Investor’s Toolkit: Key Ratios for Assessing MFA Financial Inc (MFA)’s Performance

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MFA Financial Inc (NYSE: MFA) closed the day trading at $11.57 up 0.52% from the previous closing price of $11.51. In other words, the price has increased by $0.52 from its previous closing price. On the day, 0.85 million shares were traded. MFA stock price reached its highest trading level at $11.68 during the session, while it also had its lowest trading level at $11.51.

Ratios:

For a better understanding of MFA, let’s look at its different ratios. It provided that stocks Price–to–Cash (P/C) ratio for the trailing twelve months (TTM) is standing at 2.34 whereas its Price-to-Free Cash Flow (P/FCF) for the term is 12.73. In the meantime, Its Debt-to-Equity ratio is 4.77 whereas as Long-Term Debt/Eq ratio is at 4.77.

Upgrades & Downgrades

In addition, analysts’ ratings and any changes thereto give investors an idea of the stock’s future direction. In the most recent recommendation for the company, Keefe Bruyette on December 13, 2023, Upgraded its rating to Outperform and sets its target price to $12 from $11.25 previously.

On December 06, 2023, UBS started tracking the stock assigning a Neutral rating and target price of $12.

Valuation Measures:

Investors should consider key stock statistics when deciding whether to invest or divest. In the wake of the recent closing price, MFA now has a Market Capitalization of 1181100288 and an Enterprise Value of 9839636480. As of this moment, MFA’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio for their current fiscal year is 7.25, and their Forward P/E ratio for the next fiscal year is 7.07. For the stock, the TTM Price-to-Sale (P/S) ratio is 1.63 while its Price-to-Book (P/B) ratio in mrq is 0.63. Its current Enterprise Value per Revenue stands at 26.87.

Stock Price History:

Over the past 52 weeks, MFA has reached a high of $13.45, while it has fallen to a 52-week low of $9.48. The 50-Day Moving Average of the stock is -6.82%, while the 200-Day Moving Average is calculated to be 1.58%.

Shares Statistics:

Over the past 3-months, MFA traded about 804.45K shares per day on average, while over the past 10 days, MFA traded about 1223700 shares per day. A total of 101.92M shares are outstanding, with a floating share count of 101.27M. Insiders hold about 0.80% of the company’s shares, while institutions hold 62.29% stake in the company. Shares short for MFA as of 1728950400 were 1768495 with a Short Ratio of 2.20, compared to 1726185600 on 2146968. Therefore, it implies a Short% of Shares Outstanding of 1768495 and a Short% of Float of 1.7399999999999998.

Dividends & Splits

MFA’s forward annual dividend rate is 1.40, up from 1.4 a year ago. Against a Trailing Annual Dividend Yield of 0.12163336The stock’s 5-year Average Dividend Yield is 13.78.

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