Public snapshot
EARN Income Quality Score
Ellington Credit Company (EARN) has an Income Quality Score of 37/100, classified as a Question Mark with high confidence, based on a 10-year income and total-return history.
Ellington Credit Company (EARN) is a business development company (BDC) and is part of the IQ Score universe.
This is the public July 2026 snapshot. Public snapshots are delayed and frozen: once released, a month's scores do not change, and current data is reserved for members. The July 2026 snapshot is published as the public launch snapshot.
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IQ Score History
Reconstructed monthly scores are computed from current data and methodology. Published snapshots are the frozen monthly releases, marked on the line. Where the methodology changed, the line is broken rather than joined across the change.
Signals & Drivers
IQ signal scores
Each signal is normalised to 0–100 and combined by weight into the overall IQ Score.
What to watch
- Distributions exceed long-term total return
- drawdown severe
- 1–2 years with a material annual distribution decline
- yield unsupported
Flags & gates
- Yield Trap
- Deep Unrecovered Drawdown
Distribution Safety
High confidence (10-year history)
- 20131.14Held
- 20142.2Raised
- 20152.0Lower total
- 20161.65Lower total
- 20171.57Lower total
- 20181.45Lower total
- 20191.18Cut
- 20201.12Lower total
- 20211.18Raised
- 20221.04Cut
- 20230.96Lower total
- 20240.96Held
- 20250.96Held
- 20260.48Partial year
Distributions per year, from the frozen distribution-stability signal. “Lower total” means the calendar-year sum was smaller than the prior year (often a special-distribution rolloff or timing shift), but did not decline more than the engine's 10% material-decline threshold — see Years Cut above for years that did.
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IQ Score is a long-duration quality and distribution-safety classification for income assets. It is research based on historical data, not personal investment advice, and it does not tell you what to buy or sell. Figures reflect a delayed public snapshot and may differ from current data.