KKR Real Estate Finance Trust/$KREF
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About KKR Real Estate Finance Trust
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc is a real estate finance company that focuses on originating and acquiring senior mortgage loans secured by CRE assets. The investment is to originate or acquire senior mortgage loans collateralized by institutional-quality CRE assets that are owned and operated by experienced and well-capitalized sponsors and located in liquid markets with underlying fundamentals. KKR manages investments across multiple asset classes, including private equity, real estates, energy, infrastructure, credit, and hedge funds. The company's investment objective is capital preservation and generating attractive risk-adjusted returns for its stockholders over the long term, through dividends.
- Ticker
- $KREF
- Sector
- Real Estate
- Primary listing
- NYSE
- Employees
- -
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Website
- www.kkrreit.com
KREF Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$398M
-
-$3.21
0.87
$0.85
5.89%
Price and volume
Market cap
$398M
Beta
0.87
52-week high
$9.73
52-week low
$5.25
Average daily volume
653K
Dividend rate
$0.85
Financial strength
Current ratio
4.385
Quick ratio
3.952
Long term debt to equity
3.316
Total debt to equity
4.358
Profitability
Gross margin (TTM)
142.18%
Net profit margin (TTM)
255.39%
Operating margin (TTM)
197.17%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
0.08%
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
-2.83%
Return on equity (TTM)
-16.52%
Valuation
Price to revenue (TTM)
-6.057
Price to book
0.65
Price to tangible book (TTM)
0.65
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
10.519
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
9.51%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
0.645
Dividend yield (TTM)
12.52%
Forward dividend yield
5.89%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
-279.30%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
392.31%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
94.02%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
32.90%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
-20.94%
Bulls say / Bears say
Raymond James upgraded KKR Real Estate Finance Trust to Strong Buy from Market Perform, highlighting analyst confidence in KREF’s strategic repositioning and dividend coverage (Thomson Reuters)
KREF and TMG Partners leased the entire 350-380 Ellis office campus in Mountain View, California, to OpenAI in March 2026, securing long‐term income on a Class A asset (Reuters)
KREF outperformed Wall Street estimates in Q2 2026, reporting an adjusted loss of $0.04 per share versus the consensus $0.08 loss, demonstrating operational resilience (Reuters)
KREF’s GAAP EPS loss widened to $0.53 per share in Q2 2026, reflecting weakened earnings power in a challenging CRE finance environment (Reuters)
Revenue fell 25.4% year-over-year to $30.17 million in Q2 2026, signaling top-line contraction and reduced net interest spread (Reuters)
Distributable loss deepened to $36.4 million ($0.58 per share) in Q2 2026, up from $4.1 million in Q1, straining the trust’s ability to rebuild retained earnings (KKR 8-K)
Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 4 Sept 2026.
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Funds containing KREF
Fund name | Fund size | $KREF weighting |
|---|---|---|
SPDR Russell 2000 US Small Cap€R2US | €4.8B | 0.01% |
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