MFA Financial Inc (NYSE: MFA) is -4.22% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $7.85 and a high of $13.45 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The MFA stock was last observed hovering at around $9.82 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.06%.
Currently trading at $9.76, the stock is 6.56% and -2.96% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 0.95 million and changing -0.61% at the moment leaves the stock -11.80% off its SMA200. MFA registered -9.29% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -20.59%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $10.0576 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $11.06625.
The stock witnessed a -5.70% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -5.79%, and is 4.27% 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 2.67% over the week and 4.87% over the month.
MFA Financial Inc (MFA) has around 348 employees, a market worth around $1.00B and $846.03M in sales. Current P/E ratio is 12.02 and Fwd P/E is 6.73. Profit margin for the company is 10.16%. Distance from 52-week low is 24.33% and -27.43% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (0.78%).
with sales reaching $46.6M over the same period.The EPS is expected to shrink by -10.82% this year, but quarterly earnings will post -6.13% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to shrink -2.54% in year-over-year returns.
258.0 institutions hold shares in MFA Financial Inc (MFA), with institutional investors hold 68.42% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 102.08M, and float is at 101.56M with Short Float at 2.15%. Institutions hold 67.80% 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 10.5309 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 9.6271 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 9.55 million shares representing 9.2313 and valued at over $101.61 million, while VAUGHAN NELSON INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, L.P. holds 3.2731 of the shares totaling 3.39 million with a market value of $36.03 million.
