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Lument Finance Trust

LFT on NYSE. Lument Finance Trust lends money to owners of apartment buildings. Market value $261m.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.

Cash flow or capital spending isn't reported, so free cash flow is unknown.

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Not a fit for our list right now

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Cash yield
annual report to December 2025
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We could not compute this from the filings.

Price to profit
annual report to December 2025
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The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
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The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Quality score: not known. Price score: not known. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$5.09 a share, 3% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $4.96 to $18.90.

Dividend: 3.5% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

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Revenue
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Operating margin
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Shares outstanding
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Health checks

  • Free cash flow positiveNot enough data
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)Not enough data
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • DebtUnknown
  • Revenue growth, five yearsUnknown
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • A loss of $8 million, after a profit of $4 million a year ago.
  • About the same number of shares as a year ago.
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$6m
December 2024$5m
March 2025-$522,568
June 2025$4m
September 2025$2m
December 2025-$8m
March 2026$206,583
June 2026-$8m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
23 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
12 November 2026

Who owns it

None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 52 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

2 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

In the last 12 months, 4 insiders bought $439,929 of shares on the open market. 1 sold $70,828.

Cluster buy3 insiders bought within 30 days (18 August 2026 to 24 August 2026).
  • BRIGGS JAMES A
    Chief Financial Officer
    Bought
    Date
    24 August 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $0.69
    Value
    $13,798
  • Flynn James Peter
    CEO
    Bought
    Date
    24 August 2026
    Shares
    10,000
    Price
    $0.68
    Value
    $6,825
  • Flynn James Peter
    CEO
    Bought
    Date
    21 August 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $0.68
    Value
    $13,642
  • Flynn James Peter
    CEO
    Bought
    Date
    20 August 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $0.63
    Value
    $12,558
  • HOULIHAN WILLIAM A
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    20 August 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $0.62
    Value
    $12,400
  • Flynn James Peter
    CEO
    Bought
    Date
    19 August 2026
    Shares
    24,000
    Price
    $0.61
    Value
    $14,602
  • Flynn James Peter
    CEO
    Bought
    Date
    18 August 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $0.61
    Value
    $12,132
  • HOULIHAN WILLIAM A
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    18 August 2026
    Shares
    20,000
    Price
    $0.60
    Value
    $12,000
  • HOULIHAN WILLIAM A
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    21 May 2026
    Shares
    10,000
    Price
    $1.19
    Value
    $11,900
  • HOULIHAN WILLIAM A
    Director
    Bought
    Date
    20 May 2026
    Shares
    10,000
    Price
    $1.14
    Value
    $11,400

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 23 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 13 Aug 2026 and 5 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.

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The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
  • Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
  • The three things that would make this a mistake
  • Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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