Stock price when the opinion was issued
Yield of around 8.5% and have about a 90% payout ratio, which is not overaggressive. Just sold 2 Toronto properties Valleywood and Parkway, and they want to focus on the US in office and industrial. There has been a bit of a recovery in the share price. They are more focused on their strategy now. He thinks we are at the end of the bull market in the REIT space, so he can’t get excited about this type of investment.
They do not have a buy and hold strategy, so you have to get comfortable that management will aggressively be churning the portfolio. Have recently expressed interest in selling their Canadian assets to put the money to work in the US. If there is a drag from selling to deploying, then the dividend is a little bit strained, but at this point the dividend is fully covered. He is watching this one from the sidelines.
Acquired most of their US portfolio while the Cdn$ was still at a high level. The depreciation of the dollar has been very beneficial for them, which hasn’t quite shown up in the price yet. The real trigger for this is if they can start to sell down some of their Canadian assets and focus more exclusively on the US.