With 1.01 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 1.47 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $9.54 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $9.3. The 52-week range on MFA shows that it touched its highest point at $13.45 and its lowest point at $7.85 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $10.75. With its current market cap of 975.20 million, MFA has annualized dividend of $1.41 while the current yield stands at 14.84%. MFA paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.78.
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 up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 5.79%, but this was down by -12.12% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -6.68% while six-month performance fell -22.13%. The stock lost -11.71% in the past year, while it has lost -6.77% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MFA yields 0.81 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.45. For the next quarter, that number is 0.32. This implies an EPS growth rate of -10.82% for this year and 3.54% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -1.33% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -23.75%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 102.08 million MFA shares are outstanding with a float of 101.56 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-15, short shares totaled 2.19 million, which was 213.00000999999997 higher than short shares on 1741910400. In addition to Mr. Craig L. Knutson as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Bryan Wulfsohn CFA serves as its President & Chief Investment Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.67899 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 8.5, the average target price over the next 12 months is 14.33333. Based on these targets, MFA could surge 226.32% to reach the target high and fall by -10.53% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 50.88% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.59312 being high and $1.56287 being low. For MFA, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.57295. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.34 and the low estimate is $0.29. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.32.
