Legendary investor Warren Buffett has achieved astounding returns throughout his career. From 1964 to 2022, his company Berkshire Hathaway Inc. delivered an overall gain of 3,787,464%, dwarfing the S&P 500’s 24,708% return during the same period.
Other than picking stocks that skyrocketed in value, Buffett also collects dividends — a lot of dividends.
Buffett once said, “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
Everyday Americans didn’t have many options to do that until recently, but today, you can invest in cash-flowing real estate in a few clicks and get a portion of the rent the assets generate.
The most notable dividend stock from Buffet’s portfolio is perhaps Coca-Cola Co. It’s no secret that Buffet has been a fan of the soft drink. He once said, “If I eat 2,700 calories a day, a quarter of that is Coca-Cola.”
In 2022, Coca-Cola paid four quarterly dividends of 44 cents per share — or $1.76 per share for the year.
Coca-Cola follows a quarterly distribution schedule. If you want to collect $1,000 per month from the company, you are looking at $3,000 per quarter. And that means you would need to own 6,521.74 shares of the company.
Because Coca-Cola currently trades at $57.81 per share, 6,521.74 shares would mean about $377,022 worth of the stock. But you could potentially reach the $3,000 threshold with a much lower initial investment using established real estate investing platforms.
Arrived
Arrived is a Jeff Bezos-backed real estate investment platform with cash distributions that often dwarf Coca-Cola’s dividends. Even though the platform offers shares of individual rentals that cost hundreds of thousands, any American adult can purchase them with as little as $100. So far, 419,000 people have done exactly that.
Apart from monthly rent dividends you get as a fractional owner of a particular single-family rental, you also benefit from the property’s long-term appreciation. To maximize appreciation, Arrived cherry-picks properties with the highest potential for outsized returns. Because of a high level of investor interest, new properties usually sell out in days, but new rentals are uploaded regularly.
Click here to browse the newest collection of rentals on Arrived.
EquityMultiple Alpine Notes
Unlike Arrived, Alpine Notes are only available to accredited investors who sign up for fixed yields that also tower above Coca-Cola’s quarterly distribution. Put bluntly, $10,000 worth of Coca-Cola stock would give you about $76.12. Alpine Notes would generate $150 in the same period.
EquityMultiple, the company behind the notes, uses the accumulated capital to invest in a diversified commercial real estate portfolio and shares the profits with its members. So far, the company has met all payment and funding obligations with no missed or late interest payments.
If it does miss payments, investors are protected by First Loss Prevention, meaning that EquityMultiple would lose 100% of its investment before they lose a dime. The arrangement puts a healthy dose of pressure on the company to opt only for projects that have the potential for the most consistent cash flow.
Alpine Notes are available to all accredited investors looking for short-term, income-oriented securities backed by tangible assets. Depending on the duration, they yield 6%, 7.05% or 7.4% annually with zero fees.
Click here to diversify your portfolio with EquityMultiple’s Alpine Notes.
CRE Income Fund
Another major player in the passive income territory that outshines Coca-Cola in terms of annual yield is CRE Income Fund. The company structures its portfolio to reliably yield 10% per year. This means $1,000 per year for every $10,000 invested, compared to $304.48 if you used that investment to buy Coca-Cola stock.
CRE Income Fund has a portfolio comprised of trending commercial real estate sectors experiencing major upswings in demand. For example, in the last 10 years, the occupancy of research and development facilities almost tripled, so naturally, it took up a sizeable chunk of the CRE Income Fund’s portfolio. The fund also invests in e-commerce and reshoring real estate for similar reasons. All accredited investors can invest in the fund and start receiving monthly payments from the rent generated by the properties in the portfolio.
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