Dividend investing has a long, successful track record that makes it one of the best strategies investors can use. The best dividend growth stocks to buy tend to be those that regularly raise their shareholder payout.The asset managers at Hartford Funds looked at the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930, and found that dividends contributed 40% to the total return of the index over that 91-year period. Reinvesting dividends in the benchmark, coupled with the power of compoundi ...

A falling stock price has made Agree Realty an even more attractive passive-income investment.Agree Realty (ADC -1.44%) has become a magnificent dividend stock over the past decade. The real estate investment trust (REIT) has grown its dividend at a 5.6% compound annual rate during that period. It also switched from making quarterly dividend payments to a monthly schedule, increasing its attractiveness to those seeking a recurring income stream. Despite Agree Realty's success, shares of the REIT have slumpe ...

ROYAL OAK, Mich., May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced that its operating partnership, Agree Limited Partnership (the "Operating Partnership"), priced a public offering of $450 million of its 5.625% senior unsecured notes due 2034 (the "Notes"). The public offering price for the Notes was 98.827% of the principal amount for an effective yield to maturity of 5.779%. The Notes will be senior unsecured obligations of the Operating Partnership, guarant ...

Predrag Vuckovic Real Estate Weekly Outlook U.S. equity markets rebounded this week from their worst weekly decline in a year despite a continued uplift in benchmark interest rates, as a solid start to corporate earnings season counteracted disappointing economic data. Ahead of the Fed's policy meeting in the week ahead, markets were confounded - albeit temporarily - by a "jarring" GDP report that showed a return of "stagflationary" trends of weakening growth and sticky inflation in early 2024, a report ...

Rawf8 Yet another sign of the creeping decay of America's manufacturing base. That's what the people of the sleepy, historic town of Winnsboro, South Carolina thought when they heard that their town's television factory -- the last of its kind across all 50 states -- would soon shutter and lay off 126 of its 134 full-time employees. Yet another American factory lost to foreign competition. Or was it? As we'll discuss below, the case of the Winnsboro TV factory does not really fit the traditional narrati ...

Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE:ADC) Q1 2024 Earnings Conference Call April 24, 2024 9:00 AM ET Corporate Participants Brian Hawthorne - Director of Corporate Finance Joey Agree - President and Chief Executive Officer Peter Coughenour - Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants RJ Milligan - Raymond James Nick Joseph - Citigroup Ronald Kamdem - Morgan Stanley Ki Bin Kim - Truist Farrell Granath - Bank of America Eric Borden - BMO Rob Stevenson - Janney, Montgomery Alec Feygin - Baird Linda Tsai - ...

Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd/DigitalVision via Getty Images Agree Realty Overview Let's set the stage appropriately before diving into recent financials. The net lease sector is deep and growing rapidly. As the sector grows, net lease REITs of all shapes and sizes have appeared. Each carries a unique value proposition and business model that management believes will deliver success to shareholders. There is even a net lease exchange-traded fund called the Fundamental Income Net Lease Real Estate ETF ( ...

For the quarter ended March 2024, Agree Realty (ADC) reported revenue of $149.45 million, up 18% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $1.03, compared to $0.44 in the year-ago quarter.The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.07% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $147.88 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $1.01, the EPS surprise was +1.98%.While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street exp ...

Agree Realty (ADC) came out with quarterly funds from operations (FFO) of $1.03 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.01 per share. This compares to FFO of $0.98 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items.This quarterly report represents an FFO surprise of 1.98%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this real estate investment trust would post FFO of $1 per share when it actually produced FFO of $1, delivering no surprise.Over the last four quarters, the company ...

Exhibit 99.1 32301 Woodward Ave. Royal Oak, MI 48073 www.agreerealty.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Agree Realty Corporation Reports First Quarter 2024 Results Introduces 2024 AFFO Per Share Guidance of $4.10 to $4.13 Royal Oak, MI, April 23, 2024 -- Agree Realty Corporation (NYSE: ADC) (the "Company") today announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024. All per share amounts included herein are on a diluted per common share basis unless otherwise stated. First Quarter 2024 Financial and Operating Highl ...