Essex Property Trust, Inc. is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Company is engaged primarily in the ownership, operation, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of predominantly apartment communities, located along the West Coast of the United States. The Company operates through three segments: California, Northern California and Seattle Metro. The Company owns approximately interests in 252 operating apartment communities, aggregating 62,000 apartment homes. The Company owns all of its interest in its real estate and other investments directly or indirectly through Essex Portfolio, L.P. The Company invests primarily in apartment communities that are located in predominantly coastal markets within Southern California, Northern California, and the Seattle metropolitan area. 

Essex Property Trust Inc.

The investment seeks to track as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the total return of the Dow Jones U.S. Dividend 100â¢Index. The fund invests at least 90% of its net assets in stocks that are included in the index. The index is designed to measure the performance of high dividend yielding stocks issued by U.S. companies that have a record of consistently paying dividends, selected for fundamental strength relative to their peers, based on financial ratios.

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Realty Income Corporation is a real estate investment trust. The Company is engaged in acquiring and managing single-unit freestanding commercial properties under a long-term net lease agreement with its commercial clients. The Company owns and operates diversified portfolio of over 12,237 commercial properties, with approximately 236.8 million leasable square feet. The Company has 12,111 properties leased and 126 properties available for lease or sale. It offers these properties to different clients doing business in approximately 84 separate industries. Its properties are located throughout all 50 states in United States (US), Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom (UK), Spain, and Italy. Its properties are leased to retail and industrial clients that have a service, non-discretionary and/or low-price-point component to their business. The Company’s property types include retail, gaming, industrial, and other types, such as agriculture and office.

Realty Income Corporation

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT), which is engaged in the business of investing in, owning, and leasing healthcare real estate. The Company conducts all of its operations through its subsidiary, MPT Operating Partnership, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The Company acquires and develops healthcare facilities and lease the facilities to healthcare operating companies under long-term net leases. It also makes mortgage loans to healthcare operators collateralized by their real estate assets. In addition, the Company selectively make loans to certain of its operators through its taxable REIT subsidiaries (TRS). The Company have healthcare investments in the United States, Europe, Australia, and South America. The Company’s portfolio (including real estate assets in joint ventures) consists of approximately 444 properties leased or loaned to 55 operators, of which seven are under development and five are in the form of mortgage loans.

Medical Properties Trust Inc.

Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company is engaged in ownership, operation and redevelopment of retail-based properties located in coastal markets from Washington, D.C. to Boston as well as San Francisco and Los Angeles. Its portfolio includes retail in many formats ranging from regional, community and neighborhood shopping centers that often are anchored by grocery stores to mixed-use properties that are centered around a retail component but also include office, residential and/or hotel components. These properties are located in metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, California, and South Florida. The Company’s 102 properties include approximately 3,200 tenants, in 26 million square feet. The Company has approximately 3,300 commercial leases and 3,000 residential leases, with tenants ranging from sole proprietors to national and international retailers.

Federal Realty Investment Trust

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in advancing medicines to prevent and treat life-threatening diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), viral hepatitis and cancer. The Company offers products in HIV, Onocolgy, Liver Disease, Vekulaery, and Other. Under HIV, it offers Biktarvy, Complera/Eviplera, Genvoya, Odefsey, Stribild, and Truvada. Its Veklury (remdesivir) is a nucleotide analog RNA polymerase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Under oncology it offers cell therapy containing Tecartus and Yescarta. Under this Liver Disease consists of Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) (Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir and Sofosbuvir/Velpatasvir) and Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) / hepatitis delta virus (HDV) (Vemlidy and Viread). The Company's other products include AmBisome and Letairis. It also operates a portfolio of small molecule inhibitors targeting PARP1 for oncology and MK2 for inflammatory diseases.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (the Fund) is an exchange-traded fund. The Fund seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (the Index). The Index measures the performance of the large-capitalization sector of the United States equity market. The component stocks are weighted according to the total float-adjusted market value of their outstanding shares. The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. The Fund invests in sectors, such as consumer non-cyclical, financial, energy, technology, communications, industrial, consumer cyclical, basic materials and utilities. BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) serves as the investment advisor to the Fund.

Core S&P 500 iShares ETF

Vanguard 500 Index Fund (the Fund) is an open-end investment company, or mutual fund. The Fund offers four classes of shares: Investor Shares, Admiral Shares, Signal Shares, and Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Shares. The Fund seeks to track the investment performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, an unmanaged benchmark representing the United States large-capitalization stocks. The Fund employs a passive management-or indexing-investment approach designed to track the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The Fund attempts to replicate the target index by investing all, or substantially all, of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, holding each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. 

S&P 500 Vanguard ETF

Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, sells and leases fully electric vehicles and energy generation and storage systems, and offer services related to its products. The Company's automotive segment includes the design, development, manufacturing, sales, and leasing of electric vehicles as well as sales of automotive regulatory credits. Additionally, the automotive segment is also comprised of services and other, which includes non-warranty after-sales vehicle services, sales of used vehicles, retail merchandise, sales by its acquired subsidiaries to third party customers, and vehicle insurance. Its energy generation and storage segment include the design, manufacture, installation, sales and leasing of solar energy generation and energy storage products and related services and sales of solar energy systems incentives. Its automotive products include Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X. Powerwall and Megapack are its lithium-ion battery energy storage products.

Tesla, Inc.

Apple Inc. (Apple) designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, personal computers, tablets, wearables and accessories and sells a range of related services. The Company’s products include iPhone, Mac, iPad, AirPods, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Beats products, HomePod, iPod touch and accessories. The Company operates various platforms, including the App Store, which allows customers to discover and download applications and digital content, such as books, music, video, games and podcasts. Apple offers digital content through subscription-based services, including Apple Arcade, Apple Music, Apple News+, Apple TV+ and Apple Fitness+. Apple also offers a range of other services, such as AppleCare, iCloud, Apple Card and Apple Pay. Apple sells its products and resells third-party products in a range of markets, including directly to consumers, small and mid-sized businesses, and education, enterprise and government customers through its retail and online stores and its direct sales force.

Apple, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation is a technology company. The Company develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions. Its segments include Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. The Productivity and Business Processes segment consists of products and services in its portfolio of productivity, communication, and information services, spanning a variety of devices and platforms. This segment includes Office Consumer, LinkedIn, Dynamics business solutions, and Office Commercial. The Intelligent Cloud segment consists of its public, private, and hybrid server products and cloud services. This segment includes server products and cloud services, and enterprise services. The More Personal Computing segment consists of products and services, such as Windows, devices, gaming, and search and news advertising.

Microsoft Corporation

Vanguard Information Technology ETF seeks to track the investment performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Information Technology 25/50 Index, a benchmark of large-, mid-, and small-cap United States stocks in the information technology sector, as classified under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). This GICS sector is made up of companies in three areas: technology software and services, including companies that develop software in various fields (such as the Internet, applications, systems, databases, and/or home entertainment), and companies that provide information technology consulting and services, data processing, and outsourced services; technology hardware and equipment, including manufacturers and distributors of communications equipment, computers and peripherals and electronic equipment, and semiconductors and semiconductor equipment manufacturers. The Vanguard Group, Inc. serves as advisor to the Fund through its Quantitative Equity Group.

	ESS	IVV
Last EOD price	$282.81 USD	$746.86 USD
YTD return	33.64 %	94.48 %
1 month return	28.76 %	78.85 %
12 month return	N/A	N/A
10 years return	73.06 %	347.49 %
10Y dividend return	0.00 %	0.00 %

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Most recent dividend payout	N/A	N/A
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