Essential Properties Realty Trust hikes dividend by 4.8%

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (EPRT) will raise its quarterly dividend by 4.8 percent to $0.22 per share in 2019. Last year the REIT initiated a quarterly dividend.

The next dividend is payable on July 15, 2019 to stockholders of record as of the close of business on June 28, 2019. A new annual rate of 88 cents yields 4.2% at a stock price of $20.77.

Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. is an internally managed real estate company that acquires, owns and manages primarily single-tenant properties that are net leased on a long-term basis to companies operating service-oriented or experience-based businesses. Essential Properties Realty Trust became a public company in 2018 and paid its first quarterly dividend later that year.