Top trust buys for growth and income

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DUNDEE REIT $32.70 (Toronto symbol D.UN; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (416-365-3535; www.dundeereit.com; Shares outstanding: 58.9 million; Market cap: $1.9 billion; Dividend yield: 6.7%) owns and manages 18.9 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space. The trust has a 95.8% occupancy rate. In the three months ended September 30, 2011, Dundee’s revenue rose 75.4%, to $110.9 million from $63.2 million a year earlier. Most of the increase came from properties the trust recently purchased. Dundee’s cash flow rose 69.4% in the latest quarter, to $36.6 million from $21.6 million. Cash flow per unit rose just 11.5%, to $0.58 from $0.52, due to more units outstanding (the trust issued new units to pay for the acquired properties). Dundee has spent a total of $1.5 billion on acquisitions in 2011, up from $900 million in 2010. The trust’s growth-by-acquisition strategy adds risk, but it is steadily diversifying its holdings outside western Canada by purchasing more properties in eastern Canada. At the start of 2010, about…