Q: Ref : Patrick question on Monday:
“Do you have any thoughts on CUBE? I don’t have a lot of REIT exposure in my portfolio (just a small position in DIR.UN and some ARE at a large loss).”

Since ARE:CA has been a great performer in the last 5 years, I believe he is referring to ARE:US for real estate.

Q: Looking at some of the construction/engineering stocks. Since early summer of 2023, the larger companies STN and WSP are up about 50% and 30% respectively, but the smaller companies ARE and BDT have been massive winners, as ARE is roughly 4 times what it was then, and BDT is roughly 6 times what it was, gains of about 300% and 500%. Is the vast outperformance from ARE and BDT just a case of smaller companies being able to grow faster, or is there something fundamentally different in their businesses? Dol you think that ARE and BDT will continue to outperform STN and WSP?

Q: Do you have any thoughts on CUBE? I don’t have a lot of REIT exposure in my portfolio (just a small position in DIR.UN and some ARE at a large loss).

Thinking of maybe either taking a tax-loss on ARE and redeploying into CUBE or else just buying CUBE with cash available in my portfolio (my sells are usually wrong, so I tend not to sell often).