180 Wealth Advisors LLC Has $212,000 Stake in AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC)

180 Wealth Advisors LLC raised its holdings in AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) by 25.4% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm owned 21,908 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 4,440 shares during the quarter. 180 Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in AGNC Investment were worth $212,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its position in AGNC Investment by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 57,347,540 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $541,361,000 after purchasing an additional 242,548 shares during the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. raised its position in shares of AGNC Investment by 1.6% during the first quarter. BlackRock Inc. now owns 33,303,058 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $335,695,000 after acquiring an additional 523,955 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp lifted its stake in AGNC Investment by 2.7% in the second quarter. State Street Corp now owns 15,338,384 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $157,098,000 after buying an additional 402,771 shares during the period. Geode Capital Management LLC lifted its stake in AGNC Investment by 3.5% in the first quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 8,438,287 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $85,058,000 after buying an additional 287,134 shares during the period. Finally, Clearbridge Investments LLC lifted its stake in AGNC Investment by 85.6% in the third quarter. Clearbridge Investments LLC now owns 7,301,298 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $68,924,000 after buying an additional 3,367,112 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 38.28% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts have weighed in on AGNC shares. Jonestrading started coverage on AGNC Investment in a research note on Friday, March 22nd. They issued a “buy” rating and a $10.75 target price on the stock. StockNews.com raised AGNC Investment from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Tuesday, March 12th. Compass Point started coverage on AGNC Investment in a research note on Tuesday, February 20th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $10.25 target price on the stock. Barclays increased their target price on AGNC Investment from $8.00 to $9.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Monday, January 22nd. Finally, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods increased their target price on AGNC Investment from $8.50 to $10.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 13th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $9.93.

AGNC Investment Stock Up 0.4 %

Shares of AGNC Investment stock opened at $9.70 on Tuesday. AGNC Investment Corp. has a 1 year low of $6.81 and a 1 year high of $10.64. The business has a 50-day moving average of $9.60 and a two-hundred day moving average of $9.26. The company has a market capitalization of $6.74 billion, a P/E ratio of 970.97 and a beta of 1.45. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.01, a current ratio of 0.26 and a quick ratio of 0.26.

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Monday, January 29th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.49 by $0.11. The company had revenue of $640.00 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $570.42 million. AGNC Investment had a return on equity of 28.02% and a net margin of 7.59%. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.74 earnings per share. As a group, equities analysts predict that AGNC Investment Corp. will post 2.16 EPS for the current year.

AGNC Investment Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a mar 24 dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, April 9th. Investors of record on Friday, March 29th will be issued a dividend of $0.12 per share. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, March 27th. This represents a dividend yield of 14.8%. AGNC Investment’s payout ratio is presently 14,414.41%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other AGNC Investment news, CFO Bernice Bell sold 10,000 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 26th. The shares were sold at an average price of $9.85, for a total transaction of $98,500.00. Following the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 287,282 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $2,829,727.70. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. 0.43% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

AGNC Investment Company Profile

AGNC Investment Corp., formerly American Capital Agency Corp., is a real estate investment trust. The Company invests in agency residential mortgage-backed securities on a leveraged basis. Its investments consist of residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a government-sponsored enterprise, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by the United States Government agency, such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (collectively, GSEs).