NMFC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (New Mountain Finance | NASDAQ:NMFC)

New Mountain Finance Corp is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. It invests in equity interests such as preferred stock, common stock, warrants, or options received in connection with debt investments or may include direct investment in the equity of private companies. The company's investment objective is to generate current income and capital appreciation through sourcing and origination of debt securities at all levels of the capital structure, including first and second-lien debt, notes, bonds and mezzanine securities.

New Mountain Finance trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol NMFC.

As of February 27, 2026, NMFC stock price declined to $7.65 with 2,181,894 million shares trading.

NMFC has a beta of 0.47, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NMFC has a correlation of 0.13 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NMFC has a market cap of $771.17 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter New Mountain Finance reported $77 million in Revenue and $.32 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, NMFC traded as high as $13.23 and as low as $7.53.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NMFC belongs to (by Net Assets): BIZD, KBWD, FBDC, PCR.

NMFC has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -24.0% while the SPY ETF gained +16.6%. NMFC has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -17.1% and -9.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +1.2% and +0.7%, respectively.

NMFC support price is $7.55 and resistance is $7.87 (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 NMFC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.