These Two Trusts Are Worth Holding

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DUNDEE REIT $19.26 (Toronto symbol D.UN; SI Rating: Speculative) (416-365-3535; www.dundeereit.com; Shares outstanding: 17.1 million; Market cap: $328.4 million) owns and operates 7.2 million square feet of office, industrial and retail properties. It now holds 42 office buildings and 36 industrial properties. GE Real Estate holds a 14.3% voting interest in Dundee. The company continues to focus on properties in western Canada. Earlier this year it acquired a onethird interest in the newly constructed, three-building, 357,000-square-foot IBM Corporate Park in Calgary for $57.3 million. Dundee will manage the fully leased property. It also bought a building at 4370 Dominion Street in Burnaby, B.C. for $11.5 million. Revenues were $45.4 million in the three months ended June 30, 2008, up 18.5% from $38.3 million a year earlier. The best measure of operating performance for a real estate company is cash flow. Dundee’s cash flow per share in the latest quarter was unchanged at $0.76. The trust pays a distribution of $0.183 a month for…