High-Yielding Digital Realty Is Committed to Rewarding Income Seeking Investors

Image Shown: Digital Realty Trust Inc continues to secure new leases which supports its growth outlook. Image Source: Digital Realty Trust Inc – Second Quarter of 2022 Earnings Press Release By Callum Turcan Data center real estate investment trusts (‘REITs’) are a great source of income with ample growth opportunities given the secular tailwinds underpinning data demand growth. The proliferation of cloud computing, the Internet of Things (‘IoT’) trend, the rise of autonomous automobiles, households that previously did not have access to the Internet gaining access (particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asian), the rollout of 5G wireless services, and other factors are all driving up data demand around the world. In turn, that makes it easier for data center … Read more

ICYMI: Dividend Growth Idea Realty Income Completes Transformation, Further Expands Overseas

This article originally appeared on our website November 17, 2021. Image Shown: An overview of dividend growth idea Realty Income Corporation’s tenant base, though this appears to be before taking into account its recent merger with VEREIT and spinoff of its corporate office properties portfolio. Image Source: Realty Income Corporation – November 2021 IR Presentation By Callum Turcan On November 1, Realty Income Corporation (O) completed its stock-for-stock merger with VEREIT, a deal that according to an April 2021 press release had an enterprise value of ~$50 billion. When the merger closed, shareholders of Realty Income owned ~70% of the new entity and shareholders of VEREIT owned the remainder. Realty Income is a real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) with a … Read more

Digital Realty Boosts Guidance and Further Extends Growth Runway

Image Source: Digital Realty Trust Inc – Third Quarter of 2021 IR Earnings Presentation By Callum Turcan On October 26, Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR) posted third quarter 2021 earnings that beat both consensus top- and bottom-line estimates. The data center real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) saw its GAAP operating revenues come in at $1.1 billion (up 11% year-over-year) and its non-GAAP core funds from operations (‘FFO’) per share come in at $1.65 per share (up 7% year-over-year) last quarter. Digital Realty also increased its guidance in conjunction with its latest earnings report, which we appreciate, as that signals the REIT is growing confident that it will exit 2021 on a high note. Digital Realty’s business is steadily recovering after … Read more

Dividend Growth Idea Realty Income Is on the Rebound

Image Source: Realty Income Corporation – August 2021 IR Presentation By Callum Turcan Realty Income Corporation (O) is a real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) that is steadily recovering from the worst of the coronavirus (‘COVID-19’) pandemic. For reference, Realty Income focuses on freestanding singe-tenant commercial properties in the US and the UK. The financial health of the portions of its tenant base that were hit particularly hard by the pandemic, such as movie theater operators, has improved considerably of late. Back during the second quarter of 2020, Realty Income collected 86.5% of its contractually owed rent across its entire portfolio as many of its movie theater and health & fitness tenants, and to a lesser extent its causal dinning tenants, … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 18

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending May 18. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week AAON (AAON): now $0.16 per share semi-annual dividend, was $0.13. Agree Realty (ADC): now $0.54 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.52. Chubb (CB): now $0.73 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.71. Hydro One (HRNNF): now CAD 0.23 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.22. Independence Holding (IHC): now $0.15 per share semi-annual dividend, was $0.10. Janus Henderson (JHG): now $0.36 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.32. … Read more

HCP’s Strange Management Shakeup: Our Take

Late last week, HCP (click ticker for report: ) terminated CEO, Chairman, and President Jay Flaherty III after 10 years of leadership. Flaherty led the firm admirably throughout the Great Recession, never reducing the dividend and achieving share appreciation of 112% versus 80% for the S&P 500 over the same time frame.  Flaherty also raised the quarterly dividend from $0.415 per share to $0.515 (a 27% increase) during this tenure (dividend history). In short, HCP performed quite well through Flaherty’s reign.   Image Source: Glassdoor Non-Executive Chairman Mike McKee noted that the firing had nothing to do with underlying financial performance or operational issues. Without much board transparency, it’s difficult to ascertain exactly what happened; however, employer review website Glassdoor … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending November 11

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending November 11. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week AAON (AAON): now $0.13 per share semi-annual dividend, was $0.11. Acadia Realty Trust (AKR): now $0.26 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. AmerisourceBergen (ABC): now $0.365 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.34. Atmos Energy (ATO): now $0.45 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.42. Automatic Data Processing (ADP): now $0.57 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.53. BOK Financial (BOKF): now $0.44 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.43. … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 12

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending May 12. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week The Brink’s (BCO): now $0.15 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.10. Buckeye Partners (BPL): now $1.25 per share quarterly dividend, was $1.2375. BWX Technologies (BWXT): now $0.11 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.09. Cabot (CBT): now $0.315 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.30. Canadian Pacific Railway (CP): now CAD 0.5625 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.50. Clorox (CLX): now $0.84 per share quarterly dividend, was … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending November 17

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending November 17. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week Agilent (A): now $0.149 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.132. American Equity (AEL): now $0.26 per share annual dividend, was $0.24. AmerisourceBergen (ABC): now $0.38 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.365. Aramark (ARMK): now $0.105 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.103. Bancroft Fund (BCV): now $0.41 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. Black Hills (BKH): now $0.475 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.445. Brown-Forman (BF.B): now … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 11

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending May 11. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week Algonquin Power & Utilities (AQN): now $0.1282 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.1165. Baker Hughes (BHGE): now $0.18 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.12. Baxter (BAX): now $0.19 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.16. BG Staffing (BGSF): now $0.30 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. Brookline Bancorp (BRKL): now $0.10 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.09. Business First Bancshares (BFST): now $0.08 per share quarterly dividend, … Read more