitive advantages in the export of key agricultural commodities such as soy, corn and sugar, combined with strong fertilizer imports have supported growing rail volumes and tariffs |
| Over the past decade, we have been able to realize average annual volume and tariff increases of 5% and 9% respectively |
| And as far as our own pacing, as we mentioned in our letter, we have been very successful in recycling capital and using our liquidity to invest boldly when we've seen good opportunities in the last couple years |
| So a very sizable company, very successful |
| So I think, in the next little while, I'm optimistic that we will find some very interesting opportunities in those two markets |
| We've surpassed our annual new investment objective for the third year in a row, closing the acquisitions of two marquee data center platforms, as well as the leading global logistics business, Trade international |
| retail colocation business had record capacity bookings during the past two quarters, and recently initiated a densification program to create incremental capacity at existing sites |
| At our data center businesses, we continue to experience strong industry tailwinds driving elevated demand for capacity |
| And so with the underroof upgrades that we undertook over the last many years, the business today has a tremendous call on its capacity utilization is going up tremendously |
| As we've noted in the past, the utility and infrastructure sectors are highly resilient asset classes that generate growing and sustainable cash flows |
| The fundamentals of our business remain strong as the benefit of inflation escalation and a disciplined financing approach have largely insulated us from rising rates |
| Furthermore, the Debt Capital Markets have been extremely favorable for infrastructure assets providing an overall net positive backdrop to business conditions |
| And it's a regular issue, we're into the debt markets and has a very strong following |
| We're also very excited about the opportunities across our data center platform, which has grown significantly following the acquisitions of Data4 and Compass, which closed in August and October respectively |
| And so we're very excited by that |
| This available liquidity combined with our target $2 billion of asset sales in 2024 provides a solid foundation for us to capitalize on the current investment landscape that favors well capitalized buyers with access to capital |
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| Despite achieving solid financial results throughout the year, and delivering on our strategic initiatives, Brookfield Infrastructure's unit price is disappointingly underperformed recently |
| And yes, I think it's fair comment that the first couple years have been challenging as we work through our tenant base there |
| I'll switch over to the deal announced this morning, was in a general sense, but I think it's fair to say that your initial investment in a retail colocation data center business has been at least a bit of a challenge |
| Our midstream segment FFO was $163 million, a decrease of 5% compared to the prior period |
| So I'd say housing is definitely weaker in the U.K |
| In prior periods of market volatility, we've seen you make toehold investments and depress public stocks |
| And I think the only other thing I'd mentioned, but the housing is, even though it's been down this year, the amount of housing deficit that exists in the market is pretty substantial |
| Today, the housing market has pulled back quite a bit, I think it's somewhere in the range of 20% pullback from the prior year |
| And I hope I didn't give people the wrong impression |
| For instance, in Brazil, interest rates are expected to decline as the inflationary pressures have waned |
| Touching briefly on the current operating environment, it is clear that there are considerable impacts from geopolitical and macroeconomic factors |
| I think given the uncertainty around growth, highly contracted businesses tend to be have less divergence in views as far as valuations than, say, businesses with growth wedges |
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