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Strategies & Market Trends : Meditrust NYSE: MT
MT 39.17+3.5%Nov 7 3:59 PM EST
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To: WILLIAM C KLEMA who wrote (122)11/6/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: M. Frank Greiffenstein  Read Replies (1) of 233
 
They can't retain earnings

William, a REIT gets special tax status in return for a promise to pay out 95% of profits as dividends. What they are telling you is that expenses have gone up or profits have gone down, so 95% of expected earnings will represent a smaller nominal amount than the current payout.

Even in the worst case scenario, a 50% reduction in dividend still works out to a 12% yield. I doubt the surgery will be that radical, I could live with it.

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