shares of mfa financial inc mfa inched 067 higher to 1352 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround poor trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp falling 041 to 1208139 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 067 to 3299012 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains mfa financial inc closed 608 short of its 52week high 1960 which the company achieved on june 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as pennymac mortgage investment trust pmt rose 006 to 1618 invesco mortgage capital inc ivr rose 230 to 178 and new york mortgage trust inc nymt fell 098 to 303 trading volume 15 m remained 193531 below its 50day average volume of 17 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