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retiredcfon Apr 11, 2022 8:56am
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CIBC Conclusions
CIBC ConclusionsAdding It All Up
We believe that the spectre of several “unknown unknows” has cast an unwarranted pall over the unit price performance of the domestic Canadian apartment REITs in Canada and caused material underperformance in light of generally improving fundamentals and an increasingly tight rental market. With the unveiling of the Liberal platform in August of 2021, Exhibit 10
clearly shows that the apartment REITs with a domestic focus have materially underperformed the broader REIT index (XRE) and even more so when considering the fact that the residential REITs in question actually account for ~23% of the index.
Acknowledging that momentum and sentiment do unquestionably play a large role in short- term performance (and can often set up superior trading opportunities), we hold steadfast to the axiom that the performance and strength of the underlying fundamentals matter in the long run. To that end, we view the recent weakness across the Canadian residential REIT sub class as an opportunity for investors with a longer-term investment horizon and suggest that (as is quite often the case) that a potentially more negative outcome has already been “priced in” and that the eventual resolution of such concerns ought to remove the figurative sword from above and result in a mean-reverting near-term outperformance for the group as a whole.