Sector Spotlight: Shopping Centers Are Hot, Retail REITs Are Not!

In a recent article, Dane Bowler described the persistent incongruity of shopping center operating performance and market share pricing of retail REITs. In almost every company’s recent earnings conference call, management bemoaned that their shares were trading at undeservedly steep discounts to intrinsic values. Since we are long a number of the issues, we sympathize with that sentiment, but the flip side perspective indicates the presence of opportunity. In this article, we present a few metrics that mig ...