RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Really Don't Get It Your very welcome, it's good to know how companies manuver within the sector to try and decide which are the best for the individual, just because I'm not interested in something doesn't mean it won't work for someone else. I made a post on FN's board to see if I can get info from some people over there as doing that mini round up put it in my head to do a deeper dive as it might be worth a look, but reading back on several posts they don't seem like a perky bunch about the company lol. BRE's dive today was concerning when others just retreated a bit, they don't report until late in the week so I dont know what someone sold on, but it shows the liquidity when there was 2-3 distinct selling actions a couple hours apart. 8.3% looks rather yummy, I kinda wanna bite.
So NRZ and AGNC are REIT/property backed (I know US has a couple classifications of REITs, mREITS and something else but I don't know the ins and outs)... altho the yeilds are solid in the looks of AGNC it looks like a value eroader... I don't do much in the US myself, but I play with high yeilds in BDC (Buisness Development Companies) they are loan based for small to mid market businesses and like REITS and our mortgage lenders like MKP, they have to distribute 90% of income to share holders to maintain tax status, most have yeilds 7-14%, then good ones pay out specials or supplementals regularly and grow thier payouts. They are somewhat volatile subject to the mood in the market but I've done excellently with returns, and you can get great info on the most followed of these companies on Seeking Alpha from a poster named BDC Buzz, he also has an extra signup and pay service that's apparently amazing if your US portion is significant. I own FDUS, TSLX, MAIN, CSWC & CGBD in this sector but there's like 20 well known ones and then another 20ish lesser followed specialty ones. Might be something to check out if you like high yeild products.
I avoid the ETF sectors like the plague so I don't have much on those, I've looked around at those covered call issues and tried to understand it, but it makes me uneasy. I've never even played with options trading yet tho I've tried to learn a bit but I need to see someone do it in front of me, youtube videos and other explanations gloss over too quick for me to feel confident in. I do want to get in the private placements space tho and get more warrents which was prompted by the rights offerings here.
CHE, been there, got crushed! I lost 50% on total return in like 4ish years. I jumped in mid 2017 and road the stairs like a child all the way to the floor. I loved the potential and projects they had, but every quarter it got more gloomy and they were selling off peices and we had cuts to the payout. Hopefully now all that is outta the way and it will move forward, but it's much smaller than when I jumped in. PRM is that Big Pharma Split Corp? 'Split Corp' scares me away but I've put it on my watch list now, it seems sable within a range, never heard of it before, EIT I've always seen but for a long time it was a yeild trap with degrading share price. I stupidly avoid Brookfield as an evil empire lol, but the infrastructure side has been of interest before.
I have rules for my portfolio, but I stupidly break them all the time, usually long term positions start out in the 10K area of investment, medium term I'll usually throw out 5K to kinda get to know what's going on and short term plays or penny stocks I'll start in the 2k area, but I'll modify and throw weird amounts for no good reasons at times. I wanna get to an area where my major plays are 75% of the portfolio which no one having no more having more than a 10% weighting, medium term plays 10-15% and then my short term play money can be 10-15% in 3-10 penny names to entertain myself and try and make 15-30% returns in a couple months (optimally days or weeks but reality is I usually have to hold longer than I expect to get my return)..
I avoid the Banks and Insurance companies (evil empires) even tho they make huge returns, I just don't support how they do it. BCE is an evil empire in my opinion too (with Rogers), I needed a blue chip and liked how the returns looked In my portfolio after a short time holding and now its been with me for years and I've added. PPL is my version of ENB, but I started its position with VSN which got purchased and I rode the merger, I have ALA for a 2nd in the sector but more gassy, but it turned into more of a utility than pipelines/midstream. I do want a straight utility AQN, ATCO and CPX are on my watch list and that's likely the order I'm interested, but I've also like specialty areas like PIF. I'm a fan of O&G and got way overweight, unfortunately I caught falling knives in CPG and BNE which I still hold from the massive fall in 2014, and they are starting to recover and I had my biggest little risky play TBE get killed by the banks about 3-4 years ago. I'm also heavy into CJ which I've held a starter position for a few years, never added to at lows dumbly and then put a heavy order in at just over $5 in the bouncing around, now past week has been nice return that is gonna turn real big in a couple months. I like royalties for great payouts, FRU I got in last year, DIV is a good services one that I got a little above the lows of Covid, I've been in and out of NWX a couple short times for good returns, LIF unfortunately lifted off before I got in and I'm not exactly comfortable with it's action but I'm interested, I was in this MMP trust that I made a great gain on in a little over a year and sitting on the sidelines watching, I've just learned about RE and NOVR and I'm debating entry.
I try and cover myself and find payouts in many sectors, resources and financials are most of what I have and am interested it, but I'm starting to try and push myself to branch out with my recent good fortune, rather than chasing 6+% (usually 8+%) yeilds I've been looking more at 3-4% area that grows 5-20% regularly on payout and share price. I also love to find several lesser known & penny plays like AFCC (which I'm looking to exit for reasons you can read on thier board), LUX & WBE.. I'm also looking at UFC, ORC, AYM, MAL, DM, ALC, ARG, CNC, DBM, SYZ, ET, VCI, HTL, SMT some of which are Venture or CN listed