WMC News and Press, Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corporation From 12/23/20

One of the strongest sectors in midday trading, financials gain as Treasury yields push up and the yield curve steepens.SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE) climbs 2.9% and SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE) gains 2.7%, their strongest showing in almost a month. Among other financi...

U.S. equity markets extended their vaccine-driven rally despite the ongoing stimulus stalemate as encouraging vaccine developments, strong housing data, and a dovish Fed lifted equity markets to fresh records. Finishing just below its intra-week record-highs, the S&P 500 gain...

PMT has substantial exposure to mortgage production. That’s been a positive factor for them during a period of high production. Investors used to like that about PMT, then became disappointed when the company only released exceptional results. Expectations were out of control. ...

Western Asset Mortgage Capital (WMC) declares $0.06/share quarterly dividend, 20% increase from prior dividend of $0.05.Forward yield 6.96%Payable Jan. 26; for shareholders of record Dec. 28; ex-div Dec. 24.See WMC Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. For further details ...

Western Asset Mortgage Capital Corporation (the “Company”) (NYSE: WMC) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.06 per share for the fourth quarter of 2020. Today’s dividend is payable on January 26, 2021 to common shareholders ...

Investors starting on the sector should begin by learning about some of the simpler mortgage REITs. Ones focused on agency MBS are usually simpler. We’ll bring out a high-risk pick with substantial upside today. GPMT is a commercial REIT with a price-to-estimated-book below .60...

Today we're going to focus on mortgage REITs investors already missed the boat on. These mortgage REITs have a few things in common. They rallied dramatically and deserve a neutral rating after the huge returns they gave shareholders. In this series we're providing readers with th...

New York Mortgage Trust was one of our strongest “Strong Buy” recommendations. After rallying 95%, it’s trading within the reasonable range. Since shares are no longer hilariously undervalued, we’ll go back to a neutral rating. In this series we’...

We often focus on the mortgage REIT common shares in this series, but this time we’re going to emphasize the preferred shares. We provided readers recently with a fairly large article demonstrating the dramatic difference in the valuation of the AGNC preferred shares. Despi...

We can finally drop to a neutral outlook on ANH. Shares are up about 40% since late October. We're grateful for this opportunity to be right - again. We’re seeing far more REITs trading at reasonable valuations today. It was weird being stuck in a bullish stance on most of the ...