MFA Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is a real estate investment trust that invests in and finances residential mortgage assets. Co.'s investments include principally the following: residential whole loans, including purchased performing loans, purchased credit deteriorated and purchased non-performing loans, and through certain of its subsidiaries, Co. also originates and services business purpose loans for real estate investors; residential mortgage securities, including credit risk transfer securities; and mortgage servicing rights (MSR) related assets, which include term notes backed directly or indirectly by MSRs. The MFA YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MFA YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether MFA YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the MFA YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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