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W.P. Carey's Dividend Policy Is Nothing But A Big Hunk O' Love
Brad Thomas • Mon, Apr 1 • 61 Comments
'Investing For The Long Run' With This Durable Sale/Leaseback REIT
Brad Thomas • Thu, Oct 4, 2012 • 36 Comments
W.P. Carey Poised To Boost Dividend By 15% In The Third Quarter
Tim Plaehn • Thu, Jul 5, 2012 • 1 Comment
Sale-Leaseback Legend Comes Closer To Becoming A REIT
Brad Thomas • Mon, Jun 25, 2012 • 13 Comments
W.P. Carey - A Soaring New REIT On A Flight To Quality
Brad Thomas • Fri, Mar 9, 2012 • 43 Comments
W.P. Carey: An Impressive 'Black SWAN' in a Net Lease Wrapper
Brad Thomas • Wed, Jun 22, 2011 • 38 Comments

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O Is A Buy, Not A Bargain
Brad Thomas • Fri, Jun 14 • 84 Comments
Shopping List Revisited
Dividend Sleuth • Mon, Jun 10 • 27 Comments
Will This REIT Grow Too Big, Too Fast And Will It Last?
Brad Thomas • Tue, Jun 4 • 36 Comments
Thank Uncle Ben For Serendipity In REIT-Dom
Brad Thomas • Mon, Jun 3 • 52 Comments
Shopping For REITs As We Enter A New Wealth Creation Cycle
Brad Thomas • Fri, May 31 • 217 Comments
We're Just At The Tip Of The Iceberg, Triple Net REITs Will Soon Be A Glacier Sector
Brad Thomas • Thu, May 30 • 119 Comments
Stay On The REIT Track And Sleep Well At Night
Brad Thomas • Mon, May 27 • 84 Comments
I'm Not Gonna Brag, But I Did Recommend STAG
Brad Thomas • Mon, May 20 • 69 Comments
Hedge Fund Clovis Capital's Top Stock Picks
Insider Monkey • Fri, May 17
Picking An All-Star REIT Team To Defend Against Interest Rate Risk
Brad Thomas • Fri, May 17 • 115 Comments
American Realty Capital Properties: Plenty Of Salsa, But Not Yet A SWAN
Brad Thomas • Mon, May 13 • 39 Comments
Laws Of Cap Rate Compression And Several REITs With Mispriced Risk
Brad Thomas • Tue, May 7 • 113 Comments
Chambers Street: More Liquidity Magic On The Way In REIT-Dom
Brad Thomas • Fri, May 3 • 44 Comments
56 Dividend Contenders With Yields Double That Of 10-Year Treasuries
David Van Knapp • Wed, Apr 10 • 22 Comments
Hedge Funds Are Buying These 3 Dividend Stocks With A Recent History Of Negative Earnings Surprises
Kapitall • Wed, Apr 10 • 2 Comments
Cole Credit Property Trust: The Best Advice I Can Offer Is To Ignore The REIT-Land Bully
Brad Thomas • Mon, Apr 8 • 66 Comments
5 Stocks With Recent Double-Digit Dividend Hikes
Dividendinvestr • Mon, Mar 25
It's March Madness: Nothing But Net For This Cinderella REIT
Brad Thomas • Mon, Mar 25 • 36 Comments
Why You Shouldn't Worry About Recapture With REITs
The Chestnut • Tue, Mar 19 • 5 Comments
3 High Yielding Dividend Machines Boosting Distributions
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W. P. Carey's CEO Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, May 8
W. P. Carey's CEO Hosts Investor and Analyst Conference (Transcript)
Thu, Apr 4
W. P. Carey Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Feb 26
W. P. Carey's CEO Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Fri, Nov 9, 2012
W. P. Carey's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Aug 7, 2012 • 1 Comment
W.P. Carey & Co. LLC Wall Street Analyst Forum Transcript
Fri, Jun 12, 2009
W. P. Carey & Co. LLC Wall Street Analyst Forum Presentation Transcript
Tue, Nov 18, 2008 • 1 Comment

W. P. Carey Announces Postponement of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

PR Newswire (Thu, 4:15PM)
/ CORRECTION - W. P. Carey Inc.

Marketwire (Jun 12, 2013)
W. P. Carey Acquires Arbella Corporate Headquarters Facility Outside of Boston

PR Newswire (Jun 12, 2013)
W. P. Carey Announces $52 million Acquisition of Cargotec Campus in Finland

PR Newswire (Jun 4, 2013)
Carey Watermark Investors Acquires Hutton Hotel In Nashville

PR Newswire (May 30, 2013)
W. P. Carey to Present at NAREIT's REITWeek 2013

Marketwire (May 29, 2013)
/ CORRECTION - CPA(R):18 - Global Commences $1 Billion Offering

Marketwire (May 13, 2013)
CPA(R):18 - Global Commences $1 Billion Offering

Marketwire (May 13, 2013)
W. P. Carey Announces First Quarter 2013 Financial Results

Marketwire (May 7, 2013)
W. P. Carey to Participate at JMP Securities Research Conference

Marketwire (May 6, 2013)
W. P. Carey Acquires Tommy Hilfiger European Distribution Center

Marketwire (May 1, 2013)
W. P. Carey to Release First Quarter Financial Results on Tuesday, May 7

Marketwire (Apr 9, 2013)
W. P. Carey Closes Build-to-Suit Financing for Harbor Freight Tools Facility

Marketwire (Apr 4, 2013)
W. P. Carey to Host Investor and Analyst Day on April 4, 2013

Marketwire (Apr 1, 2013)
W. P. Carey Closes Two Sale-Leaseback Transactions Totaling $26 Million

Marketwire (Mar 27, 2013)
W. P. Carey Increases Quarterly Dividend by 24% and Announces Addition to FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index

Marketwire (Mar 14, 2013)
W. P. Carey Closes Financing on Walgreens Las Vegas Property

Marketwire (Mar 7, 2013)
W. P. Carey Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2012 Financial Results

Marketwire (Feb 26, 2013)
W. P. Carey Closes Sale-Leaseback Financing With Kraft for Northfield, Illinois Campus

Marketwire (Jan 31, 2013)
W. P. Carey to Release Fourth Quarter and Year End 2012 Financial Results on Tuesday, February 26

Marketwire (Jan 22, 2013)

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Sector: Financial

Industry: Property Management

Country: United States

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Wednesday, June 12, 8:46 AM W.P. Carey (WPC) stays busy, announcing the $26M acquisition for sale-leaseback purposes of the corporate headquarters of Arbella Insurance Group in Quincy, MA. The 132K square foot facility on 5.8 acres is leased to Arbella for another 14 years. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Tuesday, June 4, 10:09 AM W.P. Carey (WPC -0.3%) stays busy on the acquisition trail, buying the R&D and class-A office facilities of Cargotec Corporation in Finland for about $52M. It's a sale-leaseback deal, with a 20-year triple-net lease inked with Cargotec. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Thursday, May 30, 8:24 AM Carey Watermark Investors - W.P. Carey's (WPC) non-traded REIT focused on lodging - acquires Hutton Hotel in downtown Nashville. The purchase price is $73.6M and the firm expects $3.7M of planned improvements and other acquisition costs. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Tuesday, May 7, 3:25 PM Gramercy Property Trust (GPT +1%) moves about 3% off the session low as the earnings call/business plan update reveals a management focused and executing on its plan to turn the company into a pure play equity REIT. The implied cap rate (pg. 27-31) of net lease companies (O, WPC, NNN, LXP, EPR, SRC, ARCP,GTY) of 5%-6.5% is far below the 7.5%-8.5% Gramercy is closing deals at - "(the) widest arbitrage in our experience." 4 Comments [Financials, On the Move]
Friday, April 5, 3:55 PM In its first presentation (transcript) (slides) since converting to a REIT on Oct. 1, W.P. Carey (WPC) - the country's largest owner of net lease assets - touts the geographic diversity of its owned assets and the steady revenue stream from managed assets - 17% of 2012's total revenue and 12% of AFFO. Shares up about 40% since the conversion. Comment! [Financials]
Thursday, March 14, 5:33 PM W. P. Carey (WPC) declares $0.82/share quarterly dividend, 24% increase from prior dividend of $0.66. Forward yield 5.12%. For shareholders of record Mar. 28. Payable Apr. 15. Ex-div date Mar. 26. (PR) 5 Comments [Dividends]
Tuesday, February 26, 9:21 AM W. P. Carey (WPC): Q4 AFFO of $1.13. Revenue of $128.9M. (PR) 1 Comment [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 9:38 AM W.P. Carey & Co. LLC (WPC) declares $0.65/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. For shareholders of record Oct. 2. Payable Oct. 16. Ex-div Sept. 28. (PR) 1 Comment [Dividends]
Friday, December 30, 2011, 1:50 PM Real estate Investment firm W.P. Carey (WPC -0.7%) recovers most of an early 4.4% decline today, dipping after the company announced it had closed on a $450M unsecured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of bank lenders. Comment! [Financials]

Minutemen
$ARCP $AMRE $HTA $O $OHI $WPC Sharp pull back in equity REITS today.
May 22, 1:41 PM
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Minutemen
Stocks stumbling around for a footing this morning. $MO $DIS and $OHI up the most for me. $WPC down the last 2 days.
May 10, 10:08 AM
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Minutemen
My portfolio mixed at noon. Top performers: $ARCP, $UNP, $WPC. $ABT is my poorest performer today.
May 6, 11:57 AM
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Minutemen
News on $WPC? Up nicely in morning trading.
May 6, 9:54 AM
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Minutemen
Tommy Hilfiger acquisition explains the pop in $WPC yesterday.
May 1, 8:36 AM
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Minutemen
My best performing stocks at noon (up at least 0.5%): $AMRE $HTA $KRFT $MO $OHI $TJX $TOT $UNP $WFC $WPC
Apr 25, 12:05 PM
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Minutemen: Not bad at all. Things starting a little shaky but then turned to the upside.
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The Complete Dividend Plan: Everything for me keeps going straight up, except for PKIUF. Continued profit taking for weeks now.
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Minutemen
Mixed day today, but my top performers at noon are $ABBV (+3.68%), $INTC (+1.20%) and $WPC (1.08%)
Apr 22, 12:07 PM
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Minutemen
My retail & retail REITs up nicely today. $ARCP $O $TJX $WPC
Apr 11, 11:47 AM
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Kapitall
Hedge funds are buying 3 dividend stocks with a recent history of negative earnings surprises http://seekingalpha.com/a/sjnl $HEP $OMI $WPC
Apr 10, 10:22 AM
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Minutemen: In your article you didn't state why negative earnings surprises are buy signal for hedge funds. I own WPC and am curious. Thanks.
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Minutemen
$WPC has a nice afternoon surge. We'll see how it closes.
Apr 4, 2:50 PM
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Minutemen
My best performing stocks at noon (up at least 0.5%): $AMRE $HTA $KRFT $MO $OHI $TJX $TOT $UNP $WFC $WPC
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Minutemen: Not bad at all. Things starting a little shaky but then turned to the upside.
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The Complete Dividend Plan: Everything for me keeps going straight up, except for PKIUF. Continued profit taking for weeks now.
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Kapitall
Hedge funds are buying 3 dividend stocks with a recent history of negative earnings surprises http://seekingalpha.com/a/sjnl $HEP $OMI $WPC
Apr 10, 10:22 AM
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Minutemen: In your article you didn't state why negative earnings surprises are buy signal for hedge funds. I own WPC and am curious. Thanks.
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Be Here Now
Why was WPC sold off today?
11/1/12
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David Melby: I'm with you re recent sharp sell off & zero comments on stock the past month.
11/3/12
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6 Profitable High Yield Small Caps With Solid Earnings, Strong Ratings http://bit.ly/KVg0ZC $BBEP $CLNY $ELRC $LRE $MNR $WPC @ZetaKap
5/14/12
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Ocean Man: I see a lot of your screens return ELRC as a top choice. Must be awesome!
5/14/12
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ZetaKap: You're right - $ELRC comes up consistently for a lot of profit and earnings screens - definitely says something about the company
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sstonerm3
Anyone else notice the big safe divy payers are at or near 52 week highs? Flight to safety? MCD, WMT, WPC, PG and JNJ
12/28/11
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REIT: so is it start with highest gain and then sell till all gone ..i sold MRK when reached 52 wk hgh nt worth holding even i think it will go up
12/28/11
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Ocean Man: I'd sell half of all but MCD. Might sell all of WMT.
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