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Apple Hospitality REIT (APLE) maintains a Buy thanks to its strong financials, attractive 8.6% monthly dividend yield, and prudent asset management combined with opportunistic buybacks. APLE is leveraging asset divestitures for share buybacks, enhancing shareholder value while maintaining low leverage and a solid balance sheet. Despite macroeconomic headwinds and lower occupancy, APLE's managem...
REITs are attractive now as inflation stabilizes and interest rates are expected to fall, boosting sector appeal and yield spreads. A rigorous screen identifies 37 equity REITs yielding 4.75%-plus and at least 20% undervalued. The list is then narrowed by forward revenue growth, dividend safety, and balance sheet quality to identify 13 Buried Treasures.
Just as we grew accustomed to the likelihood of a third federal rate cut in December, some inflation data and a host of other factors led some on Wall Street to call for the Federal Reserve to hold off in December and perhaps wait until the first meeting in 2026.
U.S. equity markets stumbled this week as stretched tech valuations collided with weakening consumer and labor market data, while the economic drag and uncertainty from the ongoing government shutdown build. Now it's real? The shutdown has now halted fiscal flows into several sizable government benefits programs - a sudden onset of fiscal austerity that could have non-trivial disinflationary im...
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