Company: MFAN
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-014577
Chunk: 64

Company: MFA FINANCIAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 64
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 paid to the executive in the form of additional shares of Common Stock based on the closing price of the Common Stock on the vesting date. The number and grant date fair value of TRSUs and PRSUs comprising the 2024 long-term equity-based awards granted to each of the Named Executive Officers are set forth in the table below:

|              |     |   TRSUs |     |               |     |   PRSUs |     |               |
| Executive    |     |       

# |     |     Aggregate 
    Grant Date 
 Fair Value(1) 
             $ |     |       

# |     |     Aggregate 
    Grant Date 
 Fair Value(1) 
             $ |
| Mr. Knutson  |     | 142,223 |     |     1,600,009 |     | 230,721 |     |     2,400,008 |
| Mr. Wulfsohn |     |  61,334 |     |      ​690,008 |     |  99,499 |     |    ​1,035,009 |
| Mr. Roper    |     |  21,334 |     |       240,008 |     |  34,609 |     |       360,010 |
| Ms. Samuels  |     |  14,223 |     |       160,009 |     |  23,073 |     |       240,010 |
| Mr. Schwartz |     |  24,000 |     |       270,000 |     |  38,935 |     |       405,010 |

Other Elements of Compensation . The following briefly summarizes the other elements of compensation that we provide to our Named Executive Officers beyond salary, annual incentives and long-term equity awards. Deferred Compensation and Retirement Benefits. In December 2002, the Board adopted the Senior Officers Plan, which gives executive officers the ability to elect to defer up to 100% of their annual cash incentive compensation. Amounts deferred under this plan are subject to a five-year deferral period and can be paid in a lump sum or in installment payments at the termination of the deferral period. Amounts deferred under the plan are deemed to be converted into hypothetical “stock units” of MFA, which do not represent our capital stock, but rather the right to receive a cash payment equal to the fair market value of an equivalent number of shares of Common Stock. Deferred amounts (and