Realty Investors Should Focus on This

By Emilio Sanchez • Monday, September 18 12:32 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Realty, a Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust company whose shares moved -0.1% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Realty has moved -13.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.0%
O has an average analyst rating of buy and is -20.62% away from its mean target price of $68.08 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.34
Realty has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 40.3 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.38 and its forward P/E ratio is 39.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.23 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Realty is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.81 and an average P/B of 2.24
O has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -21.7% and gross profit margins of 0.9%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.54 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust ("REIT"), and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 13,100 real estate properties primarily owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 637 consecutive monthly dividends on its shares of common stock throughout its 54-year operating history and increased the dividend 121 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O).

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