2 Brilliant High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy Now
Some of the most attractive dividend-paying stocks available are real estate investment trusts, or REITs. When you buy shares of a REIT, you're essentially buying into physical assets with long life spans. That strategy offers a safety net for investors, because they own part of the underlying asset in addition to the income those assets provide. Two I particularly like are Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) and Welltower Inc. (NYSE: HCN). They offer investors an effective way to invest in the information storage/security and healthcare industries -- and both have dividend yields topping 5%.
Iron Mountain is the global leader for storage and information management solutions, and boasts an impressive footprint with more than 87 million square feet of space in 1,433 facilities across 53 countries. Its stores everything from medical images to hard-copy records to film, boasts a 99.99% inventory accuracy rate, and serves 95% of the Fortune 1000. The company offers a number of attractive real estate characteristics such as low turnover costs, low maintenance capital expenditure and high customer retention. A great example is that 50% of boxes stored 15 years ago still remain within its facilities, and 25% of boxes stored 22 years ago are still present.
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