MFA Financial Valuation

Is MFA undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

1/6

Valuation Score 1/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of MFA when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate MFA's fair value for valuation analysis.

Significantly Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate MFA's fair value for valuation analysis.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for MFA?

Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.

MFA key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenuen/a
Enterprise Value/EBITDAn/a
PEG Ratio0.5x

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does MFA's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for MFA vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average16.7x
RC Ready Capital
4.6x-24.1%US$1.5b
ARI Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
37x50.4%US$1.5b
EFC Ellington Financial
16.4x29.2%US$1.0b
FBRT Franklin BSP Realty Trust
8.9x-1.1%US$1.0b
MFA MFA Financial
23.2x43.9%US$1.1b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: MFA is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (23.2x) compared to the peer average (16.7x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does MFA's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Mortgage REITs Industry?

0 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.n/a41.2%
n/an/an/a
No. of CompaniesPE048121620

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0 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.n/a41.2%
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Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: MFA is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (23.2x) compared to the US Mortgage REITs industry average (11.8x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is MFA's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

MFA PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio23.2x
Fair PE Ratio26.3x

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: MFA is good value based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (23.2x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Earnings Ratio (26.3x).


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst MFA forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$10.73
US$15.50
+44.5%
44.9%US$31.00US$11.50n/a6
Apr ’25US$11.24
US$15.58
+38.6%
44.3%US$31.00US$12.00n/a6
Mar ’25US$11.23
US$15.58
+38.8%
44.3%US$31.00US$12.00n/a6
Feb ’25US$11.30
US$14.86
+31.5%
44.5%US$31.00US$11.00n/a7
Jan ’25US$11.27
US$14.71
+30.6%
45.3%US$31.00US$11.00n/a7
Dec ’24US$11.07
US$15.04
+35.9%
47.6%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Nov ’24US$9.30
US$15.29
+64.4%
46.1%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Oct ’24US$9.61
US$15.54
+61.7%
44.9%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Sep ’24US$10.94
US$15.63
+42.8%
44.4%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Aug ’24US$11.25
US$15.63
+38.9%
44.4%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Jul ’24US$11.24
US$15.46
+37.5%
45.2%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Jun ’24US$10.81
US$15.46
+43.0%
45.2%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
May ’24US$10.43
US$15.33
+47.0%
46.0%US$31.00US$11.00n/a6
Apr ’24US$9.92
US$15.50
+56.3%
45.0%US$31.00US$11.00US$11.246
Mar ’24US$10.45
US$15.50
+48.3%
45.0%US$31.00US$11.00US$11.236
Feb ’24US$12.16
US$15.50
+27.5%
45.0%US$31.00US$11.00US$11.306
Jan ’24US$9.85
US$15.42
+56.5%
45.5%US$31.00US$11.00US$11.276
Dec ’23US$11.19
US$15.08
+34.8%
47.8%US$31.00US$10.00US$11.076
Nov ’23US$9.98
US$14.92
+49.5%
49.0%US$31.00US$10.00US$9.306
Oct ’23US$7.78
US$17.46
+124.4%
34.9%US$31.00US$13.25US$9.616
Sep ’23US$10.53
US$17.46
+65.8%
34.9%US$31.00US$13.25US$10.946
Aug ’23US$13.17
US$17.63
+33.8%
34.6%US$31.00US$12.75US$11.256
Jul ’23US$11.15
US$19.21
+72.3%
28.5%US$31.00US$15.00US$11.246
Jun ’23US$13.90
US$19.71
+41.8%
26.4%US$31.00US$15.00US$10.816
May ’23US$14.25
US$20.50
+43.9%
23.4%US$31.00US$17.00US$10.436
Apr ’23US$16.08
US$21.83
+35.8%
19.7%US$31.00US$18.00US$9.926

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but analysts are not within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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