shares of mfa financial inc mfa advanced 132 to 1150 thursday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the nasdaq composite index comp rising 136 to 1205961 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 051 to 3203690 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains mfa financial inc closed 790 short of its 52week high 1940 which the company reached on september 2nd the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as pennymac mortgage investment trust pmt rose 167 to 1463 invesco mortgage capital inc ivr rose 173 to 1587 and new york mortgage trust inc nymt rose 105 to 290 trading volume 713674 remained 10 million 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