Got $200? 2 Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever

The renewed enthusiasm for stocks that has driven the emerging bull market since October has not found its way into at least one notable segment of the equities market: real estate investment trusts (REITs).

REITs are particularly interest rate sensitive, and as the cuts expected to start this year get kicked down the road, some of these owners of pools of income-producing property offer stable sources of income and long-term growth potential at particularly favorable prices.

If you have $200 to spend on dividend stocks, you could do much worse than plunking $100 each down on Alexandria Real Estate Equities (NYSE: ARE) and Realty Income (NYSE: O).

Source Fool.com