Granite Point Mortgage Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust, which focuses on originating, investing in, and managing senior floating-rate commercial mortgage loans, other debt and debt-like commercial real estate investments. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 35 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2017-06-23. The firm focuses primarily on directly originating, investing in and managing senior floating-rate commercial mortgage loans and other debt and debt-like commercial real estate investments. Its investment objective is to preserve its stockholder's capital while generating attractive risk-adjusted returns over the long term, primarily through dividends derived from current income produced by its investment portfolio. The company is focused on originating, investing in and managing a portfolio of primarily senior floating-rate commercial real estate loans and other debt and debt-like instruments secured by various types of institutional quality commercial properties located in markets across the United States. The firm provides intermediate-term bridge or transitional financing for a variety of purposes, including acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinancings and a range of business plans.