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MFA vs PSA

Side-by-side comparison of MFA Financial Inc. (MFA) and Public Storage (PSA): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both MFA and PSA operate in Real Estate Investment Trusts (Real Estate), so they compete in similar markets.
  • PSA is the larger of the two at $56.67B, about 63.4x MFA ($893.6M).
  • Over the past year, MFA is down 12.6% and PSA is up 10.2% - PSA leads by 22.7 points.
  • Both names hit the wire about 4 times in the past 4 weeks.
  • PSA has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 11 for MFA).
PerformanceMFA-12.59%PSA+10.15%
2025-08-26+0.00%2026-08-26
MetricMFAPSA
Company
MFA Financial Inc.
Public Storage
Price
-
-
Market cap
$893.6M
$56.67B
1M return
-4.18%
-3.75%
1Y return
-12.59%
+10.15%
Industry
Real Estate Investment Trusts
Real Estate Investment Trusts
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
4
4
Recent ratings
11
25
MFA

MFA Financial Inc.

MFA Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. The company invests in residential mortgage assets, including non-agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), agency MBS, and credit risk transfer securities; residential whole loans, including purchased performing loans, purchased credit deteriorated, and non-performing loans; and mortgage servicing rights related assets. The company has elected to be taxed as a REIT and would not be subject to federal income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. MFA Financial, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

PSA

Public Storage

Public Storage, a member of the S&P 500 and FT Global 500, is a REIT that primarily acquires, develops, owns and operates self-storage facilities. At September 30, 2020, we had: (i) interests in 2,504 self-storage facilities located in 38 states with approximately 171 million net rentable square feet in the United States, (ii) an approximate 35% common equity interest in Shurgard Self Storage SA (Euronext Brussels:SHUR) which owned 239 self-storage facilities located in seven Western European nations with approximately 13 million net rentable square feet operated under the “Shurgard” brand and (iii) an approximate 42% common equity interest in PS Business Parks, Inc. (NYSE:PSB) which owned and operated approximately 28 million rentable square feet of commercial space at September 30, 2020. Our headquarters are located in Glendale, California.