PennyMac Financial reports Q4 EPS 71c, consensus $1.15

Reports Q4 revenue $340.4M, consensus $356.41M. "PennyMac Financial produced strong results in 2022, a year characterized by a rapid and significant increase in mortgage rates," said Chairman and CEO David Spector. "The 14 percent return on equity achieved in 2022 can be attributed to the resilience and scale of our balanced business model and the decisive actions taken throughout the year to right-size our business for the much smaller origination market. While production activity fell in 2022 our servicing earnings were strong. In fact, the majority of PennyMac Financial’s income in 2022 was generated by our large and growing servicing portfolio, which totaled more than $550 billion in unpaid principal balance at year end, up 8 percent from the prior year. Strong financial performance not only enabled us to continue returning capital to stockholders and investing in innovative mortgage banking technology, but also resulted in solid growth in PFSI‘s book value per share, which ended the year up 16 percent from year end 2021."