Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) pays out a dividend yield north of 8%. The company has been able to increase its annual payout for 7 years now. Considering how strong US equities remain and how Hospitality Properties Trust has performed over the past decade, we can see dividend investors becoming interested here.
A high-yielding REIT such as Hospitality Properties Trust is not an investment. HPT is a volatile stock. Dividend per share numbers for example now exceed the firm's earnings per share numbers. Furthermore gross margins over the past decade have dropped from 55%