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Mortgage REIT Preferred Shares: Attractive 8.4% Yield, Discounted Price

The common shares of this once beloved mortgage REIT suffered significant equity erosion earlier this year (and it was forced to cut its dividend by 90%) as it was hit with margin calls and forced to liquidate assets at depressed prices during the market-wide Covid-19 sell-off. Since then, the company has been limping its way back towards better health, albeit with a significantly less valuable book of business. Furthermore, the company’s three series of preferred shares still trade at attractively discounted prices and offer compelling high yields (they are also insulated, from some risks, by the company’s common shares). In this article, we review the business, the shares (common and preferred), and then conclude with our opinion on investing.