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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-26-003722"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFC"
cik: "0001411342"
company_name: "Ellington Financial Inc."
filed_at: "2026-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T06:56:38.634632+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ellington Financial announces 8.775M share common stock offering; closes Jan 28

## Summary
- Offering of 8,775,000 shares of common stock; underwriters granted 30-day option for up to 1,316,250 additional shares.
- Underwriting agreement with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC as representatives of the underwriters.
- Closing expected on January 28, 2026, subject to customary conditions.
- Offering made under existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-292424) effective Dec 23, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-003722
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFC
- cik: 0001411342
- company_name: Ellington Financial Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026003722/0001628280-26-003722-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026003722/efc-20260126.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-003722.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Ellington Financial Inc. entered into "Underwriting Agreement" with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (effective 2026-01-26).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein
  - Effective: 2026-01-26
  source text: On January 26, 2026, Ellington Financial Inc. (the “Company”) and Ellington Financial Management LLC (the “Manager”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), relating to the offer and sale of 8,775,000 shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026003722/0001628280-26-003722-index.htm

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