MFA Financial Inc (NYSE: MFA) is 12.87% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $8.41 and a high of $13.45 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The MFA stock was last observed hovering at around $12.56 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.16%.
Currently trading at $12.72, the stock is 1.55% and 3.35% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.93 million and changing 1.27% at the moment leaves the stock 12.37% off its SMA200. MFA registered 38.26% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 24.10%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $12.2672 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $11.31235.
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The stock witnessed a -2.97% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 11.58%, and is 4.01% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.56% over the week and 1.79% over the month.
MFA Financial Inc (MFA) has around 377 employees, a market worth around $1.30B and $777.89M in sales. Current P/E ratio is 21.75 and Fwd P/E is 7.65. Profit margin for the company is 8.42%. Distance from 52-week low is 51.25% and -5.43% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.61%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 1.36% this year
236.0 institutions hold shares in MFA Financial Inc (MFA), with institutional investors hold 66.02% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 101.92M, and float is at 101.27M with Short Float at 2.05%. Institutions hold 65.34% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP with over 10.89 million shares valued at $115.91 million. The investor’s holdings represent 10.5588 of the MFA Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 9.96 million shares valued at $105.96 million to account for 9.6526 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 9.55 million shares representing 9.2557 and valued at over $101.61 million, while VAUGHAN NELSON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, L.P. holds 3.2817 of the shares totaling 3.39 million with a market value of $36.03 million.
