Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC): Price and Financial Metrics

EFC POWR Grades

• EFC scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 71.84% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for EFC is in Value, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• EFC's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 11.57% of US stocks).

EFC Stock Summary

• For EFC, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 99.24% of US equities we're observing.
• As for revenue growth, note that EFC's revenue has grown -79.82% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of just 1.69% of US companies in our set.
• ELLINGTON FINANCIAL INC's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -275.28%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 1.69% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to EFC, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are WMC, BLX, KREF, CIM, and MITT.
• EFC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit ELLINGTON FINANCIAL INC's official web site, go to www.ellingtonfinancial.com.

EFC Valuation Summary

• EFC's price/sales ratio is 19.7; this is 1690.91% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 146 months, EFC's price/sales ratio has gone up 12.7.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for EFC.

EFC Growth Metrics

The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 165.64%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -454.93%.
• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -35.53%.

EFC's revenue has moved down $167,462,000 over the prior 15 months.

The table below shows EFC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-06-30	40.343	88.464	-19.948
2022-03-31	113.684	75.06	77.588
2021-12-31	151.037	51.293	125.346
2021-09-30	184.386	95.858	154.237
2021-06-30	199.947	97.213	179.876
2021-03-31	207.805	99.803	184.499

EFC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• EFC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 61.43% of graded US stocks.
• EFC's asset turnover comes in at 0.053 -- ranking 54th of 63 Real Estate stocks.
• TRNO, RLGY, and HGSH are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with EFC.

The table below shows EFC's key quality metrics over time.