MFA Financial's CEO Discusses Q1 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

MFA Financial, Inc., (MFA)

Q1 2012 Earnings Call

May 4, 2012 10:00 am ET

Executives

Alexandra Giladi – Investor Relations

Stewart Zimmerman – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Stephen D. Yarad – Chief Financial Officer

Craig L. Knutson – Executive Vice President

Analysts

Bose George – Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.

Steven Delaney – JMP Securities

Jason Arnold – RBC Capital Markets

Douglas Harter – Credit Suisse

Jason Weaver – Sterne Agee & Leach Inc.

Arren Cyganovich – Evercore Partners

Christopher R. Donat – Sandler O'Neill

Daniel Furtado – Jefferies & Co.

Alan Straus – Schroders

Michael Widner – Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc.

Presentation

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the MFA Financial, Inc. First Quarter 2012 Earnings Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we’ll conduct a question-and-answer session, instructions will be given at that time. (Operator instructions) As a reminder this conference is being recorded.

I’ll now like to turn the conference over to Alexandra Giladi. Please go ahead.

Alexandra Giladi

Good morning. Information discussed on this conference call today may contain or refer to forward-looking statements regarding MFA Financial, Inc., which reflect management’s beliefs, expectations, and assumptions as to MFA’s future performance and operations.

When used, statements that are not historical in nature, including those containing words such as, will, believe, expect, anticipate, estimate, plan, continue, intend, should, could, would, may or similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made.