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Mid-America Apartment Communities
MAA · NYSEReal Estate (Residential REIT)
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Company details
Market cap
~$15B
Dividend yield
~4.7%
Annual dividend
$6.12/sh
Core FFO/sh (2026e)
~$8.2
Revenue
~$2.1B
Apartment homes
~104,000
Consecutive dividends
128 qtrs
Dev. pipeline
~$1B
In plain English
MAA is one of the largest apartment landlords in the US Sun Belt — it owns and runs ~104,000 rental homes across fast-growing southern metros like Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Tampa and Charlotte. It collects rent from tens of thousands of households, funds buildings with index-fund capital and mortgage debt, and — as a REIT — passes most of that rent back to shareholders as a steadily growing dividend (128 consecutive quarterly payouts).
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What Mid-America Apartment Communities really sells
MAA is one of the largest apartment landlords in the US Sun Belt — it owns and runs ~104,000 rental homes across fast-growing southern metros like Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Tampa and Charlotte. It collects rent from tens of thousands of households, funds buildings with index-fund capital and mortgage debt, and — as a REIT — passes most of that rent back to shareholders as a steadily growing dividend (128 consecutive quarterly payouts).
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