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Public Storage Getting Ready To Report First Quarter 2022 Earnings

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Image Shown: Public Storage, a longtime idea in our High Yield Dividend Newsletter portfolio, has seen its share price skyrocket over the past year with room for additional upside, in our view. By Callum Turcan After the market close on May 3, the self-storage real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) Public Storage (PSA) intends to report its first-quarter earnings for 2022, which will be followed up by an earnings conference call a day later. Shares of PSA have been a long-time idea in the High Yield Dividend Newsletter portfolio, and we continue to be enormous fans of the name. The high end of our fair value estimate range sits at $445 per share of Public Storage, indicating that shares of PSA have … Read more

High-Yielding American Tower Is a Free Cash Flow Cow

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Image Shown: American Tower Corporation operates the tower structure and related land parcel of cell tower assets, while its tenants handle the remainder. Image Source: American Tower Corporation – Third Quarter of 2021 IR Earnings Presentation By Callum Turcan Rising geopolitical tensions, inflationary headwinds, supply chain hurdles, and pressures from the rising interest rate environment are all weighing negatively on equity markets. Through the end of normal trading hours on February 19, the S&P 500 (SPY) is down over 9% and the Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF (VNQ) is down over 11% year-to-date on a price only basis. In our view, this selloff presents an opportunity for investors with a longer term focus to consider high-quality REITs such as … Read more

High-Yielding Life Storage Has Tremendous Dividend Strength

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Image Shown: Life Storage Inc is committed to rewarding income seeking investors. Image Source: Life Storage Inc – January 2022 IR Presentation By Callum Turcan We recently added Life Storage Inc (LSI), a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) focused on self-storage properties in the US, as an idea to the simulated High Yield Dividend Newsletter portfolio (more here). Life Storage owns 1,000+ self-storage properties across 30+ states and has received an investment grade credit rating (Baa2/BBB) from two of the ‘Big Three’ rating agencies. The REIT also operates a third-party management platform for self-storage properties. Back in 2016, Life Storage rebranded from Sovran Self Storage and changed its ticker to LSI from SSS. Impressive Dividend Strength  The … Read more

Dividend Growth Idea Realty Income Makes an Intriguing Purchase

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Image Shown: Dividend growth idea Realty Income Corporation is acquiring its first real estate property in the gaming realm through a sale-leaseback transaction with Wynn Resorts Limited. Image Source: Realty Income Corporation – February 2022 IR Presentation By Callum Turcan On February 15, dividend growth idea Realty Income Corp (O) announced its 620th consecutive monthly dividend. Since going public in 1994, Realty Income has increased its monthly payout over 110 times. Realty Income is a real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) focused on single-tenant commercial properties. We include the REIT as an idea in our Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio and continue to be big fans of Realty Income. Shares of O yield ~4.4% as of this writing. Recent Acquisition  Realty Income … Read more

Public Storage Is Simply A Monster REIT Idea!

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Image Shown: REITs have struggled relative to other investing areas during the past 5 years. Absent the areas of crypto tokens, speculative disruptive innovators and technology, the most prudent area has been large cap growth the past five years, an area that we have been materially overweight in the newsletter portfolios. By Brian Nelson, CFA  REIT returns haven’t been that great the past several years (as shown above), but that may be no reason to fret. Some of the top yielding REITs across our coverage include Arbor Realty Trust (ABR), Iron Mountain (IRM), LTC Properties (LTC) and Omega Healthcare (OHI). These REITs come with significantly elevated risk, however. There’s one REIT that may not yield quite as much, but it … Read more

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

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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

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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

High-Yield Idea CyrusOne Considers Selling Itself

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Image Shown: Shares of CyrusOne, an idea included in our High Yield Dividend Newsletter portfolio, are on a modest upward climb of late. The data center real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) is reportedly considering putting itself up for sale, though we like the REIT’s income generation upside regardless of whether a sale does materialize as its outlook continues to improve after posting stellar performance during the first half of 2021. By Callum Turcan Reportedly, CyrusOne (CONE) is actively exploring a potential sale according to Reuters. We include shares of CONE as an idea in the High Yield Dividend Newsletter portfolio (more on that here). The data center real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) has experienced significant turnover in its top ranks … Read more

Dividend Growth Idea Realty Income Is on the Rebound

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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

High Yielding Idea CyrusOne Beats Estimates and Raises Guidance

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Image Source: CyrusOne Inc – Second Quarter of 2021 IR Earnings Presentation By Callum Turcan The data center and colocation service provider CyrusOne Inc (CONE) is a real estate investment trust (‘REIT’) that is included as an idea in the High Yield Dividend Newsletter portfolio (more on that here). CyrusOne reported second quarter 2021 earnings July 28 that beat both consensus top- and bottom-line estimates, and CyrusOne also increased its full-year guidance in conjunction with its latest earnings update. We liked what we saw in CyrusOne’s latest earnings report. Earnings Update Last quarter, CyrusOne’s GAAP revenues advanced 11% year-over-year while its non-GAAP normalized funds from operations (‘FFO’) increased 4% year-over-year, though on a per-share basis, its normalized FFO per share … Read more