Q1 2021 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp Earnings Call

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I would now like to hand, the conference over to your speaker for today, Mr. Jeffrey Markowitz the floor is yours.

Good morning, and thank you for joining us for our presentation of Freddie Mac first quarter 2021 financial results and Jeff Mark Lynch Deputy Chief administrative officer, we're joined today by our CFO Chris Lown.

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Good morning, and thank you for joining us for our call today, where I will discuss our first quarter 2021 financial results.

Chart with our mission to provide liquidity stability and affordability to the U S housing market.

Freddie Mac supply $377 billion of liquidity to the single family and multifamily segments in the quarter.

Our funding helped 1.4 million families purchase refinance or rent a home a significant increase compared with the 637000, we supported in the first quarter of 2020.

Some key first quarter highlights include strong refinancing activity helped us to provide funding that reduced mortgage payments for 940000 families.

We provided support for 113001st time, homebuyers, representing 46% of home purchase loans.

And 77% of the 134000 multifamily units, we financed were affordable to families, making at or below 80% of the area median income.

97%, we're within reach of moderate income families, making at or below a 120% of Ami.

Also in the quarter, we took further action to reduce the pandemic destabilizing effects on homeowners renters in the markets.

We extended our single family for Kozar, an eviction moratorium covering approximately 12 million homeowners until at least June 30th.

We extended forbearance to a maximum of 18 months for the approximately 230000 single family borrowers remaining in forbearance.

Similarly, we extended COVID-19 related forbearance to qualifying multifamily property owners for another three months to June 30th.

And tenants of those properties remain protected from infection for nonpayment of rent.

Overall, we helped hundreds of thousands of at risk homeowners and renters remain in their homes, while supporting a vibrant U S housing finance system that remained a source of strength for the national economy.

Turning to our first quarter financial results Freddie Mac reported net income of $2 $8 billion and comprehensive income of $2 4 billion.

Increases of $2 6 billion and $1 8 billion, respectively from the year ago quarter. These increases were driven by mortgage portfolio growth and higher upfront fee income recognition in single family.

Strong margins on loan commitments in multifamily and lower credit expenses.

First quarter net revenues totaled $5 3 billion, an increase of almost 120% compared to $2 $4 billion in the prior year quarter net.

Net interest income in the quarter increased by 31% year over year to $3 6 billion.

This was primarily driven by growth in our single family mortgage portfolio and higher upfront fee income recognition due to faster loan prepayments as a result of the low mortgage interest rate environment.

Net investment gains were $1 $2 billion.

Compared to net investment losses of zero point $8 billion in the prior year quarter, primarily driven by continued strong margins on multifamily loan commitments.

The prior year quarter included significant spread related losses as a result of the market volatility caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Credit related expenses were 0.4 billion compared to $1 1 billion in the first quarter of 2020.

This reduction was primarily driven by improving economic conditions in the first quarter of 2021.

Partially offset by a decrease in credit enhancement recoveries.

Credit related expense in the prior year quarter was primarily driven by the negative economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Turning to our individual business segments as you can see we have realigned our financial statements from three segments to two segments single family and multifamily.

And the single family segment net income increased by $1 $3 billion from the prior year quarter to $1 $7 billion.

This increase was primarily driven by higher net interest income, which was mainly due to 22% portfolio growth and increased upfront fee income recognition associated with faster loan prepayments.

In addition, it was partly driven by lower credit related expense.

New business activity of $362 billion increased on strong home purchase and refinance activity compared to the first quarter of 2020, but declined slightly from the fourth quarter of 2020.

The single family serious delinquency rate of 234% continued to decline from its pandemic peak in the third quarter of 2020.

We helped nearly 94000 families remain in their homes through a single family loan workout activity that increased from 11000 in the prior year quarter, driven by completed four brands agreements and payment deferrals, primarily related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The multifamily business segment reported net income of nearly $1 billion compared to a loss of $238 million in the prior year quarter.

This increase was mainly driven by investment gains, which were primarily due to continued robust margins and multifamily loan commitments. Those gains were partially offset by lower guarantee fee income driven by higher fair value losses on the guarantee asset as a result of an increase in interest rates from the prior year quarter.

The fair value losses occurred because most multifamily loans are not pre payable without penalty and therefore increases in interest rates generally result in lower multifamily guaranty asset fair values.

We saw multifamily new business activity of $14 billion up 40% from $10 billion in the prior year quarter, the multifamily mortgage portfolio increased by 15% in the year ago comparison to 394 billion.

Driven by new securitization activity.

Delinquency rate, which does not include multifamily loans in forbearance increased to 0.17% compared with 0.08% in the first quarter of 2020.

Approximately 92% of the multifamily mortgage portfolio was covered by credit enhancements with first lost credit enhancement provided by subordination.

On the capital front, our capital position, our net worth increased to $18 8 billion.

Compared to $9 $5 billion as of March 31, 2020.

In summary, Freddie Mac posted solid earnings in the first quarter of 2021 and continue to build capital while delivering on its final mission to make home possible for millions of families with that thank you all for joining us today.

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