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 Do you love dividends? Of course you do -- and rightly so!Scholars who study the stock market's historical performance estimate that over time, the payment (and reinvestment, and compounding) of dividends have contributed anywhere from 30% to 90% of the S&P 500's total returns. Simply put, if you're not investing in dividend stocks, you're doing it wrong.And if you do love dividends, there's one sector in particular you should be focusing on: Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, pay out some of the most generous yields available to investors today, in many cases, several times more yield than the 2% average on the S&P 500.Knowing this, and having just been presented with a new stock report from investment bank B. Riley FBR, we've taken a good close look at the REITs highlighted therein -- and run them through our TipRanks Stock Screener tool to ensure that other analysts agree with B. Riley. Three of them make the grade, and here they are for your perusal.Ellington Financial (EFC)Starting at the top is Old Greenwich, Connecticut-based Ellington Financial. Ellington focuses its business on the acquisition of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), which confer upon their holders the right to collect mortgage payments on residential mortgage loans, as well as the actual residential mortgage loans themselves, commercial MBS, and of course, commercial mortgage loans, too.Ellington Financial has a good track record of putting &qu
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