Rising interest rates have led investors to shift away from risky high-yield stocks and put cash into safer alternatives, like CDs, which now come with yields of around 5%. That's one of the reasons why real estate investment trust (REIT) EPR Properties' (NYSE: EPR) dividend yield is 7.9% today. But it isn't the only reason.

If you are looking at this stock, it is important to know these three things before you buy it.

As a REIT, EPR owns physical properties that it rents out to tenants. It uses a net-lease approach, so those tenants are responsible for most property-level operating costs. At this point in the story, EPR sounds like a lot of other REITs you could buy.

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