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Ready Capital Corporation (RC) Q4 2020 Earnings Conference Call March 12, 2021 8:30 AM ET Company Participants Andrew Ahlborn – Chief Financial Officer Tom Capasse – Chief Executive Officer Adam Zausmer – Head of Credit Risk Management Conference Call Participants Crispin...

The mortgage REIT sector began the year with big discounts to book value. Since then, it has delivered big returns. If you've read even a few of our articles on mortgage REITs, you're surely familiar with the price-to-book ratios. Investors who didn't buy mortgage REITs in April 2...

U.S. equity markets were mostly higher on a volatile week as investors remain skittish about a potential "overheating" U.S. economy and the implications for interest rates, inflation, and equity valuations. Bouncing back following two weeks of declines, the S&P 500 gaine...

The mortgage REIT sector has been on fire lately. It gave us some huge gains in late 2020 and more huge gains in early 2021. As investors shift into "value" stocks, we've seen a dramatic increase in price with price-to-book ratios increasing substantially in the sector. With these...

The preferreds market has recovered from its recent weakness caused by higher rates. The risk of higher rates remains, so it makes sense to focus on higher coupon issues that are less rate sensitive. Call activity has been elevated, which leads us to focus on issues with significa...

During February, we placed a handful of trades in the mortgage REIT preferred shares. We recently picked up shares of ARR-C and NRZ-B. We'll highlight the index cards and commentary on those positions. In February we also closed out positions in NYMTP, TWO-E (which was called) and...

Stocks are correcting after getting over-extended. Market leadership is shifting by sector and industry. Strong stocks can bounce back when the sell-off subsides. For further details see: Top Stocks To Buy On The Sell-Off

We trade our mortgage REIT positions based on shifting price-to-book ratios. It’s a great technique. It’s like counting cards, except we get to use machines, and some people think they sat down to play "Go Fish." We will share one of our recent adjustments in our por...

Pricing between the different series of NLY preferred shares is absurd. NLY-G values are much too close to NLY-F and NLY-I. Investors in NLY-G can get a dramatically better risk-adjusted rate of return by swapping to NLY-F or NLY-I. The payback period on the upgrade is less than t...

Buying preferred shares isn't hard. It's a great technique to find some attractive risk-adjusted returns though. Many investors don't get the trick to it. You want to buy before the price goes up. That way you can be in a positive unrealized total return. If you entered correctly,...