Realty Income CorpOCOMMENTNov 17, 2015Stock price when the opinion was issued
As of Jun 08, 2026. Market Open.
Pays a 5.7% dividend yield, paid monthly; dividend has been raised four times this year. They own over 15,000 commercial properties, mostly leased to retail industrial. Shares haven't done much and fell recently after the companies tightened their full-year forecast. Occupancy rate is 98.7% in Q3, so they're not struggling. Most tenants are grocers and selling other necessities, so safe.
This is a great time for REITs. They have been phenomenal creators of value. You need to really focus in on high quality ones. All of them, no matter how good, suffer from a rate rise risk. Cap rates are pretty low now and real estate has done extremely well. There are a lot of good reasons to suggest they are good companies, but the timing is tough. Broadly speaking, in real estate, he feels this is a cycle we are going into now. Anybody who is in the brokering side of it, as opposed to the operating side, you are probably a little bit better off. You could consider CBRE Group (CBG-N) which should work a little bit better for you.