1 Question Realty Income Needs to Answer
When investors think about net-lease real estate investment trusts (REITs), one name is likely to jump to the top of their minds -- Realty Income (NYSE: O). There are some very good reasons for this, but there's one big problem, too. Here's what you need to know about Realty Income and the big question the REIT needs to -- and is trying to -- answer.
Realty Income owns roughly 6,600 properties and sports a $23 billion market cap, making it one of the largest net-lease real estate investment trusts around (in the net-lease model, most of the operating costs are paid by the REIT's tenants). That alone is enough to garner investor attention, but it's not the only thing. Investors looking to dividend stocks as a way to replace their paychecks will also like the monthly dividend on offer here, even more so when they consider that Realty Income has increased its dividend annually for 28 consecutive years, putting it into the highly respected Dividend Aristocrat realm.
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