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NLYAnnaly Capital Management Inc.Hold6.2·$22.42+0.49%
NLY · Concentration risk · 10-K extracted

Annaly Capital Management (NLY) concentration risks

Updated

The most significant concentration Annaly Capital Management discloses is Agency MBS at 89%, classified HIGH by disclosed size. Below: the full set from the latest 10-K — verbatim quotes, filing references, and a synthesis of what these exposures mean together.

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Source: Annaly Capital Management’s SEC Form 10-K filed view the filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

At a glance

Disclosed-size breakdown · 1 disclosed concentration

HIGH1
MEDIUM0
LOW0
Disclosed concentrations

Each card carries a disclosed-size chip (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW — how large the exposure is as a share of revenue, not how dangerous it is) and a nature tag: Built-in(the company’s own model, geography, or products) or Outside party (an external customer, supplier, or distributor it relies on).

HIGHBuilt-inProduct / Revenue mix
89%

Agency MBS

10-K Item 1: 'Agency (1)(2)| 89%| | 62%| | 87%| | 59%'
SEC 10-K · filed Feb 2026
TrendMatrix Research · concentration synthesis

What these concentrations mean together

updated 2026-06-24

The company's concentration profile is defined by a single product-type exposure: Agency mortgage-backed securities represent the dominant share of the investment portfolio, a high-share structural exposure by disclosed size. (Note: the percentage figure appears only within a pipe-delimited table fragment in the filing, so it is described qualitatively here rather than cited as a number.) The character is structural — investing in Agency MBS is the deliberate strategy of the company, reflecting an explicit mandate to hold securities backed by government-sponsored enterprise guarantees rather than credit-sensitive whole loans or non-Agency collateral. Because Agency MBS constitute such a large portion of the portfolio by disclosed size, the company's net interest income, book value, and return profile are all tightly linked to interest rate movements, prepayment speeds, and the spread between short-term borrowing costs and longer-duration Agency yields. A sustained flattening or inversion of the yield curve, or a sharp acceleration in prepayments, would affect the large majority of the earning asset base simultaneously. The government backing of Agency MBS mitigates credit risk, but it does not insulate the portfolio from duration and rate risk. No customer, geographic, supplier, or named counterparty concentrations are separately disclosed. The profile is narrow in one sense — a single asset-type — but the structural character means the exposure is intentional and persistent rather than a transitional mix. For investors, the relevant variables are interest rate positioning, leverage management, and the spread dynamics of Agency MBS rather than any individual-name or geographic risk.

For the engine’s reasoning on NLY’s current verdict — including which dimensions drove the score — see the per-dimension breakdown.

Industry peers · REIT - Mortgage

Peer concentration profile

SymbolNameHIGHMEDIUMLOWTotal
ABRArbor Realty Trust2024
NLYAnnaly Capital Management Inc.1001
AGNCAGNC Investment Corp.0202
AGNCMAGNC Investment Corp. - Deposit0202
ARRARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.0101
AGNCNAGNC Investment Corp. - Deposit0000

Concentration counts reflect items disclosed in each peer’s most recent 10-K; disclosed-size classification uses TrendMatrix’s internal 10-K extraction taxonomy.

Concentration disclosures are extracted verbatim from SEC 10-K filings; the disclosed-size classification and the synthesis above are engine-derived. Size reflects how large each exposure is against fixed share thresholds (HIGH >50%, MEDIUM 25–50%, LOW <25% or an explicit diversification statement), not a judgment of how dangerous it is, and is not a buy/sell rating, a price target, or a view on the stock. Not a complete list of risk factors — see the full filing.

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