Investors in cash trouble should check out MFA Financial Inc (MFA)

With 0.74 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.83 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $10.95 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $10.795. The 52-week range on MFA shows that it touched its highest point at $13.45 and its lowest point at $10.20 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $13.42. With its current market cap of 1.12 billion, MFA has annualized dividend of $1.40 while the current yield stands at 12.81%. MFA paid its most recent dividend on 1727395200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1727395200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 2.18.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MFA was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -0.64%, but this was down by -9.82% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -9.37% while six-month performance rose 3.41%. The stock gained 4.19% in the past year, while it has lost -3.02% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MFA yields 1.60 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.64. For the next quarter, that number is 0.40. This implies an EPS growth rate of -0.26% for this year and 3.12% for next year.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 101.92 million MFA shares are outstanding with a float of 101.32 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-31, short shares totaled 2.07 million, which was 202.99999 higher than short shares on 1727654400. In addition to Mr. Craig L. Knutson as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Bryan Wulfsohn CFA serves as its President & Co-Chief Investment Officer.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.68511003 of MFA’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MFA since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With MFA analysts setting a high price target of 31.0 and a low target of 12.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 15.92857. Based on these targets, MFA could surge 183.62% to reach the target high and rise by 9.79% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 45.73% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.7315 being high and $1.50198 being low. For MFA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.58585. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $0.38. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.41 and the low estimate is $0.37. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.4.