With 39.03 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 28.44 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $8.49 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $8.32. The 52-week range on AGNC shows that it touched its highest point at $10.85 and its lowest point at $7.85 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $9.74. With its current market cap of 7.74 billion, AGNC has annualized dividend of $1.44 while the current yield stands at 17.04%. AGNC paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1745971200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.31.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of AGNC was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.12%, but this was down by -16.91% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -13.16% while six-month performance fell -19.22%. The stock lost -6.73% in the past year, while it has lost -8.25% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for AGNC yields 0.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.61. For the next quarter, that number is 0.40. This implies an EPS growth rate of -14.12% for this year and -0.53% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -5.98% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -4.32%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 915.46 million AGNC shares are outstanding with a float of 908.30 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 58.04 million, which was 634.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. Gary D. Kain as the firm’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Peter J. Federico serves as its President, CEO & Director and Chief Investment Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.41544998 of AGNC’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for AGNC since 15 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 4 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With AGNC analysts setting a high price target of 11.0 and a low target of 8.25, the average target price over the next 12 months is 9.5125. Based on these targets, AGNC could surge 30.18% to reach the target high and fall by -2.37% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.57% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.9731 being high and $1.89298 being low. For AGNC, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.95307. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.44 and the low estimate is $0.4. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.41.
