EasyResearch Weekly Dividends Update

A few more days remain before we step into 2025 - a year to thrive in growth, success, and financial prosperity (#20TwentyThrive).

Monthly dividends can provide a steady income stream to cover expenses, reinvest, or fund new investment opportunities. These payouts allow investors to boost their financial standing, contributing to growth and security. As we enter 2025, consistent dividends could play a key role in supporting #20TwentyThrive by enabling steady progress toward wealth and success.

Here are some companies included in this week's update that pay dividends every month. The last date to trade to qualify for the upcoming dividend is this week:

• AGNC Investment: Focuses on agency mortgage-backed securities.
• STAG Industrial: Specializes in single-tenant industrial properties.
• Realty Income: Invests in single-tenant commercial properties.
• EPR Properties: Focuses on experiential venues like entertainment and recreation.
• Agree Realty: Invests in net-leased retail properties.

AGNC Investment stands out with an annual dividend yield of 15% as of this writing.

Other high-yield stocks in this week’s update include:

• Innovative Industrial Properties Inc: Specializes in industrial properties leased to state-licensed cannabis operators, offering an 11% annual dividend yield.
• Orion Office REIT Inc: Focuses on single-tenant office buildings, with a 10% annual yield.
• Annaly Capital: Invests in mortgage-backed securities and offers a 13% annual yield.

These companies pay dividends quarterly.

Additionally, Match Group Inc., a provider of online dating services and owner of Tinder, announced its first-ever quarterly dividend. The last date to trade to qualify is this week. The company has also initiated a $1.5 billion share buyback program, intending to return 100% of its free cash flow to shareholders over three years through quarterly dividends and share repurchases.

Here's the full update for this week. 

South African

The Foschini Group Limited will be paying R1.60 per share. 

• Last trading date – 30 December 2024
• Payment date – 06 January 2025

Barloworld Limited will be paying R3.10 per share. 

• Last trading date – 30 December 2024
• Payment date – 06 January 2025

American

Illinois Tool Works Inc will be paying $1.50 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 10 January 2025

AGNC Investment Corp will be paying $0.12 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 10 January 2025

Mondelez International Inc will be paying $0.47 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 14 January 2025

U S Bancorp will be paying $0.50 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

STAG Industrial Inc will be paying $0.12 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Innovative Industrial Properties Inc will be paying $1.90 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

EPR Properties will be paying $0.28 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Agree Realty Corp will be paying $0.25 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc will be paying $1.15 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Orion Office REIT Inc will be paying $0.10 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

FMC Corporation will be paying $0.58 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 16 January 2025

Veralto Corporation will be paying $0.11 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 31 January 2025

Annaly Capital Management Inc will be paying $0.65 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 31 January 2025

Stryker Corporation will be paying $0.84 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 31 January 2025

Deere & Company will be paying $1.62 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 10 February 2025

Nucor Corporation will be paying $0.55 per share.

• Last trading date - 30 December 2024
• Payment date - 11 February 2025

Quanta Services Inc will be paying $0.10 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 13 January 2025

Realty Income Corporation will be paying $0.26 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Republic Services Inc will be paying $0.58 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Pegasystems Inc will be paying $0.03 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 16 January 2025

AECOM will be paying $0.26 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 17 January 2025

Campbell Soup Co will be paying $0.39 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 27 January 2025

Air Products & Chemicals Inc will be paying $1.77 per share.

• Last trading date - 31 December 2024
• Payment date - 10 February 2025

Roper Technologies Inc will be paying $0.82 per share.

• Last trading date - 02 January 2025
• Payment date - 17 January 2025

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc will be paying $0.23 per share.

• Last trading date - 02 January 2025
• Payment date - 17 January 2025

Cisco Systems Inc will be paying $0.40 per share.

• Last trading date - 02 January 2025
• Payment date - 22 January 2025

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company will be paying $0.62 per share.

• Last trading date - 02 January 2025
• Payment date - 03 February 2025

American Express Company will be paying $0.70 per share.

• Last trading date - 02 January 2025
• Payment date - 10 February 2025

Hingham Institution for Savings will be paying $0.63 per share.

• Last trading date - 03 January 2025
• Payment date - 15 January 2025

Thor Industries Inc will be paying $0.50 per share.

• Last trading date - 03 January 2025
• Payment date - 17 January 2025

Match Group Inc will be paying $0.19 per share.

• Last trading date - 03 January 2025
• Payment date - 21 January 2025

JPMorgan Chase & Co will be paying $1.25 per share.

• Last trading date - 03 January 2025
• Payment date - 31 January 2025

Government bonds offer a reliable way to earn fixed income by lending money to the government in exchange for regular interest payments. 

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