Here's our Pick of the Month – September 2012

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DUNDEE REIT $38.86 (Toronto symbol D.UN; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (416-365-3535; www.dundeereit.com; Shares outstanding: 96.6 million; Market cap: $3.8 billion; Dividend yield: 5.7%) owns and manages 27.6 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space. The trust has a 95.6% occupancy rate. In the three months ended June 30, 2012, Dundee’s revenue jumped 89.6%, to $181.2 million from $95.6 million a year earlier. Most of the increase came from properties the trust recently purchased. Cash flow jumped 78.9%, to $56.0 million from $31.3 million. Cash flow per unit rose 8.9%, to $0.61 from $0.56, on more units outstanding (the trust issued new units to pay for the acquired properties). Dundee bought $1.6 billion of properties in 2011, up from $900 million in 2010. So far this year, it has completed a further $2.4 billion of acquisitions totalling 9.3 million square feet. One of these additions was Whiterock REIT, which Dundee bought for $580 million. The trust’s growth-by-acquisition strategy adds risk, but it is steadily…