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Updated: Aug 17, 2026
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Annaly Capital Management

NYSE:NLY·Stock Analysis Report
Day Range
$23.12 - $23.44
Market Cap
17.63B
P/E Ratio
5.6353
Avg Value
$22.26
Year Range
$20.00 - $24.52
$23.16-$0.13 (-0.56%)
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General Information
Annaly Capital Management Inc is an American mortgage real estate investment trust. Its business objective is to generate net income for distribution to its stockholders and optimize its returns through prudent management of its diversified investment strategies.

The company's reportable operating segments are: the Agency segment, which invests in Agency mortgage-backed securities collateralized by residential mortgages; the Residential Credit segment, which invests in non-Agency residential whole loans and securitized products within the residential and commercial markets; the Mortgage Servicing Rights segment; and Corporate & Other. Maximum revenue for the company is generated from its Agency segment.

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Annaly Capital Management (NLY) Stock Graph
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How We Grade Annaly Capital Management (NLY)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Annaly Capital Management (NLY) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

96.87

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

12.37

Quality is a composite ranking that evaluates a company's operational efficiency and financial health by analyzing historical profitability metrics and fundamental strength indicators on a percentile basis relative to peers.

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Peer Ratings

See how Annaly Capital Management compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
AGNCAGNC Investment
N/A
N/A
98.62
43.84
STWDStarwood Property Trust
N/A
8.74
19.87
12.31
RITMRithm Capital
N/A
6.63
12.18
21.65
DXDynex Cap
N/A
17.58
99.69
34.93
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 5 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $24.00 - $26.00 with an average of $24.80

6.03%
Expected movement for Annaly Capital Management (NLY) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for Annaly Capital Management (NLY)

JP Morgan
Date:
Jul 24, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$26.00
New Target:
$24.00
Wells Fargo
Date:
Jul 23, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$25.00
New Target:
$24.00
JP Morgan
Date:
Jul 17, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$24.00
New Target:
$26.00
Piper Sandler
Date:
Jul 2, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$24.50
New Target:
$25.00
RBC Capital
Date:
Jun 3, 2026
Action:
Reiterates
Prev. Target:
$25.00
New Target:
$25.00
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, NLY's earnings have fluctuated but has increased since, this is a positive sign for the stock.
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Dividend
There are few things we like to see when evaluating the quality of a company's dividend history and future

Ideally, we would like to see a company have a long history of consistently high dividend payouts that have grown at a consistent rate. From here we want to be confident that this sort of dividend growth and consistency will persist into the future.

The chart below shows the historical trend in Annaly Capital Management (NLY) dividend yield on an annual basis.

33.63%
Annaly Capital Management (NLY) saw a increase in its dividend yield since 2021
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Past Performance
How has Annaly Capital Management (NLY) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Annaly Capital Management (NLY) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.8815 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of -0.7647

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Company Financials
INCOME STATEMENT
The income statement also known as the profit and loss statement, primarily focuses on the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.

The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is NLY's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Revenue
1.95
-1.45
1.18
2.24
3.17
Operating Revenue
1.95
-1.45
1.18
2.24
3.17
Cost Of Revenue
Gross Profit
Operating Expense
Selling General And Administration
0.16
0.16
0.17
0.20
0.21
Research and Development
Operating Income
Net Non-Operating Interest Income Expense
Other Income Expense
Other Non-Operating Income Expenses
Pre-Tax Income
1.77
-1.60
1.03
2.04
2.97
Tax Provision
0.05
0.04
0.02
-0.01
-0.01
Net Income
1.73
-1.64
1.00
2.03
2.95
Net Income Common Stockholders
1.61
-1.78
0.85
1.87
2.79
Total Operating Income As Reported
Total Expenses
Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation
1.73
-1.64
1.00
2.03
2.95
Normalized Income
1.76
-1.64
1.00
2.03
2.95
Interest Income
2.78
3.73
4.84
5.96
6.76
Interest Expense
1.31
3.84
4.59
4.82
5.18
Net Interest Income
1.47
-0.11
0.25
1.14
1.58
EBIT
EBITDA
Reconciled Cost Of Revenue
Reconciled Depreciation
0.02
0.02
0.03
0.03
0.04
Normalized EBITDA
Tax Rate For Calcs
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
Tax Effect Of Unusual Items
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
BALANCE SHEET
The balance sheet is a snapshot of a companies financials during a particular period in time.

It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Assets
81.85
93.23
103.56
135.61
143.74
Current Assets
Total Non-Current Assets
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
70.48
81.88
90.86
119.45
126.76
Current Liabilities
Other Non-Current Liabilities
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
11.37
11.35
12.70
16.16
16.98
Stockholders Equity
Total Capitalization
20.07
23.96
33.30
46.94
53.85
Common Stock Equity
9.73
9.72
11.07
14.29
15.12
Net Tangible Assets
10.19
10.90
12.15
15.95
16.20
Working Capital
Invested Capital
18.53
22.92
32.52
46.21
53.17
Tangible Book Value
8.65
9.37
10.61
14.15
14.39
Total Debt
8.80
13.20
21.45
31.93
38.04
Net Debt
8.64
12.93
21.16
31.57
37.68
Share Issued
0.47
0.50
0.58
0.71
0.75
Ordinary Shares Number
0.47
0.50
0.58
0.71
0.75
CASH FLOW STATEMENTS
A companies statement of cash flows gives an investor a break down of the cash inflows and outflows from a companies operations and investment activities.
FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Cash Flow from Continuing Operating Activities
5.37
2.37
3.31
0.69
0.89
Net Income from Continuing Operations
1.73
-1.64
1.01
2.05
2.98
Depreciation and Amortization
0.02
0.02
0.03
0.03
0.04
Deferred Tax
Deferred Income Tax
Stock-Based Compensation
Other Non-Cash Items
3.65
1.16
1.23
-2.02
-2.05
Change in Working Capital
-0.22
-0.69
0.15
0.22
0.11
Change in Receivables
-0.40
-0.59
0.15
0.14
-0.02
Changes in Account Receivables
-0.40
-0.59
0.15
0.14
-0.02
Change in Inventory
Change in Payables and Accrued Expense
0.23
-0.04
-0.02
0.11
0.16
Change in Payable
0.23
-0.04
-0.02
0.11
0.16
Change in Account Payable
0.23
-0.04
-0.02
0.11
0.16
Change in Other Current Assets
-0.01
-0.14
-0.06
-0.03
-0.03
Change in Other Current Liabilities
-0.04
0.07
0.08
0.01
0.00
Change in Other Working Capital
Cash Flow from Continuing Investing Activities
-14.53
-8.42
-14.98
-27.36
-32.33
Net PPE Purchase and Sale
Net Business Purchase and Sale
Purchase of Business
Net Investment Purchase and Sale
-10.88
-3.62
-4.27
-15.23
-16.16
Purchase of Investment
-45.47
-41.04
-32.21
-40.75
-42.25
Sale of Investment
34.60
37.41
27.94
25.51
26.09
Net Other Investing Changes
Financing Cash Flow
9.39
5.88
11.75
27.22
32.30
Cash Flow from Continuing Financing Activities
9.39
5.88
11.75
27.22
32.30
Net Issuance Payments of Debt
4.11
3.81
7.97
9.76
11.42
Net Long-Term Debt Issuance
4.11
3.81
7.97
9.76
11.42
Long-Term Debt Issuance
7.38
6.49
14.47
22.39
28.06
Long-Term Debt Payments
-3.27
-2.67
-6.50
-12.63
-16.64
Net Short-Term Debt Issuance
Net Common Stock Issuance
2.64
0.67
1.56
2.91
2.61
Common Stock Issuance
2.64
0.67
2.91
2.61
Common Stock Payments
Cash Dividends Paid
-1.52
-1.52
-1.49
-1.88
-2.10
Net Other Financing Charges
0.07
-0.02
-0.02
-0.06
-0.07
End Cash Position
4.85
5.68
6.30
8.03
8.96
Changes in Cash
0.23
-0.16
0.08
0.55
0.85
Beginning Cash Position
4.62
5.85
6.22
7.48
8.11
Capital Expenditure
-1.01
-0.86
-0.92
-1.20
Issuance of Capital Stock
2.64
0.67
2.91
2.61
Issuance of Debt
7.38
6.49
14.47
22.39
28.06
Repayment of Debt
-3.27
-2.67
-6.50
-12.63
-16.64
Repurchase of Capital Stock
Free Cash Flow
4.36
1.97
2.45
-0.22
-0.31