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>>> Omega Healthcare Investors Inc



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High Yield: 6.95%

Investors looking for higher-than-average dividend yields may want to consider REITs that specialize in a niche area. Omega Healthcare Investors Inc (OHI) is one such specialized REIT.

As its name implies, OHI focuses its attention on healthcare-related real estate. Demand for healthcare continues to rise, and as that demand has expanded so has the number of facilities needed to conduct that medical business. That’s were OHI comes in.

Omega provides capital to property owners in order to build their facilities. However, many of OHI’s loans have been in the sale-lease-back style, meaning after a period of time, OHI will buy the building back and the tenant will continue to lease the property from Omega.

The added bonus is that OHI has specialized even further by only focusing on skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities. Today, the REIT owns 932 skilled nursing facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. The vast bulk of its rents come from the U.S. government by way of Medicare and Medicaid. While the government won’t pay much, it always pays on time.

That steady nature has allowed OHI to continue with its dividend growth, fund future expansions and provided investors with a high yield of nearly 7%.

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