Mortgage REIT's

Jefferies & Co. is downgrading shares of Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) to Hold, and is lowering its price target to $3.80. In a note to clients, Jefferies writes, "Our downgrade is based on our expectation for additional headwinds in CIM's business, both fundamental and optical....

Jefferies & Company has downgraded Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) from Buy to Hold and has lowered the price target from $4.50 to $3.80.

On CNBC's Mad Money Lightning Round OT, Jim Cramer said that Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. (NYSE: CYS) looks too good to be true. He invited the management of the company on his show to ask them how they can pay a 19% dividend yield. Until then, he recommends Annaly Capital Management, Inc...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch commented on American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC) in a report released yesterday. In the report, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was positive in its assessment of the company. Bank of America Merrill Lynch writes, “Our $30 price objective is based on a 1.2x P/BV...

Jefferies is out with its report today on Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT), lowering its PT from $18 to $16.50. In a note to clients, Jefferies writes, "Our $16.50/share price target represents 1.2x book value. This premium is relatively high vs historical levels and reflects our expectation that RWT...

Jefferies & Company has changed the price targets on the following companies: PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG) from $50.50 to $51, Buy Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT) from $18 to $16.50, Buy Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) from $38 to $30, Buy

In a recent report, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods has lowered the EPS Estimate on Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT) from $1.20 to $0.97 and has reiterated an Outperform rating on the company. In the report, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods said, "Operating trends were in line. Economic book value increased to $...

Boston Beer Company (SAM)- Trailing-12-Month Revenue- $471.9 million, Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)- 20.5%, Cash/Debt, $45.3 million / $0, Competitors- Anheuser-Busch (BUD), Molson Coors (TAP). Boston Beer Company is trading at a price of $84.15, a dramatic change of -0.87 with %...

NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE: NRF) announced today the launch of an underwritten public offering of its common stock. Citi and Wells Fargo Securities are the joint book-running managers for the offering, and FBR Capital Markets is the co-manager for the offering. The underwriters are...

Wunderlich Securities increased its price target on Redwood Trust (NYSE: RWT) to $15 in spite of worse than expected Q1 results. In a research report published today, Wunderlich reiterated its confidence in Redwood, prompting it to leave its rating unchanged at Hold. In the report, Wunderlich...

As the REIT boom continues to develop, China Analyst takes a look at the best performing REITs.  Below is a list of the top 10 dividend yielding REITs as of March 2011. (Click the following link for the full article: CAnalyst.com) 10. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE: PMT) Dividend Rate as...

Two new trades this morning with the possibility of another two should Hatteras Financial (HTS) trigger at $28.69 and United Healthcare (UNH) at $50.21. The two that I got in this morning are doing well so far, despite little movement out of the broader markets at this point. The first one is Jabil...

According to the BrandZ Top 100 ranking, Apple Inc., (NASDAQ:AAPL), designs, manufactures and markets a range of personal computers has overtaken Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) as the world's most valuable brand. Apple with a stock market capitalization of $319.4 billion, compared with Google's $172....

Sterne Agee reports that after reviewing the quarter's results and adjusting its prepayment, funding, and investment level estimates, “we are raising our 2011 EPS estimate from $2.40 to $2.48 and raising our 2012 estimate from $2.33 to $2.55,” on shares of Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY...

  New Portfolio for Income Investors This month we added a new portfolio for subscribers at FaithBasedInvestor.com.  We responded to requests for an “income solution” in this low interest environment!  Most investors were stuck with parking their money in cash (at...