MFA Stock — MFA Financial, Inc.

MFA Financial, Inc. (MFA)

Updated October 16, 2026.

MFA is a Stock. its distribution rate is 21.85%, its trailing-12-month yield is 21.85%. Dividend Vision Distribution Safety Score™ is 15/100 (High risk). Total return is 229.5% over the past 37.9 years.

MFA performance

Price and return data through 2026-10-16.

Total return is 229.5% over the past 37.9 years. Over the past year its total return — price change plus distributions reinvested — is -14.2%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 31.3%.

MFA key facts

Distribution Safety Score™

15 · High risk

Safety-Adjusted Yield

3.28%

Issuer

MFA Financial

Asset type

Stock

Asset class

Equity

Inception date

12/07/1988

Distribution rate

21.85%

Distribution frequency

Quarterly

Trailing yield

21.85%

5-year average yield

13.33

Last close

$6.59 (as of 2026-10-16)

Market cap

$666,169,511

Average volume

2279778.0

Dividend

$0.36

Ex-dividend date

10/05/2026

Payment date

10/30/2026

Beta

1.525

Payout ratio

128.6%

P/E ratio

6.52

Forward P/E

6.1576

EPS

$1.01

How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (21.85%) uses calculation basis unavailable. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield (21.85%) is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: MFA Financial; prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

MFA risks and drawbacks

Payments are quarterly, so cash flow is lumpy versus a monthly fund. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 31.3%.

Who may consider MFA — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors who need monthly cash flow (MFA pays quarterly). This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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