KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (KREF)

Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.

Invested capital is equity plus debt less cash. A financial company's debt and cash are operating positions, so returns measured against that base are not comparable to an operating business.

This filer reports no gross profit line, so there is no gross margin to compute. Banks, insurers and REITs do not present cost of revenue.

Our archived income statement for this filer carries no revenue line. A development-stage company files exactly that, with no revenue to report. Either way there is no denominator, and a ratio measured against a missing denominator is not zero, it is nothing.

Our archived income statement for this filer carries no revenue line. A development-stage company files exactly that, with no revenue to report. Either way there is no denominator, and a ratio measured against a missing denominator is not zero, it is nothing.

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

A property trust presents an unclassified balance sheet: buildings are long-lived assets and mortgage debt is drawn against them, so there is no split between current and non-current for a current ratio to divide. Look at net debt to EBITDA and interest coverage instead.

A property trust presents an unclassified balance sheet: buildings are long-lived assets and mortgage debt is drawn against them, so there is no split between current and non-current for a current ratio to divide. Look at net debt to EBITDA and interest coverage instead.

Interest is what a lender pays for its inventory of money, not a financing charge sitting below the operating line. Interest coverage is not defined for lenders.

Altman's Z-Score was estimated on manufacturers and explicitly excludes financial firms. A financial company scores in the distress zone by construction, so the number would be wrong rather than alarming. Not applicable to financials.

The FY2025 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

Our archived income statement for this filer carries no revenue line. A development-stage company files exactly that, with no revenue to report. Either way there is no denominator, and a ratio measured against a missing denominator is not zero, it is nothing.

Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.

Enterprise value adds debt and subtracts cash. For a financial company both are the business itself, so the resulting multiple has no economic meaning.

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

Earnings are zero or negative, so a price to earnings multiple is not meaningful. A negative P/E is not a cheap company and a large positive one from a near-zero denominator is not an expensive one.

For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.

The FY2025 filing carries no free cash flow we could read.

For a bank, an insurer, a broker or investment firm, or a mortgage trust, operating cash flow swings with the size of the loan, trading and funding book rather than with operating performance, so free cash flow is not the measure of the business. Look at earnings and capital adequacy.

A mortgage REIT distributes out of distributable earnings, a non-GAAP figure defined differently by each issuer and not tagged in XBRL. We will not approximate it.

The Beneish M-Score is built on gross margin, receivables and asset quality indices estimated on non-financial firms. Those inputs are not defined here.

4 of the nine Piotroski signals are undefined for a mortgage REIT: signal 5 (falling long-term leverage), signal 6 (rising current ratio), signal 8 (rising gross margin), signal 9 (rising asset turnover). We do not publish a partial score under the full score's name.