shares of mfa financial inc mfa sank 023 to 440 monday on what proved to be an allaround positive trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 188 to 1578283 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 068 to 3513594 this was the stocks third consecutive day of losses mfa financial inc closed 050 short of its 52week high 490 which the company achieved on june 9th despite its losses the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as pennymac mortgage investment trust pmt fell 109 to 1818 invesco mortgage capital inc ivr fell 032 to 307 and new york mortgage trust inc nymt fell 052 to 382true trading volume 33 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 26 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