NREF Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Nexpoint Real Estate Finance | NYSE:NREF)

NexPoint Real Estate Finance Inc is a real estate investment trust. The company provides structured financing solutions by investing in mid-sized multifamily, storage and select-service, and extended-stay hospitality properties. Its investment objective is to generate attractive, risk-adjusted returns for stockholders over the long term. The Company is focused on originating, structuring and investing in first-lien mortgage loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity, convertible notes, multifamily properties, and common equity investments, as well as multi-family and single-family rental ("SFR") commercial mortgage-backed securities securitizations ("CMBS securitizations"), multifamily structured credit risk notes ("MSCR Notes") and mortgage-backed securities.

Nexpoint Real Estate Finance trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol NREF.

As of February 18, 2026, NREF stock price declined to $14.70 with 32,647 million shares trading.

NREF has a beta of 0.39, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NREF has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NREF has a market cap of $260.40 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Nexpoint Real Estate Finance reported $12 million in Revenue and $.51 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $2 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.09.

In the last 3 years, NREF traded as high as $19.20 and as low as $12.14.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that NREF belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, IWM, REM, RIET, IWN.

NREF has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +7.1% while the SPY ETF gained +13.8%. However, in the short term, NREF had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +9.3% vs +3.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, NREF shares have been beat by the market, returning -1.7% compared to an SPY return of -0.5%.

NREF support price is $14.67 and resistance is $15.25 (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 NREF shares will trade within this expected range on the day.