MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA): Price and Financial Metrics

MFA POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where MFA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 86.88% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for MFA is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• MFA's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 18.57% of US stocks).

MFA Stock Summary

• For MFA, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 98.2% of US equities we're observing.
• MFA's price/sales ratio is 12.17; that's higher than the P/S ratio of 91.3% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for MFA FINANCIAL INC comes in at -70.73%, a number that bests only 3.03% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to MFA, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BKCC, VEL, RC, LBC, and CFFN.
• Visit MFA's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.mfafinancial.com.

MFA Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Real Estate stock, MFA's price/sales ratio is 981.82% higher, now standing at 11.9.
• Over the past 243 months, MFA's EV/EBIT ratio has gone down 159.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MFA.

MFA Growth Metrics

Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at -32.71%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 158.5%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -29.31%.

Over the past 52 months, MFA's revenue has gone down $483,053,000.

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

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	-66.947	366.077	-264.456
2022-09-30	-19.329	372.789	-227.043
2022-06-30	159.128	233.62	-39.514
2022-03-31	302.88	229.688	127.567
2021-12-31	451.883	120.293	295.995
2021-09-30	430.006	130.717	297.69

MFA'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.

• MFA has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 80.48% of graded US stocks.
• MFA's asset turnover comes in at 0.053 -- ranking 299th of 444 Trading stocks.
• WMC, RWT, and MITT are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with MFA.

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