Brokers' take

Far East Hospitality Trust | Hold (maintained) June 12 close: S$0.64 Fair value: S$0.67 OCBC Investment Research, June 12

Far East Hospitality Trust (Far East H-Trust) has underperformed the FTSE Straits Times Reits Index by 8.8 percentage points since our downgrade from "Buy" to "Hold" on April 15.

Singapore Tourism Board's April numbers reflect decent visitor growth but a generally disappointing revenue per available room (RevPAR) performance for the first month of Q2.

In our last report, we did highlight that April would continue to be challenging for Singapore hotels given the absence of biennial event Food&HotelAsia. In addition, the Trump-Kim summit held in June last year was another boon for Far East H-Trust's hotels tha…