TWO Reports Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

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Mortgage Performance Drives Positive Quarterly Return with Stable MSR Spreads

NEW YORK, October 28, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TWO (Two Harbors Investment Corp., NYSE: TWO), an MSR-focused real estate investment trust (REIT), today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024.

Quarterly Summary

  • Reported book value of $14.93 per common share, and declared a third quarter common stock dividend of $0.45 per share, representing a 1.3% quarterly economic return on book value. For the first nine months of 2024, generated a 7.0% total economic return on book value.(1)

  • Generated Comprehensive Income of $19.3 million, or $0.18 per weighted average basic common share.

  • Settled $3.3 billion in unpaid principal balance (UPB) of MSR through bulk and flow-sale acquisitions and recapture.

  • Completed first full quarter of direct-to-consumer originations activities, funding $22.4 million UPB in first lien loans and brokering $7.5 million UPB in second lien loans.

  • Post quarter-end, committed to purchase an additional $2.1 billion UPB of MSR through a bulk acquisition.

"With MSR at our core, we have built an investment portfolio with RMBS that has less exposure to changes in mortgage spreads than portfolios without MSR, while still preserving upside to decreasing volatility and spread tightening," stated Bill Greenberg, TWO’s President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are intently focused on providing high-quality investment returns, and our combined strategy is designed to extract the most value that we can from our MSR asset for the benefit of our shareholders. We are thoughtfully augmenting our investment portfolio with additional revenue and hedging opportunities in order to further enhance a strategy that we expect will deliver attractive results for our shareholders through a variety of market environments."

"Our portfolio benefited from the net performance of mortgages in the third quarter, but performance across the stack was uneven. We entered the quarter with an up-in-coupon bias, but as interest rates declined we shifted our TBA coupons lower, tracking the change in current coupon exposure coming from our MSR," stated Nick Letica, TWO’s Chief Investment Officer. "MSR valuations remain well supported with strong demand as the supply of bulk sales continues to normalize from the record levels of the past few years. Nevertheless, we believe there will continue to be opportunities to add MSR at attractive levels, enhanced by our deep expertise coupled with the benefits of our in-house servicing and recapture operations."