The SNL Japan REIT Equity index posted a total return of 70.1% for the one-year period ended May 8, beating the SNL US REIT Equity index by 46.8 percentage points.
Excerpt: The SNL Japan REIT Equity index was composed of 33 SNL-covered J-REITs as of May 8, topped by Nippon Building Fund Inc., an office REIT with a market capitalization of nearly $10 billion, which posted a one-year total return of 93.5%. SNL-covered retail J-REITs, which include two companies, led the SNL-covered J-REIT sector as of May 8 in terms of one-year total returns, at 84.3%. This was followed by the office J-REIT sector, which makes up a large portion of the sector’s market cap, with a total return of 83.2% and the industrial J-REIT sector at 82.4%.
On the other hand, the SNL US REIT Equity index, which was composed of 155 companies as of May 8, is led by regional mall giant Simon Property Group Inc., with a market capitalization of more than $55 billion. Across U.S. REIT property sectors, the health care space provided the highest one-year total return performance as of May 8, at 42.4%. This was followed by the shopping center and industrial sectors, with total returns of 30.9% and 30.7%, respectively.
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