Realty Income currently offers a dividend yield above 5%. MMA's slump has driven its dividend yield up over 3.5%.
Mid-America Apartment shares have rallied 31% since March due to falling interest rates and signs of rental rate stabilization, outperforming the market's 8% gain. Interest rates significantly impact MAA's performance; lower rates have boosted shares, but rate cuts are now largely expected by markets. MAA's fundamentals show stabilizing revenue and expenses, with potential for low single-digit growth in 2025 as supply issues ease.
A well-diversified portfolio, and redevelopment and technology initiatives are likely to support MAA. High supply and elevated interest rates are concerns.
Mid-America Apartment (MAA) is poised to benefit from the healthy operating fundamentals of Sunbelt markets, development and redevelopment efforts and technology initiatives.
The Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. markets are still exposed to unfavorable supply and demand dynamics. However, the company has registered growth despite these headwinds. Already now, we can observe some first signs of the surplus supply being absorbed in the system, and becoming insufficient due to previous periods of underinvestment. Mid-America Apartment Communities has stepped up its organic and M&A growth agenda to capitalize on this, once the inflection point arrives.
High-yield dividend stocks can be an excellent source of passive income. Mid-America Apartment Communities has increased its 4%-yielding dividend for 14 straight years.
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE:MAA ) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call August 1, 2024 10:00 AM ET Company Participants Andrew Schaeffer - SVP, Treasurer & Director, Capital Markets Eric Bolton - Chairman & CEO Brad Hill - President & CIO Tim Argo - EVP, Chief Strategy & Analysis Officer Clay Holder - EVP & CFO Rob DelPriore - EVP, CAO & General Counsel Joe Fracchia - EVP, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer Conference Call Participants Eric Wolfe - Citi Nick Yulico - Scotiabank Josh Dennerlein - Bank of America Michael Goldsmith - UBS Jamie Feldman - Wells Fargo Richard Anderson - Wedbush Austin Wurschmidt - KeyBanc Capital Markets John Kim - BMO Capital Markets Haendel St. Juste - Mizuho Alexander Goldfarb - Piper Sandler Adam Kramer - Morgan Stanley Omotayo Okusanya - Deutsche Bank Ann Chan - Green Street Linda Tsai - Jefferies Operator Good morning, and welcome to Mid-America Apartment Communities or MAA's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. During management's prepared remarks, all participants will be in a listen-only mode.
Mid-America Apartment's (MAA) Q2 results reflect healthy demand despite elevated new supply.
Although the revenue and EPS for Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended June 2024, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.
Mid-America Apartment Communities (MAA) came out with quarterly funds from operations (FFO) of $2.22 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.20 per share. This compares to FFO of $2.28 per share a year ago.
While Mid-America Apartment (MAA) is likely to have experienced decent demand, the rising supply of rental units and high interest expenses are likely to have played a spoilsport in Q2.
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