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MGIC Investment Corp (MTG) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for MTG, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.26 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How MTG has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.26 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), MGIC Investment Corp moved 0.26% on average · correlation 0.11 · higher than 25% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.35 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.50% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −1.95% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Specialty · United States · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Specialty · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against MTG on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — MGIC Investment Corp

MTG in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
MGIC Investment provides private mortgage insurance through its subsidiaries, protecting lenders against default on individual home loans. It covers unpaid principal, delinquent interest and foreclosure-related costs when a borrower stops paying, and also offers contract underwriting and reinsurance services. Its customers are banks, credit unions, mortgage brokers and other originators of residential loans across the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam. It is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Where it sits in the stack
MGIC sits outside the AI build-out entirely; it belongs to the Financial Services sector of our universe, within the specialty insurance group that covers mortgage credit risk. It is a Russell 1000 constituent, which is the only Closelooknet index seat the diary records for it.
Who it is priced against
The diary has no defined peer group for MGIC; the comparison the market usually draws is with Radian Group, another private mortgage insurer covering similar loan portfolios.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
MGIC is a Russell 1000 name in our coverage but carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted or featured it in any edition.
What the diary watches
Whether housing-market conditions and borrower delinquency trends shift enough to change the credit risk MGIC insures against.

MGIC Investment Corp (MTG) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.18%, quarterly · last 0.17 USD on 2026-08-05

Dividends and capital return

What MTG pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 0.62 USD per share · a 2.18% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +14.8% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.54 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.17 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-05
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.12 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.49 USD · 2025: 0.56 USD · 2026: 0.47 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-08

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is MGIC Investment Corp (MTG)?

MGIC Investment Corp trades as MTG on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is MTG in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — MGIC Investment Corp is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does MTG trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -6% vs the 50-day and +2.5% vs the 200-day average, 10.2% below the 52-week high and +15.4% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 42 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does MGIC Investment Corp trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year MGIC Investment Corp had a beta of 0.26 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 25% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.50% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does MGIC Investment Corp do?

MGIC Investment provides private mortgage insurance through its subsidiaries, protecting lenders against default on individual home loans. It covers unpaid principal, delinquent interest and foreclosure-related costs when a borrower stops paying, and also offers contract underwriting and reinsurance services. Its customers are banks, credit unions, mortgage brokers and other originators of residential loans across the United States, Puerto Rico and Guam. The diary has no defined peer group for MGIC; the comparison the market usually draws is with Radian Group, another private mortgage insurer covering similar loan portfolios.

Where does MGIC Investment Corp sit in the AI build-out?

MGIC sits outside the AI build-out entirely; it belongs to the Financial Services sector of our universe, within the specialty insurance group that covers mortgage credit risk. It is a Russell 1000 constituent, which is the only Closelooknet index seat the diary records for it. MGIC is a Russell 1000 name in our coverage but carries no Closelooknet score yet, and the diary has not quoted or featured it in any edition.

Does MGIC Investment Corp pay a dividend?

MGIC Investment Corp has paid 0.62 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.18% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.17 USD on 2026-08-05. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for MTG, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Insurance - Specialty, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.