ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. vs Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF — how do they compare? ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. trades at $16.7 (market cap $2.07B), while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF trades at $121. The key difference: ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. pays a 17.28% dividend while Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF pays none, and Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund ETF is trading nearer its 52-week high, ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| ARR | VGT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $2.07B | — |
Sector | Financials | — |
52-Week High | $19.12 | $125.77 |
52-Week Low | $14.05 | $83.59 |
Dividend Yield | 17.28% | — |
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ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc is a real estate investment trust that invests in residential mortgage-backed securities or RMBS. These are issued or guaranteed by U.S.-government-sponsored enterprises, such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae. The company's investment portfolio is composed of mortgage-backed securities, adjustable-rate mortgage securities, and multifamily mortgage-backed securities. In terms of total fair value, most Armour's investments are long-term, fixed-rate agency RMBS. Multifamily RMBS also represents a substantial amount. Fannie Mae guarantees most of the company's holdings. Armour derives substantially all its revenue as interest income from its investments.
Read more on ARR →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the MSCI US Investable Market Index/Information Technology 25/50, an index made up of stocks of large, mid-size, and small US companies within the information technology sector, as classified under the GICS. The advisor attempts to replicate the target index by seeking to invest all of its assets in the stocks that make up the index, in order to hold each stock in approximately the same proportion as its weighting in the index. It is non-diversified.
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