
5 Tips to Analyze REITs
Real Estate Investment Trusts are an easy way to add real estate to your portfolio. You can trade them just like any other stocks, and profit not only from appreciation potential but also high dividends. However, don’t let the similarities fool you. Analyze REITs using the same traditional metrics from stocks and the numbers will trick you. Standard benchmark metrics like Price to Earnings (P/E) and Book Value, don’t quite apply for REITs in the same way. We already covered…