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Two commercial real estate investment trusts (REITs) offer their investors dividend yields of more than 4.25% to complement several years of dividend boosts. While one of the REITs showed only a marginal share price growth over the past 12 months, the other REIT boosted its share price more than 30% since June 2016. Both REITs have their ex-dividend dates on…

Two residential real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been rewarding their investors with several years of rising dividends and currently pay dividend yields around 3%. Additionally, the two REITs increased the value of their assets more than 7.5% over the past year and more than 50% over the last five years. During the past two decades, the two REITs combined…

If you are like me you are watching the massive drubbings that shares in energy companies have been taking over the course of the last month as the price of a barrel of oil has fallen by about $10/barrel.  As you are watching the drubbing you are saying to yourself "which of these companies is a real bargain?"  There are…

A regional bank from the U.S. Northwest and a global health care and nutrition products manufacturer have rewarded their investors with rising dividends for several consecutive years, along with yields of more than 2.2% and asset appreciation of around 30% for the past 12 months. While both companies cut their dividend distributions once over the past two decades, they managed…

Date Issued    6/13/2017 Shares Issued  10,000,000       Overallotment Shares   None S&P Rating  BBB-      Moodys Rating   Ba1 Security Ticker Symbol   VR-B    OTC Grey Market   VRHSP Market Traded ON   NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the 15th of March, June, September and December beginning on 09/15/2017 Quarterly Dividend   .363  Annual Dividend   1.45 Securities may be redeemed, at…