Ellington Credit Company (EARN)

Financials · NYQ

$4.10-4.32% today

Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 17:39 UTC. Quotes are delayed.

Fundamentals

Market cap$163.05M
P/E ratio16.1
Dividend yield21.72%
Profit margin-88.8%
Return on equity-20.3%
52-week range$4.07 to $5.72

Valuation and ratings

Fair value estimate$4.09
Upside to fair value-0.1%
Analyst target (mean)$5.00
Analyst range$5.00 to $5.00
Analysts with price targets1
Consensus viewhold
Moat score30/100
Overall rating45/100, moderate quality

Fair value: $4.09 (-0.1%), see how we got there

Ellington Credit Company trades at $4.10, close to the $4.09 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On this measure the market and the model broadly agree, so the interesting question is which of them is wrong.

Our moat model scores it 30 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.

It changes hands at 16.1 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.

EARN dividend history

Dividend yield21.72%
Paid, trailing 12 months$0.960 per share
Most recent payment$0.080, ex 30 Sept 2026
5-year growth (p.a.)-3.0%
Consecutive years paid13

Dividends per share by year

YearTotal per sharePayments
2026 (year to date)$0.7209
2025$0.96012
2024$0.96012
2023$0.96012
2022$1.0412
2021$1.186
2020$1.124
2019$1.184
2018$1.454
2017$1.574
2016$1.654

Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.

EARN earnings and analyst estimates

EPS estimate, next year$0.99
Expected EPS growth+12.5%

Recommendation mix, 3 published ratings

1 buy2 hold0 sell

Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.

About Ellington Credit Company

Ellington Credit Company, a closed-end management investment company, focuses on generating current yields and risk-adjusted total returns by investing primarily in collateralized loan obligations. It invests in mezzanine debt and equity tranches. The company was formerly known as Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT and changed its name to Ellington Credit Company in April 2024. Ellington Credit Company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

Industry: Asset ManagementHQ: United States

Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.

EARN passes 1 of our 30 screens today

Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.

Super investor ownership

2 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:

A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.

EARN peers

The largest companies in the same industry (Asset Management), then in the same sector.

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Common questions

Is Ellington Credit Company (EARN) undervalued?

Against our fair value estimate of $4.09, EARN at $4.10 is 0% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.

Which funds own EARN?

2 of the institutions we track reported a position in EARN in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.

What is EARN's P/E ratio?

EARN trades at 16.1 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.

Does Ellington Credit Company (EARN) pay a dividend?

Yes. Ellington Credit Company yields 21.72% at the current share price. It has paid $0.960 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 13 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.

Where does SteadyShares get its EARN data?

Fundamentals for EARN come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 17:39 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 88/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.

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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.