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      <title>Prospect Capital: The Recent Weakness May Be A Buying Opportunity</title>
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        <![CDATA[It's not 12 percent. It's 9.4 percent because the rest is return of capital. And to answer your question mtge is a better buy. Do your homework.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:06:14 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[It's not 12 percent. It's 9.4 percent because the rest is return of capital. And to answer your question mtge is a better buy. Do your homework.]]>
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      <title>Prospect Capital Announces 90% Increase in Net Investment Income for First Three Fiscal Quarters Over Prior Year</title>
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        <![CDATA[Very misleading headline ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 01:57:35 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Very misleading headline ]]>
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      <title>Taking a bow for his mid-March call laying out American Capital Agency's (AGNC) quarter 6 weeks ahead of the earnings release, SA Pro's Dane Bowler - in as lucid an explanation&amp;nbsp;(embargoed until Monday afternoon) of agency REITs as you're likely to find - says a cut in the annual dividend to the sustainable level of $3.50/share (30% below current) and a stock price of $25.50 would turn him bullish again.</title>
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        <![CDATA[Too funny. Drop + core was 1.09. They have to pay that out at the least. I am not long or short but think that is a pretty stupid call... It wasn't hard to know agnc would have a bad quarter from a mark to market basis... Simply view agency mbs trading prices. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 14:35:35 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Too funny. Drop + core was 1.09. They have to pay that out at the least. I am not long or short but think that is a pretty stupid call... It wasn't hard to know agnc would have a bad quarter from a mark to market basis... Simply view agency mbs trading prices. ]]>
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      <title>More on American Capital Mortgage Investment (MTGE) Q1 earnings: Like sister company AGNC (also with Gary Kain as CIO), MTGE reports a big mark-to-market loss ($1.66/share) on agency MBS. Loss partially offset by $0.64 gain on non-agency holdings. Spread income of $0.62 - NIM of 2.01%, off 6 bps from Q4. Book value of $24.25/share, down 5.8% from Dec. 31. Shares -2.3% AH after 3.5% loss in regular session. (PR)</title>
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        <![CDATA[I was surprised this didn't happen sooner actually.. Prices change on a daily basis.. you can't have every quarter be an up quarter. agency mbs got hammered and its a good thing too.. the spread was getting weak.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 13:30:27 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I was surprised this didn't happen sooner actually.. Prices change on a daily basis.. you can't have every quarter be an up quarter. agency mbs got hammered and its a good thing too.. the spread was getting weak.]]>
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      <title>More on American Capital Mortgage Investment (MTGE) Q1 earnings: Like sister company AGNC (also with Gary Kain as CIO), MTGE reports a big mark-to-market loss ($1.66/share) on agency MBS. Loss partially offset by $0.64 gain on non-agency holdings. Spread income of $0.62 - NIM of 2.01%, off 6 bps from Q4. Book value of $24.25/share, down 5.8% from Dec. 31. Shares -2.3% AH after 3.5% loss in regular session. (PR)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Hello. Do you not know how to check mortgage prices? What is wrong with you? I already knew and the market should have also that the book was going to be lower. Check prices today, NAV has rebounded almost completely. Stop being stupid. If you saw the NAV change on a daily basis you would shit your pants based on how you are behaving over the volatility last quarter. Simply put the hedges are designed for larger rate moves not 10-20 basis points. I am not long but i will take your shares gladly in mid to low 24s. I plan on buying 21,000 shares in the low to mid 24s if possible. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 18:46:57 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Hello. Do you not know how to check mortgage prices? What is wrong with you? I already knew and the market should have also that the book was going to be lower. Check prices today, NAV has rebounded almost completely. Stop being stupid. If you saw the NAV change on a daily basis you would shit your pants based on how you are behaving over the volatility last quarter. Simply put the hedges are designed for larger rate moves not 10-20 basis points. I am not long but i will take your shares gladly in mid to low 24s. I plan on buying 21,000 shares in the low to mid 24s if possible. ]]>
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      <title>With Its Recent Price Decline, Prospect Capital Is On Sale</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1313611/comments?source=feed#comment-17099591</link>
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        <![CDATA[High risk stock? Are you kidding? Look at the historical data on prospect. This is a low risk low volatility stock. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:30:25 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[High risk stock? Are you kidding? Look at the historical data on prospect. This is a low risk low volatility stock. ]]>
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      <title>Prospect Capital: Buy This 12% Yielder With Record Originations</title>
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        <![CDATA[I'm 26 years old, individual investor... Long 48,000 shares of PSEC @ 10.97, just purchased last week. No plans to reduce position unless we see a multiple of 1.08x book or higher.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 02:21:27 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I'm 26 years old, individual investor... Long 48,000 shares of PSEC @ 10.97, just purchased last week. No plans to reduce position unless we see a multiple of 1.08x book or higher.]]>
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      <title>Things That (Should) Go Bump In The Night</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/957061-chris-demuth-jr/1665251-things-that-should-go-bump-in-the-night?source=feed#comment-16640771</link>
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        <![CDATA[I use an HD 60 inch TV for a monitor. My motto is go big or go home :) <br/><br/>Long 100 14 dell April calls @ 0.38 and long 100 14 dell may puts @ 0.35,<br/><br/>Long mtge 20,500 shares @ 25.05 ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 01:11:27 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I use an HD 60 inch TV for a monitor. My motto is go big or go home :) <br/><br/>Long 100 14 dell April calls @ 0.38 and long 100 14 dell may puts @ 0.35,<br/><br/>Long mtge 20,500 shares @ 25.05 ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1283231/comments?source=feed#comment-16624301</link>
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        <![CDATA[Fox, I am long 100 $14 calls on dell @ 0.38 for april, and I am long 100  $14 puts on dell for may @ 0.35. Need either a breakdown of the stock price (no buyout) or a buy out.. Either way I make money.. if the price stays here... i'll lose money. We'll see what happens. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:10:24 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Fox, I am long 100 $14 calls on dell @ 0.38 for april, and I am long 100  $14 puts on dell for may @ 0.35. Need either a breakdown of the stock price (no buyout) or a buy out.. Either way I make money.. if the price stays here... i'll lose money. We'll see what happens. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1283231/comments?source=feed#comment-16476601</link>
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        <![CDATA[Faber is a special boy. 13.65 is not the last offer. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:11:42 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Faber is a special boy. 13.65 is not the last offer. ]]>
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      <title>Dell (DELL) gains 2.1% AH on word Blackstone may be part of a group mulling a bid for the company. The P-E firm is among those who signed a non-disclosure agreement earlier this month, allowing it to get a close look at Dell's books.</title>
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        <![CDATA[After reading your article Dan and further inspecting DELL i decided to go long the may $14 calls at 0.45 today. 50 contracts to start, wish i bought more.they will probably double 2morrow... i'll hang in there for the higher bid though. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:13:32 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[After reading your article Dan and further inspecting DELL i decided to go long the may $14 calls at 0.45 today. 50 contracts to start, wish i bought more.they will probably double 2morrow... i'll hang in there for the higher bid though. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1283231/comments?source=feed#comment-16468991</link>
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        <![CDATA[T-man, blackstone is coming up with a better offer. Watch the price fly high 2morrow. <br/><br/><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://buswk.co/144gWck'>http://buswk.co/144gWck</a><br/><br/>as far as the special dividend route... all you have to do is... sell the day before EX when the stock is up near $22. <br/><br/>But most likely the bid is going to be $17-$19 and thats that. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:33:16 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[T-man, blackstone is coming up with a better offer. Watch the price fly high 2morrow. <br/><br/><a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://buswk.co/144gWck'>http://buswk.co/144gWck</a><br/><br/>as far as the special dividend route... all you have to do is... sell the day before EX when the stock is up near $22. <br/><br/>But most likely the bid is going to be $17-$19 and thats that. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
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        <![CDATA[<a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://buswk.co/144gWck'>http://buswk.co/144gWck</a>]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:07:29 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://buswk.co/144gWck'>http://buswk.co/144gWck</a>]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
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        <![CDATA[Blackstone is going to pay near $18 a share looks like. They are thinking it over. Hope you didn't go short, and us longs MUST be delusional, right?]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:22:53 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Blackstone is going to pay near $18 a share looks like. They are thinking it over. Hope you didn't go short, and us longs MUST be delusional, right?]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1283231/comments?source=feed#comment-16451811</link>
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        <![CDATA[Answer to fox: The same folks who bid $13.65 will increase the bid or watch icahn do a recap which is better then selling out at $13.65. Anyone who wanted to sell at $13.65 has already sold at higher prices in the market, the holders now all will vote down the offer and they want a better offer... if they dont get it.. recap time. If recap fails and no other bidders.. DELL goes to single digits, icahn might go in there and buy up as much as he can and then try to push the recap with a higher level of control. But Michael knows where all these roads go.. so i think there is a 90% chance of a higher offer but the market believes there is more than 60% chance of a higher offer right now. FOX - short at your own risk.. but don't cry when the $17 bid comes across your screen. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:25:18 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Answer to fox: The same folks who bid $13.65 will increase the bid or watch icahn do a recap which is better then selling out at $13.65. Anyone who wanted to sell at $13.65 has already sold at higher prices in the market, the holders now all will vote down the offer and they want a better offer... if they dont get it.. recap time. If recap fails and no other bidders.. DELL goes to single digits, icahn might go in there and buy up as much as he can and then try to push the recap with a higher level of control. But Michael knows where all these roads go.. so i think there is a 90% chance of a higher offer but the market believes there is more than 60% chance of a higher offer right now. FOX - short at your own risk.. but don't cry when the $17 bid comes across your screen. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1283231/comments?source=feed#comment-16450961</link>
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        <![CDATA[March 22nd is deadline for go-shop clause. This could drag on for at most 2 months before we get some kind of share price reaction i would imagine. There is going to be a proxy vote, that might take a couple weeks to wrap up and then we will know an outcome, if icahn's plan is accepted or not. The $13.65 offer will not be accepted, not enough votes already. We may get a bidder between now and the end of the week or an improved bid. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:14:37 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[March 22nd is deadline for go-shop clause. This could drag on for at most 2 months before we get some kind of share price reaction i would imagine. There is going to be a proxy vote, that might take a couple weeks to wrap up and then we will know an outcome, if icahn's plan is accepted or not. The $13.65 offer will not be accepted, not enough votes already. We may get a bidder between now and the end of the week or an improved bid. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
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        <![CDATA[Are you implying that Michael Dell is about to do something illegal to manipulate the share price more than he may or may not be already doing? Somehow I don't think Michael wants to go to jail, either way, icahn is going to do what icahn wants and he doesnt want to lose money on this. Either raise the bid or let icahn recap the company. Michael and his cronies need to figure out which they will do, because anything less and icahn already has threatened years of litigation if his idea is not put on the proxy. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:56:34 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Are you implying that Michael Dell is about to do something illegal to manipulate the share price more than he may or may not be already doing? Somehow I don't think Michael wants to go to jail, either way, icahn is going to do what icahn wants and he doesnt want to lose money on this. Either raise the bid or let icahn recap the company. Michael and his cronies need to figure out which they will do, because anything less and icahn already has threatened years of litigation if his idea is not put on the proxy. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
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        <![CDATA[Yep delusional, must be. Definitely delusional.. Icahn must be delusional too for buying up over 8% of the common and counting at prices above $13.65. We must all be delusional. I appreciate the bear case for DELL, but you fail to realize that michael DELL doesn't want to see his company on the chopping block and they need to increase the bid. My belief is we will see a $17 bid. If it doesn't happen.. thats okay, because i bought calls.. not the stock.. so my loss is limited to the premium.also, icahn is going to get his plan on the proxy too, so people can vote for it.. if it passes $22 is possible.. michael doesnt want that to happen so he will up the bid with his buddies. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:38:16 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Yep delusional, must be. Definitely delusional.. Icahn must be delusional too for buying up over 8% of the common and counting at prices above $13.65. We must all be delusional. I appreciate the bear case for DELL, but you fail to realize that michael DELL doesn't want to see his company on the chopping block and they need to increase the bid. My belief is we will see a $17 bid. If it doesn't happen.. thats okay, because i bought calls.. not the stock.. so my loss is limited to the premium.also, icahn is going to get his plan on the proxy too, so people can vote for it.. if it passes $22 is possible.. michael doesnt want that to happen so he will up the bid with his buddies. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
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        <![CDATA[icahn is going to get some folks on the board, they already have enough votes to stop the buyout at $13.65, there is no way its going through at $13.65. Michael needs to up the bid to $16-$19 to get this deal through. The IRR to these new buyers is north of 20%, even at $15. So... to get icahn out of the picture and muster enough votes they will have to increase the bid. Forget $13.65, there is a stub price of $13.81 and a special $9 dividend if icahn pulls his plan through. That's a 67% premium to the $13.65 offer. Good enough for me. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:18:27 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[icahn is going to get some folks on the board, they already have enough votes to stop the buyout at $13.65, there is no way its going through at $13.65. Michael needs to up the bid to $16-$19 to get this deal through. The IRR to these new buyers is north of 20%, even at $15. So... to get icahn out of the picture and muster enough votes they will have to increase the bid. Forget $13.65, there is a stub price of $13.81 and a special $9 dividend if icahn pulls his plan through. That's a 67% premium to the $13.65 offer. Good enough for me. ]]>
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      <title>Dell: Take The Premium And Run</title>
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        <![CDATA[Yeah, dell sucks so bad that Michael dell wants to buy it. yeah, its impossible to turn dell around right? Yeah, because all the activist investors would let it fall to $8-$10 without buying up the company and selling it for pieces? ya okay... sure.. sure... Michael would love to scare investors into selling at $13.65, what a joke. You can make a special dividend out of this of $10 a share!!! If it falls below $10 I am buying more calls, I just went long $14 calls on Dell today. 50 contracts.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:58:37 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Yeah, dell sucks so bad that Michael dell wants to buy it. yeah, its impossible to turn dell around right? Yeah, because all the activist investors would let it fall to $8-$10 without buying up the company and selling it for pieces? ya okay... sure.. sure... Michael would love to scare investors into selling at $13.65, what a joke. You can make a special dividend out of this of $10 a share!!! If it falls below $10 I am buying more calls, I just went long $14 calls on Dell today. 50 contracts.]]>
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      <title>5 Mortgage REIT Preferreds To Consider, Part I: Apollo Residential</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1224891/comments?source=feed#comment-15600041</link>
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        <![CDATA[Rso-b is better and yields more ... Plus it trades below par. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:14:11 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Rso-b is better and yields more ... Plus it trades below par. ]]>
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      <title>More on CYS Investments (CYS) Q4 earnings: Net asset value of $13.31/share falls from $14.46 in Q3, thanks to $0.52 special dividend and sliding RMBS prices. Company had a GAAP loss of $0.24/share thanks to the drop in RMBS prices. Net interest spread declines to 1.08% from 1.41%. 15-year fixed agency MBS continues to make up more than 50% of holdings. (PR)</title>
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        <![CDATA[I'm not a fan of cys at these prices. $11/share seems like fair value given the declines in net interest margin. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:36:38 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I'm not a fan of cys at these prices. $11/share seems like fair value given the declines in net interest margin. ]]>
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      <title>A Game Of Find The Ponzi - Tilson's Next Short</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/906131/comments?source=feed#comment-14389261</link>
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        <![CDATA[Gringo, you're an idiot lol. No one with a brain would short mortgage reits. It's far too risky. They can do a number of things to protect their capital and continue to produce solid returns throughout the interest rate and prepayment cycles. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:03:40 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Gringo, you're an idiot lol. No one with a brain would short mortgage reits. It's far too risky. They can do a number of things to protect their capital and continue to produce solid returns throughout the interest rate and prepayment cycles. ]]>
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      <title>American Capital Mortgage (MTGE) - the hybrid mortgage REIT brother of American Capital Agency (AGNC) - maintains its quarterly dividend at $0.90. (AGNC&amp;nbsp;earlier). MTGE +0.7%, AGNC +2.3% AH. (PR)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Best of breed. What more is there to say? ]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:11:58 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Best of breed. What more is there to say? ]]>
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      <title>Will American Capital Agency Turn Bullish Soon?</title>
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        <![CDATA[I do not see it that way. Ex is going to be after opex like previous years I think. That is how put options are priced as well. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:21:26 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I do not see it that way. Ex is going to be after opex like previous years I think. That is how put options are priced as well. ]]>
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      <title>7% Month Return With CYS Investments Catalysts</title>
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        <![CDATA[Date of record is December 21. Ex dividend is 3 days prior. You will be put the stock most likely at 13 while the common will trade near 12 based on opex being December 22. Ouch! That assumes the stock doesn't move from here. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:58:53 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Date of record is December 21. Ex dividend is 3 days prior. You will be put the stock most likely at 13 while the common will trade near 12 based on opex being December 22. Ouch! That assumes the stock doesn't move from here. ]]>
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      <title>CYS Investments (CYS) declares $0.40/share quarterly dividend. For shareholders of record Dec. 21. Payable Dec. 28. Ex-div date Dec. 19. Additionally, the board declares special dividend of $0.52/share payable with regular dividend. Shares +1.5% AH. (PR)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Gross. Dividend cut again even though net interest margins should have improved. Special dividend is just a return of book value, which is much lower today then in September due to the mbs sell off. Enjoy your new tax bill to come if you hold these shares. Taxes on a return from book value. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:11:22 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Gross. Dividend cut again even though net interest margins should have improved. Special dividend is just a return of book value, which is much lower today then in September due to the mbs sell off. Enjoy your new tax bill to come if you hold these shares. Taxes on a return from book value. ]]>
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      <title>7% Month Return With CYS Investments Catalysts</title>
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        <![CDATA[Thank you for the article. I was hoping it would get enough hits to maybe help support the share price. I sold my last 20,000 shares of CYS this morning at $13.00. I am so glad to be out. I used the proceeds of exiting my CYS position, all 45,000 shares I had owned I sold over the last 2 days. $12.88 X 25000, and $13.00 X 20000... to sell the MTGE $25 dec puts for 0.55. MTGE is best of breed. CYS, the ceo, they don't seem to me to know what they are talking about. They apparently had to be convinced that the buying back of shares was even worth it. On the conference call the CEO was way wrong about even that issue. He said buying back shares would not make sense unless the share price was at a 50% discount or greater. He said it had to do with the ROE over say a 5 year time period and that that ROE would be better then repurchases. WELL HELLO, buying back shares below book increases the NAV and it increases the EPS by leveraging the remaining shares. Less shares = more gains or losses on capital and more earnings to be distributed among less shares.  CYS also does not have anywhere near the amount of hedges that MTGE and AGNC have. The lack of hedges has caused material change negatively to the value of their assets. The new NAV is probably closer to $13.30 if you factor out the 0.45 dividend I expect them to declare. For this reason, i highly recommend anyone owning shares to consider selling them immediately and reinvesting the proceeds into mtge by selling the $25 dec put contracts that expire before MTGE goes ex-dividend. (based on all historical data the ex is always after OPEX)]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:17:04 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Thank you for the article. I was hoping it would get enough hits to maybe help support the share price. I sold my last 20,000 shares of CYS this morning at $13.00. I am so glad to be out. I used the proceeds of exiting my CYS position, all 45,000 shares I had owned I sold over the last 2 days. $12.88 X 25000, and $13.00 X 20000... to sell the MTGE $25 dec puts for 0.55. MTGE is best of breed. CYS, the ceo, they don't seem to me to know what they are talking about. They apparently had to be convinced that the buying back of shares was even worth it. On the conference call the CEO was way wrong about even that issue. He said buying back shares would not make sense unless the share price was at a 50% discount or greater. He said it had to do with the ROE over say a 5 year time period and that that ROE would be better then repurchases. WELL HELLO, buying back shares below book increases the NAV and it increases the EPS by leveraging the remaining shares. Less shares = more gains or losses on capital and more earnings to be distributed among less shares.  CYS also does not have anywhere near the amount of hedges that MTGE and AGNC have. The lack of hedges has caused material change negatively to the value of their assets. The new NAV is probably closer to $13.30 if you factor out the 0.45 dividend I expect them to declare. For this reason, i highly recommend anyone owning shares to consider selling them immediately and reinvesting the proceeds into mtge by selling the $25 dec put contracts that expire before MTGE goes ex-dividend. (based on all historical data the ex is always after OPEX)]]>
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      <title>Big Dividend-Paying Mortgage REITs, Such As 14.05% CYS Investments, Are Still Good Buys</title>
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        <![CDATA[Drop income happened because cys sold over 5 billion worth of mortgages and used a forward purchase agreement to buy different mortgages with better prepay characteristics cheaper. The discount for the new mortgages was referred to as drop income. So really drop and core are about the same. Drop just means forgoing interest payments and purchase until a later date in exchange for a cheaper price. Core will be at least 0.40 for December quarter but they still has January settles so there will be some drop income. They should have no problem covering the 0.45 dividend based on net interest margins today. ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:09:20 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Drop income happened because cys sold over 5 billion worth of mortgages and used a forward purchase agreement to buy different mortgages with better prepay characteristics cheaper. The discount for the new mortgages was referred to as drop income. So really drop and core are about the same. Drop just means forgoing interest payments and purchase until a later date in exchange for a cheaper price. Core will be at least 0.40 for December quarter but they still has January settles so there will be some drop income. They should have no problem covering the 0.45 dividend based on net interest margins today. ]]>
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      <title>Prepayment Risk And Fed Spending Aren't The Only Worries For REIT Investors</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Feds effect so far has done nothing. In fact rates are going up and mbs is selling off. The fed shot its last bullet and mbs prices will likely keep falling unless we go into recession next year. Wider spreads lower book values ]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:19:43 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Feds effect so far has done nothing. In fact rates are going up and mbs is selling off. The fed shot its last bullet and mbs prices will likely keep falling unless we go into recession next year. Wider spreads lower book values ]]>
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