Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2016 Financial Results

ATLANTA, Aug. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Highlights

• Q2 2016 net loss attributable to common stockholders of $11.6 million or ($0.10) basic and diluted loss per common share reflecting a $90.4 million net loss on interest rate hedges
• Q2 2016 core earnings* of $47.3 million, core earnings per common share* of $0.42, and a common stock dividend of $0.40 per share
• Q2 2016 book value per diluted common share** of $17.08 vs. $16.53 at Q1 2016 and $17.14 at Q4 2015
• Economic return*** for the three and six months ended June 30, 2016 of 5.7% and 4.3%, respectively
• Q2 2016 comprehensive income attributable to common stockholders was $106.5 million or $0.95 per common share vs. comprehensive loss attributable to common stockholders of $33.9 million or ($0.30) per common share for Q1 2016
• Funded one commercial loan totaling $13 million in Q2 2016

Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. IVR (the "Company") today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2016, reporting basic earnings of ($0.10) per common share, core earnings* of $0.42 per common share and book value per diluted common share** of $17.08.

Despite low global growth and continued market uncertainty, credit spreads tightened in the second quarter of 2016. The Company's high quality asset portfolio appreciated, driving our book value per diluted common share** higher by 3.3% for the quarter. "Our equity is allocated 60% to commercial and residential credit assets, and 40% to Agency RMBS as of June 30, 2016. We believe the Company is positioned well, with a high quality asset mix, appropriate capitalization and a balanced risk profile. Assuming reasonable market conditions, we anticipate continued credit spread tightening in our portfolio as global investors search for yield and stability," said Richard King, President and CEO. Available cash flow during the quarter was used primarily to increase holdings of 15 year Agency RMBS in an effort to maintain a neutral interest rate risk profile amid falling interest rates.

"Our assets continue to improve as they season and benefit from growing borrower equity due to property price appreciation," said Mr. King. The Company remains committed to employing capital in strategies intended to optimize risk-adjusted returns to its stockholders. "Improving asset quality, shorter maturities, and modest leverage in our portfolio should continue to reduce book value volatility and improve economic return,***" added Mr. King.

* Core earnings (and by calculation, core earnings per common share) are non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") financial measures. Refer to the section entitled "Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for important disclosures and a reconciliation to the most comparable U.S. GAAP measures.

**Book value per diluted common share is calculated as total equity less the liquidation preference of our Series A Preferred Stock ($140.0 million) and Series B Preferred Stock ($155.0 million); divided by total common shares outstanding plus Operating Partnership Units convertible into shares of common stock (1,425,000 shares).

***Economic return for the quarter ended June 30, 2016 is defined as the change in book value per diluted common share from March 31, 2016 to June 30, 2016 of $0.55; plus dividends declared of $0.40 per common share; divided by the March 31, 2016 book value per diluted common share of $16.53. Economic return for the six months ended June 30, 2016 is defined as the change in book value per diluted common share from December 31, 2015 to June 30, 2016 of ($0.06); plus dividends declared of $0.80 per common share; divided by the December 31, 2015 book value per diluted common share of $17.14.

Key performance indicators for the quarters ended June 30, 2016 and March 31, 2016 are summarized in the table below.

 

 

 

Financial Summary

Net loss attributable to common stockholders for the second quarter of 2016 was $11.6 million, compared to $156.2 million for the first quarter of 2016. The second quarter of 2016 net loss attributable to common stockholders decreased primarily due to lower net losses on derivative instruments during the second quarter.  The Company recorded a $90.4 million net loss on derivative instruments in the second quarter of 2016 versus a $238.5 million net loss on derivative instruments in the first quarter of 2016. During the first quarter of 2016, the Company incurred unrealized losses on derivative instruments of $166.5 million due to the fall in interest rates, which was the primary driver of the first quarter net loss. Book value per diluted common share for the second quarter of 2016 increased by 3.3% to $17.08, primarily due to higher valuations on the Company's mortgage-backed and credit risk transfer securities.  

During the second quarter of 2016, the Company generated $47.3 million in core earnings, a decrease of $3.7 million or 7.3% from the first quarter of 2016.   The decrease in core earnings reflects lower effective net interest income on Agency and non-Agency RMBS.

Average earning assets increased slightly to $15.5 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2016 compared to $15.4 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2016.  During the second quarter, the Company primarily used proceeds from paydowns and sales of investments to purchase 15 year fixed-rate Agency securities.  The Company increased its allocation of equity to Agency securities from 34% as of March 31, 2016 to 40% as of June 30, 2016 reflecting its strategy of maintaining a neutral interest rate profile in the current falling interest rate environment.  Interest income decreased to $118.8 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2016 compared to $127.1 million during the quarter ended March 31, 2016, reflecting a decrease in average earning asset yield to 3.07% from 3.30% in the quarter ended March 31, 2016.  The decrease in average earning asset yield was driven by a higher portfolio allocation to 15 year fixed-rate Agency securities that account for 16% of our investment holdings as of June 30, 2016. 

During the second quarter of 2016, the Company also utilized a portion of the proceeds from paydowns and sales of investments to invest $13 million in one new commercial real estate loan.  In the six months ended June 30, 2016, the Company invested $83.0 million in five new commercial real estate loans and repurchased 2.1 million shares of its common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $25.0 million.

For the quarter ended June 30, 2016, the Company had average borrowed funds of $13.5 billion compared to $13.5 billion for the first quarter of 2016 and interest expense of $39.6 million compared to $50.1 million during the quarter ended March 31, 2016. The Company's cost of funds was 1.17% and 1.48% for the second quarter of 2016 and first quarter of 2016, respectively.  Interest expense and the cost of funds decreased primarily due to a decline in amortization of net deferred losses on de-designated interest rate swaps.   The Company repositioned its hedging portfolio during the first quarter of 2016 in response to lower market expectations of an increase in the federal funds interest rate later this year.  The Company has maintained a relatively stable debt-to-equity ratio and repurchase agreement debt-to-equity ratio over the last six months.

Total expenses for the second quarter of 2016 were approximately $11.0 million, compared to $11.5 million for the first quarter of 2016. Management fees totaled $9.1 million in the second quarter, down from $9.5 million in the first quarter of 2016.  Management fees decreased in the second quarter of 2016 primarily due to the full quarter impact of share repurchases in the first quarter of 2016.  General and administrative expenses were $1.9 million in the second quarter of 2016, a decrease of $0.1 million from the first quarter of 2016.  General and administrative expenses were slightly higher in the first quarter of 2016 primarily due to costs associated with repositioning the Company's hedging portfolio and closing new commercial loan investments.

The ratio of annualized total expenses to average equity* decreased from 2.38% for the first quarter of 2016 to 2.16% for the second quarter of 2016, reflecting the aforementioned decrease in second quarter expenses and higher average equity.

The Company's average assets, average borrowings, interest income, and income expense are significantly lower in 2016 than in 2015 due to the deconsolidation of the residential securitizations in December 2015.

As previously announced, the Company declared the following dividends on June 15, 2016: a common stock dividend of $0.40 per share paid on July 26, 2016; a Series A preferred stock dividend of $0.4844 per share paid on July 25, 2016; and a Series B preferred stock dividend of $0.4844 per share that will be paid on September 27, 2016.

*The ratio of annualized total expenses to average equity is calculated as the annualized sum of management fees plus general and administrative expenses divided by average equity. Average equity is calculated based on a weighted balance basis.

About Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.

Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. is a real estate investment trust that focuses on financing and managing residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities and mortgage loans. Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. is externally managed and advised by Invesco Advisers, Inc., a subsidiary of Invesco Ltd., a leading independent global investment management firm.

Earnings Call

Members of the investment community and the general public are invited to listen to the Company's earnings conference call on Friday, August 5, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. ET, by calling one of the following numbers:

An audio replay will be available until 5:00 pm ET on August 19, 2016 by calling:

800-274-8308 (North America) or 1-203-369-3678 (International)

The presentation slides that will be reviewed during the call will be available on the Company's website at www.invescomortgagecapital.com.

Cautionary Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release, the related presentation and comments made in the associated conference call, may include statements and information that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. securities laws as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and such statements are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provided by the same. Forward-looking statements include our views on the risk positioning of our portfolio, domestic and global market conditions (including the residential and commercial real estate market), the market for our target assets, mortgage reform programs, our financial performance, including our core earnings, economic return, comprehensive income and changes in our book value, our ability to continue performance trends, the stability of portfolio yields, interest rates, credit spreads, prepayment trends, financing sources, cost of funds, our leverage and equity allocation. In addition, words such as "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "estimates," "projects," "forecasts," and future or conditional verbs such as "will," "may," "could," "should," and "would" as well as any other statement that necessarily depends on future events, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

Forward-looking statements are not guarantees, and they involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from our expectations. We caution investors not to rely unduly on any forward-looking statements and urge you to carefully consider the risks identified under the captions "Risk Factors," "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in our annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, which are available on the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

All written or oral forward-looking statements that we make, or that are attributable to us, are expressly qualified by this cautionary notice. We expressly disclaim any obligation to update the information in any public disclosure if any forward-looking statement later turns out to be inaccurate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to the results presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, this release contains the non-GAAP financial measures of core earnings (and by calculation, core earnings per common share), effective interest income (and by calculation, effective yield), effective interest expense (and by calculation, effective cost of funds), effective net interest income (and by calculation, effective interest rate margin), and repurchase agreement debt-to-equity ratio. The Company's management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in its internal analysis of results and believes these measures are useful to investors for the reasons explained below. The most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures are net income attributable to common stockholders (and by calculation basic earnings (loss) per common share), total interest income (and by calculation, yield), total interest expense (and by calculation, cost of funds), net interest income (and by calculation, net interest rate margin) and debt-to-equity ratio.   Certain prior period U.S. GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures have been revised to correct immaterial errors in accounting for premiums and discounts on non-Agency RMBS not of high credit quality.  For further information, see Note 17 of the Company's condensed consolidated financial statements to be filed in Item 1 of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2016.

These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as substitutes for any measures derived in accordance with U.S. GAAP and may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies. An analysis of any non-GAAP financial measure should be made in conjunction with results presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Additional reconciling items may be added in the future to these non-GAAP measures if deemed appropriate.

Core Earnings

The Company calculates core earnings as U.S. GAAP net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders adjusted for (gain) loss on investments, net; realized (gain) loss on derivative instruments, net (excluding contractual net interest on interest rate swaps); unrealized (gain) loss on derivative instruments, net; realized and unrealized change in fair value of GSE CRT embedded derivatives, net; (gain) loss on foreign currency transactions, net; reclassification of amortization of net deferred swap losses on de-designated interest rate swaps to repurchase agreements interest expense; and an adjustment attributable to non-controlling interest. The Company records changes in the valuation of its mortgage-backed securities, excluding securities for which we elected the fair value option and the valuation assigned to the debt host contract associated with its GSE CRTs in other comprehensive income on its consolidated balance sheets.

The Company believes the presentation of core earnings provides a consistent measure of operating performance by excluding the impact of gains and losses described above from operating results. The Company believes that providing transparency into core earnings enables its investors to consistently measure, evaluate and compare its operating performance to that of its peers over multiple reporting periods. However, the Company cautions that core earnings should not be considered as an alternative to net income (determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP), or as an indication of the Company's cash flow from operating activities (determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP), a measure of the Company's liquidity, or an indication of amounts available to fund its cash needs, including its ability to make cash distributions.

The table below provides a reconciliation of U.S. GAAP net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders to core earnings for the following periods:

 

 

 

Effective Interest Income/ Effective Yield/ Effective Interest Expense/Effective Cost of Funds/Effective Net Interest Income/Effective Interest Rate Margin

The Company calculates effective interest income (and by calculation, effective yield) as U.S. GAAP total interest income adjusted for GSE CRT embedded derivative coupon interest recorded as realized and unrealized credit derivative income (loss), net. The Company accounts for GSE CRTs purchased prior to August 24, 2015 as hybrid financial instruments, but has elected the fair value option for GSE CRTs purchased on or after August 24, 2015.  Under U.S. GAAP, coupon interest on GSE CRTs accounted for using the fair value option is recorded as interest income, whereas coupon interest on GSE CRTs accounted for as hybrid financial instruments is recorded as realized and unrealized credit derivative income (loss). The Company adds back GSE CRT embedded derivative coupon interest to its total interest income because the Company considers GSE CRT embedded derivative coupon interest a current component of its total interest income and believes coupon interest should be consistently considered a component of interest income irrespective of whether the Company has elected the fair value option for the GSE CRT or accounted for the GSE CRT as a hybrid financial instrument.

The Company calculates effective interest expense (and by calculation, effective cost of funds) as U.S. GAAP total interest expense adjusted for net interest paid on its interest rate swaps that is recorded as gain (loss) on derivative instruments and the reclassification of amortization of net deferred losses on de-designated interest rate swaps to repurchase agreements interest expense. The Company views its interest rate swaps as an economic hedge against increases in future market interest rates on its floating rate borrowings. The Company adds back the net payments it makes on its interest rate swap agreements to its total U.S. GAAP interest expense because the Company uses interest rate swaps to add stability to interest expense. The Company subtracts amortization of net deferred losses on de-designated interest rate swaps because the Company does not consider the amortization a current component of its borrowing costs.

The Company calculates effective net interest income (and by calculation, effective interest rate margin) as U.S. GAAP net interest income adjusted for net interest paid on its interest rate swaps that is recorded as gain (loss) on derivative instruments, the amortization of net deferred losses on de-designated interest rate swaps to repurchase agreements interest expense and GSE CRT embedded derivative coupon interest recorded as realized and unrealized credit derivative income (loss), net.

The Company believes the presentation of effective interest income, effective yield, effective interest expense, effective cost of funds, effective net interest income and effective interest rate margin measures, when considered together with U.S. GAAP financial measures, provide information that is useful to investors in understanding the Company's borrowing costs and operating performance.

The following table reconciles total interest income to effective interest income and yield to effective yield for the following periods:

 

 

 

The following tables reconcile total interest expense to effective interest expense and cost of funds to effective cost of funds for the following periods:

 

 

 

 

The following tables reconcile net interest income to effective net interest income and net interest rate margin to effective interest rate margin for the following periods:

 

 

 

Repurchase Agreement Debt-to-Equity Ratio

The following tables show the allocation of the Company's equity to its target assets, the Company's debt-to-equity ratio, and the Company's repurchase agreement debt-to-equity ratio as of June 30, 2016 and March 31, 2016. The Company presents a repurchase agreement debt-to-equity ratio, a non-GAAP financial measure of leverage, because the mortgage REIT industry primarily uses repurchase agreements, which typically mature within one year, to finance investments. The Company believes presenting the Company's repurchase agreement debt-to-equity ratio when considered together with U.S. GAAP financial measure of debt-to-equity ratio, provides information that is useful to investors in understanding the Company's refinancing risks, and gives investors a comparable statistic to those other mortgage REITs who almost exclusively borrow using short-term repurchase agreements that are subject to refinancing risk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Balances

The table below presents certain information for the Company's earning assets for the following periods.

 

 

 

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