diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldMapper.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldMapper.java
index 8920207778e76..62ff8bdede08e 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldMapper.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldMapper.java
@@ -265,11 +265,16 @@ public FieldStats<?> stats(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
             if (stats == null) {
                 return null;
             }
-            return new FieldStats.Double(stats.getMaxDoc(), stats.getDocCount(),
+            if (stats.hasMinMax()) {
+                return new FieldStats.Double(stats.getMaxDoc(), stats.getDocCount(),
                     stats.getSumDocFreq(), stats.getSumTotalTermFreq(),
                     stats.isSearchable(), stats.isAggregatable(),
-                    stats.getMinValue() == null ? null : stats.getMinValue() / scalingFactor,
-                    stats.getMaxValue() == null ? null : stats.getMaxValue() / scalingFactor);
+                    stats.getMinValue() / scalingFactor,
+                    stats.getMaxValue() / scalingFactor);
+            }
+            return new FieldStats.Double(stats.getMaxDoc(), stats.getDocCount(),
+                stats.getSumDocFreq(), stats.getSumTotalTermFreq(),
+                stats.isSearchable(), stats.isAggregatable());
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldTypeTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldTypeTests.java
index e1fdf10356444..dd66421986779 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldTypeTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/mapper/ScaledFloatFieldTypeTests.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.document.DoublePoint;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.LongPoint;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.SortedNumericDocValuesField;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.StoredField;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriterConfig;
@@ -143,6 +144,15 @@ public void testStats() throws IOException {
             assertNull(ft.stats(reader));
         }
         Document doc = new Document();
+        doc.add(new StoredField("scaled_float", -1));
+        w.addDocument(doc);
+        try (DirectoryReader reader = DirectoryReader.open(w)) {
+            // field exists, but has no point values
+            FieldStats<?> stats = ft.stats(reader);
+            assertFalse(stats.hasMinMax());
+            assertNull(stats.getMinValue());
+            assertNull(stats.getMaxValue());
+        }
         LongPoint point = new LongPoint("scaled_float", -1);
         doc.add(point);
         w.addDocument(doc);
@@ -152,7 +162,7 @@ public void testStats() throws IOException {
             FieldStats<?> stats = ft.stats(reader);
             assertEquals(-1/ft.getScalingFactor(), stats.getMinValue());
             assertEquals(10/ft.getScalingFactor(), stats.getMaxValue());
-            assertEquals(2, stats.getMaxDoc());
+            assertEquals(3, stats.getMaxDoc());
         }
         w.deleteAll();
         try (DirectoryReader reader = DirectoryReader.open(w)) {