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Interested In Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT)’s Upcoming $0.67 Dividend? You Have 2 Days Left

On the 03 July 2018, Universal Health Realty Income Trust (NYSE:UHT) will be paying shareholders an upcoming dividend amount of $0.67 per share. However, investors must have bought the company’s stock before 22 June 2018 in order to qualify for the payment. That means you have only 2 days left! What does this mean for current shareholders and potential investors? Below, I will explain how holding Universal Health Realty Income Trust can impact your portfolio income stream, by analysing the stock’s most recent financial data and dividend attributes. View our latest analysis for Universal Health Realty Income Trust

5 checks you should do on a dividend stock

If you are a dividend investor, you should always assess these five key metrics:

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  • Is it the top 25% annual dividend yield payer?

  • Has it consistently paid a stable dividend without missing a payment or drastically cutting payout?

  • Has dividend per share risen in the past couple of years?

  • Does earnings amply cover its dividend payments?

  • Will it be able to continue to payout at the current rate in the future?

NYSE:UHT Historical Dividend Yield Jun 19th 18
NYSE:UHT Historical Dividend Yield Jun 19th 18

How well does Universal Health Realty Income Trust fit our criteria?

REITs are a special-case dividend payer. This is because a high percentage of their earnings are required to be paid out as dividends. The company currently pays out 152.98% of its earnings as a dividend, according to its trailing twelve-month data, meaning that a portion of dividend payments are funded by retained earnings. Furthermore, analysts have not forecasted a dividends per share for the future, which makes it hard to determine the yield shareholders should expect, and whether the current payout is sustainable, moving forward. If there is one thing that you want to be reliable in your life, it’s dividend stocks and their constant income stream. UHT has increased its DPS from $2.34 to $2.68 in the past 10 years. During this period it has not missed a payment, as one would expect for a company increasing its dividend. These are all positive signs of a great, reliable dividend stock. In terms of its peers, Universal Health Realty Income Trust generates a yield of 4.16%, which is on the low-side for REITs stocks.

Next Steps:

With these dividend metrics in mind, I definitely rank Universal Health Realty Income Trust as a strong income stock, and is worth further research for anyone who considers dividends an important part of their portfolio strategy. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I urge potential investors to try and get a good understanding of the underlying business and its fundamentals before deciding on an investment. There are three fundamental aspects you should further examine:

  1. Valuation: What is UHT worth today? Even if the stock is a cash cow, it’s not worth an infinite price. The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether UHT is currently mispriced by the market.

  2. Management Team: An experienced management team on the helm increases our confidence in the business – take a look at who sits on Universal Health Realty Income Trust’s board and the CEO’s back ground.

  3. Other Dividend Rockstars: Are there better dividend payers with stronger fundamentals out there? Check out our free list of these great stocks here.


To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.

The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.