This Low-Risk Stock Is a Long-Term Winner

On Wall Street, it's the hare that tends to get most of the attention, but it's often the tortoise that ends up winning the race. That's why long-term investors should avoid fads and stick to rock-solid companies that know how to execute in good markets and bad ones.

That is exactly what one particular slow and steady real estate investment trust (REIT) has done for more than a quarter of a century, and why you might want to buy this long-term winner today.

The REIT in question here is Realty Income (NYSE: O), which has trademarked the nickname "The Monthly Dividend Company." That moniker is partly about its monthly cash dividend, and partly about reassuring investors that paying regular dividends is at the core of the company's business model. Backing that up is a string of 613 consecutive monthly dividend payments and 111 dividend increases since its 1994 initial public offering.

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