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 December 18, 2025, NREF stock price climbed to $14.57 with 67,119 million shares trading.

NREF has a beta of 0.48, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. NREF has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

NREF has a market cap of $258.09 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 $19.95 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 return of +1.7%, while SPY returned +13.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in NREF shares. However, NREF has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +7.8% and +1.9%, while SPY returned +2.9% and -1.1%, respectively. This indicates NREF has been having a stronger performance recently.

NREF support price is $14.30 and resistance is $14.74 (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.