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Slate Retail REIT, $13.97, symbol SRT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 35.4 million; Market cap: $459.9 million; www.slateretailreit.com), owns 66 retail malls in 20 U.S. states. In all, those properties contain 7.7 million square feet. Slate’s overall occupancy rate was a high 94.4% as of March 31, 2016. The REIT took its current form on April 15, 2014. That’s when Slate Asset Management L.P. reorganized its publicly traded operations. This firm owns 6.7% of Slate Retail and manages the REIT....
AltaGas Ltd., $30.89, symbol ALA on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 147.3 million; Market cap: $4.5 billion; www.altagas.ca), processes, transports, stores and markets natural gas for producers. The company also operates natural gas utilities, and it is a power generator, with gas-fired, coal-fired, wind, biomass and hydroelectric plants. Acquisitions and $1.7 billion in new projects increased AltaGas’s revenue from $1.3 billion in 2011 to $2.4 billion in 2014—an 88% jump. Revenue then fell to $2.2 billion in 2015, due to lower selling prices for natural gas and weaker power prices in Alberta. Cash flow per share gained 42.5%, from $2.61 in 2011 to $3.72 in 2014; it declined to $3.41 in 2015....
Evertz Technologies Ltd., $17.11, symbol ET on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 74.2 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; www.evertz.com), makes video and audio systems for telecommunications and other media industries. The company sells its hardware and software to content creators, broadcasters, specialty channels and TV service providers. Customers use it to support their complex digital and high definition television (HDTV) networks as well as their high-bandwidth Internet services. Customers have used Evertz’s hardware at events such as the Sochi Olympics in Russia, the FIFA World Cup, the Commonwealth Games and the U.S. midterm elections....
Stella-Jones Inc., $49.00, symbol SJ on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 69.1 million; Market cap: $3.4 billion; www.stella-jones.com), makes pressure-treated wood products. They include: railway ties (45% of sales); utility poles (34%); treated lumber products for the residential market (12%); lumber for industrial uses such as construction timbers and highway guardrails (6%); and logs and lumber (3%). The company gets most of its utility poles from timberlands that it leases in Quebec and B.C. It also buys wood for railway ties and other products from sawmills in the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. also provides 82% of its sales, while Canada supplies the remaining 18%....