The beauty of REITs, for income investors, is that they are required to distribute 90% of their taxable income to shareholders annually, in the form of dividends.

Last year, the company generated $350 million in net interest income (NII), the measure of cash flow used by mortgage REITs. It paid out $329 million in dividends.

REITs are one my favorite income centric investments. These companies have taken a tax election that allows them to exempt themselves from federal income tax in exchange for making large distributions of operating cash flow to shareholders.

Two Harbors Investment and CYS Investments announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Two Harbors will acquire CYS.

It’s no secret that the U.S. stocks are mostly overvalued, which raises concerns of a possible downturn. Given this uncertainty, it will be wise to invest in value stocks.

Here's a look at how Janet Yellen's hawkish tone on Friday impacted the 128 investments yielding over 6%...

Plummeting treasury yields put these five income stocks with highly leveraged portfolios at risk of dividend cuts that will send stock prices plummeting. Last time this happened in 2013, many of these names lost 30% of their values.

One of the reasons I like Perpetual Dividend Raisers is they set high expectations for investors. Management knows that it needs to do whatever it can to meet those expectations.

These five high-yield stocks are popular among income investors because of their large dividend payments, but their businesses are at risk of cutting these payments or even suspending them completely.

With extremely high chances of dividend reductions that could send their stock prices plummeting, these are four stocks you do not want to own in 2016. Tim Plaehn also gives his analysis of the entire high-yield stock investing environment.

The finance real estate investment trusts carry some of the highest yields of any investment category.

As we enter 2015 much the same way we entered 2014–with fears of rising rates and an overheated stock market.