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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	$9.48 +1.7%	$9.71	$5.43 ▼ $10.32	$1.53B	1.3	929,631 shs	1.12 million shs
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	$10.02 +1.7%	$9.77	$9.09 ▼ $14.12	$682.74M	0.96	432,732 shs	544,016 shs
MFA MFA Financial	$10.76 +2.4%	$11.03	$8.41 ▼ $11.90	$1.10B	2.1	534,598 shs	382,046 shs
STAR iStar		$9.62	$6.55 ▼ $55.68	$4.80B	1.34	1.10 million shs	284,068 shs
VRE Veris Residential	$15.15 +1.9%	$14.83	$13.06 ▼ $18.98	$1.37B	1.23	444,311 shs	679,844 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	+1.72%	+5.57%	-3.36%	-5.77%	+56.44%
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	+1.73%	+5.36%	-1.18%	-20.98%	-9.89%
MFA MFA Financial	+2.38%	+5.08%	-6.64%	-4.82%	+4.22%
STAR iStar	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	+625.03%
VRE Veris Residential	+1.88%	+8.45%	+1.68%	-2.88%	-1.62%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	3.0708 of 5 stars	0.8	1.0	2.5	2.3	3.6	2.5	1.9
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	4.2548 of 5 stars	2.4	3.0	2.5	3.2	3.5	3.3	0.6
MFA MFA Financial	2.9774 of 5 stars	2.3	3.0	1.7	0.0	2.4	1.7	2.5
STAR iStar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRE Veris Residential	2.8575 of 5 stars	2.3	4.0	1.7	0.0	2.7	2.5	1.3

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	1.67	Reduce	$8.33	-12.10% Downside
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	2.80	Moderate Buy	$12.33	23.09% Upside
MFA MFA Financial	2.67	Moderate Buy	$12.00	11.58% Upside
STAR iStar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
VRE Veris Residential	2.67	Moderate Buy	$17.00	12.21% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings

Latest VRE, STAR, KREF, ESRT, and MFA Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/18/2024	MFA MFA Financial	JMP Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Market Outperform ➝ Market Outperform	$12.50
4/10/2024	KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$11.50 ➝ $10.00
4/9/2024	VRE Veris Residential	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Hold ➝ Hold	$15.00 ➝ $14.00
2/8/2024	KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$12.00 ➝ $11.50
2/8/2024	KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	Wells Fargo & Company Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$12.00 ➝ $10.50
2/7/2024	KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	JMP Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Market Outperform ➝ Market Outperform	$14.50 ➝ $13.00

(Data available from 4/24/2021 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	$739.57M	2.10	$1.64 per share	5.79	$10.62 per share	0.89
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	$640.41M	1.08	$2.32 per share	4.31	$20.26 per share	0.49
MFA MFA Financial	$605.60M	1.81	$1.67 per share	6.44	$18.64 per share	0.58
STAR iStar	$158.05M	0.00	N/A	1.16	$16.43 per share	0.00
VRE Veris Residential	$279.86M	4.99	N/A	N/A	$13.88 per share	1.09

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	$53.24M	$0.31	30.58	10.09	3.32	6.92%	2.99%	1.22%	4/24/2024 (Confirmed)
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	-$30.85M	-$0.78	N/A	7.48	N/A	-4.82%	10.59%	2.01%	4/24/2024 (Estimated)
MFA MFA Financial	$80.16M	$0.40	26.89	7.17	N/A	13.24%	9.44%	1.82%	5/6/2024 (Confirmed)
STAR iStar	$421.29M	$6.29	8.79	N/A	N/A	266.55%	-16.29%	-7.36%	N/A
VRE Veris Residential	-$107.26M	-$1.23	N/A	26.58	2.78	-38.30%	-11.53%	-4.32%	4/24/2024 (Confirmed)

Latest VRE, STAR, KREF, ESRT, and MFA Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
5/6/2024	N/A	MFA MFA Financial	$0.36	N/A	-$0.36	N/A	N/A	N/A
4/24/2024	N/A	ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	$0.19	N/A	-$0.19	N/A	N/A	N/A
4/24/2024	N/A	VRE Veris Residential	$0.11	N/A	-$0.11	N/A	N/A	N/A
2/22/2024	Q4 2023	MFA MFA Financial	$0.34	$0.46	+$0.12	$0.12	$43.75 million	$169.88 million

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	$0.14	1.48%	-12.64%	45.16%	N/A
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	$1.00	9.98%	N/A	N/A	N/A
MFA MFA Financial	$1.40	13.02%	+2.50%	350.00%	N/A
STAR iStar	$0.25	N/A	N/A	3.97%	N/A
VRE Veris Residential	$0.21	1.39%	-44.51%	N/A	N/A

Latest VRE, STAR, KREF, ESRT, and MFA Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
3/7/2024	MFA MFA Financial	Quarterly	$0.35	12.52%	3/27/2024	3/28/2024	4/30/2024
2/29/2024	VRE Veris Residential	Quarterly	$0.0520	1.4%	4/2/2024	4/3/2024	4/16/2024
2/1/2024	KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	Quarterly	$0.25	9.87%	3/27/2024	3/28/2024	4/15/2024
3/1/2024	ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	quarterly	$0.0350	1.4%	3/14/2024	3/15/2024	3/28/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	1.29	7.04	7.04
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	4.32	361.76	361.75
MFA MFA Financial	4.49	N/A	N/A
STAR iStar	1.18	10.40	10.40
VRE Veris Residential	1.45	1.01	1.01

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	67.10%
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	70.23%
MFA MFA Financial	65.28%
STAR iStar	84.11%
VRE Veris Residential	93.04%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	14.01%
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	1.60%
MFA MFA Financial	0.67%
STAR iStar	4.23%
VRE Veris Residential	15.00%

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ESRT Empire State Realty Trust	666	164.07 million	141.09 million	Optionable
KREF KKR Real Estate Finance Trust	N/A	69.31 million	68.21 million	Optionable
MFA MFA Financial	377	102.08 million	101.40 million	Optionable
STAR iStar	144	86.84 million	83.16 million	Optionable
VRE Veris Residential	197	92.23 million	78.40 million	Optionable

ESRT, MFA, VRE, STAR, and KREF Headlines

Source	Headline
	Nasdaq Futures Climb on Tesla Boost, Meta Earnings in Focus msn.com - April 24 at 7:21 AM
	OVERSEA CHINESE BANKING Corp Ltd Purchases 147,807 Shares of Veris Residential, Inc. (NYSE:VRE) marketbeat.com - April 20 at 4:23 PM
	Veris Residential (VRE) Scheduled to Post Earnings on Wednesday americanbankingnews.com - April 17 at 3:10 AM
	Veris Residential, Inc. Announces Dates for First Quarter 2024 Financial Results and Webcast finance.yahoo.com - April 15 at 10:21 AM
	Veris Residential, Inc. (NYSE:VRE) Short Interest Down 27.4% in March marketbeat.com - April 12 at 2:50 PM
	Truist Financial Lowers Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) Price Target to $14.00 marketbeat.com - April 9 at 2:26 PM
	Veris Residential (NYSE:VRE) Trading 5.8% Higher marketbeat.com - April 8 at 1:45 PM
	Veris Residential Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend prnewswire.com - February 29 at 5:26 PM
	Veris Residential beats top-line and bottom-line estimates; initiates FY24 outlook msn.com - February 22 at 10:44 AM
	Veris Residential, Inc. 2023 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation seekingalpha.com - February 22 at 8:50 AM
	Veris Residential (VRE) Surpasses Q4 FFO and Revenue Estimates finance.yahoo.com - February 21 at 11:28 PM
	Veris Residential, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results finance.yahoo.com - February 21 at 11:28 PM
	Compared to Estimates, Veris (VRE) Q4 Earnings: A Look at Key Metrics zacks.com - February 21 at 9:30 PM
	Veris Residential (VRE) Surpasses Q4 FFO and Revenue Estimates zacks.com - February 21 at 8:41 PM
	Veris Residential, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Results prnewswire.com - February 21 at 7:04 PM
	Veris Residential Inc (VRE) Reports Solid Growth in Core FFO and NOI for FY 2023 finance.yahoo.com - February 21 at 6:28 PM
	Veris Residential, Inc. Announces Dates for Fourth Quarter 2023 Financial Results and Webcast finance.yahoo.com - February 7 at 3:57 PM
	VRE Stock Sees Decline of Approximately -2.24% in Last Five Days knoxdaily.com - February 1 at 2:13 PM
	Veris Residential Announces Tax Treatment of 2023 Distributions finance.yahoo.com - January 22 at 11:01 AM
	An Analysis of Veris Residential Inc (VRE)’s Potential Price Growth knoxdaily.com - January 3 at 8:16 PM
	Veris Residential Stock (NYSE:VRE) Dividends: History, Yield and Dates benzinga.com - January 1 at 10:22 AM
	Veris Residential Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend finance.yahoo.com - December 18 at 10:59 PM
	Veris Residential Recognized as a Leader in ESG, DEI and Corporate Stewardship by Top Real Estate and Business Organizations finance.yahoo.com - November 16 at 1:46 PM
	Recent Insider Activity Could Benefit Veris Residential Inc (VRE) knoxdaily.com - November 6 at 2:57 PM

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Company Descriptions

Empire State Realty Trust

NYSE:ESRT

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT) is a NYC-focused REIT that owns and operates a portfolio of modernized, amenitized, and well-located office, retail, and multifamily assets. The company is the recognized leader in energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality. ESRT's flagship Empire State Building - the "World's Most Famous Building" - includes its Observatory, Tripadvisor's 2023 Travelers' Choice Awards: Best of the Best the #1 attraction in the US for two consecutive years. As of September 30, 2023, ESRT's portfolio is comprised of approximately 8.6 million rentable square feet of office space, 0.7 million rentable square feet of retail space and 727 residential units across three multifamily properties.

KKR Real Estate Finance Trust

NYSE:KREF

KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc., a mortgage real estate investment trust, focuses primarily on originating and acquiring transitional senior loans secured by commercial real estate (CRE) assets. It engages in the origination and purchase of credit investments related to CRE, including leveraged and unleveraged commercial real estate loans. The company has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust and would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

MFA Financial

NYSE:MFA

MFA Financial, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a real estate investment trust in the United States. It invests in residential mortgage securities, including non-agency mortgage-backed securities, agency MBS, and credit risk transfer securities; residential whole loans, including purchased performing loans, purchased credit deteriorated, and non-performing loans; and mortgage servicing rights related assets. The company was incorporated in 1997 and is based in New York, New York.

iStar

NYSE:STAR

Safehold, Inc. operates as a real estate company. It engages in acquiring, managing and capitalizing ground leases. The company was founded on June 13, 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Veris Residential

NYSE:VRE

Veris Residential, Inc. is a forward-thinking, environmentally and socially conscious real estate investment trust (REIT) that primarily owns, operates, acquires and develops holistically-inspired, Class A multifamily properties that meet the sustainability-conscious lifestyle needs of today's residents while seeking to positively impact the communities it serves and the planet at large. The company is guided by an experienced management team and Board of Directors and is underpinned by leading corporate governance principle; a best-in-class and sustainable approach to operations; and an inclusive culture based on equality and meritocratic empowerment.

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