Dividend Research

Monthly Dividend Stocks

Stocks that pay a dividend every month, drawn live from our coverage.

Most U.S. companies pay quarterly, but a meaningful minority pays every month. Monthly payers appeal to investors who want income arriving on the same cadence as their bills, and to those reinvesting, because twelve smaller payments compound slightly more often than four larger ones.

The cadence itself says nothing about safety: monthly payment is most common among REITs, BDCs and closed-end structures whose cash flows — rent, loan interest, fund distributions — arrive monthly. The same coverage questions apply as with any dividend.

Matching Securities32
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Median Yield (shown)7.85%
Top Yield (shown)24.14%
# Company Price Yield Frequency Rank
1 UDR, Inc. UDR $34.26 5.08% Monthly 71
2 Gladstone Investment Corp. GAIN $15.05 6.38% Monthly 69
3 U.S. Global Investors, Inc. GROW $2.72 3.31% Monthly 68
4 Main Street Capital Corporation MAIN $53.83 5.91% Monthly 64
5 LTC Properties, Inc. LTC $43.68 5.22% Monthly 62
6 Realty Income Corporation O $56.08 5.81% Monthly 56
7 Agree Realty Corporation ADC $67.04 4.85% Monthly 55
8 Chiron Real Estate Inc. XRN $30.34 6.33% Monthly 51
9 Dynex Capital, Inc. DX $10.93 18.66% Monthly 48
10 EPR Properties EPR $55.71 6.68% Monthly 48
11 MSC Income Fund, Inc. MSIF $11.66 9.26% Monthly 47
12 Healthpeak Properties, Inc. DOC $18.98 6.43% Monthly 47
13 ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. ARR $13.20 21.82% Monthly 46
14 Gladstone Land Corporation LAND $9.28 6.04% Monthly 46
15 Gladstone Capital Corporation GLAD $18.88 9.53% Monthly 45
16 AGNC Investment Corp. AGNC $8.72 16.51% Monthly 45
17 Phillips Edison & Co. PECO $38.21 3.61% Monthly 44
18 Smartstop Self Storage REIT Inc SMA $34.16 4.77% Monthly 44
19 Portman Ridge Finance Corporation PTMN $12.27 8.80% Monthly 43
20 Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. FCPT $21.99 6.90% Monthly 40
21 Orchid Island Capital, Inc. ORC $4.97 24.14% Monthly 40
22 Modiv Inc. MDV $18.05 6.65% Monthly 39
23 Capital Southwest Corporation CSWC $23.08 13.18% Monthly 38
24 Ellington Financial Inc. EFC $11.65 13.39% Monthly 37
25 Gladstone Commercial Corporation GOOD $12.47 9.62% Monthly 35
26 Janus Living, Inc. JAN $29.05 1.98% Monthly 33
27 BCP Investment Corporation BCIC $6.66 16.22% Monthly 32
28 Stellus Capital Investment Corporation SCM $7.06 14.16% Monthly 32
29 Trinity Capital Inc. TRIN $16.09 12.68% Monthly 31
30 Saratoga Investment Corp. SAR $15.32 19.58% Monthly 31
31 Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. CCAP $8.90 18.09% Monthly 28
32 CION Investment Corporation CION $6.59 18.21% Monthly 27

Methodology

This table lists U.S.-listed common stocks (major U.S. exchanges only; OTC, Canadian and other foreign listings, ADRs, preferred shares and exchange-traded notes are excluded, and an issuer with several share classes appears once) in our coverage whose most recent regular payments run on a monthly schedule (read from the payment dates themselves), ordered by our DividendRank (which weighs yield, payout coverage, profitability, valuation and payment reliability). It regenerates from the live dataset — nothing here is hand-maintained.

What to Keep in Mind

A monthly schedule is a cash-flow convenience, not a quality signal. Several of the highest monthly yields come from leveraged structures that pay out nearly all of their income; check payout coverage and history on each name's page before drawing conclusions.

Frequently asked questions

Which stocks pay dividends monthly?

Monthly payers are concentrated among REITs, BDCs and other income structures whose own cash flows arrive monthly. The table above lists the monthly payers in our coverage, ranked by our DividendRank.

Are monthly dividends better than quarterly?

Only for cash-flow timing and marginally faster reinvestment. Annualized, a monthly and a quarterly payer with the same yield deliver the same income; what matters is whether the payout is covered.

Data updated Oct 19, 2026. This research page is generated from Dividendly's structured market and dividend dataset using the approach described on our methodology and data sources pages. Data is automatically validated using defined rules and may also be periodically reviewed. Research only, not investment advice. Spotted a data error? Report it.

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