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 August 14, 2026, CIM stock price declined to $11.81 with 319,291 million shares trading.

CIM has a beta of 0.46, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. CIM has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

CIM has a market cap of $987.85 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Chimera Investment reported $71 million in Revenue and $.46 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-10 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.07.

In the last 3 years, CIM traded as high as $18.78 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 price return of -2.7% while the SPY ETF gained +21.5%. CIM has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -8.0% and -6.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.8% and +4.7%, respectively.

CIM support price is $11.71 and resistance is $12.01 (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.