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U.S. equity markets staged a late-week rally to end a turbulent week with gains as concerns over instability in Chinese markets were offset by signs of resilient strength across US housing markets. Snapping a skid in which the benchmark average declined in 10-of-12 trading s...

NRZ raised their dividend by 25% with the acquisition of Caliber. The price roared higher as investors caught on. Price-to-book ratios on TWO and CHMI are still higher than for NRZ and PMT. That’s funny because it shouldn’t be that way. Rates for refinancing are quit...

Part 1 of this article compares NLY’s recent investment composition, leverage, hedging coverage ratio, quarterly BV, economic return (loss), and current valuation to 19 mREIT peers. Providing sector-wide metrics allow readers to better understand which mREIT companies will like...

U.S. equity markets retreated on a choppy week after a downbeat slate of economic data heightened concern that the recent COVID resurgence could stall or reverse the global economic reopenings. Exhibiting a reversion back to the "stay at home" trading patterns, the large-cap S&am...

Mortgage REITs can offer investors extremely high yields. While the yields are attractive, we want to keep an eye on prices as well. Rather than just paying lip service to prices, investors need to really dig into those price-to-book ratios and contrast current ratios with reasonable ...

In our "State of the REIT Sector" report, we analyze recently-released NAREIT T-Tracker data to review high-level REIT fundamentals over the past quarter through a series of charts. REIT company-level metrics have exhibited a substantial rebound over the last year as FFO and dividends...

MITT gets an upgrade to a neutral outlook. Shares are down about 26.5% from their highs despite fundamentals performing reasonably well. Agency mortgage REITs have consistently reported declines in book value. The range of the decline differs significantly, but so far all were lower. ...

U.S. equity markets climbed to fresh record highs this past week as better-than-expected employment data eased some concern over threats of another potential wave of COVID-related economic restrictions. The U.S. economy added 942k jobs in July, while continuing jobless claims fel...

REIT earnings season has provided critical information on the state of the real estate industry - a much-needed check-in amid fears of a potential "fourth wave" of the COVID pandemic. Results were significantly better-than-expected with roughly 95% of equity REITs beating consensus FF...

NEWT announced they are planning to buy a bank and stop being a BDC. Shares down 27.5% on the DAY as of 3PM Eastern. We couldn’t predict NEWT would announce this deal, but we could and did predict that paying an absolutely massive premium to book value was a mistake. Lookin...