riocan

Toronto symbol REI.UN, is Canada’s largest REIT. It specializes in large, Big Box-style retail shopping centres.

ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $15.05 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds the 15 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. The weight of each REIT is limited to 25% of the ETF’s value.

iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are 0.60% of its assets....
ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $31.73 (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Units outstanding: 68.0 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.3%; www.alliedpropertiesreit.com) owns 126 office buildings, mostly in major Canadian cities. These mainly Class I properties contain over 9.5 million square feet of leasable area.

Class I refers to 19th- and early-20th-century light industrial buildings that have been converted to office and retail space. They usually feature exposed beams, interior brick and hardwood floors.

The trust bought $400 million worth of properties in 2012. In the first quarter of 2013, it added a further $146 million of acquisitions. Allied has a 92.8% occupancy rate.
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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.37 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 300.0 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.6%; www.riocan.com) is Canada’s largest real estate investment trust (REIT). It has interests in 344 shopping malls containing over 84 million square feet of leasable area. That total includes 50 U.S. malls containing over 13.7 million square feet.

RioCan recently ended its joint venture with Retail Properties of America (New York symbol RPAI). As a result, RioCan now holds 100% of eight highquality malls in Texas, including the dominant shopping centres in Austin and San Antonio.

In the quarter ended March 31, 2013, RioCan’s revenue rose 10.6%, to $281 million from $254 million a year earlier. Cash flow per unit rose 10.8%, to $0.41 from $0.37. The units yield 5.6%.
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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $25.37 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Units outstanding: 300.0 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 5.6%; www.riocan.com) is Canada’s largest real estate investment trust (REIT). It has interests in 344 shopping malls containing over 84 million square feet of leasable area....
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY $126 (Toronto symbol CP; Shares outstanding: 174.7 million; Market cap: $23.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.1%; www.cpr.ca) dropped in early June after activist investor Pershing Square Capital Management announced that it will sell 7 million of its CP shares over the next year....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $28.93 (Toronto symbol REI.UN) has teamed up with ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $30.71 (Toronto symbol AP.UN) and privately held Diamond Corp. to buy the Globe & Mail lands in downtown Toronto. Currently the home of The Globe & Mail newspaper, the 252,617-square-foot property is on 6.47 acres of land forming part of the large city block bounded by Spadina Avenue and Front, Draper and Wellington Streets.

The partners plan to redevelop the property into a retail-office complex. RioCan and Allied will each own 40%, while Diamond will hold 20%. RioCan and Allied will each pay $14.9 million for their stakes.

RioCan is a buy....
CANADIAN TIRE CORP., $83.78, Toronto symbol CTC.A, jumped 13% this week after the company announced a plan to spin off most of its real estate holdings into a new, publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT). Under the company’s plan, which is similar to a move by grocery retailer Loblaw Companies Ltd. (Toronto symbol L), Canadian Tire will transfer 250 of its stores, a distribution centre and other properties to the new REIT. In all, these assets total 18 million square feet and are worth $3.5 billion; that’s 72% of Canadian Tire’s 25 million square feet of real estate. After this transaction closes in the fall of 2013, Canadian Tire will sell units of the REIT to the public. It will hang on to an 80% to 90% interest. Meanwhile, the company earned $73.0 million in the three months ended March 31, 2013. That’s up 2.8% from $71.0 million a year earlier. Earnings per share rose 3.4%, to $0.90 from $0.87, on fewer shares outstanding. That matched the consensus estimate....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $28.93 (Toronto symbol REI.UN) has teamed up with ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $30.71 (Toronto symbol AP.UN) and privately held Diamond Corp. to buy the Globe & Mail lands in downtown Toronto....
ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $17.10 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds the 15 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. The weight of each REIT is limited to 25% of the ETF’s value.

iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are 0.60% of its assets. The fund yields 4.4%.

The ETF’s largest holding is RioCan REIT at 19.5%, followed by H&R REIT (10.7%), Dundee REIT (8.4%), Canadian REIT (7.2%), Calloway REIT (7.0%), Primaris REIT (6.3%), Cominar REIT (6.2%), Canadian Apartment REIT (6.0%), Boardwalk REIT (5.7%), Allied Properties REIT (5.2%), Chartwell REIT (4.5%), Artis REIT (4.5%), Granite REIT (4.3%), Northern Property REIT (2.6%) and Crombie REIT (1.8%).
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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $28 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 300.8 million; Market cap: $8.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.9; Dividend yield: 5.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) has teamed up with Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol AP.UN) and privately held Diamond Corp. to buy a second property in downtown Toronto. In December 2012, the partners acquired a larger, adjacent building. They plan to redevelop these two holdings into a single retail-office complex.

As before, RioCan and Allied will each own 40%, while Diamond will own 20%. RioCan’s share of this latest purchase is $14.9 million. To put that in context, its cash flow was $116 million, or $0.39 a unit, in the fourth quarter of 2012.

RioCan is a buy....