High Yield Draws Investors to Blackstone-Backed India REIT
- Embassy REIT indicated dividend yield 8.3% vs 5.77% India bond
- Rated ‘buy’ by nine analysts; Morgan Stanley is overweight
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A dividend yield that’s higher than that on India’s benchmark sovereign bond is helping Blackstone Group-backed Embassy Office Parks REIT to entice investors during a pandemic that has shut down much of the economy.
Embassy, the nation’s only publicly traded real estate investment trust, is set to pay out 18.8 billion rupees ($250 million) to investors for the year ended March 31, its first 12-month period since listing. That puts its indicated dividend yield at 8.3% as of Thursday, versus 5.77% for the nation’s 10-year government debt.