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There are a number of REITs which are extremely tiny such as this, and it is not really an equity environment that is going to be able to receive the kind of attention they need. While a fine organization, they are going to have trouble seeing love and the stock price going up. The cash flow is stable.
A very small retail REIT. Management knows their real estate very well. You are buying tertiary products, think of a small town Sobey’s with a bank and the drugstore. Has a very stable kind of cash flow. It has run up, and any time this happens, he tends to be patient. There will be a time between now and the end of the year that fears of rising interest rates will come back and REITs will pull back. Dividend yield of 9.2%.
Likes it. Wouldn't go smaller, as this one's already quite small. Has a nice industrial component, focused more on Eastern Canada. That market's been very stable. Recent transaction in Winnipeg, and he likes that market. Since Covid, people are working online more; so "secondary" cities such as Halifax, Winnipeg, and Saskatoon are not as risky as they once were, and he likes that trend.
Great management team. Continues to expand throughout the Maritimes, now Winnipeg, and into Quebec. Getting rid of office exposure, focusing on industrial.
Invests about 80% in industrial warehouse REITs, with the balance in office and retail. Elevated cost of capital, so it's in secondary markets. Above average leverage, resulting in a higher distribution yield. Limited growth because of cost of capital disadvantage. A yield play, not a growth play, and growth is what you want in this space.