NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwire) — 03/27/13 — Real estate investment trusts (REITs) that invest in mortgage-backed securities have continued to attract investors with double digit gains and high yielding dividends. The iShares FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Plus Capped ETF (REM) has gained nearly 15 percent year-to-date. Research Driven Investing examines investing opportunities on diversified REITs and provides equity research on CYS Investments Inc. (NYSE: CYS) and Hatteras Financial Corp. (NYSE: HTS).
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REITs are a popular play in the current economy due to their steady dividends, which currently averages around 13 percent, nearly 7 times the average dividend yield of the S&P 500. REITs can avoid corporate income tax, provided they invest in real estate-related assets and pay out at least 90 percent of their income in dividends to investors.
“Despite their run, REITs remain attractive to income investors. But we warn our clients that funds using stock REITs are very different animals than those buying mortgages,” says Matt Reiner, chief investment officer at Capital Investment Advisors. “Compared to Treasuries, mortgage REITs are paying much better yields — and we don-t see that trend reversing soon,” says Reiner.
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CYS Investments is a specialty finance company that invests on a leveraged basis in residential mortgage pass-through certificates for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Ginnie Mae. The company pays a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share for a dividend yield of roughly 10.9 percent.
Hatteras Financial is a real estate investment trust formed in 2007 to invest in single-family residential mortgage pass-through securities guaranteed or issued by U.S. Government agencies or U.S. Government-sponsored entities, such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Ginnie Mae. The company pays a quarterly dividend of $0.70 per share for a dividend yield of roughly 9.95 percent.
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