AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC): Why Is The Stock Strong?

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AGNC Investment Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC) has a beta value of 1.28 and has seen 7.98 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $9.02B, closed the recent trade at $8.84 per share which meant it lost -$0.1 on the day or -1.17% during that session. The AGNC stock price is -22.74% off its 52-week high price of $10.85 and 11.2% above the 52-week low of $7.85. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 32.91 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 32.58 million shares.

The consensus among analysts is that AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.80. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 4 out of 15 have rated it as a Hold, with 10 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.41.

AGNC Investment Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC) trade information

Over the past 30 days, the shares of AGNC Investment Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC) have changed 0.28%. Short interest in the company has seen 53.5 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.74.

Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $10, which means that the shares’ value could jump 11.6% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $10.0 while the price target rests at a high of $10.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -13.12% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -13.12% from the levels at last check today..

AGNC Investment Corp (AGNC) estimates and forecasts

The company’s shares have lost -8.35% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 8,451.33%.

3 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 447.37M for the current quarter. 3 have an estimated revenue figure of 450.17M for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood -3M and -64M respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 15,012.44% for the current quarter and 8,451.33% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -4.32% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -11.64% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to decrease by -5.72%.

AGNC Dividends

AGNC Investment Corp is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-20 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.44 at a share yield of 16.30%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 13.0%.

AGNC Investment Corp (NASDAQ:AGNC)’s Major holders

Insiders own 0.39% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 41.76% with a share float percentage of 41.92%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with AGNC Investment Corp having a total of 693.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 68.17 million shares worth more than $650.33 million. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.2121% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 37.09 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $353.86 million and represent 5.0124% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.85% shares in the company for having 29.06 shares of worth $257.37 million while later fund manager owns 22.84 shares of worth $202.25 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.24% of company’s outstanding stock.

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