MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA)

US — Real Estate Sector
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Key Metrics & Ratings

  • symbol MFA
  • Rev/Share 2.5485
  • Book/Share 17.7149
  • PB 0.5346
  • Debt/Equity 3.3175
  • CurrentRatio 0.0
  • ROIC 0.0

 

  • MktCap 972123910.0
  • FreeCF/Share 1.2728
  • PFCF 7.3596
  • PE 7.1623
  • Debt/Assets 0.5294
  • DivYield 0.1489
  • ROE 0.0737

 

  • Rating B+
  • Score 3
  • Recommendation Neutral
  • P/E Score 3
  • DCF Score 3
  • P/B Score 4
  • D/E Score 1

Recent Analyst Ratings

Type Ticker Analyst Firm Previous Rating Current Rating Previous Price Target Current Price Target Date
Initiation MFA Janney -- Buy -- $14 Jan. 2, 2025

News

Fat Dividends Served Reality Check
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Published: May 29, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Negative

Big dividends sound great, but how about big losses? Since Q2 2025 began, book values got smacked. Not talking about share prices. You can tell if the share price declined (hopefully). That would be a worthless article. One of these high-yield sectors has been doing much better than the others.

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MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
MFA
Published: May 06, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Neutral

MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:MFA ) Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call May 6, 2025 11:00 AM ET Company Participants Hal Schwartz - General Counsel Craig Knutson - CEO Bryan Wulfsohn - President & CIO Mike Roper - CFO Conference Call Participants Bose George - KBW Doug Harter - UBS Steve Delaney - Citizens JMP Securities Jason Stewart - Janney Montgomery Scott Eric Hagen - BTIG Operator Greetings, and welcome to the MFA Financial First Quarter 2025 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.

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MFA Financial (MFA) Q1 Earnings and Revenues Miss Estimates
MFA
Published: May 06, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Negative

MFA Financial (MFA) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.29 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.39 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.35 per share a year ago.

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MFA Financial, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2025 Financial Results
MFA
Published: May 06, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:MFA) today provided its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025: MFA generated GAAP net income to common stockholders and participating securities for the first quarter of $33.0 million, or $0.32 per basic and $0.31 per diluted common share. Distributable earnings, a non-GAAP financial measure, were $30.6 million, or $0.29 per basic common share. MFA paid an increased regular cash dividend of $0.36 per common share on Apr.

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All You Need to Know About MFA Financial (MFA) Rating Upgrade to Buy
MFA
Published: April 23, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

MFA Financial (MFA) has been upgraded to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), reflecting growing optimism about the company's earnings prospects. This might drive the stock higher in the near term.

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Focusing On Lower Risk Shares (And Updated Charts For High-Yield Stocks)
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Published: April 21, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

Market volatility has increased, making it challenging to predict future Treasury rates and impacting the frequency of my article publications. Price-to-book ratios reveal bargains. Preferred shares offer lower risk and high yields; recent trades in DX-C and EFC-B have been profitable.

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Let's Talk Mortgage REITs (But Not For Too Long)
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Published: March 26, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Neutral

A bunch of mortgage REITs were severely overvalued. Now they are less overvalued. But some others are actually bargains. Tons of charts because images are fun. Ellington Financial's higher price-to-book ratio may be due to lower volatility in the total economic return by period. Digital Realty Trust deserves to be mocked. I am reporting for duty!

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Mark Farrah Associates Analyzed the 2023 Medical Loss Ratio and Rebates Results
MFA
Published: March 06, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

MCMURRAY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MFA summarizes findings from the 2023 HHS report, with a focus on plan performance as it relates to the MLR and related rebates due to customers.

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Compared to Estimates, MFA Financial (MFA) Q4 Earnings: A Look at Key Metrics
MFA
Published: February 19, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

While the top- and bottom-line numbers for MFA Financial (MFA) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended December 2024, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.

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MFA Financial (MFA) Matches Q4 Earnings Estimates
MFA
Published: February 19, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

MFA Financial (MFA) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.39 per share, in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate. This compares to earnings of $0.49 per share a year ago.

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Private-Sector Health Insurance Benefits Data Presented by Mark Farrah Associates
MFA
Published: February 11, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

MCMURRAY, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MFA's 5500 Employer Health Plus Simplifies the Analysis of Employer Health and Welfare Benefit Plans.

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About MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA)

  • IPO Date 1998-04-13
  • Website https://www.mfafinancial.com
  • Industry REIT - Mortgage
  • CEO Mr. Craig L. Knutson
  • Employees 348

MFA Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company invests in residential mortgage assets, including non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), agency MBS, and credit risk transfer securities; residential whole loans, including purchased performing loans, purchased credit deteriorated, and non-performing loans; and mortgage servicing rights related assets. The company has elected to be taxed as a REIT and would not be subject to federal income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. MFA Financial, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in New York, New York.