Dividend Aristocrat Realty Income raises dividend 0.2 percent

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Realty Income (O) will raise its monthly dividend by another 0.2 percent to $0.233 per share. The REIT, one of the Dividend Aristocrats, has now raised its dividend for 26 consecutive years.

This is the third increase announced by Realty Income in 2020. The total dividend increase YTD is 2.4 percent if we include the two previous hikes announced earlier this year.

The dividend is payable on July 15, 2020 to shareholders of record as of July 1, 2020. This is the 107th dividend increase since Realty Income's listing on the NYSE in 1994. The ex-dividend date for July's dividend is June 30, 2020.



 The new annualized dividend amount of $2.802 per share yields 4.5% to shareholders at a current stock price of $62.13. Year-to-date Realty Income's stock price is down 15.6 percent. The current market cap for the real estate investment trust is $21.3 billion.

"We remain committed to our company's mission of paying dependable monthly dividends to our shareholders that increase over time," said Sumit Roy, President and Chief Executive Officer of Realty Income in the company´s press release announcing this dividend hike. "Our Board of Directors has once again determined that we are able to increase the amount of the monthly dividend to our shareholders, marking the 107th increase since our company's public listing in 1994. With the payment of the July dividend, we will have made 600 consecutive monthly dividend payments throughout our 51-year operating history."

Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company dedicated to providing stockholders with dependable monthly income. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 6,500 real estate properties owned under long-term lease agreements with commercial tenants. To date, the company has declared 600 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 51-year operating history and increased the dividend 107 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O). The company is a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. (source: Realty Income press release)

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