AGNC Investment Corp. Stock News

AGNC Investment (AGNC -0.16%) is trading a bit below $10 per share today and it offers an ultra-high 14%+ dividend yield. Think about that for a second -- you spend $10 (or less), a nice round number, and you get roughly $1.45 a year in dividends.

We take a look at the action in preferreds and baby bonds through the third week of March and highlight some of the key themes we are watching. Preferred stocks gained alongside Treasuries, with credit spreads holding steady. DX.PR.C's switch to a floating coupon of SOFR + 5.723% in mid-April will result in a high yield of around 9.95%.

Ahead of the April 2nd tariff unveiling, US equity markets were under renewed pressure this week on downbeat data showing a further dip in consumer confidence and hotter-than-expected PCE inflation. As a turbulent first quarter wraps up, the updated GDPNow - the Atlanta Fed's closely watched GDP tracking model - forecasts growth of -2.8% overall and -0.5% on a "gold-adjusted basis." Posting wee...

Although I'm not retired yet, I'm trying to build a portfolio of reliable dividend stocks that I can count on to provide income when I do stop working. I have little to no interest in buying AGNC Investment (AGNC -2.46%) for my portfolio and its monster yield of almost 15%.

While the S&P 500 and other major benchmarks entered "correction territory" this month for the first time since 2023, U.S. REITs have meaningfully outperformed the broader equity market since mid-January. The rebound follows a truly forgettable three-year period for REITs dating back to the start of the Fed's rate hiking cycle in which REITs have accumulated 40 percentage-points of underperform...

AGNC Investment (AGNC -0.39%) often attracts a lot of dividend investor attention because of its massive 14% yield. It's a mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT) that originates its own mortgages and invests in mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

For well over a century, Wall Street has been a wealth-building machine. Though there is no shortage of pathways to grow your wealth in the stock market, few strategies have proved more fruitful over long periods than buying and holding high-quality dividend stocks.

We investors, especially newish investors, are often drawn to certain kinds of investments, not always with good results. When I was a new investor, for example, I got excited about a mutual fund that had gained around 82% in a single year.