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Pat: What do you think about Sienna Senior Living?

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Sienna Senior Living Inc., $15.60, symbol SIA on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 36.4 million; Market cap: $567.5 million; www.siennaliving.ca), is one of Canada’s largest operators of seniors’ housing and Ontario’s biggest licensed long-term care provider. The company recently changed its name from Leisureworld Senior Care Corp. Sienna owns and operates 35 long-term care homes and 10 retirement residences containing a combined 6,799 beds/suites across Ontario and B.C. The company’s subsidiaries include Preferred Health Care Services, which provides professional nursing and personal-support workers, and a management division that consults with outside long-term care homes and retirement residences. Long-term care accounts for 86% of the company’s revenue; retirement residences, 9%; home care, 4%; and management services, 1%. In the three months ended March 31, 2015, Sienna’s revenue rose slightly, to $113.2 million from $112.3 million a year earlier. Cash flow per share also inched up to $0.326 from $0.323. The stock now trades at 12.1 times this year’s forecast cash flow of $1.29 a share. It yields a..