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AGNC Investment: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

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And such REITs often employ leverage, usually using their loan portfolio as collateral, to enhance returns. In some ways, a mortgage REIT is more like a mutual fund than a company. And they are certainly nothing like a landlord. Frankly, most individual investors likely won't fall into the asset allocation category anyway.

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Annaly Capital Management's Total Return Won't Pay the Bills

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Its revenue comes from the interest it collects on these bond-like securities, often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation. For starters, that's more like a mutual fund model than a typical REIT model, given that there are no operating assets involved. Image source: Getty Images.

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1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

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A mortgage REIT like AGNC buys mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like securities, often referred to as something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO). Generally, leverage is employed so that more CMOs can be bought, with the CMO portfolio acting as collateral for the loan.

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Is AGNC Investment Stock a Buy?

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It buys mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like securities, often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO). Mortgage REITs are more like mutual funds than operating companies. The mortgage REIT sector is fairly complex.

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I'm Not Buying Annaly Capital. Here's Why.

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Generally, this comes in the form of mortgages that have been pooled together into bond-like securities called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), or something similar. In this way, it is something like a mutual fund or asset manager. This is because CMOs trade like bonds, actively being bought and sold all day long.

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1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

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It doesn't buy physical real estate, it buys mortgage securities that are pooled into bond-like assets, often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation. Mortgage REITs are way more complex, more akin to running a mutual fund.

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Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

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Blackstone focuses on alternative investments in real estate, private equity, hedge fund products, and credit products such as collateralized loan obligations. It should also benefit from increased demand for its stock, as mutual funds and ETFs that track the index need to buy to match the index's allocation.