3 Top Dividend Stocks to Buy in February

The S&P 500 index is offering up a tiny little dividend yield of 1.2% right now. The average real estate investment trust (REIT) has a yield of 3.8%. All three of the REITs here beat that, with Rexford Industrial (REXR -2.52%) offering a fast-growing dividend and a 4.1% yield. Realty Income (O -0.31%) has a 5.8% yield backed by three decades' worth of annual dividend increases. And W.P. Carey's (WPC -0.05%) 6.4% yield was recently cut, but there's more to that story than meets the eye.Rexford Industrial is ...