In Part II, we examined five REITs with yields as high as 18%. Today we are going to take a look at five additional REITs. All the REITs examined today have relatively short dividend histories and so in general these plays carry a slightly higher degree of risk. Some of them do sport good metrics and could turn out to be winners. Investors would do well to get a handle on some of the following key ratios; they could prove to be very useful during the selection process.
Levered free cash flow is the amount of cash available to stockholders after interest payments on debt are made. A company with a small amount of debt will only have to spend a modest amount of money on interest payments, which in turn means that there is more money to send to shareholders in the form of dividends and vice versa.
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