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U.S. equity markets extended their rebound this week after the Federal Reserve slowed its pace of interest rate hikes while strong employment data alongside cooling wage pressures supported "soft landing" prospects. Gaining for the fourth week in the past five, the S&P 500 advanced 1.6% while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 rallied 3.3% - its fourth-straight week of gains. Small caps soared 5%.

Similar shares at different valuations are the basis for alpha. The research is so hard, it requires adding dividends or looking at a chart.

Imagine stocks or funds that pay-out their dividends once-a-month! Unlike waiting for quarterly, semi-annual or (ugh) annual payouts, your angst waiting for money is reduced by 300%, or more! These January U.S. exchange-traded monthly-paid (MoPay) dividends, upsides, and net-gains include: 1. Stocks by-yield (101); 2. Stocks by price-upside (30); 3. Closed-End-Investments, Exchange-Traded-Funds & Notes (CEICs/ETFs/ETNs) by-yield >8.69% (80).

We own shares in all three picks. Up to 33% upside to book value. Some peers trade above book value.

These three REITs got much too cheap in October 2022, but they rallied too hard. Take the money and run! Shares are up 33% to 52%. They deserved a rally, but not that much.

We're contrasting two sets of investments where one is demonstrably better than the other. Market prices are not efficient. Sometimes investors leave a nice chunk of change on the table.

Dividend yields: 7.8% to 15%. Dramatic discounts to net asset value. Price to NAV range: .36 to .86.

Prior to November 30, 2022, readers mentioned 43 equities in their recent comments. Some lamented bad-news, so bad-news investments (rogues) mixed with (mostly) favorites. (Thus, these are ReFa/Ro.). Ten analyst-target-estimated TOP-NET-GAIN Re/Fa/Ro: PACW, PSEC, ALLY, VZ, MFA, MPW, USOI, T, BRMK, & SBLK, averaged 42.66% net gains from data collected 12/6/22.

Imagine stocks or funds that pay out their dividends once-a-month! Unlike waiting for quarterly, semi-annual or (ugh) annual payouts, your angst waiting for money is reduced by 300%, or more! These November U.S. exchange-traded monthly-paid (MoPay) dividends, upsides, and net gains include: 1. Stocks by yield (99); 2. Stocks by price upside (30); 3. Closed-End Investments, Exchange-Traded Funds & Notes (CEICs/ETFs/ETNs) by yield >9.39% (80).

While cooling housing activity and widening mortgage spread might lead to disappointing results in the near term, the REIT and Equity Trust industry participants like AGNC, LADR and ARR are better placed to ward off challenges.