Extendicare expands in its core long-term-care segment

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Extendicare owns and operates long-term care homes. Investors also tap the company’s ParaMed Home Health Care branches. ParaMed provides nursing care and other forms of assistance to clients who remain in their own homes. EXTENDICARE INC., $10.12, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol EXE; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (www.extendicare.com; Shares outstanding: 83.5 million; Market cap: $848.9 million; Dividend yield: 4.7%) has now entered into an agreement with Revera Inc. and certain of its affiliates to acquire nine long-term care (LTC) homes located in Ontario and Manitoba and one parcel of vacant land located in Ontario. The purchase price is $60.3 million. The acquired homes have 1,396 beds spread across nine facilities, seven of which consist of a mix of 361 funded LTC beds and 574 private-pay retirement beds. Going forward. Extendicare intends to redevelop the beds in these seven homes and replace them with six new LTC homes comprising a proposed 361 replacement beds and 727 new beds. In that existing group of 1,396 beds is…