Company Analysis

Dynex Capital, Inc. (DX)

NYSE: DX · Real Estate Investment Trusts · Glen Allen, VA · filing with the SEC since 1994
Grade4.5
◀ Past 5.4● Present 3.8▶ Future 4.8
2 est.

The grade of Dynex Capital, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
4.5/10
◀ Past5.425% of the headline
● Present3.845% of the headline
▶ Future4.830% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 7 read as filed from the record and 2 are SI estimates, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.4/1025% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
3.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

1 warning event since 2017; the latest 2024-12-19.

weight 45% of this tense · 30th percentile among 174 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Dynex Capital, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show 1 warning event: an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2024-12-19) (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
9.2/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+34.2% a year over 5 filed years; profit years unseen.

weight 33% of this tense · 92nd percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Dynex Capital, Inc.'s 5 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $39 million in fiscal 2009 to $127 million in fiscal 2013, up 34.2% a year; it rose in 4 of 4 years; it never fell from a peak (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span34.2%top 4% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 10% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak0.0%top 10% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.7/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 43.0% a year. 100% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 6 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 47th percentile among 156 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Dynex Capital, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 43.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 100% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 6 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-21, buying about $320 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearsbottom 3% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowtop 9% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

3.8/1045% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Financial health

as filed
3.6/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 13%: 13¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 86%: owes 86¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 36th percentile among 171 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Dynex Capital, Inc. earned about 13 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 86 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 75.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 17% of its family
  • return on equitytop 12% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforebottom 4% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
5.9/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 41% of 157 in its family.

weight 33% of this tense · 59th percentile among 157 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Dynex Capital, Inc.'s standing among 157 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $127 million in fiscal 2013 ranks in the bottom 21% by size; revenue growth of 37.6% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 2% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$127Mbottom 21% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth37.6%top 2% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

as filed
0.9/10

What are the people in charge doing?

bottom 9% of 160 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2024.

weight 22% of this tense · 9th percentile among 160 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Dynex Capital, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Popenoe, Smriti Laxman (Co-CEO and President, as filed), filing under that title since 2024-09-10, 2.2 years (bottom 14% of its family); the 11 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 2.7 years (bottom 4%); 9 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 11 people in charge now (bottom 8%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

What it rests on

  • officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge9 in three years among 11 peoplebottom 8% of its family
  • the median years the people in charge have filed2.7 yearsbottom 4% of its family
  • the chief executive's years on the record2.2 yearsbottom 14% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.8/1030% of the headline grade · 1 of 3 filed, 2 estimated

Room to expand

SI estimate
8.7/10

How much room does it have to grow?

SI estimate 8.7/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 22% of this tense · 87th percentile among 172 sector filers · read for itself

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, cash less debt against assets, which ranks in the top 13% of 172 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue.
How it was reasoned
one part: cash less debt against assets, the one part on file, ranked among 172 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Dynex Capital, Inc.'s room to expand is put at 8.7 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, cash less debt against assets, which ranks in the top 13% of 172 in its family; the record does not carry two of the four parts: cash less debt against assets, cash from operations less capital spending against revenue, gross margin, research against revenue. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

Growth drivers

as filed
8.1/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

top 20% of 153 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 80th percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Dynex Capital, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2013: revenue grew 37.6% a year over the last three filed years against 34.2% over all 5, speeding up (top 21% of its family); the newest year grew 12% (top 19%) (its annual reports). Dynex Capital, Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span+3.4 points a yeartop 21% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth12.0%top 19% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

SI estimate
0.5/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

SI estimate 0.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 45% of this tense · 5th percentile among 153 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, revenue against the prior three years' pace, which ranks in the bottom 5% of 153 in its family; the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
What the record cannot read
The record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change.
How it was reasoned
one part: revenue against the prior three years' pace, the one part on file, ranked among 153 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Dynex Capital, Inc.'s expectations vs reality is put at 0.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, revenue against the prior three years' pace, which ranks in the bottom 5% of 153 in its family; the record does not carry four filed years of revenue and two of the three parts: revenue against the prior pace, earnings against the prior average, the margin change. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton DX · research, not advice