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To own Annaly Capital Management, you need to be comfortable with a mortgage REIT that depends on its Agency MBS, MSR and residential credit portfolios to generate earnings, while managing interest rate and spread volatility. The recent shift toward more positive earnings expectations reinforces the near term catalyst of potential earnings outperformance, but it does not remove the biggest risk right now, which remains the impact of rate and spread moves on portfolio returns and hedging costs.
The recent increase in the quarterly common dividend to US$0.7500 per share is particularly relevant here, as it underscores how management is returning capital at a time when analysts expect higher revenue and year over year earnings. For investors, this ties the earnings beat narrative directly to the sustainability of that payout, given that Annaly’s dividend is currently not well covered by earnings or free cash flow and remains sensitive to funding costs and portfolio performance.
Yet behind growing optimism around an earnings beat, investors should be aware of how quickly elevated hedging costs could...
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Annaly Capital Management’s narrative projects $2.7 billion revenue and $2.3 billion earnings by 2029.
Uncover how Annaly Capital Management's forecasts yield a $24.00 fair value, a 4% upside to its current price.
Four members of the Simply Wall St Community currently see Annaly’s fair value between US$24.00 and about US$44.72, reflecting a wide spread of expectations. Against that backdrop, the key risk around rising hedging costs and interest rate volatility suggests you may want to compare several of these views before deciding how resilient Annaly’s earnings power really is.
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