---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001411342-23-000178"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFC"
cik: "0001411342"
company_name: "Ellington Financial Inc."
filed_at: "2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T14:24:49.605950+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ellington Financial Q3 net income $0.10/sh, ADE $0.33/sh; book value $14.33; merger updates

## Summary
- Adjusted Distributable Earnings $22.5M ($0.33/sh); GAAP net income $6.6M ($0.10/sh).
- Book value per common share $14.33; quarterly dividend $0.15/sh (14.2% yield).
- Credit strategy net income $24.8M; Agency strategy net loss $10.5M; Longbridge net income $4.1M.
- Mutually terminated Great Ajax merger; expect to close Arlington Asset merger in Q4 2023.
- Recourse debt-to-equity 2.3:1; overall 9.4:1; cash $174.7M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001411342-23-000178
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFC
- cik: 0001411342
- company_name: Ellington Financial Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000178/0001411342-23-000178-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000178/efc-20231107.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001411342-23-000178.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  Ellington Financial Inc. reported the quarter ended September 30, 2023 results: net income Net income attributable to common stockholders of $6.6 million, or $0.10 per common share, EPS $0.10 per common share.
  - Period: the quarter ended September 30, 2023
  - Net income: Net income attributable to common stockholders of $6.6 million, or $0.10 per common share
  - EPS: $0.10 per common share
  - Result: reported results
  source text: Net income attributable to common stockholders of $6.6 million, or $0.10 per common share.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000178/0001411342-23-000178-index.htm

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