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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.02 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 320.4 million; Market cap: $7.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.6%; www.riocan.com) is Canada’s largest real estate investment trust. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, RioCan’s cash flow rose 5.0%, to $140.2 million from $133.6 million a year earlier. Per-unit cash flow gained 2.3%, to $0.44 from $0.43, on more units outstanding. The trust has now agreed to sell its 49 U.S. malls for $1.2 billion (Canadian). It expects to complete the sale in April 2016....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.02 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 320.4 million; Market cap: $7.9 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.6%; www.riocan.com) is Canada’s largest real estate investment trust. In the three months ended September 30, 2015, RioCan’s cash flow rose 5.0%, to $140.2 million from $133.6 million a year earlier. Per-unit cash flow gained 2.3%, to $0.44 from $0.43, on more units outstanding. The trust has now agreed to sell its 49 U.S. malls for $1.2 billion (Canadian). It expects to complete the sale in April 2016....
TORSTAR $2.21 (Toronto symbol TS.B; Shares outstanding: 79.9 million; Market cap: $182.1 million; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 11.8%; www.torstar.com) will close its money-losing printing plant in Vaughan, Ontario, just north of Toronto, in July 2016. It will then transfer printing of The Toronto Star newspaper to Transcontinental Inc. Torstar will also sell the Vaughan plant and land. This will help offset its closing costs. It will also give it more cash for Star Touch, the tablet-newspaper app it launched in October. So far, more than 200,000 users have downloaded Star Touch, which uses technology licensed from Montreal’s La Presse newspaper. The app should help Torstar attract younger readers and sell more online ads....
TORSTAR $2.21 (Toronto symbol TS.B; Shares outstanding: 79.9 million; Market cap: $182.1 million; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 11.8%; www.torstar.com) will close its money-losing printing plant in Vaughan, Ontario, just north of Toronto, in July 2016. It will then transfer printing of The Toronto Star newspaper to Transcontinental Inc. Torstar will also sell the Vaughan plant and land. This will help offset its closing costs. It will also give it more cash for Star Touch, the tablet-newspaper app it launched in October. So far, more than 200,000 users have downloaded Star Touch, which uses technology licensed from Montreal’s La Presse newspaper. The app should help Torstar attract younger readers and sell more online ads....