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Company snapshot — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust

REI-UN.TO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
RioCan is a Canadian real estate investment trust that owns, manages and develops retail properties built around everyday shopping needs, mostly in densely populated Canadian communities. It holds a portfolio of shopping centres and mixed-use sites anchored by grocery and service tenants that draw repeat, necessity-based visits. The trust is based in Toronto and was set up as a Canadian REIT.
Where it sits in the stack
RioCan carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Real Estate sleeve of the diary's universe, within the retail REIT sector rather than the AI build-out stack. Its role there is as a landlord of physical retail space, unconnected to compute, chips or data-centre infrastructure.
Who it is priced against
The Closelook peer group carries no entry for it, so the comparison is left to the market, which groups RioCan with other Canadian retail-focused REITs such as CT REIT and SmartCentres.
Why Closelook tracks it
RioCan holds no index seat in Rubin or Halo and carries no Closelook score, so neither module has been built out for it yet. The diary's coverage is limited to its daily chart reading, tracking price moves against its short and long moving averages and its distance from the 52-week high.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether occupancy and leasing activity across RioCan's necessity-based retail centres hold steady, since that underpins the rental income a landlord REIT like this depends on.

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI-UN.TO) trades on the TO exchange in Canada, classified under Real Estate.

The Closelook company score reads 49/100 composite (momentum 51, quality 55, valuation 49) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for REI-UN.TO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against REIT - Retail · Canada · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

REIT - Retail · Canada

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against REI-UN.TO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 5.62%, monthly · buybacks 127 m CAD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What REI-UN.TO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.16 CAD per share · a 5.62% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 12 distributions, paid monthly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +50.8% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.77 CAD per share
  • Last distribution 0.0965 CAD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-31
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.15 CAD · 2026: 0.77 CAD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-01-31
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 341 m CAD 135% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 127 m CAD 2.1% of today's market value
  • Share count −1.5% in FY2025 10 m CAD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 468 m CAD · 258% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (REI-UN.TO)?

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust trades as REI-UN.TO on the TO exchange (Canada) and is classified under Real Estate in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is REI-UN.TO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust's Closelook composite score?

49 out of 100, with momentum 51, quality 55 and valuation 49 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does REI-UN.TO trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -4.3% vs the 50-day and +1.7% vs the 200-day average, 10.5% below the 52-week high and +19.1% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust do?

RioCan is a Canadian real estate investment trust that owns, manages and develops retail properties built around everyday shopping needs, mostly in densely populated Canadian communities. It holds a portfolio of shopping centres and mixed-use sites anchored by grocery and service tenants that draw repeat, necessity-based visits. The trust is based in Toronto and was set up as a Canadian REIT. The Closelook peer group carries no entry for it, so the comparison is left to the market, which groups RioCan with other Canadian retail-focused REITs such as CT REIT and SmartCentres.

Where does RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust sit in the AI build-out?

RioCan carries no seat in our index; it sits in the Real Estate sleeve of the diary's universe, within the retail REIT sector rather than the AI build-out stack. Its role there is as a landlord of physical retail space, unconnected to compute, chips or data-centre infrastructure. RioCan holds no index seat in Rubin or Halo and carries no Closelook score, so neither module has been built out for it yet. The diary's coverage is limited to its daily chart reading, tracking price moves against its short and long moving averages and its distance from the 52-week high.

Does RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust pay a dividend?

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust has paid 1.16 CAD per share over the last twelve months, paid monthly, a trailing yield of 5.62% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.0965 CAD on 2026-08-31. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 341 m CAD in dividends and bought back 127 m CAD of its own shares, 258% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 1.5% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for REI-UN.TO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then REIT - Retail, then Real Estate. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.