W. P. Carey (WPC) will raise its quarterly dividend by another 0.3 percent to $1.055 per share in Q4 of 2021. This is the fourth small dividend hike announced in 2021 by the net lease commercial real estate investment trust. W.P. Carey has now raised its dividend 23 consecutive years.

The next WPC dividend is payable on January 14, 2022 to stockholders of record as of December 31, 2021. The new annualized dividend rate of $4.22 per share yields 5.3% at a stock price of $79 for W.P. Carey. The company is one of the stocks with a dividend increase every quarter.

Dividend growth has been slowing significantly over the last couple of years, despite the company hiking its dividend every quarter. Last year the total dividend was increased by 0.8 percent, following a 2.0 percent dividend hike announced in 2018. The last time W.P. Carey hiked its dividend by double digits was in 2013, with a 31.8 percent dividend boost. The 2019 dividend hike of 0.8 percent was the smallest one announced in over a decade by the real estate investment trust.

W.P. Carey is a net lease commercial real estate investment trust that provides real estate-based financing solutions. The company invests in high-quality single-tenant industrial, warehouse, office and retail properties subject to long-term leases with built-in rent escalators. Its portfolio is located primarily in the U.S. and Northern and Western Europe and is well-diversified by tenant, property type, geographic location and tenant industry. W.P. Carey has paid a dividend every year since going public in 1998.