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Amid surging Treasury yields, U.S. real estate stocks sagged last year. The largest exchange traded fund tracking real estate investment trusts gained just 4.9 percent in 2017, well behind the 21.7 percent returned by the S&P 500. The real estate ETF was significantly more volatile than the S...

With the 10-year yield rising toward 3 percent and boosting costs of capital, cap rates and dividend yields, 2018 isn’t looking so great for real estate investment trusts. One analyst anticipates a 5-percent decline in the MSCIUSREIT INDEX (NYSE: RMZ) partly driven by underperformance in two...

With recovery in retail and favorable legislative circumstances, Wells Fargo expects real estate investment trusts to generate 4.5- to 5-percent returns to match next year’s single-digit returns in the S&P 500. The trend is seen to drive 27 winners across real estate and other exposed...

At around a 20 percent discount to net asset value, retail REIT Kimco Realty Corp (NYSE: KIM) is certainly not expensive. But the stock may have a difficult time outperforming the market if cash flow estimates are too high. The Analyst Baird analyst RJ Milligan downgraded Kimco from...

One of the more anticipated initial public offerings of 2017 was Switch Inc (NYSE: SWCH), a technology infrastructure company that operates data center facilities and related services. But investors made it clear they have no appetite for the stock as all of its strong gains on Friday were wiped...

As has been widely documented, real estate will become the eleventh GICS sector at the end of this month, separating from financial services. It's Almost Here, And Analysts Are Ready It is believed the news, widely known since index providers Standard & Poor's and MSCI made the announcement...

D.A. Davidson analysts Barry Oxford and Steve Shaw just issued a new research note on the real estate sector that asked a simple question: "Will this be the summer of mergers & acquisitions?" While the two aren't aware of any current M&A chatter, they name three office...

Whenever academics, geeks and quant jockeys get together to talk about markets and stocks, a few catch phrases are likely to dominate much of the conversation. One is "anomalies" -- those pesky little factors that cannot be explained away by the efficient market theory. The other is...

Having sprouted some gray hairs and lost more than a few others, most of us have heard some bad advice in our lifetime. Always bet the favorite. Go all in with Ace-King. Never eat at a place called 'Mom's.' Buy stocks because they return 10 percent a year. Get a real job. Use managed futures to...