Dividend Correction Announcement: MFA Financial, Inc. corrected the dividend amount for its 6.50% Series C Preferred Stock to $0.639521 per share for the quarter ending September 30, 2025, which includes a payment for accumulated unpaid dividends from the previous quarter.
Company Overview: MFA Financial is a specialty finance company focused on residential mortgage loans and real estate assets, having distributed over $4.9 billion in dividends since its IPO in 1998.
MFA
$9.49+Infinity%1D
Analyst Views on MFA
Wall Street analysts forecast MFA stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for MFA is 10.08 USD with a low forecast of 10.00 USD and a high forecast of 10.25 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
3 Analyst Rating
Wall Street analysts forecast MFA stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for MFA is 10.08 USD with a low forecast of 10.00 USD and a high forecast of 10.25 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.
1 Buy
2 Hold
0 Sell
Moderate Buy
Current: 9.600
Low
10.00
Averages
10.08
High
10.25
Current: 9.600
Low
10.00
Averages
10.08
High
10.25
UBS
Doug Harter
Buy
downgrade
2025-11-18
Reason
UBS
Doug Harter
Price Target
2025-11-18
downgrade
Buy
Reason
UBS analyst Doug Harter lowered the firm's price target on MFA Financial to $10.25 from $10.50 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares.
UBS
Doug Harter
Buy
maintain
$10
2025-09-03
Reason
UBS
Doug Harter
Price Target
$10
2025-09-03
maintain
Buy
Reason
UBS analyst Doug Harter raised the firm's price target on MFA Financial to $10.50 from $10 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares.
Citizens JMP
Steven DeLaney
Outperform
maintain
$12 -> $11
2025-07-17
Reason
Citizens JMP
Steven DeLaney
Price Target
$12 -> $11
2025-07-17
maintain
Outperform
Reason
Citizens JMP analyst Steven DeLaney lowered the firm's price target on MFA Financial to $11 from $12 and keeps an Outperform rating on the shares. The second quarter exhibited significant market volatility amid new tariff and trade announcements and economic uncertainty, but despite the intra-quarter volatility, quarter-over-quarter levels for interest rates and spreads showed only modest changes, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm sees moderately lower book values for most agency REITs and relatively stable book values for the hybrid REIT group.
UBS
Neutral
maintain
$10
2025-07-10
Reason
UBS
Price Target
$10
2025-07-10
maintain
Neutral
Reason
UBS raised the firm's price target on MFA Financial to $10 from $9.50 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares.
About MFA
MFA Financial, Inc. is a specialty finance company that invests in residential mortgage loans, residential mortgage-backed securities and other real estate assets. Its targeted investments primarily include residential whole loans and residential mortgage securities. Its residential whole loans include non-QM loans, business purpose loans, and legacy re-performing loans (RPL)/ non-performing loans (NPL). Its residential mortgage securities include agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), non-agency MBS, CRT securities and mortgage servicing rights (MSRs)-related assets, which include term notes backed directly or indirectly by MSRs. Its principal business objective is to deliver shareholder value through the generation of distributable income and through asset performance linked to residential mortgage credit fundamentals. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lima One Capital (Lima One), also originates and services business purpose loans for real estate investors.
About the author
Emily J. Thompson
Emily J. Thompson, a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with 12 years in investment research, graduated with honors from the Wharton School. Specializing in industrial and technology stocks, she provides in-depth analysis for Intellectia’s earnings and market brief reports.
