The Latest Breaking News from Realty Income

The two essential characteristics of income stocks investors look for when considering a purchase of real estate investment trusts (REITs) are safety and reliability of the dividend. 

The stock market is reeling from the pressures of a potential global recession, and central banks around the world are gearing up for the most aggressive interest rate hikes in history. 

In the midst of a bear market, with rising interest rates and the threat of a prolonged recession in the air, real estate investment trust (REIT) stocks have endured tremendous price declines. Given this, it isn’t easy to find REITs that could see dividend increases soon.

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Equities are more volatile than ever as macroeconomic headwinds pile on. The recent data revealing slowing economic activity in China has raised major concerns regarding a global economic slowdown, as China is the manufacturing hub of the world. The major U.S. benchmark indexes are currently down more than 13% year…

After more than a decade of astronomical growth, the stock market has steadily declined since early 2022. On June 13, the S&P 500 plunged into a bear market, closing by slightly less than 4%, representing a 21% drop from Jan. 3 high. Technology and Blue-chip stocks got hit as severely,…

Realty Income Corp.'s (NYSE: O) second-quarter 2022 results are slated for an Aug 3 release after the bell. The company's quarterly results are likely to display increases in revenues and funds from operations (FFO) per share.

It’s tiny for a REIT, with a market cap of just $615 million (compared, for example to Realty Income’s market cap of $41 billion), and the average daily volume is low at just 139,000 shares (compared to Realty’s 4.5 million shares).

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) traded in different directions at the open on Monday as investors decided which to buy and which to sell:

Realty Income Corp (NYSE: O) calls itself “the monthly dividend company” because of its ability to provide just that for investors. Not a quarterly dividend, the way many stocks do it, but an attractive monthly payout.