Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 6

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 6
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iii) voting electronically during the Annual Meeting via webcast. Attending the virtual Annual Meeting via webcast will not automatically revoke a stockholder’s previously submitted proxy unless such stockholder votes electronically during the Annual Meeting. Quorum and Required Vote The presence, in person or by proxy, of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the Annual Meeting on any matter shall constitute a quorum. Assuming a quorum is present, the business scheduled to come before the Annual Meeting will require the following affirmative votes:

| 1. | with respect to the election of directors, a majority of the total votes cast for and against the election of each nominee; |

| 2. | with respect to the ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm, a majority of the votes cast on the proposal; |

| 3. | with respect to the advisory (non-binding) Say-on-Pay vote, a majority of the votes cast on the proposal; and |

| 4. | with respect to the approval of the Amended Plan, a majority of the votes cast on the proposal. |

| MFA Financial, Inc. | 3 | 2025 Proxy Statement |

TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstentions and Broker Non-Votes Abstentions and broker non-votes are each included in the determination of the number of shares present at the Annual Meeting for the purpose of determining whether a quorum is present. An abstention is the voluntary act of directing your proxy to abstain or attending the Annual Meeting in person (via webcast over the Internet) and marking a ballot to abstain. A broker non-vote occurs when a nominee (i.e., a broker) holding shares for a beneficial owner has not received instructions from the beneficial owner on a particular proposal for which the nominee is not permitted to exercise discretionary voting power under New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) rules, and therefore, the nominee does not cast a vote on the proposal. Under NYSE rules, brokers are not permitted to vote shares held in their clients’ accounts on elections of directors, the non-binding Say-on-Pay vote or the vote on the Amended Plan (each of which is considered a non-routine matter), unless, in each case, the client (as beneficial owner) has provided voting instructions to the broker. The ratification of the appointment of our independent registered public accounting firm is, however, a proposal for which brokers do have discretionary voting authority (although they may choose not to exercise