American Tower (AMT) will raise its quarterly dividend by another 6.3 percent to $0.84 per share in the fourth quarter of 2018. The year 2018 marks the 6th consecutive year of dividend increases by the real estate investment trust.

The next distribution is payable on January 14, 2019 to such stockholders of record at the close of business on December 27, 2018.

A new annualized dividend rate of $3.36 per share for AMT yields 2.0% at a stock price of $166.43.

American Tower Corporation is one of the largest global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and a independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate. The company's primary business is the leasing of space on communications sites to wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data providers, government agencies and municipalities and tenants in a number of other industries. In addition, AMT offers tower-related services in the United States. The company's communications real estate portfolio includes over sites in the United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Latin America. American Tower Corporation was originally created as a subsidiary of American Radio Systems Corporation in 1995 and was spun off into a free-standing public company in 1998.