#monthly-dividends

#monthly-dividends

Realty Income (NYSE:O), LTC Properties (NYSE:LTC), and AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) pay monthly, so you get 12 checks a year instead of 4. They compound faster and align more naturally with people's spending habits. Plus, REITs are obligated to pay out at least 90% of their earnings as dividends. REITs have single-tenant warehouses, grocery-anchored plazas, medical office parks, and more to lock in long leases with built-in rent bumps.

Dividend yields are a driving priority among many investors, especially retirees and others who are dependent on dividend income for paying living expenses. An emerging secondary demographic consisting of Gen-Z and some Millennials who use high monthly dividends in a dividend compounding program for wealth building purposes has also arisen. Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) and Closed End Funds (CEF) that pay high monthly dividends are numerous and offer a wide range of choices.

How can you turn your portfolio into a cash-flow machine? One strategy is to hold shares of investment/financier companies (i.e., businesses that invest in other businesses) that pay decent dividends. You can reinvest the cash distributions more frequently, leverage the compounding effect, and potentially grow your wealth even faster when the financier companies pay monthly dividends. Therefore, today I'm giving you five stock picks that pay dividends month after month.