We have evaluated the current prices to show the yields and true values here on each. If applicable, color and other price target data has been added on each.

Government Properties Income Trust (NYSE: GOV) is very interesting at only 1.2-times book value. You can make 2% lending to Uncle Sam for 10 years, or you can collect a 7.7% dividend yield here by acting as the government’s landlord. This REIT was oversold and its tenants are federal, state and local government entities. When we added it to the Model Dividend Portfolio, it was at $21.75 and now shares sit above $23.00. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $24.17, but we value this one at $25.00 or even higher.

Senior Housing Properties Trust (NYSE: SNH) is acting as the landlord for senior communities, assisted living and nursing homes. It recently has had a capital raise to pay for acquisitions and it does deals where it can. It avoided the reimbursement woes and it generates a 7% dividend yield currently. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $24.00.

Digital Realty Trust Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a long-time dividend favorite for technology and the IT, has been removed from the 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio. We consider this the “Landlord of Technology and the Cloud,” and we removed it formally at $4.50 on the list, but now shares are even higher at $66.25. Our maximum price threshold was $62.00 with what was a 4.3% yield. We would be interested again if it returns to the high $50s. Thomson Reuters has a consensus price target of $66.70.

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For those investors seeking a more diversified strategy in the world of REITs for above-market yield, there is the SPDR Dow Jones REIT (NYSE: RWR). If we add up the last four dividend payments for the $2.03 paid out as income, then the implied yield based on a $64.00 price, we get almost a 3.2% dividend yield. It still beats Treasury yields by far, but at $64.00 its 52-week trading range is $52.32 to $70.26.

Read Also: High Dividends (Distributions) Outlook for Top MLPs in 2012

JON C. OGG

Once again, we have dropped most of the ‘leveraged’ and ‘Short’ or ‘Ultra-Short’ ETF’s.  The idea is to show which sectors were the winners and losers.  We also screen out if too many ETF’s tied to the same sector are showing up so we can show the winners and losers by groups rather than solely be the numbers.  Here are today’s:

ETF WINNERS:
iShares MSCI Taiwan Index (EWT)                             +0.83%
PowerShares Dynamic Insurance (PIC)                    +0.63%
Ultra Utilities ProShares (UPW)                                   +0.61%
Utilities Select Sector SPDR (XLU)                              +0.57%
Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF (BLV)                       +0.50%
iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury (TLT)                +0.48%
PowerShares Dynamic Food & Beverage (PBJ)       +0.46%
iShares S&P Global Cons Discretionary (RXI)          +0.45%
PowerShares Dynamic Deep Value    (PVM)             +0.47%

ETF LOSERS:
iShares MSCI Mexico Index (EWW)                             -1.95%
PowerShares DB Silver (DBS)                                     -1.9%
SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Equipment & Services(XES) -1.87%
SPDR S&P Homebuilders (XHB)                                 -1.86%
iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction (ITB)    -1.79%
DJ Wilshire REIT ETF (RWR)                                        -1.71%
HealthShares European Drugs (HRJ)                         -1.70%
iShares S&P Latin America 40 Index (ILF)                   -1.7%
iShares MSCI Malaysia Index (EWM)                             -1.66%
KBW Capital Markets ETF    (KCE)                                 -1.65%
First Trust Value Line Equity Allc Index (FVI)                 -1.6%

Jon C. Ogg
June 25, 2007

Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he does not own securities in the companies he covers.

These are not the absolute highest performing ETF’s because some such as the Ultra ETF’s use leverage, but here are the normal unleveraged ET’s that won today:

iShares MSCI Brazil Index                                         (EWZ) +2.76%
iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index                     (FXI) +2.58%
PowerShares Dynamic Aggressive Growth           (PGZ) +2.47%
iPath S&P GSCI Total Return Index ETN                 (GSP) +2.37%
iShares Dow Jones US Oil Equipment Index         (IEZ) +2.28%
iShares MSCI South Korea Index                              (EWY) +2.27%
United States Natural Gas                                         (UNG)    +2.23%
iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust       (GSG)    +2.11%
Claymore/Robeco Developed World Equity            (EEW) +2.10%
Oil Services HOLDRs                                                  (OIH) +2.10%
iShares MSCI South Africa Index                               (EZA) +2.09%

As always, even on a second strong up day there were some losers.  We back out the ‘inverse fund’ ETF’s and also the leveraged versions of each.  Also, the real estate group was the least impressive and we only included a couple variations to prevent repetition.  Here are today’s losers:

DJ Wilshire REIT ETF                                                 (RWR) (-1.16%)
iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors                   (ICF) (-1.14%)
WisdomTree Japan High-Yielding Equity               (DNL) (-0.94%)
KBW Regional Banking ETF                                      (KRE) (-0.78%)
Shares S&P Global Healthcare                                 (IXJ) (0.58%)
iShares MSCI Malaysia Index                                     (EWM) (0.42%)

Jon C. Ogg
June 14, 2007

What’s an easy way to tell when the market had a pretty bad hair day, other than looking at the ticker tape?  Seeing that all of the ETF winners for the day are listed as the UltraShort "Whatever" ProShares……they are the inverse move of an any underlying index, so when they are up the index or the market is down.  The top 12 performers today were all in that category. Some of these are leveraged to their index, not it doesn’t mean the worst performers are the underlying index per se.

UltraShort Real Estate ProShares (SRS) 3.52%   
UltraShort Utilities ProShares (SDP) 3.13%   
UltraShort Semiconductor ProShares (SSG) 2.09%
UltraShort Russell2000 Value ProShares (SJH) 1.66%
UltraShort Consumer Goods ProShares (SZK) 1.59%
UltraShort SmallCap600 ProShares (SDD) 1.49%
UltraShort Russell2000 Growth ProShares (SKK) 1.41%   
UltraShort Financials ProShares    (SKF) 1.36%
UltraShort S&P500 ProShares (SDS) 1.35%
UltraShort Consumer Services ProShares (SCC) 1.24%
UltraShort Russell MidCap Val ProShares    (SJL) 1.20%   
UltraShort Russell2000 ProShares (TWM) 1.06%

Other non-short ETF winners:
iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (FXI) +1.02%
PowerShares Gldn Dragon Halter USX China (PGJ) +0.80%
HealthShares Cardiology    (HRD) +0.7%

Worse non-Ultra funds today:
Internet Infrastructure HOLDRs (IIH) -1.82%
DJ Wilshire REIT ETF (RWR) -1.76%
iShares Cohen & Steers Realty Majors (ICF) -1.76%   
iShares Dow Jones US Home Construction (ITB) -1.64%
iShares MSCI South Africa Index    (EZA) -1.60%
United States Natural Gas (UNG)    -1.55%

Today was more of a Bernake playing hankie with words than it was China.  Tomorrow’s another day.

DJIA                       13,595.46; -80.86 (0.59%)
NASDAQ               2,611.23; -7.06 (0.27%)
S&P500                1,530.95; -8.23 (0.53%)
10YR-Bond          4.9760%; +0.0470%
NYSE Volume      2,884,657,000
NASDAQ Volume 2,233,690,000

Jon C. Ogg
June 5, 2007