PennyMac Mortgage reports Q1 EPS 39c, consensus 32c

“PMT‘s results in the first quarter reflect solid overall performance driven by strong results in the credit sensitive strategies and correspondent production partially offset by net fair value declines in the interest rate sensitive strategies,” said Chairman and CEO David Spector. “We continue to leverage PMT’s synergistic relationship with its manager and services provider, PFSI, to actively manage PMT’s portfolio. We took advantage of meaningful credit spread tightening in recent periods, opportunistically selling more than $100 million of previously-purchased GSE CRT bonds and realizing significant gains on these investments, which we believe no longer meet our long-term return requirements. Additionally, credit spread tightening drove our ability to issue more than $550 million in CRT term notes at attractive terms, effectively refinancing similar notes.”