MFA Financial, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2018 Preferred Dividend of $0.46875 per Share

NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE:  MFA) announced today that in accordance with the terms of its 7.50% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, the Board of Directors has declared a preferred stock dividend of $0.46875 per share for the quarter ending March 31, 2018.  This dividend is payable on March 30, 2018, to preferred stockholders of record as of March 2, 2018.