Company: CIM-PD
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001206774-25-000807
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Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-18
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 7.01
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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On December 18, 2025, the registrant issued a press
release announcing the declaration of its fourth quarter cash dividend of $0.37 per share of common stock. A copy of the press release
is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.

The Press Release is being furnished pursuant to Item
7.01, and the information contained therein shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed
incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly
set forth by specific reference in such filing.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements
and Exhibits.

  Exhibits                                                                                        
      99.1      Press Release, dated December 18, 2025, issued by Chimera Investment Corporation  
       104      Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).                      

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

  CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORPORATION                                   
  (REGISTRANT)                                                     
  By:                                 /s/ Subramaniam Viswanathan  
  Name:                               Subramaniam Viswanathan      
  Title:                              Chief Financial Officer