Best REIT - Mortgage Stocks in the United States for 2026
Top-ranked REIT - Mortgage stocks in United States. Top Mortgage REIT stocks ranked by 4-pillar fundamental composite score.
Mortgage REITs (mREITs) earn the spread between leveraged mortgage-securities portfolios and short-term funding. The cohort screens cheap on Valuation (price-to-book) but the Health pillar (leverage, repo funding stability) is the gating factor since spread compression and funding stress are recurring drawdown drivers.
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Top 20 REIT - Mortgage stocks in United States by composite score
| # | Ticker | Name | Composite |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ORC.US | Orchid Island Capital Inc. | 78.1 |
| 2 | DX.US | Dynex Capital Inc | 75.5 |
| 3 | REFI.US | Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance Inc | 71.5 |
| 4 | SEVN.US | Seven Hills Realty Trust | 70.8 |
| 5 | SUNS.US | Sunrise Realty Trust, Inc. | 69.7 |
| 6 | IVR.US | Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc | 69.5 |
| 7 | EFC.US | Ellington Financial Inc. | 68.3 |
| 8 | LOAN.US | Manhattan Bridge Capital Inc | 66.4 |
| 9 | CHMI.US | Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp | 64.6 |
| 10 | LFT.US | Lument Finance Trust Inc | 64.0 |
| 11 | AGNC.US | AGNC Investment Corp. | 63.7 |
| 12 | NREF.US | Nexpoint Real Estate Finance Inc | 63.2 |
| 13 | ARR.US | ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc | 62.6 |
| 14 | ACR.US | Acres Commercial Realty Corp | 62.2 |
| 15 | TRTX.US | TPG RE Finance Trust Inc | 61.7 |
| 16 | MFA.US | MFA Financial Inc | 61.0 |
| 17 | SACH.US | Sachem Capital Corp | 60.9 |
| 18 | ADAM.US | New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. | 60.2 |
| 19 | PMT.US | PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust | 57.8 |
| 20 | NLY.US | Annaly Capital Management, Inc. | 57.7 |
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Methodology: How we score stocks. Data refreshed nightly around 03:30 ET. This page lists the top 20 by composite score within the REIT - Mortgage industry, the United States. Use the screener for the full ranked list.