A new trading day began on Tuesday, with Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE: EFC) stock price down -0.08% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $12.51. EFC’s price has ranged from $10.88 to $13.46 over the past 52 weeks.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Real Estate sector was 19.94%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -3.29%. With a float of $84.72 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $86.93 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 170 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 81.0%, operating margin of 83.17%, and the pretax margin is 32.14%.
Ellington Financial Inc (EFC) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the REIT – Mortgage Industry. The insider ownership of Ellington Financial Inc is 2.54%, while institutional ownership is 57.04%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 15 ’24, was worth 180,647. In this transaction Co-Chief Investment Officer of this company sold 14,361 shares at a rate of $12.58, taking the stock ownership to the 153,998 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 14 ’24, when Company’s Co-Chief Investment Officer sold 14,000 for $12.48, making the entire transaction worth $174,706. This insider now owns 168,359 shares in total.
Ellington Financial Inc (EFC) Recent Fiscal highlights
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -3.29% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 4.28% during the next five years compared to -10.27% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE: EFC) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Ellington Financial Inc’s current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.70. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.72.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.19, a number that is poised to hit 0.37 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.62 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Ellington Financial Inc (EFC)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.97 million, its volume of 0.75 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 24.85%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.16.
During the past 100 days, Ellington Financial Inc’s (EFC) raw stochastic average was set at 43.53%, which indicates a significant increase from 34.55% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 11.73% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 17.18% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $12.90, while its 200-day Moving Average is $12.26. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $12.59 in the near term. At $12.68, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $12.82. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $12.36, it is likely to go to the next support level at $12.22. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $12.13.
Ellington Financial Inc (NYSE: EFC) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 1.09 billion, the company has a total of 86,930K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 370,170 K while annual income is 84,810 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 100,470 K while its latest quarter income was 59,170 K.
