With a $32 billion market cap, Simon Property Group (SPG) is a top-five REIT by size — and is my top conservative investment idea for 2021, asserts Tim Plaehn, editor of...
Income & Bonds
Not a day passes that I don’t scour the market for opportunities in stocks and equity options in search of the best current buys; the stocks I find have safe and generou...
CVS Health (CVS) operates one of the largest domestic retail pharmacy networks and is a leading pharmacy benefits manager, notes John Buckingham, value-oriented money manager ...
New Residential Investment Corp. (NRZ) — an aggressive stock for 2021— is a finance real estate investment trust (REIT) that faced near-collapse during the early d...
Investing
W.P. Carey: "A Picky Landlord"
Tickers:
WPC
Can income seekers safely get back into real estate investment trusts for 2021? asks income expert Brett Owens, editor of Contrarian Outlook....
Investing
Simon Property and the Future of Malls
Tickers:
ATVI
Simon Property Group (SPG) is giant mall operator and REIT, which was one of the worse possible businesses to be in during a global pandemic, notes Ke...
Investing
5-Star Buys Among Municipal Bond Funds
After sizable outflows in March 2020, investors returned to municipal bond mutual funds, with consistent flows in the second half of the year, observe...
Trading
Stocks Seem Ready for a Short-Term Rest
As 2020 comes to a close, many of the worries and circumstances that have driven the market higher all year remain in place, and in many cases their i...
Investing
National Retail: A "Triple Net" Dividend Aristocrat
Tickers:
NNN
With 31 years of dividend raises, National Retail Properties (NNN) has achieved Dividend Aristocrat status — surviving and thriving through seve...
Investing
Federal Realty: A "King" Among REITs
Tickers:
FRT
Dividend Kings are stocks that have shown 50+ years of rising dividend. Federal Realty (FRT), a real estate investment trust is a one of our top-ranke...
Investing
STAG Industrial Rings up Profits with E-Commerce
Tickers:
STAG
STAG Industrial (STAG) is one of the more attractive companies that is trading in the sweet spot of e-commerce logistics, notes Bryan Perry, income ex...
Trading
Let’s Look at Interest Rates
Its been a while since we looked at interest rates in this space. The way I do it is by looking at the 10-year price, which has an inverse relationshi...
Investing
Monthly Dividends Boost Realty Income
Tickers:
O
Realty Income (O) is one of the highest-quality and best-run REITS on the market, observes Tom Hutchinson, income expert and editor of Cabot Dividend ...
Investing
Two Closed-End Funds for a REIT Rebound
REITs came into 2020 hitting on all cylinders with high valuations and a lot of optimism. Then COVID-19 pushed them off the track, recalls Rida Morwa,...