Is Western Asset Mortgage stock a buy?
What Is The Conclusion?
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Interesting Questions and Easy Answers!
Yes, Western Asset Mortgage pays dividends. Last time was Tuesday 1st of October 2024 where the investors holding the stock on Monday 23rd of September 2024 were paid $0.13 per share. Over the last 179 times between 2010 and 2024, Western Asset Mortgage has paid $33.3907 with an average of $0.19 per share.
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We cannot find data for Western Asset Mortgage 10 years ago, but if you had invested on Monday 9th of September 2019 when the price was $21.98, you would have made a loss of $-10.05 per share or -45.72%
No, the average daily trading liquidity for Western Asset Mortgage is $58 775 thousand. Trading in stocks with this little trading liquidity is very dangerous, and you can get into a situation where it will be hard to trade your stocks. In addition, these types of stocks usually have very high volatility.
Western Asset Mortgage has much of the business financed by loans. This puts the company at high risk in periods of high inflation where borrowing costs usually go up. With a low cash flow to debt ratio of 0.06, the company's ability to pay off the debt is limited. Western Asset Mortgage has a very good net profit margin of 88.09% and should have very high tolerances against inflation.
We have calculated the inflation risk for Western Asset Mortgage to be medium [0.6 of 1]
US inflation for July 2024 was 0.15%. Over the last 12 months, the US inflation is 2.92%. The 10-year treasury yield that indicates the future interest level is currently 3.72 and is down -0.95 over the last 30 days.