AGNC Investment Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC) price on current trading day, fall -0.63% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $10.23.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $10.29, moving within a range at $10.2 and $10.31. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.494 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 10.65. Turning to its 52-week performance, $10.85 and $8.92 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, AGNC moved -2.90% over the past month.
AGNC Investment Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $9.36 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Jan-26. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.44, with its dividend yield at 14.08%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 436.71M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 362.9M and 515.3M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 1,555.70% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 1.78B, representing a 9,792.31% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that AGNC is a 50% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
15 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 4 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 10 recommend AGNC as a Buy and 1 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
AGNC’s current price about -0.69% and 1.60% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 49.89, while 7-day volatility ratio is 1.27% and 1.77% in the 30-day chart. Further, AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC) has a beta value of 1.29, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.17. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $11, forecast between a low of $8 and high of $12. Looking at the price targets, the low is 21.8% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -17.3%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -7.53% jump to $11 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on AGNC Investment Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 23.83 over the past 10 days and 20.89 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 915.46 million shares.
The 0.84% of AGNC Investment Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 40.55% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 59.8 million on 2025-02-28, giving us a short ratio of 2.77. The data shows that as of 2025-02-28 short interest in AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC) stood at 656.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 55.03 million registered in 2025-01-31. Current price change has pushed the stock 11.02% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the AGNC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
