TWO News and Press, Two Harbors Investment Corp From 12/18/22

This year has been a perfect storm for the mortgage space. Mortgage originators struggled as rising rates crushed origination volumes, while mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) dealt with rising rates and relative underperformance of mortgage-backed securities. This caused the stoc...

Summary These shares offer significant capital gains to go along with big dividend yields. We've been swapping between shares in the sector to achieve much better results than the sector. Most of our position started and ended in the same share. If you can turn 2,677 shares into 3,4...

Summary Prior to November 30, 2022, readers mentioned 43 equities in their recent comments. Some lamented bad-news, so bad-news investments (rogues) mixed with (mostly) favorites. (Thus, these are ReFa/Ro.). Ten analyst-target-estimated TOP-NET-GAIN Re/Fa/Ro: PACW, PSEC, ALLY, VZ, MFA, ...

Summary The yield curve is severely inverted. The time to cut rates is coming. Many people still think inflation is running hot, but monthly increases are mostly driven by a few popular items. When we look into those items, we see huge temporary problems in the supply chain. Kee...

Summary MDIV invests in 5 categories of high-yield securities in equal weight. It has lagged 2 similar ETFs for 6 years but beats them in 2022. Since 2012, the share has lost about 24% in price and 26% in distribution. How to manage capital decay in high-yield securities. ...

Summary Mortgage REITs - which were left for dead amid a historically brutal year across fixed-income markets - have rebounded in recent weeks as earnings results were not as catastrophic as feared. Mortgage REITs are now outperforming Equity REITs for the year, and we continue to...

This year has been miserable for the real estate industry, especially for anyone involved in the mortgage market. Mortgage originators have struggled with declining volumes, while the mortgage real estate investment trusts (REIT) have dealt with underperformance of their most significant as...

Summary U.S. equity markets posted their best weekly gains since June as cooler-than-expected inflation data, election results suggesting "fiscal gridlock" in DC, and limited China re-openings raised hopes of peaking inflation. Climbing back out of "bear market" territory, the S&a...

Summary Huge rally in the sector today as rates plunged. CPI readings are still a poor metric for monetary policy. We’re seeing some deflation recently rather than inflation. Using the wrong metrics to evaluate policy and generate headlines leads investors to think infl...

Summary Following our prior article on the dramatic market failure between similar shares, the gap closed 6% in a week. In one case, that eliminated the problem with valuation. However, one share still has further to outperform. We're sharing some of our subscriber research on...