Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 91

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 91
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164 |     | 11.98%        |
| 2022 |     |       6,262,232 |     |        1,308,212 |     |    1,915,344 |     |       875,766 |     |                       42.43 |     |        66.88 |     |         -231,581 |     | 11.03%        |
| 2021 |     |       7,411,604 |     |        8,255,983 |     |    2,142,227 |     |     2,307,231 |     |                       67.39 |     |        92.17 |     |          328,870 |     | 10.46%        |
| 2020 |     |       4,579,952 |     |          870,934 |     |    1,421,460 |     |       522,051 |     |                       52.80 |     |        79.34 |     |         -679,390 |     | -0.72%        |

| 1. | For each of 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020, our principal executive officer (PEO) wasCraig L. Knutson. For more detail regarding how the amounts in this column are calculated, refer to the Summary Compensation Table found on page56of this Proxy Statement and “Adjustments to Summary Compensation Tables to Determine Compensation Actually Paid” tables below. |

| 3. | Total Stockholder Return and Peer Group Total Stockholder Return assume an initial investment of $100 invested on December 31, 2019. |

| 4. | As permitted by SEC rules, the Peer Group referenced for purpose of the Total Stockholder Return comparison consists of the iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF (Symbol: REM), which is an exchange traded fund the components of which are U.S. residential and commercial mortgage REITs and reflects an industry peer group used for purposes of Item 201(e) of Regulation S-K. Note that the Bloomberg Real Estate Investment Trust Mortgage Index (Symbol: BBREMTG), which was the Peer Group formerly used by Company for purposes of this table, was discontinued in 2024. The separate peer group used by the Compensation Committee for purposes of evaluating the compensation paid to our executive officers is described on page37of this Proxy Statement. |