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

MFA POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where MFA ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 64.86% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for MFA is in Sentiment, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• MFA ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 7th percentile.

MFA Stock Summary

• For MFA, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 98.17% of US equities we're observing.
• As for revenue growth, note that MFA's revenue has grown -104.5% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of just 0.53% of US companies in our set.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for MFA comes in at -141.69% -- higher than that of merely 3.98% 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 BKCC, RC, CFFN, NNI, and LBC.
• 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 -5.1; this is 121.43% lower than that of the median Real Estate stock.
• MFA's price/sales ratio has moved down 78.7 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for MFA.

MFA Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -313.74%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -29.31%.
• Its 2 year revenue growth rate is now at 158.5%.

Over the past 33 months, MFA's revenue has gone down $494,556,000.

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
2022-09-30	-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
2021-06-30	378.505	78.348	252.388

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.