Overview
MFA Financial, Inc., based in the United States, is a leading real estate investment trust (REIT) primarily engaged in the business of investing in residential mortgage assets. As an entity, it focuses on acquiring, owning, and managing a portfolio comprising primarily residential mortgage-backed securities, including those issued by government-sponsored enterprises and also non-agency mortgage-backed securities. The company employs a robust risk management framework designed to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns while minimizing volatility. MFA Financial strategically engages in leveraging opportunities and utilizes extensive analytics to optimize its investment portfolio in alignment with market conditions, aiming to deliver consistent shareholder value through economic cycles.
Basic Stats
The Factor Analysis chart (below right) shows a view of MFA Financial, Inc. - Preferred Stock from a variety of lenses. Each factor shows how well the company ranks against all other companies in the Fintel global investing universe. Factor scores range from zero to 100, with 100 being most desirable, and 50 being average.
For example, a company with a Value Score of 100 would be the most undervalued company in our database. A company with a Value Score of zero would be the most overvalued.
| Market Cap | |
| EV | |
| Shares Out. | 102.67 MM |
| Earnings Date | |
| EPS (TTM) | 1.25 |
| Dividend Yield | |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2025-09-04 |
| Borrow Rate | |
| Short Shares Avail. | |
| Short Interest | 0.01 MM |
| Short Float | |
| Days to Cover | 1.00 days |
| Risk Free Rate | 4.17 % |
| Price Change (1 yr) | |
| Volatility (1 yr) | |
| Beta | |
| Sharpe Ratio (1 yr) | |
| Sortino Ratio (1 yr) |
| PE Ratio | |
| Price/Book | |
| Price/TBV | |
| Book/Market | |
| EBIT/EV | |
| EBIT(3yr avg)/EV | |
| ROA | 0.01 |
| ROE | 0.07 |
| ROIC | 0.01 |
| CROIC | 0.00 |
| OCROIC | 0.01 |
| Implied Volatility | |
| Put/Call OI Ratio |
Factor Scores range from 0 to 100, with 100 being most desirable. Larger circles are better. In situations where we have no data (e.g. no insider trades), we plot the score at 50 to avoid penalizing companies. However, a company that does not pay dividends will get a Dividend Score of Zero. Additionally, we inverted volatility to create a "stability" metric which is better when higher.
Price Target
The average one-year price target for MFA Financial, Inc. - Preferred Stock is $28.80. The forecasts range from a low of $25.93 to a high of $37.73. A stock’s price target is the price at which analysts consider it fairly valued with respect to its projected earnings and historical earnings. Analysts typically set price targets that correspond to their buy or sell recommendations.
Update Frequency: Monthly
Stock Upgrades/Downgrades
This card shows analyst upgrades/downgrades for MFA Financial, Inc. - Preferred Stock. An analyst rating is a classification that gives investors a sense of analyst sentiment about the direction and performance of an equity - usually a stock - over a period of time, typically 12 months.
The standard analyst ratings are generally as follows:
- Buy/Overweight/Outperform - Any of these ratings conveys an analyst’s belief that the stock is likely to outperform a market index (e.g. the S&P 500).
- Hold/Equal-Weight/Market Perform - Any of these ratings conveys an analyst’s belief that the stock is likely to perform in line with a market index.
- Sell/Underweight/Underperform - Any of these ratings suggest that an analyst believes the stock is likely to underperform a market index.
When an analyst upgrades a stock, they are signaling that the company’s fundamentals are being undervalued by investors. It could also mean they believe the market is underestimating the company’s potential. The opposite is true when a stock receives a downgrade.
The average rating of each individual analyst’s rating is the consensus rating for a stock. This gives investors a broader sense of the overall sentiment for that stock.
| Date | Analyst | Prior | Latest Recommendation |
Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-31 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Reiterate |
| 2024-04-19 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Reiterate |
| 2024-04-18 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Reiterate |
| 2023-12-13 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Market Perform | Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2023-12-06 | UBS | Neutral | Initiate | |
| 2023-11-21 | Raymond James | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2023-10-19 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Maintains |
| 2023-08-28 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Sector Perform | Reiterate |
| 2023-07-21 | JMP Securities | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2023-05-30 | Raymond James | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2023-05-09 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Market Perform | Maintains | |
| 2023-04-24 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Market Perform | Maintains | |
| 2023-03-10 | Credit Suisse | Outperform | Reiterate | |
| 2023-03-07 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Reiterate | |
| 2022-11-25 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Maintains | |
| 2022-10-20 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2022-10-18 | Raymond James | Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2022-10-05 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Maintains | |
| 2022-08-15 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Maintains | |
| 2022-08-15 | Raymond James | Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2022-07-18 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2022-07-18 | Raymond James | Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2022-06-14 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2022-05-26 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Maintains | |
| 2022-05-19 | Raymond James | Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2022-04-26 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2021-12-08 | Raymond James | Market Perform | Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2021-11-08 | BTIG | Buy | Neutral | Downgrade |
| 2021-05-19 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Maintains | |
| 2021-01-22 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2020-11-24 | BTIG | Buy | Initiate | |
| 2020-08-24 | JMP Securities | Market Perform | Market Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2020-06-17 | Credit Suisse | Neutral | Maintains | |
| 2020-04-13 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2020-03-25 | RBC Capital | Outperform | Sector Perform | Downgrade |
| 2020-03-25 | Wedbush | Outperform | Neutral | Downgrade |
| 2020-03-09 | JMP Securities | Market Perform | Market Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2020-02-25 | RBC Capital | Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2019-10-10 | Wedbush | Outperform | Initiate | |
| 2018-12-17 | JMP Securities | Market Perform | Market Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2018-10-12 | Raymond James | Market Perform | Initiate | |
| 2018-07-23 | JP Morgan | Overweight | Neutral | Downgrade |
| 2017-10-20 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2017-05-08 | Wells Fargo | Underperform | Market Perform | Upgrade |
| 2016-12-08 | Compass Point | Sell | Neutral | Upgrade |
| 2016-09-06 | FBR Capital | Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2016-08-09 | Deutsche Bank | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2016-04-11 | Wells Fargo | Market Perform | Underperform | Downgrade |
| 2016-02-19 | Deutsche Bank | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2016-01-26 | JP Morgan | Neutral | Overweight | Upgrade |
| 2016-01-15 | Wells Fargo | Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2015-07-07 | Wells Fargo | Market Perform | Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2015-02-13 | Keefe Bruyette & Woods | Market Perform | Maintains | |
| 2014-11-05 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2014-11-05 | Sterne Agee | Buy | Neutral | Downgrade |
| 2014-11-05 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2014-11-05 | Deutsche Bank | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2014-11-05 | Keefe Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2014-10-24 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Initiate | |
| 2014-08-05 | Deutsche Bank | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2014-02-13 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2013-09-16 | Compass Point | Buy | Initiate | |
| 2013-08-05 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2013-08-02 | Deutsche Bank | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2013-08-02 | FBR Capital | Outperform | Maintains | |
| 2013-07-16 | JP Morgan | Neutral | Maintains | |
| 2013-07-11 | Evercore Partners | Equal-Weight | Overweight | Upgrade |
| 2013-04-05 | Jefferies | Buy | Hold | Downgrade |
| 2013-03-07 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2013-03-05 | Deutsche Bank | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2013-02-04 | Sandler O'Neill | Hold | Buy | Upgrade |
| 2013-01-15 | JP Morgan | Neutral | Maintains | |
| 2013-01-08 | Jefferies | Buy | Maintains | |
| 2012-11-16 | Wells Fargo | Market Perform | Outperform | Upgrade |
| 2012-11-12 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2012-11-07 | Jefferies | Buy | Maintains | |
| 2012-11-07 | Deutsche Bank | Buy | Maintains | |
| 2012-10-01 | Deutsche Bank | Buy | Maintains | |
| 2012-09-17 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2012-08-07 | JP Morgan | Neutral | Maintains | |
| 2012-07-23 | Morgan Stanley | Overweight | Maintains | |
| 2012-05-07 | Deutsche Bank | Buy | Maintains | |
| 2012-05-07 | Jefferies | Buy | Maintains | |
| 2012-02-17 | Wunderlich | Hold | Maintains | |
| 2024-09-19 | Raymond James | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2025-01-23 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Maintains |
| 2024-09-06 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Maintains |
| 2025-02-20 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2024-08-09 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2024-08-09 | Wedbush | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2025-05-28 | RBC Capital | Sector Perform | Sector Perform | Maintains |
| 2025-03-26 | Citizens Capital Markets | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Reiterate |
| 2025-04-17 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Maintains |
| 2025-09-03 | UBS | Neutral | Neutral | Maintains |
| 2025-07-10 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Market Perform | Downgrade |
| 2025-07-17 | JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Market Outperform | Maintains |
| 2025-05-08 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | Outperform | Outperform | Maintains |
| 2025-07-10 | UBS | Neutral | Neutral | Maintains |
| 2025-07-07 | Jones Trading | Hold | Initiate | |
| 2025-08-11 | Jones Trading | Hold | Hold | Reiterate |
