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Hello. Could you please give me your views on Calloway REIT? Thanks.

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Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust, $18.11, symbol CWT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 82.8 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion), owns, develops and operates large-format, outdoor shopping centres in Canada. In all, Calloway owns 125 shopping centres, one office building and two industrial buildings. These comprise 22.4 million square feet of leasable area. Its malls are located in the suburbs of larger cities; they are largely made up of “big-box” stores, and have lots of room for parking and additional building. The trust gets 57.1% of its revenue from Ontario, 14.3% from Quebec, 9.9% from B.C., 4.7% from Manitoba, 3.8% from Saskatchewan, 3.5% from Newfoundland, 3.4% from Alberta, 1.5% from Nova Scotia, 1.1% from New Brunswick and 0.60% from Prince Edward Island. Calloway’s largest tenants are Wal-Mart, The Bay, Canadian Tire, Best Buy/Future Shop and Reitmans. Wal-Mart is currently the anchor tenant in 95, or 76%, of the trust’s malls. Calloway depends on Wal-Mart for 26.5% of its revenue. In the three months…