Royalties Inc. Investee Company Music Royalties Inc. Pays Milestone 80th Monthly Dividend

EmitenTrust.com TORONTO, Sept. 16, 2026 /CNW/ -- Royalties Inc.'s (CSE: RI) (OTCID: ROYIF) or "the Company") has a $2.5 million investment in Music Royalties Inc. ('MRI'), generating $181,800 in dividends per year. RI has received over $400,000 in MRI dividends since 2022. MRI just announced a milestone payment of its 80th dividend representing a cumulative $0.202 per share in dividends and over $16 million paid to shareholders since 2019. The $0.036 per share in distributions per year is a 7.2% after tax yield.

MRI's yield is 3.5x the S&P/TSX 60 dividend yield of 2% and 7x the S&P 500 dividend yield of 1%, which is currently at an all-time low due to the AI stock driven rally.

The following is a ranking of MRI's most played songs in which it has a financial interest:

About Royalties Inc.

• Royalties Inc. owns a 100% interest, subject to a 1.5% NSR owned as a separate asset, on the Bilbao silver-zinc-lead project located in the State of Zacatecas, Mexico.
• Royalties Inc. owns 88% of the outstanding shares of Minera Portree de Zacatecas, S.A. de C.V ("MPZ") which holds a court confirmed claim (twice) to a 2% royalty established in 2002 on five mining concessions called the 'Portree claims', a portion of which is on the Mala Noche Footwall Zone, the main source of production at the Cozamin mine where Capstone Copper Corp. ("Capstone") has been mining since 2010. It attempted to assign this royalty to themselves without the knowledge, consent or proper payment to MPZ, the rightful owner since 2002.
• Royalties Inc. has a 5% stake in Music Royalties Inc. ("MRI"), which has paid out over $16 million in 80 monthly dividends since 2019 from 31 cash-flowing catalogs with 7,000 songs for a 7.2% annual after tax yield.

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SOURCE Royalties Inc.