CIM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Chimera Investment | NYSE:CIM)

Chimera Investment Corporation is an internally managed REIT whose principal business objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns and distributable income through investment performance linked to mortgage credit fundamentals. Through its mortgage lending, investment management, and advisory services platforms, the Company operates as a fully integrated mortgage business that originates, manages, and invests in a diversified range of mortgage assets. The Company invests, directly or indirectly, generally on a levered basis across a spectrum of mortgage assets, including residential mortgage loans, Non-Agency RMBS, Agency RMBS, Agency CMBS, MSRs, business purpose and investor loans, including RTLs, and other real estate-related assets.

Chimera Investment trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol CIM.

As of April 2, 2026, CIM stock price climbed to $12.84 with 918,089 million shares trading.

CIM has a beta of 0.68, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CIM has a correlation of 0.14 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CIM has a market cap of $1.07 billion. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Chimera Investment reported $66 million in Revenue and $.53 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-15 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, CIM traded as high as $19.47 and as low as $9.85.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that CIM belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, VB, VBR, VXF.

CIM has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +12.9%, while SPY returned +18.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in CIM shares. However, CIM has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +6.9% and +1.6%, while SPY returned -3.6% and -0.6%, respectively. This indicates CIM has been having a stronger performance recently.

CIM support price is $12.33 and resistance is $12.80 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that CIM shares will trade within this expected range on the day.