AFIN News and Press, American Finance Trust Inc. From 09/27/21

iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF now yields about 3.2%. That is a tiny yield to jump headfirst into junk. We go over the fund fundamentals and suggest some alternatives. For further details see: HYG Yields 3.2%, So Here Are Your Choices

U.S. equity markets staged a late-week rally to end a turbulent week with gains as concerns over instability in Chinese markets were offset by signs of resilient strength across US housing markets. Snapping a skid in which the benchmark average declined in 10-of-12 trading s...

2021 has presented new challenges tied to old ones from 2020. The Government's choices will impact the economy and our day-to-day lives. Fixing one thing only makes another worse. Income today is more valuable than income tomorrow. For further details see: 2 Monthly ...

High Yield is Back: Riding the wave of dividend hikes across the real estate sector this year, net lease REITs are once again an attractive source of relatively stable high-yield income. Yield-oriented investors can no longer rely on the market-cap-weighted REIT indexes, which ar...

Today's yield chasing exercises are among the most dangerous we have ever seen. While investors love to hear about the stocks that they should own, we like to focus on highlighting the risk side of the equation. We show you three popular holdings that yield over 6% and are likely ...

American Finance Trust's preferred shares are in good shape thanks to AFIN's strong balance sheet and FFO. AFIN continues to sell its own shares (and preferred shares) on the market, which further boosts the equity side of its balance sheet. I own AFINO and I'm not chasing the sto...

Big Box Is Back: The COVID pandemic has radically transformed consumer spending habits - perhaps permanently - shifting spending towards goods over services and towards larger-format retailers over smaller shops. While enclosed regional malls face a long and uncertain road to recovery...

U.S. equity markets retreated on a choppy week after a downbeat slate of economic data heightened concern that the recent COVID resurgence could stall or reverse the global economic reopenings. Exhibiting a reversion back to the "stay at home" trading patterns, the large-cap S&am...

Annaly Capital achieved top FFO ranking, AG mortgage had the top analyst target upside, and The GEO Group top yield out of 350 U.S. REITs per YCharts data 8/17/21. Top-10 net-gainers OHI, GLPI, ABR, SPG, STWD, TWO, RWT, MPW, NNN, and NRZ ranged 14.6%-34.39% 8/17/21. Top-30 US Hi-FFO R...

In our "State of the REIT Sector" report, we analyze recently-released NAREIT T-Tracker data to review high-level REIT fundamentals over the past quarter through a series of charts. REIT company-level metrics have exhibited a substantial rebound over the last year as FFO and dividends...