{"id":30078,"date":"2023-07-01T07:57:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T11:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/markets\/3-monthly-dividend-stocks-yielding-up-to-19-5\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T11:57:06","slug":"3-monthly-dividend-stocks-yielding-up-to-19-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=30078","title":{"rendered":"3 Monthly Dividend Stocks Yielding Up To 19.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If retirement gets any better than monthly dividend payers then, well, I don\u2019t want to know about it.<\/p>\n

Seriously. I\u2019m a simple guy! Pay me every 30 days and I\u2019ll smile and shut up.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019ll grin even wider<\/em> when my monthly dividends add up to 8.7%, 14% or\u2014get this\u201419.5% per year<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These are not typos. They are real yields from actual stocks and yes, they are spectacular. We\u2019ll highlight them in a moment. But first, let\u2019s review the magic of monthly dividends.<\/p>\n

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Bills keep showing up every month. Active paychecks from our jobs do not, which is why we rely on payouts. Problem is, most blue-chip dividends pay quarterly. The result? Lumpy cash flow that looks something like this:<\/p>\n

We can settle down the heartburn by picking monthly<\/em> dividend payers. They are out there:<\/p>\n

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Granted, they are not easy to find. Monthlies tend to be concentrated in a handful of special structures:<\/p>\n

The 14.1%-yielding, monthly paying mini-portfolio I\u2019m about to share with you includes BDCs and CEFs, which share an important trait: diversification.<\/p>\n

Now spreading our bets doesn\u2019t guarantee success. Ever play roulette?<\/p>\n

Buying winners is more important than diversifying. Now let\u2019s look at the monthly payers I teased earlier to see if they deserve our calculated wagers.<\/p>\n

Oxford Lane Capital Corp. (OXLC
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Distribution Rate:<\/strong> 19.5%<\/p>\n

It\u2019s impossible not to notice a yield as big as the nearly 20% doled out by Oxford Lane Capital Corp. (OXLC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Oxford Lane is a closed-end fund that invests primarily in debt and equity tranches of collateralized loan obligation (CLO) vehicles. CLOs are similar to mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) in that they\u2019re pooled investments, but rather than pooled mortgages, CLOs typically are pooled corporate loans.<\/p>\n

I said it a couple years ago, but it bears repeating: This is an opaque market that your average investor will struggle to even get sufficient information about, let alone even understand.<\/p>\n

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But here\u2019s what we can see from the outside.<\/p>\n

OXLC recently bumped its distribution up from 0.75 cents monthly to 8 cents monthly. Nothing we love seeing more than an already monstrous monthly dividend somehow getting bigger\u2014but sadly, that\u2019s still not close to what Oxford Lane was paying prior to the COVID pandemic (or before that, for that matter).<\/p>\n

In the meantime, management has been dealing with a net asset value (NAV) that has been plunging for several quarters, and that\u2019s 30% lower than it was a year ago. Core net investment income (NII) for the most recent quarter plunged by 29% from the year-ago quarter. And the fund has been running a string of both GAAP realized losses and GAAP unrealized depreciation for more than a year.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll be unsurprised, then, to find that while the dividends are ample, they\u2019re also bailing out woeful price performance.<\/p>\n

On top of all that, you\u2019re paying a mint for what you\u2019re getting. Management takes a 3.15% haircut\u2014while interest and other expenses juice the total expense ratio to a wild 13.14%!<\/p>\n

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Suddenly, that 20% dividend doesn\u2019t feel generous enough.<\/p>\n

AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dividend Yield:<\/strong> 14.0%<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider another company dealing in pooled debt that\u2019s a little easier to understand, and that might have a somewhat brighter future.<\/p>\n

AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC)<\/strong> is an internally managed mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT) that uses heavy leverage to deal in agency residential mortgage-backed securities (MBSs).<\/p>\n

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While I say \u201cheavy leverage,\u201d that\u2019s just the nature of the business. AGNC\u2019s leverage is actually relatively low right now, at 7.2x versus a historical leverage ratio of 8.2x. It\u2019s a more defensive positioning because, well, the past year-plus hasn\u2019t exactly been a great time to deal in MBSs.<\/p>\n

Think about it: Mortgage REITs buy mortgage loans and collect the interest. They make money by borrowing \u201cshort\u201d (assuming short-term rates are lower) and lending \u201clong\u201d (if long-term rates are, as they tend to be, higher).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good business to be in when long-term rates are steady, and a great business when they\u2019re declining. Drops in long-term rates mean new loans pay less, which makes existing mortgages more valuable. However, rates have been rising\u2014rapidly, at that\u2014and that\u2019s a miserable environment for mREITs.<\/p>\n

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Compound
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That said: While you might want to avoid AGNC if you\u2019re looking for secure retirement income, now might not be the time to bet against it, either. Management isn\u2019t completely incapable\u2014they smartly sold more than 17 million shares above<\/em> AGNC\u2019s book value last quarter. And if we are nearing the end of Fed Chair Jerome Powell\u2019s hawkishness, a flatter rate environment should ease mREITs\u2019 pain.<\/p>\n

Gabelli Utility Trust (GUT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Distribution Rate:<\/strong> 8.7%<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a lot more to like about the Gabelli Utility Trust (GUT)<\/strong>, which if nothing else, is a much simpler fund dealing in a much simpler industry: utilities.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Gabelli Utility Trust is a CEF that invests in utility companies\u2014which it specifies as \u201cforeign and domestic companies involved in providing products, services, or equipment for the generation or distribution of electricity, gas, water, and telecommunications services.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know you know what utility companies are, but I like that wrinkle at the end: telecommunications services. Because while companies like AT&T (T)<\/strong> and Verizon (VZ)<\/strong> don\u2019t fall in the GICS\u2019s definition of a utility company, make no mistake\u2014phone and internet service have become crucial to everyday life, almost<\/em> on par with things like electricity and water.<\/p>\n

Being a CEF, Gabelli Utility Trust is run by human managers\u2014including GAMCO founder Mario Gabelli himself\u2014and uses a decent amount (23%) of debt leverage to provide a little extra oomph to the team\u2019s picks.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019d say that\u2019s working well for them.<\/p>\n

Clearly, GUT is a little more volatile than what you\u2019d expect out of a utility fund, but if the outperformance is there, what\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n

Well.<\/p>\n

Gabelli Utility Trust\u2019s premium to NAV is so astoundingly high, at nearly 115%, that it defies belief, but several data providers will back up that number. In fact, GUT has long traded for an absurd premium\u2014its five-year average premium is just above 70%\u2014it\u2019s just getting more absurd.<\/p>\n

And to throw a cherry on top of this, utilities trade at a historically high P\/E, to boot, so when you buy GUT, you\u2019re overpaying Gabelli to overpay for utilities.<\/p>\n

Brett Owens is chief investment strategist for <\/em>Contrarian Outlook<\/em>. For more great income ideas, get your free copy his latest special report: <\/em>Your Early Retirement Portfolio: Huge Dividends\u2014Every Month\u2014Forever.<\/p>\n

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If retirement gets any better than monthly dividend payers then, well, I don\u2019t want to know about it. Seriously. I\u2019m a simple guy! Pay me every 30 days and I\u2019ll smile and shut up. And I\u2019ll grin even wider when my monthly dividends add up to 8.7%, 14% or\u2014get this\u201419.5% per year. These are not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-30078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-markets","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n3 Monthly Dividend Stocks Yielding Up To 19.5% | iFintechWorld<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If retirement gets any better than monthly dividend payers then, well, I don\u2019t want to know about it. Seriously. I\u2019m a simple guy! 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