Wheeler REIT's 37% jump looks like a dead-cat bounce to fade. There is no fresh catalyst behind the technical bounce in this highly distressed REIT, which is down 99.99% this year and has a market cap of just $2.9M. x.comÂ
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Real estate stocks suffer badly as interest rates rise, and the sector needs help or its 50-day moving average will be taken out. Welltower, the sector's largest name, is starting to struggle to sustain its parabolic move. x.comÂ
Realty Income's 20%+ correction is among the most attractive long-term opportunities in the market, since such drops in a blue-chip dividend REIT typically do not last. The business keeps performing, with AFFO per share up 3.8% year over year and 136 monthly dividend increases since its NYSE listing. The stock sits about 10% below its 200-week moving average with a historically oversold daily RSI. x.comÂ
Small caps are more sensitive to higher rates, so they will suffer and underperform as yields climb, and today's move is just an oversold bounce. Fed fund futures are at 3.75%, and other Treasury yields are already higher, so the market is effectively there already. Another rate hike may not make much difference on its own, but not every stock can handle this level of rates. x.comÂ