Company: CIMO
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form Type: S-3ASR
Source: 0001193125-25-226772
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Company: CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-10-01
Form: S-3ASR
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 1, 2025 Registration Statement No. 333- UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 FORM S-3 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 CHIMERA INVESTMENT CORPORATION (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

| Maryland                        |     | 26-0630461         |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of 
 Incorporation or Organization)  |     | -I.R.S Employer    
 Identification No. |

630 Fifth Ave, Ste 2400 New York, New York 10111 (888) 895-6557 (Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices) Phillip J. Kardis II Chief Executive Officer and President Chimera Investment Corporation 630 Fifth Ave, Ste 2400 New York, New York 10111 (212) 626-2300 (Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, including Area Code, of Agent for Service) Copies to:

| Miyun Sung, Esq.                               
 Chief Legal Officer Chimera                    
 Investment Corporation 630 Fifth Ave, Ste 2400 
 New York, New York 10111                       
 (212) 626-2300                                 |     | Robert K. Smith, Esq.                
 Kate E. Saltz, Esq. Tianlu           
 Zhang, Esq. Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP 
 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW          
 Washington, DC 20037 (202) 955-1611  |

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time or at one time after the effective date of the Registration Statement as the Registrant shall determine. If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. ☐ If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ☒ If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐ If this Form