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Top 4 Large-Cap Stocks In The Financial Sector With The Highest Profit Margin (NLY, SAN, BCS, WBK)
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 4:25am | 139Below are the top large-cap financial stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of profit margin. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Annaly Capital Management Inc (NYSE: NLY) is 79.66%. NLY had $1.05 billion in total cash for the latest quarter. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at...
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Capstead Mortgage Corporation Declares Dividend of $0.39
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 5:17pm | 36Capstead Mortgage Corporation (NYSE: CMO) announced today that it will pay a fourth quarter 2010 dividend of $0.39 per common share on January 20, 2011 to stockholders of record as of December 31, 2010.
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AGNC Common Stock Offering Priced to Proceed $219M
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 12:05pm | 69American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) announced today that it priced a public offering of 8,000,000 shares of common stock for total net proceeds of approximately $219 million. Citi and Deutsche Bank Securities acted as underwriters for the offering. AGNC expects to use the net proceeds from...
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Best Stocks For Creating A Passive Income Stream
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 12:00pm | 601Everyone would like to have a passive income stream. Passive income can help to supplement your existing income. The great thing about a passive income stream is that it is income that you do not work for on a full time day to day basis. Passive income is defined as income that you earn from...
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American Capital Agency Shares Down 4.2% (AGNC)
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 11:35am | 138Shares of American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) are currently down 4.2% at $28.28 per share during Thursday morning trading. After the market closed on Wednesday, American Capital Agency Corp announced a secondary offering of 8 million shares being sold to Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) and...
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Benzinga's Top Pre-Market NASDAQ Losers (XNPT, AGNC, LINE, NVDA)
Thursday, December 9, 2010 - 9:29am | 125XenoPort Inc (NASDAQ: XNPT) dipped 7.35% to $7.19 in the pre-market session. XNPT announced the pricing of its public offering of 4 million shares at $7.15 per share. American Capital Agency Corp (NASDAQ: AGNC) lost 5.12% to $28 in the pre-market session. AGNC announced secondary offering of 8,000,...
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American Capital Agency Announces Secondary Offering of 8.0M Shares
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 5:17pm | 62American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) announced today that it agreed to sell 8,000,000 shares of its common stock to Citi and Deutsche Bank. In connection with the offering, the Company intends to grant the underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to an additional 1,200,000 shares...
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Asia Transaction Volumes Rise: JLL - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 12:00pm | 529According to a report published by Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), direct commercial property transaction volume in the Asia-Pacific region increased 14% sequentially to $18.2 billion in the third quarter 2010 with strong performance in...
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Asia Transaction Volumes Rise: JLL - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 11:17am | 529According to a report published by Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (JLL), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), direct commercial property transaction volume in the Asia-Pacific region increased 14% sequentially to $18.2 billion in the third quarter 2010 with strong performance in...
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Perfect time to start accumulating REITs? (AGNC, CIM, HTS)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 10:17am | 357One of the most important gifts Warren Buffet has given the investing world is a single maxim: "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Unfortunately, all too many of us think we're smarter than one of the most successful investors of all time and we do exactly the...
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RAIT Financial Trust Sells Asset - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 3:03am | 375RAIT Financial Trust (RAS), a real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently sold a 167-unit apartment community in Colorado for $12.95 million at a profit of approximately $1.0 million after payment of associated costs and underlying debt. The asset sale was part of the long-term strategy of...
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RAIT Financial Trust Sells Asset - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 - 4:53pm | 375RAIT Financial Trust (RAS), a real estate investment trust (REIT), has recently sold a 167-unit apartment community in Colorado for $12.95 million at a profit of approximately $1.0 million after payment of associated costs and underlying debt. The asset sale was part of the long-term strategy of...
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Dollar Expands Pawn Lending - Analyst Blog
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 5:18pm | 574On Dec 2, diversified financial services company, Dollar Financial Corp. (DLLR) announced that one of its wings, Dollar Financial UK Ltd., has committed to purchase a leading pawn lending Scandinavian company, Sefina Finance AB, for approximately $73 million in cash. While $58 million will be...
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PMC Commercial Trust Announces Fourth Quarter Dividend of $0.16 Per Share
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 5:08pm | 69PMC Commercial Trust (NYSE: PCC), a real estate investment trust, announced today that its Board of Trust Managers has declared a fourth quarter 2010 quarterly cash dividend of $0.16 per common share payable on January 10, 2011 to shareholders of record on December 31, 2010. The dividend is our...
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Dollar Expands Pawn Lending - Analyst Blog
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 4:52pm | 574On Dec 2, diversified financial services company, Dollar Financial Corp. (DLLR) announced that one of its wings, Dollar Financial UK Ltd., has committed to purchase a leading pawn lending Scandinavian company, Sefina Finance AB, for approximately $73 million in cash. While $58 million will be...