Sunday, May 6, 2012

Beating S&P REIT Index by More Than 2 to 1


On Tuesday, May 1, I removed Senior Housing Property Trust (SNH) from the e-FinancialWriter REIT portfolio. The balance of the stocks held for the week ending May 4, 2012, are up 25.7% since implemented, not including 3.69% in dividends!

You might notice that I added the S&P United States REIT Index to the table below. I wanted to give a better apples-to-apples comparison of how an individual investor can do managing a real estate portfolio.

And as of May 4, we’re beating the index’s 1-year return by 2.32 to 1.

REIT
Sector
Blog date
 Price
 Closing price 05/04/12
Return to date %
Dividend yield %
PSA
Self storage
      90.75
                                           140.49
54.81
2.81







VTR
Health care
      52.87
                                             58.53
10.71
4.00
HCP
Health care

       36.81
                                                40.71
10.59
4.81
HCN
Health care

      47.53
                                             56.21
18.26
5.18







IAECREIN:CN
Canada
 19.45cn
24.26cn
24.73
0
ZRE:CN
Canada

 16.29cn
19.89cn
22.10
5.04
INVRLPRA:CN
Canada

 5.45cn
 5.48 cn
0.47
1.94

NNN 
Retail
27.18
26.94
-0.88
 5.72







Index return
since inception*




25.70

Avg 12-mo
return of REITs in portfolio*




13.64

Avg dividend yield of REITs in portfolio





3.69
12-mo return
S&P REIT index*




5.89

12-mo return S&P 500*




2.16

Source: Bloomberg
*Does not include dividends paid

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Enjoy your weekend!

George
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