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

MFA POWR Grades

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

MFA Stock Summary

• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for Mfa Financial Inc is higher than it is for about 98.25% of US stocks.
• Revenue growth over the past 12 months for Mfa Financial Inc comes in at -184.01%, a number that bests only 0.26% of the US stocks we're tracking.
• Mfa Financial Inc's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -94.71%, greater than the shareholder yield of only 4.21% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Mfa Financial Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be BBDC, NAVI, BCS, BLX, and CHMI.
• 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

• MFA's price/earnings ratio is 8.4; this is 77.63% lower than that of the median Real Estate stock.
• Over the past 240 months, MFA's price/sales ratio has gone down 8.9.
• Over the past 240 months, MFA's price/sales ratio has gone down 8.9.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MFA.

MFA Growth Metrics

Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -67.81%.
• Its 4 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 23.51%.
• Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at -74.29%.

Over the past 15 months, MFA's revenue has gone up $930,139,000.

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
2021-12-31	451.883	120.293	295.995
2021-09-30	430.006	130.717	297.69
2021-06-30	378.505	78.348	252.388
2021-03-31	450.129	49.347	282.327
2020-12-31	-537.876	38.396	-709.186
2020-09-30	-478.256	78.93	-649.914

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.