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How to buy Realty Income (O) stocks

Learn how to easily invest in Realty Income stocks.

Realty Income

NYSE: O-USD

About an hour ago

$53.2

-$0.48 (-0.89%)

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Realty Income is a reit - retail business based in the US. Realty Income shares (O.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $53.67 – an increase of 0.52% over the previous day. Realty Income employs 418 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $4.1 billion.

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Is it a good time to buy Realty Income stock?

Only you can make the decision on the time to leap... but here's some supporting information and analysis.

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Share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Realty Income's shares have ranged in value from as little as $43.7475 up to $61.4799. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Realty Income's is 0.937. This would suggest that Realty Income's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Historical closes compared with the last close of $53.67

1 week (2024-04-17)	3.15%
1 month (2024-03-24)	2.88%
3 months (2024-01-24)	-3.16%
6 months (2023-10-24)	8.91%
1 year (2023-04-24)	-13.49%
2 years (2022-04-24)	-26.23%
3 years (2021-04-22)	-20.19%
5 years (2019-04-24)	-20.92%

The gauge below shows real-time ratings that are based on 26 popular indicators such as moving averages, for specific time periods. It's not a recommendation but is simply technical analysis that can form part of your research.

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Is Realty Income under- or over-valued?

Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Realty Income P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA

Realty Income's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 41x. In other words, Realty Income stocks trade at around 41x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Realty Income's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 4.7197. Higher PEG ratios such as this can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value given the current rate of growth.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Realty Income's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Realty Income's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is a whopping $3.6 billion ($5 billion CAD).

The EBITDA is a measure of a Realty Income's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Frequently asked questions

Dividend yield: 5.93% of stock value
Forward annual dividend yield: 5.93% of stock value
Dividend payout ratio: 81.51% of net profits

Realty Income has recently paid out dividends equivalent to 5.93% of its share value annually.

Realty Income has paid out, on average, around 81.51% of recent net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 5.93% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), shareholders could enjoy a 5.93% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Realty Income's case, that would currently equate to about 3.059 per share.

Realty Income's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.

Realty Income's most recent dividend payout was on 14 May 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 April 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Realty Income's shares were split on a 1032:1000 basis on 14 November 2021. So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1032 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Realty Income shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 3.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Realty Income shares which in turn could have impacted Realty Income's share price.
It's as easy to sell Realty Income as it is to buy! Here's how to sell Realty Income stocks that you already own.
1. Open your investment app. If you've got one with desktop access, you can log in online
2. Go to your portfolio. This should be in the main menu
3. Find your shares. You may be able to search your portfolio
4. Choose how many you'd like to sell. You'll be able to review the price and see how much you'll receive
5. Sell your Realty Income shares. Your investment platform will let you know when your shares are sold

Realty Income financials

Revenue TTM	$4.1 billion
Operating margin TTM	44.76%
Gross profit TTM	$3.1 billion
Return on assets TTM	2.01%
Return on equity TTM	2.83%
Profit margin	21.37%
Book value	$43.78
Market capitalisation	$44.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

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How to buy Realty Income (O) stocks