What is New York Mortgage Trust Inc (NYMT) Stock Return on Shareholders’ Capital?

With 0.7 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.82 million shares. The 52-week range on NYMT shows that it touched its highest point at $7.11 and its lowest point at $5.01 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $7.50. With its current market cap of 581.52 million, NYMT has annualized dividend of $0.80 while the current yield stands at 12.42%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.30.

Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of NYMT was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 9.71%, but this was up by 9.52% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 6.62% while six-month performance rose 11.61%. The stock gained 2.79% in the past year, while it has gained 6.27% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for NYMT yields -0.06 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.82. For the next quarter, that number is 0.19. This implies an EPS growth rate of 179.94% for this year and -10.56% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 90.53 million NYMT shares are outstanding with a float of 83.69 million shares on hand for trading.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for NYMT since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 1 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.

EPS: Estimates vs Actual

It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$0.65052 being high and -$0.6788 being low. For NYMT, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$0.66466.