In last trading session, Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE:EFC) saw 0.86 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 0.99. Company’s recent per share price level of $13.13 trading at -$0.11 or -0.83% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $1.24B. That closing price of EFC’s stock is at a discount of -9.67% from its 52-week high price of $14.40 and is indicating a premium of 15.31% from its 52-week low price of $11.12. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 0.85 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 890.67K if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Ellington Financial Inc (EFC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.57. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 8 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 7 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.4 in the current quarter.
Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE:EFC) trade information
Ellington Financial Inc’s shares saw a change of 0.38% in year-to-date performance and have moved -0.68% in past 5-day. Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE:EFC) showed a performance of 3.63% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 4.53 million shares which calculate 5.37 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 13.5 to the stock, which implies a rise of 2.74% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 13 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 14. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 0.99% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 0.99% for stock’s current value.
Ellington Financial Inc (EFC) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 9.80% from the last financial year’s standing.
4 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 112.48M for the same. And 4 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 114.37M in the next quarter. Company posted 100.47M and 107.28M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -5.26% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 11.00% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 5.53%.
EFC Dividends
Ellington Financial Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-07 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 11.88%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.56 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 11.6%.
Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE:EFC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 3.44% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 53.23 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 55.13%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 53.23% institutions for Ellington Financial Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at EFC for having 14.36 million shares of worth $173.48 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 16.7219 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 5.45 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.3421 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $65.8 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of May 31, 2025, the former fund manager was holding 5.44 shares of worth $71.42 million or 5.76% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.68 shares on Mar 31, 2025, making its stake of worth around $35.13 million in the company or a holder of 2.83% of company’s stock.
