Ellington Financial Inc. Payments For Securities Purchased Under Agreements To Resell increased by 1.1% to $17.00B in Q1 2026 compared to the prior quarter. Year-over-year, this metric grew by 3.7%, from $16.39B to $17.00B. Over 4 years (FY 2021 to FY 2025), Payments For Securities Purchased Under Agreements To Resell shows an upward trend with a 34.9% CAGR.
Higher payments indicate increased deployment of cash into short-term secured assets, often to earn interest on idle capital.
Cash outflows for entering into reverse repurchase agreements, where the company lends cash to counterparties secured by...
Common for firms with large cash balances; peers report this as a standard investing activity.
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| Value | $5.38B | $7.81B | $4.30B | $8.77B | $7.83B | $10.08B | $11.02B | $10.44B | $8.42B | $9.05B | $10.26B | $8.35B | $5.58B | $11.05B | $16.66B | $16.39B | $16.59B | $14.38B | $16.81B | $17.00B |
| QoQ Change | — | +45.2% | -44.9% | +103.9% | -10.7% | +28.8% | +9.3% | -5.3% | -19.3% | +7.5% | +13.4% | -18.6% | -33.1% | +97.9% | +50.7% | -1.6% | +1.2% | -13.3% | +16.9% | +1.1% |
| YoY Change | — | — | — | — | +45.6% | +29.1% | +156.2% | +19.1% | +7.5% | -10.2% | -6.9% | -20.0% | -33.7% | +22.1% | +62.4% | +96.2% | +197.1% | +30.1% | +0.9% | +3.7% |