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Real Estate Stocks To Add to Your Watchlist - September 17th

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Key Points

  • Five real estate stocks to watch are Realty Income (O), American Tower (AMT), Prologis (PLD), Welltower (WELL), and AGNC Investment (AGNC), selected for having the highest recent dollar trading volume in the sector.
  • The companies provide varied real estate exposure: Realty Income focuses on long-term net-lease properties, American Tower on communications infrastructure, and Prologis on global logistics real estate.
  • Welltower invests in health care and senior-housing infrastructure, while AGNC Investment focuses on leveraged investments in government-backed residential mortgage-backed securities.
  • Five stocks we like better than Realty Income.

Realty Income, American Tower, Prologis, Welltower, and AGNC Investment are the five Real Estate stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Real estate stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that own, develop, manage, or finance real estate properties and projects. For stock market investors, they offer exposure to the real estate sector through companies such as real estate investment trusts (REITs), property developers, and real estate service providers, with potential returns from stock price appreciation and dividends. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Real Estate stocks within the last several days.

Realty Income (O)

Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust ("REIT"), and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 15,450 real estate properties (including properties acquired in the Spirit merger in January 2024) primarily owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients.

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American Tower (AMT)

American Tower, one of the largest global REITs, is a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate with a portfolio of over 224,000 communications sites and a highly interconnected footprint of U.S. data center facilities.

Read Our Latest Research Report on AMT

Prologis (PLD)

Prologis, Inc. is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. At March 31, 2024, the company owned or had investments in, on a wholly owned basis or through co-investment ventures, properties and development projects expected to total approximately 1.2 billion square feet (115 million square meters) in 19 countries.

Read Our Latest Research Report on PLD

Welltower (WELL)

Welltower Inc. NYSE: WELL, a real estate investment trust ("REIT") and S&P 500 company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, is driving the transformation of health care infrastructure. Welltower invests with leading seniors housing operators, post-acute providers and health systems to fund the real estate infrastructure needed to scale innovative care delivery models and improve people's wellness and overall health care experience.

Read Our Latest Research Report on WELL

AGNC Investment (AGNC)

AGNC Investment Corp., formerly American Capital Agency Corp., is a real estate investment trust. The Company invests in agency residential mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis. Its investments consist of residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a government-sponsored enterprise, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by the United States Government agency, such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (collectively, GSEs).

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