VER News and Press, VEREIT Inc. From 10/30/20

When it comes to net lease real estate investment trusts (REITs), few can match National Retail Properties ' (NYSE: NNN) more-than-three-decade streak of annual dividend increases. But it only owns retail properties, and during the depths of the COVID-19 economic shutdown, t...

U.S. equity markets were mixed this week as better-than-expected economic data and strong corporate earnings results were offset by continued coronavirus concerns and frustration over the ongoing stimulus stalemate. Snapping a three-week winning streak, the S&P 500 ended the ...

AMC is a dreadful exposure for any REIT, but the more exposure a REIT has to AMC, the harder it will be. We expect AMC to go bankrupt and bearish on the name. When you expect a stock to go to $0, you should usually be bearish. That’s just common sense. EPR might recover, bu...

Since cutting the dividend in May, VER stock seems to have been held back in sympathy. Rent collection has rebounded strongly to 95% for September. VER’s balance sheet is conservatively leveraged with a well-laddered maturity schedule. I rate shares a buy with 100% pote...

The bad news is that VEREIT (NYSE: VER) cut its dividend roughly 45% in May as the global pandemic started to spread. The good news, however, is that the future should be much brighter than the past. Why? The net-lease real estate investment trust (REIT) has turned an important corn...

Who paid the rent? Real estate earnings season kicks off this week with more than 200 REITs and housing industry companies reporting earnings over the next month. Rent collection - a metric that was rarely reported in the pre-COVID-19 era - has become the most critical statistic track...

U.S. equity markets finished flat this week as better-than-expected economic data and earnings results were offset by a continued fiscal stalemate and pressure on technology stocks amid a censorship controversy. The S&P 500 managed to eke out a 0.1% gain this week. The Nasdaq 100 ...

Realty Income and National Retail Properties are two similar triple net lease REITs, but National Retail Properties earns the buy rating. Historically, Realty Income often trades at the same multiple of AFFO or a slightly higher multiple of AFFO compared to National Retail Properties....

I don’t want to see any businesses – or investors – fail because of circumstances that are completely out of their control. This pandemic and subsequent shutdowns weren’t any REITs’ fault. Yet they’re suffering anyway. For further de...

Low Treasury yields and low capitalization rates on triple net lease properties usually go together. The triple net lease REIT sector has delivered three REITs with an exceptional history of dividend growth. We're bullish on NNN and WPC. Both are great income REITs trading at unus...