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

EFC POWR Grades

• EFC scores best on the Momentum dimension, with a Momentum rank ahead of 84.89% of US stocks.
• EFC's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• EFC ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 5th percentile.

EFC Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Ellington Financial Inc is higher than it is for about 99.17% of US stocks.
• The volatility of Ellington Financial Inc's share price is greater than that of only 2.29% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for EFC comes in at -182.85% -- higher than that of only 1.72% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Ellington Financial Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be MITT, WHF, LFT, CIM, and ACRE.
• Visit EFC's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.ellingtonfinancial.com.

EFC Valuation Summary

• EFC's price/sales ratio is 4.6; this is 43.75% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• EFC's price/sales ratio has moved down 2.4 over the prior 132 months.
• EFC's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 7.3 over the prior 132 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for EFC.

EFC Growth Metrics

The 4 year price growth rate now stands at -40.79%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 14.55%.
• The year over year price growth rate now stands at 75.89%.

Over the past 70 months, EFC's revenue has gone up $51,152,000.

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
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
2020-12-31	46.659	119.506	17.245
2020-09-30	11.365	105.609	-34.795

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.