Mfa Financial

Name: Mfa Financial (MFA) shares outstanding since 2008, split adjusted
Creator: Buyback Radar
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

MFA

Mfa Financial has retired 10.8% of its shares since 2019, from 113,278,678 to 101,087,938.

10.8%retired since 2019

8.3%last 5 years

1.1%last 12 months

101Mshares today

At $6.59 a share, a market value of $666.2M. P/E 4.5, trailing twelve months to June 2026.

Shares outstanding, 2008 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings

2008, 55,676,5132026-07-31, 101,087,938

A share bought in 2018

1.1× more of Mfa Financial today, without buying another share. It was one of 112,619,216 shares then. It is one of 101,087,938 now.

Every filing we read18 fiscal years, split adjusted

Fiscal year	Date	Shares outstanding	Filing
2008	2009-02-10	55,676,513	10-K	cover page
2009	2009-12-31	70,019,500	10-K
2010	2011-02-09	70,326,148	10-K
2011	2012-02-09	89,233,455	10-K
2012	2013-02-22	89,716,965	10-K
2013	2014-02-07	91,659,642	10-K
2014	2015-02-06	92,590,482	10-K
2015	2016-02-12	92,769,061	10-K
2016	2017-02-10	93,210,380	10-K
2017	2018-02-08	99,605,866	10-K
2018	2019-02-14	112,619,217	10-K
2019	2020-02-14	113,278,678	10-K
2020	2021-02-17	113,014,717	10-K
2021	2022-02-18	106,262,626	10-K
2022	2023-02-15	101,911,876	10-K
2023	2024-02-15	102,082,499	10-K
2024	2025-02-14	102,523,820	10-K
2025	2026-02-17	102,093,862	10-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Mfa Financial on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

What the buybacks cost, fiscal 2020 to 2025cash flow statement against share count

$256Mspent on buybacks

11Mfewer shares outstanding

2.3%buyback yield, last fiscal year’s spend on today’s market value

Cash spent comes from the cash flow statement. Shares outstanding fell by less than the company bought, because part of every buyback only replaces shares handed to employees. Today’s price is $6.59.

Mfa Financial buybacks, answered

Is Mfa Financial buying back its stock?

Yes. Mfa Financial has 1.1% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 101,087,938 as of July 31, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 8.3%.

How many shares has Mfa Financial bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Mfa Financial has 12.2 million fewer shares than at its 2019 peak. That is 10.8% of the company. Since fiscal 2020 alone it bought back about 12.5 million shares, while the count fell by 11.9 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Mfa Financial have outstanding?

101,087,938 shares, as of July 31, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2019 peak it had 113,278,678.

What do Mfa Financial's buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Mfa Financial stock in 2019 owns 1.1 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Mfa Financial compare with other cannibal stocks?

Mfa Financial ranks No. 463 of 467 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Ufp Industries (10.9%), EPAM Systems (10.8%), Eog Resources (10.8%), FirstCash (10.6%).

Every answer is computed from Mfa Financial's own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.