MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:MFA) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 4, 2022 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Hal Schwartz - Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Craig Knutson - President and CEO

Steve Yarad - Chief Financial Officer

Bryan Wulfsohn - Co-Chief Investment Officer

Gudmundur Kristjansson - Co-Chief Investment Officer

Conference Call Participants

Bose George - KBW

Steve DeLaney - JMP Securities

Eric Hagen - BTIG

Doug Harter - Credit Suisse

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, good morning, and thank you for standing by. Today’s conference assembled. Welcome to the MFA Financial Incorporated 2022 Second Quarter Earnings Call. At this time, all lines are in a listen-only mode. Later there will be an opportunity for your questions and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions]

And as a reminder, today’s conference is being recorded. At this time, it’s my pleasure to turn the conference over to our host, Mr. Hal Schwartz. Please go ahead.

Hal Schwartz

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Operator

Excuse me, speakers. I -- there were some an echo with the webcast link. So I just muted.

Hal Schwartz

Okay.

Operator

Webcast.

Hal Schwartz

Okay. Let me start over and apologies for the snafu here. 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, 2021, 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 second quarter 2022 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 second quarter 2022 earnings call. Also with me are Steve Yarad, our CFO; Gudmundur Kristjansson and Bryan Wulfsohn, our Co-Chief Investment Officers and other members of senior management.