EFCEllington Financial Inc.

$11.67-3.1% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Mostly sound, with a caveat: steady price behavior, but heavy debt (CCC).

1 good, 1 to watch, 4 without data
Credit gradeCCCderived · Jun 30, 2026

Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk19% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -79% · now 15% below its 52-week high.

Against the whole market›

Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Volatilitytop 2% of the market
Max drawdownbehind 73% of the market

Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.

Can EFC take a bad year?

The deepest fall in EFC's price history on file is −79%; it is 15% below its high today.

−79%

Worst drawdown on file · −15% today

Cash runway
0.1 years

Cash runway · burning $889M a quarter at the current rate

Annualised volatility
19%

Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself

Details›
Cash and short-term investments
$247M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
−$48M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$49M
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
19%
Worst drawdown on file
−79%
Below its 52-week high
15%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.