American Tower Corp stands out as a major player in the global real estate investment trust (REIT) sector, focusing on the communications industry. It owns, operates, and develops a vast network of over 224,000 communication sites, including towers and data centers, primarily for wireless services. Its extensive portfolio and strategic development of multitenant real estate make it a key infrastructure provider in the telecommunications field.
American Tower collects rent from wireless carriers under long-term contracts, but rising interest rates and a major customer exodus are squeezing the cash that funds the dividend. Here is what retirees actually…
Crown Castle slashed its dividend and shed billions in assets to survive, but the question haunting income investors is whether what remains actually holds together or sets up a second cut.
A Wells Fargo analyst says SpaceX's wireless push will hurt carriers far less than investors fear, and the real beneficiaries may surprise anyone who assumed satellite and towers compete rather than cooperate.
American Tower and Crown Castle both raised guidance and cut dividend checks this month, but the coverage math behind those payouts tells a story that should make income investors look twice before…
Both cell-tower REITs are trading near one-year lows, and both look cheap on the surface, but one hides a yield trap that could quietly drain a retirement portfolio while the other just…
Four battered AI infrastructure stocks are staging a violent Monday morning bounce after losing up to 43% in a single month, but the question dividing bulls and bears is whether the buying…
Retirement planning fixates on depletion risk. The quieter problem is that a portfolio can hold its dollar value for thirty years and still leave a retiree poorer in real terms. The CPI-U…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading mixed after another tough day across Wall Street, with all the major indices crushed early on, before the Nasdaq made a late-afternoon push to wind up…
Wall Street fixates on Kevin Warsh’s first FOMC meeting as Fed Chair, but retirees holding income stocks need a longer horizon than the next rate decision. American Tower (NYSE:AMT) owns the cell…
Alex Sirois The Fed has already moved, but dividend stocks haven't caught up yet. Five names stand to collect the biggest gains when that gap finally closes, and the one leading the list is…
The Columbia Research Enhanced Real Estate ETF (NYSEARCA:CRED) pays a 3.64% distribution funded by the dividends of its underlying REITs, and that yield is the entire reason most income investors are looking…
The Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLRE) is the cheapest way to own the REIT slice of the S&P 500, with an expense ratio of just 8 basis points and a…
Tower REITs picked up a fresh vote of confidence from Wall Street this morning. American Tower (NYSE:AMT) was upgraded by Bernstein to Outperform with a $207 price target, sending shares of the…
Pre-Market Stock Futures: Futures are trading lower on Tuesday as the sell-off in technology stocks carried through to Monday and is headed down that road today. All of the major indices, except…
The Real Estate Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSEARCA:XLRE) trades around $45 with roughly $7.71 billion in assets and a trailing distribution yield of 3.4%. Nine of the top ten holdings are equity…
