Here's How AGNC Investment Can Afford Its 15% Dividend Yield [The Motley Fool]
AGNC Investment Corp. (AGNC)
Last agnc investment corp. earnings: 4/29 04:01 pm
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There are no magic tricks or clever accounting being done here. The market's just overestimating the risk at hand.Rising interest rates have pushed dividend yields up. But a yield of nearly 15%? That sounds too good to be true.Believe it though. Shares of real estate investment trust (REIT)AGNC Investment0.52%How can the company afford such a big dividend yield? To be fair, the stock's relative long-term weakness helps in this regard -- the lack of dividend growth since 2020 following its reduced dividend payments since 2018 is less than inspiring.However, much of the circumstance behind the 14.9% payout stems from the nature of this REIT itself.AGNC Investment in focusThere are all kinds ofREITsNot all of them though. A handful of them buy and hold mortgage-backed securities (bundled packages of several mortgage loans), ultimately providing funding to borrowers. These purchases are generally leveraged with money borrowed at a lower interest rate. In the case of AGNC Investment, these
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- AGNC Investment (AGNC): Reassessing Valuation After Christine Hurtsellers Joins the Board and Audit Committee [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) had its price target raised by analysts at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods from $10.50 to $11.00. They now have an "outperform" rating on the stock.MarketBeat
- Could Buying Ultra High-Yield AGNC Investment Stock Today Set You Up for Life? [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- AGNC Investment Corp. Elects Christine Hurtsellers to its Board of DirectorsPR Newswire
- AGNC Investment Corp. Declares Fourth Quarter Dividends on Preferred StockPR Newswire
AGNC
Earnings
- 10/20/25 - Miss
AGNC
Sec Filings
- 12/18/25 - Form 3
- 12/15/25 - Form 8-K
- 11/10/25 - Form 4
- AGNC's page on the SEC website