A Newrez spinoff is temporarily off the table, as its parent company focuses on maximizing the mortgage lender’s value to support the overall business, Rithm Capital leaders said in its latest earnings call. After reproposing the idea of a Newrez public listing two years ago, company leaders said optimizing its earnings potential for Rithm would […]
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Bing Guan/Bloomberg Flagstar Financial’s profitability challenges extended into yet another quarter, with the company reporting a net loss, though executives remain optimistic about a near-term financial turnaround. On Friday, the parent company of Flagstar Bank reported a second-quarter net loss of $70 million, or $0.19 per share, exceeding the consensus net loss estimate of $0.14
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Primelending returned to the black in the second quarter, but ongoing housing market challenges look set to apply further downward pressure to the mortgage business’ bottom line, leaders of its parent company warned. Mortgage originations brought in $3.21 million of pre-tax income for Hilltop Holdings, parent company of Plainscapital Bank and Primelending, during the second
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The second quarter was a mixed bag for a quartet of publicly traded homebuilders, reflecting the meh 2025 spring home purchase season. All four were profitable, but net income was lower compared with one year prior. The market wasn’t helped by a near 14% drop in the sale of newly constructed properties (on an annualized
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Mr. Cooper Group on Tuesday recorded mixed earnings for the second quarter that fell short of matching year-ago results and consensus estimates but were considerably stronger than the bottom line in the previous fiscal period. Servicing, including a $30 million mark net of hedges, was the key driver of the second-quarter’s $198 million profit. That
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PennyMac Financial Services Inc. (PFSI) on Tuesday reported net income of $136.5 million for Q2 2025 on revenue of $444.7 million, which executives attributed to big strides made in the broker channel and a servicing portfolio that has surpassed $700 billion UPB. During the earnings call, CEO and Chairman David Spector commented that PennyMac was experiencing
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The enormous scale of the trade war initiated by President Donald Trump has the potential to upend practically every aspect of the economy, and the most vulnerable space in the real estate industry is homebuilding. Trump has targeted a number of key trading partners for homebuilders — including Canada, Mexico, China and Vietnam. He’s either
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Pennymac enjoyed a more productive second quarter, although it suffered a financial hit from hedging results over early spring rate volatility. The Southern California-based mortgage giant reported $136.5 million in net income for the second quarter, missing a Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ consensus estimate of $152 million. The net income figure however was up
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Shares of D.R. Horton rose the most in more than five years as the homebuilder posted earnings that beat expectations even as the US housing market remains sluggish. Horton shares surged as much as 14% after the company released results for the fiscal third quarter, the biggest intraday gain since April 2020. The builder’s stock
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UPDATE: This article includes quotes from Citizens’ second-quarter earnings call and an interview with CEO Bruce Van Saun. Citizens Financial Group is “reimagining” itself for the AI age, the company announced as it unveiled its second-quarter earnings. “We’ve commenced work on a project we are calling ‘Reimagining the Bank,’” CEO Bruce Van Saun said Thursday
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