With 6.36 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 8.75 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $18.36 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $17.76. The 52-week range on NLY shows that it touched its highest point at $22.11 and its lowest point at $16.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $20.56. With its current market cap of 10.96 billion, NLY has annualized dividend of $2.65 while the current yield stands at 14.45%. NLY paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.33.
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 NLY was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.86%, but this was down by -15.41% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -5.90% while six-month performance fell -8.98%. The stock gained 1.95% in the past year, while it has gained 0.22% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NLY yields 1.58 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.90. For the next quarter, that number is 0.70. This implies an EPS growth rate of 4.44% for this year and 2.82% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 597.55 million NLY shares are outstanding with a float of 595.75 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 17.86 million, which was 299.0 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Mr. David L. Finkelstein C.F.A. as the firm’s CEO, Co-Chief investment Officer & Director, Mr. Steven Francis Campbell serves as its COO & President.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.58458 of NLY’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 NLY since 7 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 7 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 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 NLY analysts setting a high price target of 23.0 and a low target of 18.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 20.69545. Based on these targets, NLY could surge 25.41% to reach the target high and fall by -1.85% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 12.84% 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 $2.65697 being high and $2.62712 being low. For NLY, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.64702. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.75 and the low estimate is $0.67. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.71.
