Company / CIK 0001411342
Ellington Financial Inc.
- Ticker
- EFC
- Size, estimated from filings
- Small cap ($300M – $2B)
- Insiders on file
- 7
- Members of Congress who traded it
- 1
- Federal contracts on record
- none matched
- Lobbying filings on record
- none matched
- SEC filings
- EDGAR ↗
- Latest trade on record
- September 9, 2026
Ellington Financial Inc. (EFC) has 7 insiders on file who disclosed 10 transactions in the last 12 months (0 open-market buys, 0 sales, about $0 at reported prices), and 1 congressional trade in its stock is on record. No federal contract award that started in the last 180 days was found for a recipient with exactly this name; no lobbying filing names it as client this year.
Ellington Financial Inc. in charts
Who is trading this stock
Which people account for the buying and selling over the last 12 months?
1 person accounts for the disclosed buying and selling in Ellington Financial Inc. over the last 12 months; the most active is Rep. Virginia Foxx with $15K.
Insiders
| Name | Role | Rows | Bought | Sold | Last filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dannhauser Stephen J | Director | 2 | 0 | 0 | September 10, 2026 |
| Mumford Lisa | Director | 4 | 0 | 0 | September 10, 2026 |
| SIMON RONALD I | Director | 3 | 1 | 0 | September 10, 2026 |
| Resendez Edward | Director | 2 | 0 | 0 | September 10, 2026 |
| Vranos Michael W | Co-Chief Investment Officer | 2 | 0 | 0 | August 6, 2026 |
| Herlihy John | Chief Financial Officer | 1 | 0 | 0 | December 19, 2025 |
| Smernoff Chris | Chief Accounting Officer | 1 | 0 | 0 | December 19, 2025 |
Rows are this company's Form 4 rows for each person. "Bought" and "sold" count open-market purchases (code P) and sales only. More in insider buying and insider selling.
Members of Congress who traded EFC
From periodic transaction reports that name the company's stock. Amounts are the sums of the ranges as filed. Every row is on the EFC page.
| Member | Seat | Trades | Bought | Sold | Range as filed | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Foxx | Representative (NC, District 5), Republican | 1 | 1 | 0 | $1,001–$15K | December 30, 2025 |
Insider transactions
| Filer | Security | Side | Trade date | Disclosed | Lag | Shares | Price | Value | Flags | Source | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIMON RONALD I | EFC | Other A | September 9, 2026 | September 10, 2026 | 1d | 10,181 | — | — | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Resendez Edward | EFC | Other A | September 9, 2026 | September 10, 2026 | 1d | 10,181 | — | — | derivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Dannhauser Stephen J | EFC | Other A | September 9, 2026 | September 10, 2026 | 1d | 10,181 | — | — | derivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Mumford Lisa | EFC | Other A | September 9, 2026 | September 10, 2026 | 1d | 10,181 | — | — | Form 4 ↗ | ||
| Vranos Michael W | EFC | Other J | August 5, 2026 | August 6, 2026 | 1d | 6,794 | — | — | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Vranos Michael W | EFC | Other J | May 11, 2026 | May 13, 2026 | 2d | 161,934 | — | — | indirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Mumford Lisa | EFC | Option / conversion M | December 31, 2025 | January 5, 2026 | 5d | 7,657 | — | — | latederivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Mumford Lisa | EFC | Other A | December 31, 2025 | January 5, 2026 | 5d | 7,657 | — | — | late | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Smernoff Chris | EFC | Other A | December 17, 2025 | December 19, 2025 | 2d | 18,209 | — | — | derivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Herlihy John | EFC | Other A | December 17, 2025 | December 19, 2025 | 2d | 36,417 | — | — | derivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Resendez Edward | EFC | Other A | September 10, 2025 | October 2, 2025 | 22d | 9,198 | — | — | latederivative | Form 4 ↗ | |
| SIMON RONALD I | EFC | Buy P | September 11, 2025 | October 2, 2025 | 21d | 5,544 | $14 | $75K | lateindirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| SIMON RONALD I | EFC | Other A | September 10, 2025 | October 2, 2025 | 22d | 9,198 | — | — | lateindirect | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Mumford Lisa | EFC | Other A | September 10, 2025 | October 2, 2025 | 22d | 9,198 | — | — | late | Form 4 ↗ | |
| Dannhauser Stephen J | EFC | Other A | September 10, 2025 | October 2, 2025 | 22d | 9,198 | — | — | latederivative | Form 4 ↗ |
Federal contracts (USAspending, awards started in the last 180 days)
No contract award starting in the last 180 days was found for a recipient named exactly "Ellington Financial Inc.". Subsidiaries and differently-spelled recipients are not matched — search contracts.
Lobbying (Senate LDA, as client)
No LDA filing posted since October 2025 names "Ellington Financial Inc." as the client. Filings under a subsidiary or trade-association name are not matched — search lobbying.
Related companies
Companies whose stock was traded by the same people who traded EFC, by number of filers in common. It shows overlap in public filings and nothing else.
- Public Storage PSA 1 filer in common
- Hercules Capital, Inc. HTGC 1 filer in common
- ALLIANCE RESOURCE PARTNERS LP ARLP 1 filer in common
Guides for this page
- What is SEC Form 4? Who files: officers, directors and owners of more than 10% of a class of the company's shares.
- Insider buying vs insider selling Selling outweighs buying by a wide margin in normal times.
- What disclosure data cannot tell you Filings are late by design: up to 45 days for Congress, two business days for insiders.
Sources and method
| Source | Filings | Rows | First filed | Newest filed | Read the originals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Clerk, periodic transaction reports | 1 | 1 | January 5, 2026 | January 5, 2026 | House Clerk search |
| SEC EDGAR, Form 4 | 13 | 15 | October 2, 2025 | September 10, 2026 | Form 4 list on EDGAR |
Site built October 22, 2026. Every row in the tables above links to its own filing. To quote a figure, use the Cite button at the top of the page; see how to cite and reuse.
Insiders and their transactions come from SEC EDGAR Form 4 filings for this issuer. Contracts and lobbying are matched by exact normalized name (suffixes like Inc./Corp. ignored) to USAspending recipients and LDA clients — a conservative match that misses subsidiaries on purpose. See methodology and corrections.
Not investment advice. Public records shown as filed; no recommendation is made or implied.