MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:MFA) Q3 2023 Earnings Conference Call November 7, 2022 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Harold Schwartz - SVP, General Counsel & Secretary

Craig Knutson - President, CEO & Director

Gudmundur Kristjansson - SVP & Co-CIO

Michael Roper - SVP, CFO & CAO

Bryan Wulfsohn - SVP & Co-CIO

Conference Call Participants

Bose George - KBW

Steven Delaney - JMP Securities

Stephen Laws - Raymond James & Associates

Eric Hagen - BTIG

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the MFA Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Hal Schwartz. Please go ahead.

Harold Schwartz

Thank you, operator, and good morning, everyone. The information discussed on this conference call today may contain or refer to forward-looking statements regarding MFA Financial, Inc. which reflect management's beliefs, expectations and assumptions as to MFA's future performance and operations. When used, statements that are not historical in nature, including those containing words such as will, believe, expect, anticipate, estimate, should, could, would or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. These types of statements are subject to various known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors, including those described in MFA's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and other reports that it may file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause MFA's actual results to differ materially from those projected, expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements it makes.

For additional information regarding MFA's use of forward-looking statements, please see the relevant disclosure in the press release announcing MFA's third quarter 2023 financial results. Thank you for your time.

I would now like to turn this call over to MFA's CEO and President, Craig Knutson.

Craig Knutson

Thank you, Hal. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us here today for MFA Financial's Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. With me are Gudmundur Kristjansson and Bryan Wulfsohn, our Co-Chief Investment Officers. And I would also like to welcome Mike Roper, who is appointed as our Chief Financial Officer in September. Mike has served as our Chief Accounting Officer for the last 2 years, was our controller for 3 years before that and has been with MFA since 2014. And I look forward to introducing Mike to more of our shareholders and research coverage professionals during upcoming equity conferences and phone calls.