Piper Sandler raised the firm’s price target on Annaly Capital (NLY) to $22.50 from $21.50 and keeps an Overweight rating on the shares. The firm says it has started to see a positive shift in its mortgage universe with 30-year mortgage rates decreasing to 6.3% from 7%-plus earlier in the year and agency spreads tightening materially. While the mortgage market is still not quite at a “normalized” level, the recent trends point to an uptick in activity which we are seeing in mortgage applications volumes, especially on the refinancing side, which are up 38% sequentially.
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