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Updated: Aug 17, 2026
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NexPoint Real Estate

NYSE:NREF·Stock Analysis Report
Day Range
$17.22 - $17.63
Market Cap
320.23M
P/E Ratio
7.2436
Avg Value
$15.33
Year Range
$12.49 - $18.17
$17.24-$0.14 (-0.81%)
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General Information
NexPoint Real Estate Finance Inc is a commercial mortgage REIT focused on generating attractive, risk-adjusted returns for shareholders over the long term.

The company invests mainly in first-lien mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, multifamily properties, and common equity investments, as well as multifamily and single-family rental CMBS securitizations, promissory notes, revolving credit facilities, and stock warrants. It focuses on real estate sectors where its management has operating expertise, including multifamily, single-family rental, self-storage, industrial, and life sciences, mainly in top metropolitan areas.

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NexPoint Real Estate (NREF) Stock Graph
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How We Grade NexPoint Real Estate (NREF)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade NexPoint Real Estate (NREF) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

77.8

Growth measures a stock's combined historical expansion in earnings and revenue across multiple time periods, with emphasis on both long-term trends and recent performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

14.22

Quality is a composite ranking that evaluates a company's operational efficiency and financial health by analyzing historical profitability metrics and fundamental strength indicators on a percentile basis relative to peers.

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Peer Ratings

See how NexPoint Real Estate compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
RCReady Capital
N/A
N/A
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ACREAres Commercial Real Est
N/A
N/A
N/A
19.14
REFIChicago Atlantic Real
N/A
N/A
N/A
10.25
CMTGClaros Mortgage Trust
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 3 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $16.00 - $17.50 with an average of $16.50

-2.88%
Expected movement for NexPoint Real Estate (NREF) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for NexPoint Real Estate (NREF)

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
Date:
Aug 11, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$15.00
New Target:
$16.00
Piper Sandler
Date:
Aug 7, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$16.00
New Target:
$17.50
Piper Sandler
Date:
Jul 2, 2026
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$15.00
New Target:
$16.00
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Valuation

Earnings History (3 years)

It is important to look at a companies earnings history to see not only if they are profitable, but if their earnings are growing.
As you can see from the chart above, NREF's earnings have fluctuated but has increased since, this is a positive sign for the stock.
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Past Performance
How has NexPoint Real Estate (NREF) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

NexPoint Real Estate (NREF) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.5968 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of -0.6429

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Company Financials
INCOME STATEMENT
The income statement also known as the profit and loss statement, primarily focuses on the company's revenues and expenses during a particular period.

The main purpose of an income statement is to convey details of profitability and business activities. Below, is NREF's income statement for the previous four years along with its trailing-twelve- month profit & loss.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Revenue
0.01
0.00
0.03
0.18
0.16
Operating Revenue
0.01
0.00
0.03
0.18
0.16
Cost Of Revenue
Gross Profit
Operating Expense
Selling General And Administration
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
0.01
Research and Development
Operating Income
Net Non-Operating Interest Income Expense
Other Income Expense
Other Non-Operating Income Expenses
Pre-Tax Income
0.01
0.02
0.04
0.12
0.11
Tax Provision
Net Income
0.01
0.01
0.03
0.11
0.10
Net Income Common Stockholders
0.00
0.01
0.02
0.08
0.06
Total Operating Income As Reported
Total Expenses
Net Income From Continuing And Discontinued Operation
0.01
0.01
0.03
0.11
0.10
Normalized Income
0.01
0.01
0.03
0.10
0.10
Interest Income
0.08
0.07
0.07
0.09
0.09
Interest Expense
0.04
0.05
0.04
0.04
0.04
Net Interest Income
0.04
0.02
0.03
0.05
0.06
EBIT
EBITDA
Reconciled Cost Of Revenue
Reconciled Depreciation
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
Normalized EBITDA
Tax Rate For Calcs
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.40
Tax Effect Of Unusual Items
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
BALANCE SHEET
The balance sheet is a snapshot of a companies financials during a particular period in time.

It breaks down what company owns (assets) and what a company owes (liabilities), in order to give investors an overview of its capital structure.

FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Total Assets
8.15
7.02
5.42
5.32
5.37
Current Assets
Total Non-Current Assets
Total Liabilities Net Minority Interest
7.61
6.57
4.84
4.49
4.51
Current Liabilities
Other Non-Current Liabilities
Total Equity Gross Minority Interest
0.55
0.45
0.57
0.83
0.86
Stockholders Equity
Total Capitalization
7.65
6.61
5.06
4.95
5.10
Common Stock Equity
0.38
0.35
0.33
0.39
0.38
Net Tangible Assets
0.38
0.36
0.48
0.75
0.78
Working Capital
Invested Capital
7.65
6.60
4.91
4.59
4.70
Tangible Book Value
0.38
0.35
0.33
0.39
0.38
Total Debt
7.26
6.25
4.58
4.20
4.32
Net Debt
7.24
6.24
4.58
4.17
4.32
Share Issued
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
Ordinary Shares Number
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
0.02
CASH FLOW STATEMENTS
A companies statement of cash flows gives an investor a break down of the cash inflows and outflows from a companies operations and investment activities.
FISCAL YEAR (BIL.)
2022 ($)
2023 ($)
2024 ($)
2025 ($)
TTM ($)
Cash Flow from Continuing Operating Activities
0.07
0.03
0.03
0.02
0.01
Net Income from Continuing Operations
0.01
0.02
0.04
0.12
0.11
Depreciation and Amortization
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.00
0.00
Deferred Tax
Deferred Income Tax
Stock-Based Compensation
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.01
0.01
Other Non-Cash Items
0.00
-0.01
-0.03
-0.03
-0.07
Change in Working Capital
-0.01
-0.01
-0.01
-0.02
-0.01
Change in Receivables
-0.01
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
-0.01
Changes in Account Receivables
-0.01
0.00
-0.01
-0.02
-0.01
Change in Inventory
Change in Payables and Accrued Expense
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Change in Payable
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Change in Account Payable
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
Change in Other Current Assets
Change in Other Current Liabilities
Change in Other Working Capital
Cash Flow from Continuing Investing Activities
0.95
0.74
0.96
0.32
0.34
Net PPE Purchase and Sale
Net Business Purchase and Sale
Purchase of Business
Net Investment Purchase and Sale
-0.15
0.02
0.08
-0.16
-0.05
Purchase of Investment
-0.15
-0.02
-0.14
-0.16
-0.05
Sale of Investment
0.05
0.22
0.00
Net Other Investing Changes
0.00
Financing Cash Flow
-1.03
-0.78
-1.00
-0.42
-0.33
Cash Flow from Continuing Financing Activities
-1.03
-0.78
-1.00
-0.42
-0.33
Net Issuance Payments of Debt
0.03
-0.02
-0.41
-0.05
0.08
Net Long-Term Debt Issuance
0.03
-0.02
-0.41
-0.05
0.08
Long-Term Debt Issuance
0.19
0.01
0.07
0.38
Long-Term Debt Payments
-0.16
-0.04
-0.56
-0.12
-0.30
Net Short-Term Debt Issuance
0.13
-0.03
Net Common Stock Issuance
0.17
0.00
Common Stock Issuance
0.17
0.00
Common Stock Payments
Cash Dividends Paid
-0.03
-0.05
-0.05
Net Other Financing Charges
-1.24
-0.68
-0.61
-0.39
-0.32
End Cash Position
0.14
0.09
0.07
Changes in Cash
-0.01
0.00
-0.01
-0.08
0.02
Beginning Cash Position
0.15
0.10
0.08
Capital Expenditure
Issuance of Capital Stock
0.17
0.01
0.14
Issuance of Debt
0.19
0.01
0.15
0.07
0.38
Repayment of Debt
-0.16
-0.04
-0.56
-0.12
-0.30
Repurchase of Capital Stock
Free Cash Flow
0.07
0.03
0.03
0.02
0.01