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Dividend, but make it relentless
Realty Income is back doing what it does best: raising the payout and reminding everyone why it has a cult following among income investors. The headline here is the company’s 135th dividend increase, which is basically the corporate version of “same song, new verse.”
Why you should care
If you own the stock, this matters because dividend growth is the whole game with names like Realty Income. The company has now raised its dividend for 115 straight quarters, which is the sort of streak that makes yield-chasers sit up a little straighter.
For investors, the point isn’t just that the dividend went up. It’s that Realty Income is still signaling confidence in its rental cash flow and its ability to keep sending checks every month without the drama.
The bottom line
The article doesn’t give the exact size of the raise or the new payout math, so don’t go trying to do spreadsheet gymnastics from this alone. But the message is clear: the company is still in full “pass the cash to shareholders” mode.
Big picture: when a business has made dividend growth feel like a reflex, that’s usually what income investors want to see.