Oxford Square Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: OXSQ) is a popular monthly-dividend business development company (BDC) that consistently appears near the top of high-yield screens, with an annualized yield that has reached above 30%. A yield that extreme is, in the language of income investing, a …
Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NASDAQ: REFI) is a commercial mortgage REIT that lends to state-licensed cannabis operators, and it offers a yield around 15% to 16%. Unlike the agency mortgage REITs and troubled BDCs elsewhere on high-yield screens, REFI has generally covered …
Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ABR) is a mortgage REIT specializing in multifamily lending, and it has long been a high-yield favorite. In 2026, however, Arbor cut its common dividend, reducing the quarterly payout from $0.30 to $0.17 per share following weak first-quarter results …
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. (NYSE: ARR) is a monthly-paying agency mortgage REIT with a yield around 17%, a staple of high-dividend screens. Like its peers, ARR offers substantial income but carries the agency-REIT trade-off: high distributions accompanied by book-value volatility driven by interest rates …
HeartCore Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: HTCR) has appeared on high-dividend-yield screens after paying a sizeable distribution that, on an annualized basis, implies a striking yield. As with many small-cap names on such lists, the headline figure rewards a closer look: the payment was explicitly a …
Investcorp Credit Management BDC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICMB) has historically been a high-yield business development company (BDC), and it still appears on screens of elevated-yield U.S. stocks based on trailing data. But the most important recent fact about ICMB is that its board did not …
Icahn Enterprises L.P. (NASDAQ: IEP) is one of the most recognizable high-yield names in the U.S. market, partly because of its association with activist investor Carl Icahn and partly because of a distribution yield that has run well above 20%. A yield at that …
Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: IVR) is a mortgage REIT offering a yield around 18% to 20%, firmly in high-yield territory. As with its agency-REIT peers, that yield comes bundled with significant interest-rate sensitivity and a book value that has been declining through 2026.
JE Cleantech Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: JCSE) has appeared on high-dividend-yield lists after declaring a large cash dividend in early 2026. As with several small foreign-listed names on such screens, the headline is built on a single special distribution, in this case explicitly funded by …
Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation (NYSE: CHMI) is a small hybrid mortgage REIT yielding around 15%, and its dividend history is a cautionary tale. The quarterly payout has been slashed repeatedly over the years, most recently a roughly 33% cut in September 2025, and …