Daily Stock Analysis: Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
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The portfolio of stocks I started building on September 8, at a one stock per week pace for the next year, is named Vista. I will select its eighteenth stock this weekend. Vista is the sixth portfolio I've built (at a one dividend dog per-week pace) since 2014. Six portfolios = VI for Vista!
Vista is planned to Look Ahead for Outstanding, Proven, Dividend Winners. (Like Aristocrats)
Today I'll review the second of five financial services sector stock candidates vying to be that eighteenth selection in Vista.
Today we look at a small-cap credit services company named Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. Its trading ticker symbol is AGM. This is my first ever report on Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp for any of my dog of the week portfolios
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp provides agricultural real estate and rural housing mortgage loans in the secondary market in the U.S. Its operations consist of four segments: Farm & Ranch, USDA Guarantees, Rural Utilities, and Institutional Credit. The company purchases eligible mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate and rural housing under the Farm & Ranch line of business. Its subsidiary purchases the portions of certain agricultural, rural development, business and industry, and community facilities loans guaranteed by the USDA.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
I use three key data points to gauge dividend equities or funds like Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp:
(1) Price
(2) Dividends
(3) Returns
Those three basic keys best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money.
AGM Price
AGM's price per share closed at $75.01 yesterday. A year ago its price was $83.40. Price is down $8.39 or about 10% on the year.
If Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp stock trades in the range of $6 to $10 this next year, its recent $75.10 price might rise by $9.99 to reach $85.00 by January 5, 2022.
AGM Dividends
AGM's most recently declared quarterly dividend was $0.80 paid December 31st. Dividends are estimated to total $3.20 per share annually and yield 4.27% at yesterday's $75.01 closing price.
AGM Gains?
Adding the $3.20 annual anticipated dividend to my $9.99 optimistic price upside shows a $13.19 potential gross gain, per share, to be reduced by any costs to trade the shares.
Put little over $1,000.00 today in Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp at $75.01 per share and we'd buy 13 shares of AGM stock.
A $10 broker fee (if any) paid half at purchase and half at sale could cost us about $0.77 per share.
Subtract that maybe $0.77 brokerage cost from my estimated $13.19 gross gain per share results in a net gain of $12.42 X 13 shares = $161.46 for a 16.15% net gain on a $975.13 investment.
So it goes that Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp shows a possible 16.15% net gain including a 4.27% dividend yield. It could be more, it could be less.
All of the estimates above are speculation based on the past history of Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corp. Only time and money invested in this stock will determine its worth.
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