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

EFC POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where EFC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 91.07% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for EFC is in Value, which has been heading up over the past 48 weeks.
• EFC ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 9th percentile.

EFC Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Ellington Financial Inc is higher than it is for about 99.01% of US stocks.
• As for revenue growth, note that EFC's revenue has grown -1,337.83% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of merely 0.02% 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 -123.99%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 1.93% 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 CIM, MITT, BBDC, ACRE, and NAVI.
• 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

• Its 4 year price growth rate is now at -40.79%.
• Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at 30.28%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 14.55%.

EFC's revenue has moved up $76,660,000 over the prior 33 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
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
2020-06-30	-16.153	102.375	-63.705
2020-03-31	-42.817	87.123	-88.339

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 61.83% of graded US stocks.
• EFC's asset turnover comes in at 0.053 -- ranking 54th of 63 Real Estate stocks.
• TRNO, RLGY, and CIGI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with EFC.

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