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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the MFA Financial Inc. (NYSE:MFA) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of April 15 and a Sell Date of August 25 has resulted in a geometric average return of 4.17% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 16 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 7.28% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Financial sector, which runs from November 22 to April 13. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Financial Sector Seasonal Chart.

MFA Financial, Inc. is a real estate investment trust engaged in the business of investment, on a leveraged basis, in residential mortgage assets including agency mortgage-backed securities, non-agency mortgage-backed securities, and residential whole loans. It operates through the Mortgage-Related Assets and Lima One segments. The Mortgage-Related Assets segment is involved with the remainder of the company s investments. The Lima One segment refers to the stand-alone mortgage origination and servicing business of Lima One. The company was founded by Stewart Zimmerman on July 24, 1997, and is headquartered in New York, NY.

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