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Vol. II · No. 207Sunday, 26 July 2026
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The Screen · Real Estate · REIT - Mortgage

Lument Finance Trust, Inc.

LFT · the NYSE · USD · Market cap $57M

Lument Finance Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust, focuses on investing in, originating, financing, and managing a portfolio of commercial real estate (CRE) debt investments in the United States.

FAIL · Does not pass the screen
1.08 USD

At the last full screen
2026-06-14

Screened 2026-06-14 · the tape above runs as of 22:40 UTC · 24 Jul · two dates, stated on purpose · verdict and workings shown in full · never trimmed

The Label · The Season, Not the Day

This name holds its distribution label.

Lument Finance Trust, Inc. holds its Distribution at $1.08. The statistical read favours the sellers, held for 2 days.

As held on the ledger · 2026-06-14
PhaseDistribution · caution
Quantitative stateThe statistical read favours the sellers, held for 2 days
Price at the screen$1.08
ValuationN/A trailing · 4.32 forward price to earnings
Values screenFAIL · score 30.0
Beta0.59
The Workings

Five Screens, Shown in Full

Does not pass. Business activity

TestFigureLimitWhat it meansStatus
Business activity Excluded Core business clean Financial sector: mortgage Fail
Debt load 0.00% Below 33% Interest-bearing debt is just 0.0% of its assets, well under the one-third ceiling: it does not run on borrowed money. Pass
Interest-bearing cash 0.00% Below 33% Cash held in interest-bearing accounts and securities is 0.0% of assets, under the one-third limit. Pass
Receivables 0.00% Below 49% Money owed to the company is 0.0% of assets, under the 49% limit. Pass
Revenue purity 0.00% Below 5% Only 0.0% of revenue comes from non-compliant sources, under the 5% line. Pass

Five checks adapted from AAOIFI screening standards: business activity plus four balance-sheet ratios. All five must pass for ethical clearance. Every figure is arithmetic on public accounts, not judgement.

What the Numbers Say It Is Worth

The Fair Value Range

Our framework reads AVOID: it trades at roughly a 100% discount to our $2.16 fair value, weak competitive moat, 208.50% revenue growth.

2.16Conservative2.16Base case2.16Growth case 1.08Price

Fair value range in USD, drawn from the 2026-06-14 screen. The gold marker is the market price at the same screen. A 100.0% margin of safety to the base estimate.

Price History & Projections
$2.4$1.7$0.9TODAY5y agoPROJECTIONConservative$2.16 +114%Our fair value$2.16 +114%

Where it has been, where the models see it going. History from market close data; projection points are our fair-value estimates and third-party analyst targets, dated to the 2026-06-14 screen.

Fair value and rating are our own model estimates; the Street's range reflects third-party analyst estimates. Analysis, not advice.

The Business, in Plain Words

Why it gives us pause

At 4.3x forward earnings, the price already runs ahead of the business. Our fair value sits at $2.16, below where it trades today. The weak moat is real, but quality alone does not make an expensive price cheap.

The fundamentals · plain-English read
Forward P/E4.3xcheap for a company growing this fast
EPS, trailing-0.13
EPS, forward0.25
Revenue growth+208.5%growing very fast
Profit margin-13.2%currently unprofitable
Return on equity-0.9%not currently earning a positive return on equity
Dividend yield1,481.00%
Debt to equity4.53heavy leverage: higher risk if revenue softens
Current ratio185.49comfortably covers its short-term bills
Beta0.59steadier than the market
Short interest, float0.05%
52-week range1.00 - 2.63
MoatWEAK
Market cap$57M

The risks · The things to watch: it's a small-cap, so the share price can swing harder than the market; it carries a real debt load, which raises the stakes if revenue slips.

Plain-English interpretation of our own screen data. Analysis, not advice.

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The Dated Journal · Newest First, Never Edited

Every Entry, As Written

2026-07-18 Distribution $1.08 +0.0% Entry 3

The framework reads distribution. Smart money appears to be selling into strength. Institutional holders may be rotating out. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: FAIL. This security does not pass our values-based screening criteria. The risk-adjusted return profile shows negative risk-adjusted returns. Our composite framework grades it D, carrying a low risk profile. Technically it is sitting below its long-term trend line with momentum reading bearish. Over the past year the shares are down 56%. Our forward projection puts the odds of a 10% gain over the next month near 15%.

2026-07-03 Distribution $1.08 +0.0% Entry 2

The framework reads distribution. Smart money appears to be selling into strength. Institutional holders may be rotating out. Price has moved down 0.0% since our last review. Ethical screening: FAIL. This security does not pass our values-based screening criteria. The risk-adjusted return profile shows negative risk-adjusted returns.

2026-07-02 Distribution $1.08 Entry 1

The framework reads distribution. Smart money appears to be selling into strength. Institutional holders may be rotating out. Ethical screening: FAIL. This security does not pass our values-based screening criteria. The risk-adjusted return profile shows negative risk-adjusted returns.

Each entry above was written on its date, before the outcome. A journal you can prune is not a journal.

What Holding Actually Paid · Price Plus Dividends
If $1,000 had been placed · historical, not a promise
PeriodPrice thenPrice returnDivs per share$1,000 becameTotal return
1 month $1.16 -12.9% · $871 -12.9%
2 months $1.28 -21.1% · $789 -21.1%
3 months $1.33 -23.9% $0.04 $791 -20.9%
6 months $1.54 -34.2% $0.08 $710 -29.0%
1 year $2.30 -56.1% $0.18 $517 -48.3%
2 years $1.90 -47.0% $0.59 $840 -16.0%
3 years $1.27 -20.6% $0.86 $1,470 +47.0%
5 years $2.26 -55.3% $1.43 $1,079 +7.9%

Historical returns from market close data. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

The Ledger's Promise

This entry now belongs to the ledger. Whatever LFT does next, these words stay.

Lument Finance Trust, Inc. · LFT · Distribution · $1.08
Recorded 2026-06-14 · before the outcome · scored mechanically

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