Ultra-High-Yield AGNC Investment: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC) is a mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT). This is a fairly complex type of business, and investors should acquire a deep understanding of how it works before making a decision to buy or hold its stock. However, the sell (or never buy) choice is actually pretty simple. Here's what you need to know before you make your call on AGNC Investment and its ultra-high 15.5% dividend yield.It doesn't actually take any deep thinking to understand why you might want to avoid or even sell AGNC Investment shares. The single graph below tells the entire story. After a period when both its dividend payouts and its stock price rose swiftly, both have been falling for years. Shareholders who bought in for the income, and who have spent the dividends they collected from AGNC Investment rather than reinvesting them, now have less income and less capital.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool