shares of mfa financial inc mfa slipped 095 to 1145 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround dismal trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp falling 298 to 1118154 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 156 to 3094699 this was the stocks second consecutive day of losses mfa financial inc closed 795 short of its 52week high 1940 which the company reached on september 2nd the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as pennymac mortgage investment trust pmt rose 050 to 1411 invesco mortgage capital inc ivr rose 682 to 1425 and new york mortgage trust inc nymt fell 073 to 271 trading volume 17 m remained 319826 below its 50day average volume of 20 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use