Best Dividend Stocks in REIT - Mortgage for 2026

Reliable dividend payers with sustainable yields, screened on payout ratio and balance-sheet health.

Mortgage REITs (mREITs) earn the spread between leveraged mortgage-securities portfolios and short-term funding. The cohort screens cheap on Valuation (price-to-book) but the Health pillar (leverage, repo funding stability) is the gating factor since spread compression and funding stress are recurring drawdown drivers.

Data as of (updated daily)

Top 20 REIT - Mortgage stocks by dividend yield

#TickerNameYield
1IVR.USInvesco Mortgage Capital Inc19.1%
2ABR.USArbor Realty Trust18.7%
3ARR.USARMOUR Residential REIT Inc17.6%
4PMT.USPennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust16.8%
5MFA.USMFA Financial Inc16.3%
6DX.USDynex Capital Inc15.8%
7ARI.USApollo Commercial Real Estate Finance Inc14.5%
8CIM.USChimera Investment Corporation14.3%
9AGNC.USAGNC Investment Corp.14.3%
10BRSP.USBrightspire Capital Inc13.8%
11BXMT.USBlackstone Mortgage Trust Inc13.6%
12FBRT.USFranklin BSP Realty Trust Inc13.1%
13NLY.USAnnaly Capital Management, Inc.12.4%
14TRTX.USTPG RE Finance Trust Inc12.2%
15STWD.USStarwood Property Trust Inc12.1%
16EFC.USEllington Financial Inc.11.5%
17ADAM.USNew York Mortgage Trust, Inc.10.0%
18RITM.USRithm Capital Corp.9.9%
19LADR.USLadder Capital Corp Class A9.4%
20S2TW34.SAStarwood Property Trust, Inc.7.2%

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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by dividend yield within the REIT - Mortgage industry; use the screener for the full ranked list.

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