Brookfield Properties Corp (USA)

• A Landlord to Bet On As Commercial Properties Improve

  By Arturo Cuevas - March 19, 2013 | Tickers: BPO, JLL, MPG

  Share prices of Brookfield Office Properties (NYSE: BPO) have risen to as high as $17.20 on high volume since the company announced this March that the funds from operations (FFO) it generated in 2012 hit $650 million, an improvement from the 2011 FFO of $640 million. With this uptick, coupled with other bull factors, Brookfield now appears ready to test its 52-week high of $18.60.

  The steady decline more »

• Is This Real Estate Giant A Buy?

  By Marshall Hargrave - February 15, 2013 | Tickers: BPO, CBG, FSRV, JLL, KW

  CBRE Group (NYSE: CBG) was up over 8% following its earnings announcement. The run comes after the real estate servicing company upped its guidance for 2013, now expecting to generate $1.40 to $1.45 of earnings per share, compared to analysts' estimates of $1.38. But is there still room for the stock to move higher? Given the company's leading market share, it appears so. After missing 3Q more »

• 3 New Buys From Acadian Asset Management for 2013

  By Madhu Dube - January 30, 2013 | Tickers: BPO, BSMX, LUV

  In my article today, I have picked up three stocks from the portfolio of Acadian Asset Management LLC that were recently bought by this hedge fund. It manages around 13 billion in stocks with more focus on to the service sector. The below mentioned three companies belong to three entirely different sectors with one common factor - they all have their long term fundamentals intact. Let's look at each of more »

• Should We Follow the Recent CEO Purchase of Thomas Properties?

  By Anh HOANG - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: BPO, HPP, TPGI

  Recently, The Chairman and CEO of Thomas Properties Group (NASDAQ: TPGI) has purchased around 43,400 shares in the company, with the total transaction value of nearly $230,000. Over the past 4 years, he kept adding to his personal portfolio. Could it be considered a bullish sign about the company’s future potential?

  Premier Real Estate With High Occupancy Rate

  Thomas Properties is considered a real estate company that more »

• Is This mREIT a Good Investment?

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 27, 2012 | Tickers: BXP, BPO

  Force Capital Management, managed by Robert Jaffe, is a mid-sized hedge fund with more than $600 million in assets under management. The average account balance at Force Capital is $86.6 million, which is higher than the New York City hedge fund industry’s average ($68.2M); in short, this means that Jaffe’s fund caters to above-average high net worth individuals.

  Force Capital has around two-thirds of its total more »

• Just a BIP on the Radar

  By Peter Horn - August 2, 2012 | Tickers: BAM, BIP, BPO, GGP

  Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP (NYSE: BIP) is a name that shows up on a lot of radar screens.  With a robust 4.4% current yield and a history of dividend increases, why not?  Over the last year, shares have also marched steadily upward from the mid-20s to the low-30s. 

  Dividend growth is the name of the game for Brookfield, and a lot of investors like what they see.  Despite the more »

• A Real Estate Spin-Off to Watch

  By Matthew DiLallo - July 25, 2012 | Tickers: BAM, BIP, BPO, GGP, RSE

  Traditionally Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have always been the easiest way for individual investors to gain access to this asset class which paid fairly decent dividends.  Most REITs are concentrated on one niche within real estate and for the most part are concentrated on only owning real estate domestically.  That is about to change in a big way.

  At some point during the second half of this year Brookfield more »

• The Asset Manager That No One Knows About

  By Matthew DiLallo - April 17, 2012 | Tickers: BRK-B, BRK-A, BAM, BIP, BPO, GGP

  Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) is one of the best-managed companies out there.  Most of us in the states however have never heard of the company even though they own some of the more recognizable assets in the world.  If you had heard about Brookfield and were to dig into the company you might be turned off by the apparent complexity. But before you toss them into the more »

• Strong & Sustainable Dividends

  By Arthur Pinkasovitch - January 22, 2012 | Tickers: AM, BPO, XLS, IP, RSH

  Dividends can be paid out for a variety of basic reasons. Although the fundamental purpose of the distribution is generally to pass on company profits directly to the shareholders, several key motivations are behind such an action.

  Firstly, dividend payments increase stock prices as the income stream becomes factored into the share price of a particular company either through the dividend growth model or simply through increasing investor sentiment. Secondly more »

• Commercial Property Interest Rates to Rise

  By Patrick King - December 29, 2011 | Tickers: BPO

  The Wall Street Journal reported last week that mortgage rates for commercial borrowers have bottomed out. With over $1,000,000,000 in commercial debt coming due in the US in 2012, it occured to me that commercial property managers like Brookfield Properties Corp (NYSE: BPO) might be facing a problem in the new year. 

  Luckily, an hour perusing BPO's annual and quarterly reports reinforced my conviction that they more »