Updates on RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, Innergex Renewable Energy and IBM

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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.30 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 325.7 million; Market cap: $8.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.6%; www.riocan.com) owns all or part of 300 shopping centres in Canada. That includes 15 properties under development. The trust has now agreed to sell 50% of its Sunnybrook Plaza retail property in midtown Toronto to Concert Real Estate Corp. RioCan will receive $26.3 million when it completes the sale in June 2017. To put that amount in context, its cash flow in the first quarter of 2017 was $142.8 million, or $0.44 a unit. The partners plan to re-develop the Sunnybrook property, including building two residential towers on the site. Once completed, RioCan will continue to manage the retail portion of the complex. RioCan is a buy. INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY $14.63 (Toronto symbol INE; Shares outstanding: 108.4 million; Market cap: $1.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield 4.5%; www.innergex.com) has started up its new 66.7%-owned, 25.3-megawatt Boulder Creek hydroelectic plant…