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Hi Pat. Can you give me your thoughts on Calloway REIT? Thanks.

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Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust, $21.56, symbol CWT.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 85.2 million; Market cap: $1.8 billion), owns, develops and operates big-box outdoor malls across Canada. These malls feature large stores that are usually part of a chain. In all, Calloway owns 125 shopping centres and two office buildings, with 22.8 million square feet of leasable area. Its malls are located in the suburbs of larger cities, and have lots of room for parking and additional building. The trust gets 58% of its revenue from Ontario, 14% from Quebec, 10% from B.C., 5% from Manitoba, 4% from Saskatchewan, 3% from Newfoundland, 3% from Alberta, 1% from Nova Scotia, 1% from New Brunswick and 1% 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 a tenant in 91, or 72%, of the trust’s malls. Calloway depends on Wal-Mart for 26.4% of its revenue. In the three months ended…