AGNC AGNC Investment Corporation

High yielding mortgage REITs have performed well this year. Continuously low interest rates are boosting earnings throughout the sector and therefore are helping to boost dividends. REITs trade like stocks, but by law, they must pay out 90 percent of their taxable income to shareholders as dividends. The Paragon Report examines the outlook for diversified REITs and provides equity research on American Capital Agency Corporation (NASDAQ: AGNC) and CYS Investments, Inc. (NYSE: CYS). Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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Dividend returns for Mortgage REITs are partially dependent on interest rate spreads. Higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive for REITs. In late February Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is sticking with its plan to hold interest rates at record-low levels until at least late 2014, despite a pickup in hiring that's steadily lowered the unemployment rate.

The Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark rate near zero since December 2008, and in January extended a previous pledge to keep rates low through mid-2013. It has also bought $2.3 trillion of bonds in two rounds of so-called quantitative easing.

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American Capital Agency Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). It invests in residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by government-sponsored entities or by the United States government agency. Presently the company pays an annual dividend of five dollars per share for a yield of around 17 percent. Earlier this month the company priced a public offering of 62,000,000 shares of common stock for total estimated gross proceeds of approximately $1.8 billion.

Earlier this month the board of directors of CYS Investments declared a quarterly dividend of $0.50 per share of common stock for the first quarter of 2012. The dividend will be paid on April 18, 2012 to stockholders of record on March 23, 2012.

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