Shipping Industry Preferred Stocks - High Yields, But Watch For Riptides

I am happy to report that I succeeded in publishing my first Seeking Alpha article entitled “Hot & Spicy Preferred Stocks with Yields between 7.9% and 9.6%”. That was a major accomplishment and I appreciate the editors and others that helped me with that article.
Like many investors, I am always on the lookout for high yields from companies that I consider to be relatively safe and able to show they can support their dividend on a sustainable basis. Because I yearn for higher yields, I generally filter through the dividend growth companies that offer low, but increasingly higher dividends. I usually end up looking at higher risk asset classes such as MLP, CREITS (commercial REITS), MREITS (mortgage REITS) and BDC (business development companies). As luck would have it, there is one other industry that can sometimes provide high yields, but it comes with risk levels that are off the chart. Did you guess the “shipping industry”?
I have ridden that bucking horse a few times with their common stocks, but eventually ate dust enough times to give me a bad taste and a resolve to never return. Over time; however, I forget the pain and began to look at those yields again. Human nature keeps me magnetized to high yields. But this time, I use another tool to in my tool chest to tame that bucking horse. That tool is preferred stocks. Preferred stocks are safer than the common stock of its parent for several reasons. Preferred stocks cannot stop paying the dividend unless they... Read more