Hatteras Financial (NYSE:HTS)

djkumquat (< 20) Submitted: 9/26/2009 8:46:47 PM : Start Price: $22.06 HTS Score: -4.68

looking for a pullback here.

roamer65 (< 20) Submitted: 9/26/2009 3:59:48 PM : Start Price: $22.06 HTS Score: +4.68

Fed should hold interest rates low for most of next year allowing HTS to enjoy a good spread between borrowing costs and investment income. This is based on belief that we will be in a deflationary or non-growth environment thru 2010 and continue in a long term bear market. HTS will lose market value but not as much as the S&P.

TSIF (99.95) Submitted: 9/23/2009 12:49:34 PM : Start Price: $22.14 HTS Score: +6.43

Hatteras Financial is an interesting REIT that was founded in 2007. This would seem to be the peak of the bubble, but Hatteras doesn't seem to be affected. Although they deal in residential mortgages they are in the form of pass-through securities guaranteed or issued by a United States Government agency or sponsored agency. They are at a 52 week high. The dividend is holding at an impressive 13%. ON Caps you only credited a portion of the dividends, so overall you can come up short on CAPS playing pure dividend stocks. In this case Hatteras is also appreciating in price while paying the dividends. It seems hard to believe that we can have a successful REIT in this climate or count on dividends holding, but so far Hatteras is showing the money. Margins are hard to calculate on REIT's, but even if skewwed, the 88% margins, 113% quarterly earning growth look tempting. The debt is rising, but no doubt securing additional mortgages. Looks like an interesting play.

LIZANDE (62.44) Submitted: 9/14/2009 8:35:15 PM : Start Price: $18.63 HTS Score: +29.87

WILL OUT PERFORM DUE TO MTG. DILEMMA

u3w0rk (< 20) Submitted: 7/23/2009 12:23:02 PM : Start Price: $19.23 HTS Score: +14.16

high divy, high growth

AnnaLisaCupcake (< 20) Submitted: 1/13/2009 10:45:26 PM : Start Price: $16.34 HTS Score: +19.38

Government-backed mortgages!!!!!!!

stutatoo (< 20) Submitted: 1/2/2009 8:50:18 AM : Start Price: $16.35 HTS Score: +27.65

Huge dividend yield that should be considered to be very safe now that the Feds are now conservators over Fannie and Freddie.

HogLawrence (60.56) Submitted: 11/12/2008 7:32:07 PM : Start Price: $12.92 HTS Score: -66.00

Continuation Wedge: target $16

ramgee (56.32) Submitted: 11/11/2008 5:31:43 PM : Start Price: $13.27 HTS Score: +63.57

Playing the mortgage game. Adept or crapshoot? Speculation...

Penelex (< 20) Submitted: 10/9/2008 7:18:47 PM : Start Price: $10.23 HTS Score: +125.55

I believe India is the up and coming place to be invested. This stock pays almost 20% dividends

njbrit (< 20) Submitted: 10/8/2008 1:34:31 PM : Start Price: $11.99 HTS Score: +105.37

safe investments, with a chance to score cheap properties in the near term, and a higher stock price that follows the mkt.

MarketBottom (29.87) Submitted: 5/25/2008 3:25:56 PM : Start Price: $14.30 HTS Score: -102.08

Banks, morgage companies, and financials in general will surely find the enviroment going forward challenging. The consumer is struggling, and all forms of credit are seeing rising loses. Thumbs down for this sector for the forseeable future. Additional capital will be required by regulators, and the appetite for risk has decreased dramatically over the last year. The FDIC is calling retired former employees back to deal with the potential collapse of 300 to 1000 banks in the coming year or two. In this decending cycle it will become more and more difficult to grow profits and expland while actual consolidation of the industry is taking place.

deuspecuniae (86.80) Submitted: 5/1/2008 1:31:34 PM : Start Price: $13.97 HTS Score: -108.84

The credit crises and morgage meltdown in the U.S. isn't going anywhere this summer and is likely to only get worse. If Bear Sterns couldn't survive what hope is their for the rest of the financial sector. Yes, the financial sector seems to be jumping back and key reversals seem to be lifting bullish investors, but this ray of hope will end once investors understand how bad this looming recession is going to be. Even the hopeful and growing few in the financial sector are going to suffer from the troubles of the many.