NLY Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Annaly Capital Management | NYSE:NLY)

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.

Annaly Capital Management trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NLY.

As of December 17, 2025, NLY stock price climbed to $22.42 with 7,712,482 million shares trading.

NLY has a beta of 0.51, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NLY has a correlation of 0.17 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NLY has a market cap of $15.31 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Annaly Capital Management reported $2 billion in Revenue and $.73 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $1 billion and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, NLY traded as high as $27.18 and as low as $14.52.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NLY belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IJH, VB, VBR, VXF.

NLY has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +27.4%, while the SPY ETF gained +11.8%. In the last 3 month period, NLY beat the market returning +5.9%, while SPY returned +2.0%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks NLY has underperformed the stock market by returning -1.7%, while SPY returned -1.5%.

NLY support price is $21.90 and resistance is $22.34 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that NLY shares will trade within this expected range on the day.