Yea Mortgage REIT's borrow short term and buy long term. This can cause problems for poorly financed companies.
While a retailer, like myself can't know what company managements are thinking or dealing wih. If the company has a good cash per share with a dividend several times smaller. Things should end up being OK with safe divvy. Also LTdebt/eq vs debit/Eq has background on margin calls.
From what I checked NYMT isn't in a strong position, in either of these areas. Dividend safety or debit payment
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