The Very Best REITs to Invest In

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SPONSORED Do NOT Flip Houses... Start Collecting Real Estate Income With as Little as $50 This is the easiest way to start collecting real estate income. You could be looking at thousands of dollars over time! Here's how. Editor's Note: The Profit Trends team has written about real estate investment trusts many times before. But which ones should you add to your portfolio? Today, Marc Lichtenfeld of Wealthy Retirement is back to share the top opportunities here with readers and explain the advantages of having them in your portfolio. Read on! - Kaitlyn Hopkins, Assistant Managing Editor TREND INVESTING The Best REITs to Invest In Marc Lichtenfeld | Chief Income Strategist | The Oxford Club I've been getting a lot of emails about real estate investment trusts (REITs) lately. These are companies that own various forms of real estate and, by law, must pay out 90% of their profits in dividends. As a result, the dividend yields on REITs are higher than the yields on most stocks. REITs typically invest in a specific area in real estate. You can find REITs that are focused on shopping malls, apartments, student housing, cellphone towers, data centers, senior care facilities, private prisons, industrial properties, self-storage, mortgages and more. Together, REITs own $3 trillion in real estate in the U.S. They each have benefits and challenges specific to their industry. For example, changes to Medicare can have a big effect on senior care REITs. The COVID-19 pandemic impacts retailers' ability to pay rent to mall REITs. It's certainly understandable that REITs have underperformed the market since the pandemic-caused sell-off. But despite REITs' recent underperformance, investors salivate at some of the high yields they offer. In this tricky environment, I prefer REITs that are more or less recession-proof - companies like Omega Healthcare Investors (NYSE: OHI), whose tenants are operators of assisted living facilities. It's important to note that Omega doesn't run the nursing homes, but if the owner of the business wants to stay in business, it needs to pay its rent to Omega. The stock yields 8.7%. Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) is a stock I've liked for a long time. It operates data centers. Giant companies like IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) rent shelf space in the company's data centers, which provide security, cooling systems and other technology needed to keep the customers' servers running. The stock yields 3.3%. SPONSORED "The Largest Economic Opportunity of the 21st Century" Billionaire Lead Investor Behind Google and Amazon Targets New IPO Stock. Story Here.   Mortgage REITs are very popular with investors because of the sky-high yields they provide. Annaly Capital Management (NYSE: NLY) yields nearly 16%, while AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) yields more than 11% despite recently cutting its dividend. In some ways, mortgage REITs are a bargain, trading below their book value (what the company would be worth if it were liquidated) with double-digit yields. But there's a good reason they're so cheap. Mortgage REITs borrow money short term and lend it out long term. With yields so low, it's harder for them to make money. There is also fear that the pandemic is causing people to skip their mortgage payments. So if you're investing in mortgage REITs, be careful and do your homework. There are 157 publicly traded REITs. There are also privately held REITs that are sometimes offered by financial advisors. Run, don't walk, away from those. Most turn out to be terrible investments. They are not liquid, meaning you can't get out of them easily anytime you want, and they are not often transparent. You may not know the value of your investment except at certain times of the year when the REIT issues a report. With a publicly traded REIT, you know the value of your investment at every second and can get in or out anytime you want. So stick with the publicly traded REITs. REITs should be a part of any balanced portfolio. Profit Trends' publisher, The Oxford Club, recommends that 5% of your portfolio be invested in real estate, and REITs are an inexpensive and easy way to accomplish that. And you'll likely generate some additional income along the way. Good investing, Marc Leave a Comment MORE FROM PROFIT TRENDS COVID-19 Has Brought Peak Oil Demand Forward Stock Market Analysis September 2020 Top Halloween Stocks to Buy Now Facebook Twitter Email Share SPONSORED Bill O'Reilly: "The real TRUTH about the U.S. economy" Click Here > > You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Profit Trends. Profit Trends is published by The Oxford Club. Questions? Check out our FAQs. Trying to reach us? Contact us here. Please do not reply to this email as it goes to an unmonitored inbox. 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