Better Buy: EPR or AGNC?
EPR Properties (NYSE: EPR) and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) are both dividend cutters. That might be enough to turn many investors off, but... they have attractive dividend yields. EPR's yield is around 7.1%, while AGNC's yield is a huge 17.2%! But before you jump on the higher yield, you'll want to read the rest of this article.
While both EPR and AGNC are real estate investment trusts (REITs), they are very different businesses. EPR owns physical properties, while AGNC invests in mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like investments often called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), or something similar. Owning mortgages is not even remotely like owning properties.
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