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Company snapshot — Annaly Capital Management, Inc.

NLY 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
Annaly Capital Management runs a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities and related assets rather than making or selling anything physical. It buys agency mortgage-backed securities backed by government-sponsored loans, non-agency mortgage loans and securitised products, mortgage servicing rights, and related hedging instruments, earning from the spread between what it borrows at and what those assets yield. It operates as a real estate investment trust, so it distributes most of its taxable income to shareholders rather than paying corporate tax on it. It is based in New York.
Where it sits in the stack
Annaly carries no seat in our index, so it is read purely through its sector: REIT - Mortgage, a group of financing vehicles that hold pools of home-loan-backed securities rather than property itself. It sits outside the diary's build-out coverage and is tracked instead as part of the broader Russell 1000 mortgage-REIT cohort.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group places it with other mortgage REITs on the strength of shared sector and geography: Rithm Capital, Starwood Property Trust and AGNC Investment, the last of which the market also names most often as its direct comparison.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Annaly sits in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelooknet score, so the diary has nothing to compare across modules; its cohort is instead read on trend state, meaning distance to its 50- and 200-day moving averages rather than a scored ranking.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how far the shares sit from their 50- and 200-day averages, since that trend distance is the only comparative read available while no score exists.

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-20. 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.

Signals for this name

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

Who it is priced against REIT - Mortgage · United States · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

REIT - Mortgage · 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 NLY on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 13.83%, quarterly · last 0.75 USD on 2026-06-30

Dividends and capital return

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

  • Trailing 12 months 2.85 USD per share · a 13.83% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +5.6% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.70 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.75 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-30
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.30 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.60 USD · 2025: 2.80 USD · 2026: 1.45 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-09-28

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.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.88 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

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

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.88 — moves strongly with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Annaly Capital Management, Inc. moved 0.88% on average · correlation 0.41 · higher than 82% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.03 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.67% 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 −2.09% 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.

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

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

Quick answers

What is Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY)?

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. trades as NLY on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is NLY in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Annaly Capital Management, Inc. is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does NLY trade against its moving averages?

Mixed moving-average stack: Trades -8.6% vs the 50-day and -6.9% vs the 200-day average, 13.8% below the 52-week high and +10.3% off the 52-week low. 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.

What does Annaly Capital Management, Inc. do?

Annaly Capital Management runs a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities and related assets rather than making or selling anything physical. It buys agency mortgage-backed securities backed by government-sponsored loans, non-agency mortgage loans and securitised products, mortgage servicing rights, and related hedging instruments, earning from the spread between what it borrows at and what those assets yield. It operates as a real estate investment trust, so it distributes most of its taxable income to shareholders rather than paying corporate tax on it. Closelooknet's peer group places it with other mortgage REITs on the strength of shared sector and geography: Rithm Capital, Starwood Property Trust and AGNC Investment, the last of which the market also names most often as its direct comparison.

Where does Annaly Capital Management, Inc. sit in the AI build-out?

Annaly carries no seat in our index, so it is read purely through its sector: REIT - Mortgage, a group of financing vehicles that hold pools of home-loan-backed securities rather than property itself. It sits outside the diary's build-out coverage and is tracked instead as part of the broader Russell 1000 mortgage-REIT cohort. Annaly sits in the Russell 1000 but carries no Closelooknet score, so the diary has nothing to compare across modules; its cohort is instead read on trend state, meaning distance to its 50- and 200-day moving averages rather than a scored ranking.

Does Annaly Capital Management, Inc. pay a dividend?

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. has paid 2.85 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 13.83% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.75 USD on 2026-06-30. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Annaly Capital Management, Inc. trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Annaly Capital Management, Inc. had a beta of 0.88 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it moves strongly with bonds, higher than 82% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.67% 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 this page show?

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

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then REIT - Mortgage, then Real Estate. 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.