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ThinkstockInvestors have been told over and over to love dividends, as they provide income and stability to a portfolio. While those themes are often true, there can be a dark side to dividend...
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ThinkstockPenn National Gaming Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) completed on Monday the spin-off of its real-estate holdings into a new REIT, Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. (G&LP) (NASDAQ: GLPI). The...
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ThinkstockDigital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) is supposed to be the landlord of the cloud. That should imply not only endless growth but dividend growth as well. Unfortunately, the growth of the...
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ThinkstockThis year has been a stellar one for stocks, with the S&P 500 Index up more than 22% and with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more than 18% in 2013. The real estate investment trust...
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ThinkstockWednesday morning brought the announcement of a merger between American Realty Capital Properties Inc. (NASDAQ: ARCP) and Cole Real Estate Investments Inc. (NYSE: COLE). That will create a...
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The surprising move last week by the Federal Reserve to postpone the tapering of the $85 billion per month bond-buying program known as quantitative easing put some very strong wind at the backs of...
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ThinkstockIt was no secret that Larry Summers, the former candidate to replace Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve, was no big fan of the current easy money policies. The two...
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Jon OggThe analyst team at Sterne Agee has updated its book value estimates for the high-yield mortgage-backed securities (MBS) real estate investment trust (REIT) sector. The move is based on rising...
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ThinkstockWhen the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) launched their U.S Select REIT portfolio, the idea was to have a flexible portfolio that could be added to or...
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ThinkstockWeyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) reported second-quarter fiscal 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The wood products REIT posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on...
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ThinkstockThroughout May and June, we had been issuing warnings and highlighting research notes from Wall Street indicating that there was potentially a huge risk in the high-yield dividend mortgage...
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ThinkstockPhysicians Realty Trust (NYSE: DOC) priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $11.50 a share, the low end of the expected range of $11.50 to $13.50, but the firm offered 10.4 million...
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ThinkstockSterne Agee has downgraded many targets on its mortgage REIT sector. Investors can find extremely high-yield dividends here, often north of 10%, but the risk versus reward often can be too...
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ThinkstockYesterday was a busy day for the board of directors at Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY). The REIT named a new chief executive officer, announced a deal to spend $2.65 billion to acquire another...
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Jon OggNewcastle Investment Corp. (NYSE: NCT) is one of the harder to analyze mortgage-backed securities REITs that pays investors a high dividend yield. It is confusing because Newcastle manages...
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