Realty Income Dividend yield

Realty Income is part of Real Estate Investment Trusts business, which is part of Financials industry. Realty Income is a company from USA, and his stocks are publicly traded.

Realty Income stock dividend

Realty Income paid a total dividend of 2,029 million USD last year, for a market value of 37,042 millions (Market Cap 36,979 millions). Realty Income dividend per share is 3.07 USD, and his stock market price 56.04 USD.

According to the chart below, where dividend yield is displayed, Realty Income has a dividend yield of 5.47%, which is higher than the amount offered by both the market average and companies from USA. It is also bigger than average of Financials industry. This high dividend yield might be a sign to worry about the future of the company so deeper analysis is needed.

In addition, you should compare Realty Income stocks dividend with other Real Estate Investment Trusts companies or other of the best USA dividend stocks list.

Realty Income Dividend Payout

About the ability of Realty Income to maintain his current dividend of USD 3.07 per share, an amount that accounts for 5.47%, we should study its payout ratio both on earnings and on cash-flows (see chart below). Realty Income payout on ernings is currently 232.58%, which is higher than the market average, and companies of Financials industry, which are 39.34% and 46.18% respectively. Both figures show that Realty Income can have problems to keep with his present dividend yield.

The payout on earnings should be complemented with the payout on cash flow since it is this last amount the one which can be distributed to shareholders. Cash flow per share of Realty Income is USD 3.89 per share, which is higher than the dividend per share paid by the company of USD 3.07, so the company generates enough cash to maintain his dividend in the future.

The following figure shows payout ratios over earnings and cashflow of Realty Income, compared againt world market average, USA companies, Financials industry and Real Estate Investment Trusts sector companies.

Realty Income Dividend History

Below you will find a table with the historical evolution of Realty Income's dividend stock, both in percentage and in USD, its Payout on Earnings and the number of shares (in case there is an split, number shares altered the dividend per share).

Year	Yield	USD	Paypout	Shares*
Present	5.47%	3.07	232.58%	661
2022	4.70%	2.98	0.00%	627
2021	4.13%	2.96	0.00%	566
2020	4.53%	2.82	227.42%	351
2019	3.71%	2.73	243.75%	326
2018	4.19%	2.64	258.82%	295
2017	4.47%	2.55	250.00%	282
2016	4.37%	2.42	242.00%	258
2015	4.61%	2.29	236.08%	235

*In millions

Then you can see the evolution of Realty Income dividend stock, and compare it with the average of USA stocks and that of the Real Estate Investment Trusts stocks.

Realty Income Stock performance

Finally, last moth Realty Income showed a return of -8.10% compared to a worldwide -2.49% average, and a -3.03% of Financials firms. Over the last year, the company obtained a -17.90% versus a worldwide performance of a 8.71%. More detailed information can be seen in the following graph for USA and Real Estate Investment Trusts firms.