Is Annaly Capital Management Inc (NYSE: NLY) A Stock A New Investor Should Consider Now?

Annaly Capital Management Inc (NYSE:NLY) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.03% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $21.15.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $20.93, falling within a range of $21.0 and $21.2. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.579 whereas the PE ratio is 13.37 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $21.11, and the low was $17.67. On the whole, NLY has fluctuated by 12.90% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Annaly Capital Management Inc currently standing at about $11.85 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 2.60, with its dividend yield at 12.30%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 1.83B, with a low estimate of 346.95M and a high estimate of 467.88M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 425.59M.

Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that NLY’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.

The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 7.77, with the price of NLY currently trading nearly 4.67% and 8.26% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 72.29, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.22% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.50%. Furthermore, Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY)’s beta value is 1.63, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.31.

A comparison of Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. NLY showed an intraday change of 1.03% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 15.11%%.

Data on historical trading for Annaly Capital Management Inc (NYSE:NLY) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.7 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 6.67 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 578.36 million shares outstanding.

Nearly 0.27% of Annaly Capital Management Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 59.16% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 18.56 million shares as on 2025-01-15, resulting in a short ratio of 2.25. According to the data, the short interest in Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY) stood at 369.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-15; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-13 reached 11.81 million. The stock has risen by 15.55% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the NLY stock heading into the next quarter.

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