This week’s Weekly highlights five attractive long-term investment opportunities. Specifically, we review market sector ETFs, geographic regions, and individual stocks, and then point out five that are flashing buy signals. As Ben Graham says, the market is a voting machine in the short-term, but a weighing machine in the long-term.
Triangle Capital: Amazing Dividend or Dangerous Trap?
Triangle Capital is a Business Development Company (BDC) with an enormous 9.3% dividend yield. The share price has barely budged this year starting out at $19.11 and currently sitting at $19.32. However, the company cut its regular quarterly dividend by $0.09 per share back in May. The big question for income-focused investors: Is this amazing 9.3% dividend yield safe, or is it a dangerous trap to avoid?
Omega Healthcare: Big Dividend, Big Evolving Risks
Omega Healthcare (OHI) pays a big growing dividend (7.2%), and it has recently underperformed many of its healthcare REIT peers. Some investors are quick to sing its praises as a “value play,” but it is most certainly exposed to very real risks. Specifically, the evolving skilled nursing facilities industry calls into question the source of Omega’s future revenues particularly with regards to entitlement reform. This article provides our views on Omega, and addresses the all-important question: Is Omega worth the risk?
Upcoming Dividend Payments: Blue Harbinger Income Equity
Just a quick note (and some data) on the upcoming dividend payments in the Blue Harbinger Income Equity Strategy. Keep in mind, the current yield on this strategy is impressive at 4.5%. However it's the total return (dividends plus price appreciation) that we believe makes this strategy so attractive (it's already up over 21% since its launch in January, and it's beating the S&P 500 handily)...
Top 5 Big-Dividend REITs Worth Considering
This week's weekly is a continuation of our free report "Top 10 Big Dividend REITs Worth Considering" except in this members-only edition, we include all the details for the Top 5. We also provide updates on two of our existing REIT holdings (which happen to also be ranked in the Top 5).
New Residential: Huge Profits as Banks De-Risk—But is it Safe?
If you like big dividends and discounted prices, you may have noticed that mortgage REIT New Residential (NRZ) pays an enormous 13.5% dividend and its shares have declined nearly 8% in the last two months. NRZ emerged following the financial crisis as banks had to shed risk. NRZ continues to generate big profits with its mortgage servicing rights business, its heavy use of leverage, and its expanding call rights securities strategy. But the big question… is it safe?
EastGroup Properties: Is This 3.6% Dividend Yield REIT Safe?
Year-to-Date Heat Map and Outlook
This week’s Weekly reviews our detailed heat map displaying what has been working and what has NOT been working so far this year. Specifically, we look at the best and worst by sector, style, the Dow Jones stocks, and many more. We believe there is a tendency for mean reversion in the market whereby what has been working best may not deliver the best returns going forward, and vice-versa. For example, small cap value, real estate and several of the worst performing stocks in the Dow may be poised for future outperformance.
Prospect Capital: Is it Still Safe?
Given the very strong price appreciation this year (PSEC was trading at $5.21 in February, and it now trades at $8.10), we review the question "Is it still safe to own Prospect Capital?" We consider the business, the big 12.4% dividend, the dividend coverage ratio, the financial strength, price vs. NAV, and the biggest risk that we believe could potentially drive the price much lower (as we saw in the first two months of this year).
When to Let Your Winners Run!
This chart shows the returns on the 10 stocks and 3 ETFs we purchased in our Income Equity strategy on January 8th of this year (the names are reserved for members-only). The only other trades we've done this year in the Income Equity strategy were on May 6th when we purchased 6 additional stocks which have also performed very well. This week’s Weekly provides our view on when to take profits versus when to let your winners run!