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A company that has been paying a rising dividend for 52 years leads a pair of regional banking service providers that also have delivered strong asset appreciation of 8% and 67% since June 2016. While their current dividend yields of 2.2% lag a little behind the financial sector’s average yield of 3.21%, these two banks more than offset that gap…

Two non-residential Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have rewarded their investors with asset appreciation of more than 20% over the past year, rising dividends and dividend yields around 3%. In addition to the one-year share price growth, both stocks have performed well over the past five years with share price increases of 64% and 295%, respectively. The ex-dividend date for…

A national baking goods producer and a regional banking services provider have been rewarding their shareholders with more than a decade of consecutive dividend boosts and currently offer yields of more than 3%. The current yields for both companies have risen 20% to 30% above their respective average yields over the past five years because of the steady dividend boosts.…

In an action we had written earlier in the week that we would take we were finally able to add the new B. Riley 7.5% Senior Notes (NASDAQ:RILYZ) to both short/medium duration portfolios.  While we paid $25.10, which was maybe a dime above what we could have paid if we had been a bit more patient, it is a good price…

Late last week we had 2 new huge REIT preferred issues come to market.  Self-storage giant Public Storage (NYSE:PSA) sold 10 million shares with a meager 5.15% coupon, while diversified REIT Colony Northstar (NYSE:CLNS) sold a 12 million share issue.  As preferred stock offerings these are considered very large issues. PSA of course has many preferred issues outstanding (15 including…