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Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. REFI

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Chicago Atlantic Real Estate Finance, Inc. (NASDAQ: REFI) is a market-leading commercial mortgage REIT utilizing significant real estate, credit and cannabis expertise to originate senior secured loans primarily to state-licensed cannabis operators in limited-license states in the United States.

Snapshot

Price
$11.11
Market cap
$235.61M
Enterprise value
$324.20M
Dividend yieldi
16.92%
Annual dividendi
$1.88
Frequency
Quarterly
FFO / sharei
Not reported (common for mortgage REITs)
Distributable Earnings / sharei
$0.46 · Q1 2026
Net debt / EBITDAi
5.89x · GAAP est.
Op. cash flow / sharei
$1.34
Price / OCFi
8.27
Payout (% of OCF)i
139.94%
Debt / book capitali
27.73%
Premium / disc. to NAVi
No free consensus-NAV source
Credit ratingi
No free ratings feed

Reported FFO / Distributable Earnings / leverage are from the Q1 2026 earnings release (filed 2026-05-07) — 8-K, EX-99.1.

Yield uses the latest declared dividend, annualized (latest regular payout × frequency; special/liquidating distributions excluded) — an announced-but-not-yet-declared change isn't reflected until it has an ex-date. FFO, AFFO and Net debt / Adj. EBITDA are the company's reported figures from its latest earnings 8-K. Price/OCF and payout use GAAP operating cash flow. NAV premium and credit ratings have no free source yet. See Methodology.

Balance sheet (latest FY: 2025)

Total debt
$98.43M
Cash
$14.95M
Net debt / EBITDAi
5.89x
Debt / book capitali
27.73%
Total assets
$424.92M
Total equity
$307.81M
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Debt-maturity ladder, fixed/floating split, secured/unsecured and coverage ratios come from the supplemental — not yet ingested.

Financial history

FYRevenueNet incomeD&A EBITDAOp. cash flow
2025 $63.10M $36.01M $0.00 $36.01M $28.79M
2024 $54.78M $37.05M $0.00 $0.00 $23.16M
2023 $57.33M $38.71M $0.00 $0.00 $28.42M
2022 $48.86M $32.29M $563.46M $563.46M $17.01M
2021 $14.47M $12.66M $101.15K $101.15K $6.67M

Dividends

Ex-dateRecordPaymentDeclaredAmountFreq.
2026-03-312026-03-312026-04-15 2026-03-13$0.47Quarterly
2025-12-312025-12-312026-01-15 2025-12-19$0.47Quarterly
2025-09-302025-09-302025-10-15 2025-09-12$0.47Quarterly
2025-06-302025-06-302025-07-15 2025-06-16$0.47Quarterly
2025-03-312025-03-312025-04-15 2025-03-17$0.47Quarterly
2024-12-312024-12-312025-01-13 2024-12-20$0.65Special
2024-09-302024-09-302024-10-15 2024-09-16$0.47Quarterly
2024-06-282024-06-282024-07-15 2024-06-14$0.47Quarterly
2024-03-272024-03-282024-04-15 2024-03-15$0.47Quarterly
2023-12-282023-12-292024-01-12 2023-12-18$0.76Special
2023-09-282023-09-292023-10-13 2023-09-18$0.47Quarterly
2023-06-292023-06-302023-07-14 2023-06-16$0.47Quarterly
2023-03-302023-03-312023-04-14 2023-03-15$0.47Quarterly
2022-12-292022-12-302023-01-13 2022-12-15$0.76Special
2022-09-292022-09-302022-10-14 2022-09-14$0.47Quarterly
2022-06-292022-06-302022-07-15 2022-06-15$0.47Quarterly
2022-03-302022-03-312022-04-14 2022-03-22$0.40Quarterly
2021-12-302021-12-312022-01-14 $0.26Quarterly

Coverage (payout of operating cash flow): 139.94%. Tax-character split (ordinary / 199A / capital gain / return of capital) — not disclosed (requires the annual allocation release).

Same-store NOI, occupancy, leasing/WALT, top tenants, external-manager fees, development pipeline and (for non-traded vehicles) share-class fees, redemption/gating and NAV methodology are planned modules sourced from supplementals and prospectuses.

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