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Three real estate investment trusts (REITs) provide 3%-plus yields and have rewarded their shareholders with double-digit percentage share price increases over the last year. All the trusts also have records of boosting dividends between four and 19 consecutive years. Two of the three REITs announced their dividend increases of around 10% to be paid in mid-April with ex-dividend dates in…

Longtime readers know that we are not big investors in mREITs (mortgage REITs), in particular the common shares.  Additionally we have seldom owned the preferred shares of the mREITs, but that has more to do with our aversion to perpetual preferreds than anything else. Chimera Investment Corp, (NYSE-CIM) has sold a fixed-to-floating rate preferred, that is a decent issue to…

Following a positive financial performance in 2016 and an improved outlook for 2017, Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE:HD) declared a 29% increase in its quarterly dividend payout and extended its current record to eight consecutive years of boosting dividends. A January 2017 www.dividendinvestor.com article highlighted Home Depot as one of three equities that could benefit from any potential boost in the…

Date Sold      2/22/2017 Shares Issued    12,000,000   Overallotment Shares   1,800,000 S&P Rating   NR   Moodys Rating   NR Security Ticker Symbol     CIM-B      OTC Grey Market     CIMEP Market Traded ON   NYSE Dividend Payment Paid on the 30th of March, June, September and December beginning on 6/30/2017 Quarterly Dividend   .50   Annual Dividend   2.00 Securities may be redeemed, at…

Ok, we'll admit it right up front.  Sometimes we are lazy and don't check our investments for days on end.  There are also months where we might make only 1 buy or 1 sell of a security.  We have written before that it is our goal to NOT trade unless we have a real reason to do so.  We have…