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Real Estate Stocks To Consider - May 8th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat's screener flags seven Real Estate stocks to watch today: American Tower (AMT), Welltower (WELL), Opendoor (OPEN), WillScot (WSC), Blackstone (BX), Apollo (APO), and Prologis (PLD).
  • Real estate stocks offer exposure to rental income and property-value appreciation and often pay higher-than-average dividends, but they remain sensitive to interest-rate moves and broader economic cycles.
  • Two standouts: American Tower is a leading global communications REIT with over 224,000 sites, and Prologis is the global logistics real estate leader with about 1.2 billion square feet of assets, reflecting why these names attract heavy trading volume.
  • Interested in American Tower? Here are five stocks we like better.

American Tower, Welltower, Opendoor Technologies, WillScot, Blackstone, Apollo Global Management, and Prologis are the seven Real Estate stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Real estate stocks are shares of companies whose primary business is owning, developing, managing, or financing income-producing property — including REITs, property developers, and real estate services firms. For stock market investors, they offer exposure to rental income and property-value appreciation (often via higher-than-average dividends) but tend to be sensitive to interest rates and broader economic cycles. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Real Estate stocks within the last several days.

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.

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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

Opendoor Technologies (OPEN)

Opendoor Technologies Inc. operates a digital platform for residential real estate transactions in the United States. It buys and sells homes. The company's product offerings comprise sell to opendoor product that enables homeowners to sell their home directly to it and resell the home to a home buyer; list with opendoor product that allows customers to list their home on the MLS with opendoor and receive cash offer; and opendoor marketplace product that connects the home seller with an institutional or retail buyer.

Read Our Latest Research Report on OPEN

WillScot (WSC)

WillScot Holdings Corporation provides workspace and portable storage solutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It operates in two segments, Modular Solutions and Storage Solutions. Its modular solutions include panelized and stackable offices, single-wide modular space units, section modulars and redi-plex, classrooms, ground level offices, blast-resistant modules, clearspan structures, and other modular space; and portable storage solutions, such as portable and cold storage containers, as well as trailers.

Read Our Latest Research Report on WSC

Blackstone (BX)

Blackstone Inc. is an alternative asset management firm specializing in real estate, private equity, hedge fund solutions, credit, secondary funds of funds, public debt and equity and multi-asset class strategies. The firm typically invests in early-stage companies. It also provide capital markets services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BX

Apollo Global Management (APO)

Apollo Global Management, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in credit, private equity, infrastructure, secondaries and real estate markets. The firm prefers to invest in private and public markets. The firm's private equity investments include traditional buyouts, recapitalization, distressed buyouts and debt investments in real estate, corporate partner buyouts, distressed asset, corporate carve-outs, middle market, growth, venture capital, turnaround, bridge, corporate restructuring, special situation, acquisition, and industry consolidation transactions.

Read Our Latest Research Report on APO

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

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