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Iron Mountain: Elliott Goes Where Buffett Fled (IRM, BRK-A)

Posted: March 10, 2011 at 10:43 am

It was rather surprising when we saw that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A, BRK-B) had suddenly sold all of the Iron Mountain Inc. (NYSE: IRM) holdings back in ...
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The Daily Dividend: 10% Dividend Yields From Mortgage REITs (NLY, CIM, ANH, MFA)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 11:01 am

24/7 Wall Street is constantly on the lookout for dividend gains for investors.  While this is not due to any breaking news, there was a secondary offering this morning that ...
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Grabbing For High Dividends in Tech (DLR, MXIM, ISIL, MCHP, INTC, MSFT)

Posted: February 16, 2011 at 12:25 pm

Investors love dividends and they love technology stocks.  By and large it is hard to find very high dividend payout in technology.  There are several chip stocks which pay over ...
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The Plot Thickens at St. Joe (JOE)

Posted: February 14, 2011 at 10:58 am

The ongoing fight for how to run The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) is heating up and taking a strange turn.  Bruce Berkowitz, whose Fairholme Capital is a near-30% owner ...
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Summit Hotel Priced IPO With Mixed Results (INN, IHG)

Posted: February 9, 2011 at 8:48 am

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (NYSE: INN) has priced its IPO and is set to begin trading Wednesday morning.  The deal has a bit of a mixed win-loss here in the ...
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Annaly Gets Opportunistic on Share Sale (NLY)

Posted: January 4, 2011 at 9:30 am

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is taking a very opportunistic approach to raising more capital to buy mortgages.  The mortgage REIT is raising roughly $1.3 billion in gross proceeds.  ...
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Chimera Back at the Capital Water Well (CIM)

Posted: November 3, 2010 at 10:24 am

Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is supposed to be a toxic mortgage winner in the land of Real Estate Investment Trusts.  The REIT is also a serial capital raising entity, ...
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A Stealth IPO: Whitestone REIT (WSR)

Posted: August 26, 2010 at 9:45 am

The IPO market has not been so kind in 2010, and it has been far from predictable in general.  There is a stealth IPO this morning that is flying under ...
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General Growth Closer to Break-Up (GGP)

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 2:30 pm

General Growth Properties, Inc. (NYSE: GGP) may soon need to change its name to General Break-Up.  The mall REIT operator Spinco, Inc. (“Spinco”), has filed a registration statement with the ...
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REITs Coming Back For More Capital (DRE, FCH)

Posted: June 17, 2010 at 12:12 pm

It seems we have more secondary offerings coming back into the fold now that the markets have stabilized and recovered.  Many real estate investment trusts (REITs) raised vast sums of ...
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ProLogis & Solar… More Free Money For Shareholderss (PLD, EIX)

Posted: May 10, 2010 at 11:31 am

ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) is already very well known as a REIT in commercial space for warehouse-type of projects for storage, warehousing, distribution, and office parks.  Now, it is going to ...
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Simon Says: “General Growth” (SPG, GGWPQ)

Posted: February 16, 2010 at 10:37 am

It seems that the realm of mergers and acquisitions is not dead when it comes to property deals.  Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: SPG) has made a formal offer to ...
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Five IPO’s On Deck (BRK-B, SYA, CLU, CHSP, CHC, TRNO)

Posted: January 22, 2010 at 8:58 am

Today could be called IPO Friday.  We have four confirmed priced deals, and likely a fifth.  The IPO's involve Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) for its Symetra Financial (NYSE: SYA), ...
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IPO Filing: Excel Trust, A REIT Soon-To-Be (EXL)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 1:38 pm

There was an interesting filing for an initial public offering that was put in at the SEC after most investors, brokers, advisors, and traders had already headed home either for ...
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Trouble in Property Syndicates (TPGI, AVI)

Posted: November 4, 2009 at 9:40 am

We have two deals which have been called off in the land of mixed use properties as a secondary by Thomas Properties Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPGI) and one was the ...
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