WMC News and Press, Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corporation From 03/22/20

"The market for commercial real estate mortgage loans in the United States stands on the brink of collapse ," says Colony Capital (NYSE: CLNY ) Chairman Tom Barrack, with banks, mortgage REITs and other non-bank lenders now "at a precarious juncture." More news on: Colony Capital, Inc., A...

The New York Fed will conduct an additional $15B of MBS purchase operations this afternoon across two operations for regular TBA settlement. More news on: Annaly Capital Management, Inc., AGNC Investment Corp., Two Harbors Investment Corp., Financial stocks news, News on the U.S. economy...

The New York Fed last night said it was planning to buy $32B in MBS today to help smooth functioning of the agency MBS market. More news on: Annaly Capital Management, Inc., AGNC Investment Corp., Two Harbors Investment Corp., Financial stocks news, Stocks on the move, News on ETFs, ...

This research report was produced by The REIT Forum with assistance from Big Dog Investments . A historic pounding... The decline has been dramatic. Many investors must wonder about the viability of the sector. At this point, the decline has easily surpassed anything we co...

Focus of Article: The focus of PART 1 of this article is to analyze Annaly Capital Management Inc.’s ( NLY ) recent results and compare several of the company’s metrics to twenty mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT) peers. This analysis will show past and current data ...

Sector giants Annaly Capital ( NLY +0.1% ) and AGNC Investment ( AGNC +0.6% ) are holding up decently (on a relative basis), but the rest of the sector trades as if headed for extinction. More news on: Ellington Financial Inc., Annaly Capital Management, Inc., AGNC Investment Corp., Fi...

Mortgage REITs as a whole ( REM -8.6% ) are still deep in the red, but sector gorillas Annaly Capital ( NLY -0.4% ) and AGNC Investment ( AGNC -0.9% ) are seeing major relative strength. More news on: iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF, Annaly Capital Management, Inc., AGNC Inve...

Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Analysts Estimated 95.77% To 189.05% Net Gains By Top 10 U.S. REITs Come March, 2021 Five of ten top dividend-yielding U.S. Real Estate Investment Trust stocks found their way into the top 10 gainers for the coming year based on analyst one-year target prices...

One of the most important steps in evaluating mortgage REITs is finding the price to book value ratios. Using the mortgage REITs' book value gives us an idea for the general range where the mortgage REIT should trade. We expect that all mortgage REITs holding similar assets will generally be c...

With the Treasury yields plumbing all-time lows, mortgage REITs are taking a beating. More news on: iShares Mortgage Real Estate Capped ETF, Arlington Asset Investment Corp., Chimera Investment Corporation, Financial stocks news, Stocks on the move, News on ETFs, Read more ...