It's been an interesting year for the stock market. The broader benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC -1.11%) blazed roughly 24.5% higher (as of Dec. 27), thanks largely to eight high-flying tech stocks with market caps exceeding $1 trillion. Market breadth has not been good this year. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF is only up about 12%.Roughly 360 stocks in the S&P 500 have posted returns below the broader market's average. Of those, 168 stocks are trading in the red this year. This means the market is fairly lop ...

This company pays monthly dividends and offers 12% annualized total returns, making it a table-pounding buy.It's hard to find high dividend yields you can trust. Remember, a stock's dividend yield is a ratio of the company's declared payout to its share price. So, a high yield can signal that a stock is risky when the market won't support a higher share price. But that's not always the case. Realty Income (O -0.77%) is a prime example.By design, this well-known real estate investment trust (REIT) (and every ...

Realty Income (O -0.32%) checks every single box for income-seeking investors. The real estate investment trust (REIT) offers a high-yielding dividend backed by an extremely strong financial profile. It also has a fantastic record of increasing its dividend. On top of all that, it pays its dividend monthly instead of the quarterly schedule of most other dividend stocks. These and other factors make it the ultimate dividend stock to buy right now for those with a few hundred dollars to invest.A high-quality, ...

The Federal Reserve’s reset of interest rate expectations for 2025, with the latest forecast of only two quarter-point rate reductions next year, lower than prior projections, has sent the market in jitters. Particularly, the more rate-sensitive stocks like REITs that depend on debts and pay a higher-yielding dividend have faced downward pressure.Realty Income (O) stock has not been an exception, and the stock has tanked 15.2% over the past three months, closing at $53.24 on Tuesday on the NYSE. In the past ...

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Dividend investors looking for high-yield stocks have to carefully balance risk against reward. Reaching too far for yield can leave you owning a struggling business that might someday cut its dividend.A good example of this today is British American Tobacco (BTI 0.31%). Here's why conservative income investors should pass on the cigarette maker's 8.1% yield and instead go with Realty Income's (O 1.99%) 6% yield.British American Tobacco's worrying business trendRoughly 80% of British American Tobacco's reve ...

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Realty Income (NYSE: O ) is facing a number of potential catalysts in its core business which could lead to strong adjusted FFO growth in 2025. The Federal Reserve is likely going to continue to shift federal fund rates lower next yearI look for high-risk, high-reward situations, mainly in the technology markets. I am an early buyer of Bitcoin and my portfolio mainly focused on companies with asymmetric long-term upside. My top holdings include: Bitcoin, Tesla, Google, Amazon and Nvidia.Analyst’s Disclosure ...