secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC)
CIK:        0001411342
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-10-07T12:37:02+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-26-065296
Event type: dividend
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.35
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud@v2

Ellington Financial declares $0.13 monthly common dividend, payable Nov 30, 2026
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- Board declared a monthly dividend of $0.13 per share of common stock on October 7, 2026.
- Dividend payable November 30, 2026 to stockholders of record as of October 30, 2026.
- Press release signed by CFO JR Herlihy; no change to the dividend rate versus prior months was disclosed in the filing.
- Ellington's NYSE-listed preferred series (EFC PR B, EFC PR C, EFC PRD) were not addressed in the release.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026065296/0001628280-26-065296-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000162828026065296/efc-20261007.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-26-065296

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