secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC)
CIK:        0001411342
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-02-26T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-011887
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Ellington Financial Q4 2025 adjusted distributable earnings $0.47/share; book value $13.16
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- Net income attributable to common stockholders of $14.7M ($0.14 per share); Adjusted Distributable Earnings of $51.4M ($0.47 per share) surpassed quarterly dividend of $0.39/share.
- Book value per common share $13.16 as of Dec 31, 2025; recourse debt-to-equity ratio 1.9:1.
- Completed $400M unsecured notes offering; invested in credit portfolio growth (15% increase to $4.11B).
- Longbridge segment net income $16.4M; strong origination volume of $529.7M up from $498.6M QoQ.
- Post-quarter end raised common equity on accretive basis to retire highest-cost preferred equity.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026011887/0001628280-26-011887-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026011887/efc-20260225.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-011887

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