Top REITs for income and future growth

RioCan and Choice Properties continue to build new residential, office and industrial properties to cut their exposure to the retail industry. Their new properties—along with store reopenings as the pandemic has eased—should help both REITs raise investor distributions in the next few years. All in… Read More

Loblaw adds a big facility

LOBLAW COMPANIES, $114.01, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 328.1 million; Market cap: $37.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.4%; www.loblaw.ca) is Canada’s largest food retailer, with 1,096 supermarkets. It also owns the Shoppers Drug Mart chain of 1,346 drugstores across Canada.
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Updates on your Conservative stocks: Great-West Lifeco, Loblaw, & Teck Resources

GREAT-WEST LIFECO INC. $33 (www.greatwestlifeco.com) is a hold. The company is Canada’s second-largest life insurer, after Manulife Financial. Canada’s banking regulator—the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions—has lifted the restrictions on capital distributions placed on banks and insurers due to COVID-19 uncertainty. As a result, Great-West now… Read More

This ETF holds top REITs

ISHARES S&P/TSX REIT INDEX ETF, $18.83, is a hold. The ETF (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) lets investors tap all 19 Canadian real estate investment trusts in the S&P/TSX REIT Index. Investors pay an MER of 0.61%, and the fund gives you a 3.3% yield.
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These office REITs provide dependable income

The re-opening of offices as COVID-19 restrictions eased helped boost the occupancy levels—and cash flow—of these two REITs. That should also let them maintain their current distributions.
ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $38 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing sector;… Read More

Let our updates keep you on track

CHOICE PROPERTIES REIT, $15.49, is a buy. The trust (Toronto symbol CHP.UN; Units outstanding: 723.4 million; Market cap: $11.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.8%; www.choicereit.ca) recently agreed to sell six office properties (3 in Toronto, 2 in Vancouver, and 1 in Montreal).
The buyer is ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL… Read More

Two high-yield REITs with gains ahead

The market plunge at the start of the COVID-19 crisis lowered prices for most REITs. That’s because the pandemic forced many businesses to temporarily close. However, vaccines should see the economy increasingly normalize in the next several months. That will let these two REITs maintain… Read More