ThinkstockSterne Agee has downgraded many targets on its mortgage REIT sector. Investors can find extremely high-yield dividends here, often north of 10%, but the risk versus reward often can be too much…
The recent rise in long-term interest rates is crushing the high dividend mortgage REIT sector, as investors are looking to pare down their exposure to riskier assets and assets that will be…
Rising interest rates on 10-year Treasuries suddenly may start competing against the high-dividend and high-yield stock sectors. The real question is which sectors will hold up and which ones will fall apart if…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Friday. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. (NYSE: AEO) cut to Market Perform at BMO.…
Ben Bernanke and the FOMC delivered today on the promise of quantitative easing to start buying mortgage-backed securities to the tune of $40 billion per month. The measure would allow for $23 billion…
Investors are looking for yield, but many investors and speculators are betting against the highest dividend yield sectors. There are perhaps no higher dividends to be had than in the mortgage REIT…
Investors now have yet one more option to choose from when it comes to investing in mortgage REITs. Van Eck Global has now launched the Market Vectors Mortgage REIT Income ETF (NYSE:…
The world of Mortgage REITs offers massive yields for income investors. There is a big caveat here. It offers massive yields, until it doesn’t… then you don’t want to be around this…
24/7 Wall Street is constantly on the lookout for dividend gains for investors. While this is not due to any breaking news, there was a secondary offering this morning that we saw…
These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG) Raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray. American Capital Agency Corp.…
MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE: MFA) is a surprise on the dividend front this morning. The company is a REIT that invests in mortgage-backed securities, and while that sounds as though it has…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Thursday morning: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs. Chico’s FAS (NYSE: CHS) cut to Sell…
These are not the only calls impacting stocks, but these are the top ten individual calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: China Netcom (NYSE: CN) downgraded to Neutral at Credit Suisse. China…
MFResidential Investments, Inc. submitted an IPO filing on Tuesday. The total proposed maximum aggregate amount in securities is listed as $250,000,000 in securities, although this number is merely for filing purposes. The…
ADP added to Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy List.AOS cut to Underperform at Baird.ASBC raised to Equal weight at Lehman.BBX cut to Mkt Perform at KBW.BHE cut to Neutral at JPMorgan.CCE cut to…
