FNMA - Federal National Mortgage Association
| Previous Close | 3.5200 |
| Open | 3.5700 |
| Bid | 0.0000 x 0 |
| Ask | 0.0000 x 0 |
| Day's Range | 3.4800 - 3.5700 |
| 52 Week Range | 0.9800 - 4.2300 |
| Volume | 2,277,946 |
| Avg. Volume | 8,203,524 |
| Market Cap | 4.059B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 2.85 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 152.39 |
| EPS (TTM) | 0.0230 |
| Earnings Date | May 4, 2017 - May 8, 2017 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | 2008-08-14 |
| 1y Target Est | 4.58 |
- CBS News Videos
U.S. taxpayers at risk for homes threatened by climate change
Wall Street firms are offloading mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for vulnerable coastal properties.
- Bloomberg
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Allowed to Boost Capital Cushions
Sep.30 -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be allowed to boost their capital by billions of dollars to protect against potential losses, a key step in the Trump administration’s push to free the mortgage giants from U.S. control. Bloomberg's Jesse Westbrook has more on "Bloomberg Markets."
- Moody's
California Housing Finance Agency, Multifamily Tax-Exempt Mortgage-backed Bonds (GREEN M-TEBS) 2019 Series N, (Noble Tower Apartments), $72MM -- Moody's assigns Aaa to California Housing Finance Agency Multi-fam. Green Tax-Exempt. Mort. Backed. Bds. (Green M-TEBS)(2019 Series N)
Rating Action: Moody's assigns Aaa to California Housing Finance Agency Multi-fam. New York, October 16, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service has assigned a rating of Aaa to the proposed $72,000,000 California Housing Finance Agency, Multifamily Tax-Exempt Mortgage-backed Bonds (GREEN M-TEBS) 2019 Series N, (Noble Tower Apartments), $72MM (the "Bonds"). The rating is based on the high credit quality of the Guaranteed Pass-Through Certificate (MBS) issued by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae, Aaa stable), a sound legal structure where principal and interest are passed through to bondholders monthly, and cash flow projections that exhibit sufficient revenues to pay full and timely debt service until maturity.
- Moody's
Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 2019-2 -- Moody's assigns provisional ratings to Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 2019-2
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has assigned provisional ratings to five classes of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) issued by Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 2019-2. Mello Warehouse Securitization Trust 2019-2 is a securitization backed by a revolving warehouse facility sponsored by loanDepot.com, LLC (loanDepot, the repo seller, unrated).
- Benzinga
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- Moody's
Moody's assigns provisional ratings to Prime RMBS issued by J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust 2019-LTV3
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has assigned provisional ratings to 33 classes of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) issued by J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust (JPMMT) 2019-LTV3. The certificates are backed by 675 30-year, fully-amortizing fixed-rate mortgage loans with a total balance of $426,992,185 as of the October 1st cut-off date.
- Moody's
NYS HFA - Affordable Housing Revenue Bonds -- Moody's assigns Aa2 rating to NYS HFA, Affordable Housing Rev. Bonds, 2019 Series N and O; outlook stable
Moody's Investors Service has assigned the rating of Aa2 to the proposed $87.3 million of New York State Housing Finance Agency (the "Agency" or "NYS HFA") Affordable Housing Revenue Bonds, 2019 Series N (Climate Bond Certified/Sustainability Bonds) and $13.62 million of Affordable Housing Revenue Bonds, 2019 Series O (Sustainability Bonds) (Collectively, the "Bonds"). Moody's also maintains a Aa2 rating on all outstanding parity debt issued under the Agency's General Resolution adopted on August 2007 (the "Resolution").
- PR Newswire
Fannie Mae Announces Winner of its Latest Non-Performing Loan Sale
WASHINGTON , Oct. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today announced the winning bidder for its sixteenth non-performing loan sale. The sale includes approximately 5,200 loans totaling $948.7 ...
- PR Newswire
Fannie Mae Announces $14 Million Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Investment
Financing Facilitates 110-Unit Multifamily Development Providing Affordable Housing for Native Americans and other Minneapolis Residents WASHINGTON , Oct. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) ...
- PR Newswire
Fannie Mae Announces Fourteenth Sale of Reperforming Loans
WASHINGTON , Oct. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) today began marketing its fourteenth sale of reperforming loans as part of the company's ongoing effort to reduce the size of its retained ...
- Moody's
Chattanooga Housing Authority -- Moody's assigns Aaa to the Chattanooga Housing Authority Multifamily Tax-Exempt Mortgage-backed Bonds (M-TEMS) (Emerald Villages Apartments Project), Series 2019A (FN)
The rating is based on the highest credit quality of Fannie Mae (Aaa/stable) and trustee-held investments, sound legal structure of the transaction, and cash flow projections that demonstrate sufficient revenues to pay full and timely debt service until maturity. Fannie Mae is providing a forward commitment to issue a Guaranteed Mortgage Pass-Through Certificate (MBS) by the MBS Delivery Date Deadline (preliminarily expected to occur on November 25, 2021), which MBS principal and interest are passed through to bondholders monthly.
- Bloomberg
Mortgage Investors Warm to 15-Year Securities as Yields Fall
(Bloomberg) -- Wall Street analysts are taking note of the relative value and better extension protection afforded by 15-year MBS compared to their 30-year counterparts as rates trend near multi-year lows.Both Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. MBS analysts have highlighted the 15-year sector in recent weeks, with the former noting their relatively slow prepayment speeds and the latter their cheapness compared to 30-year. R.W. Baird’s Kirill Krylov said yesterday that he expects “an increasing number of investors to return to the shorter-duration 15-year sector in order to begin preparing for any reversal of rates.”Supply technicals have certainly favored 15-year conventionals, with net issuance averaging negative $2 billion per month since July compared to a positive $67 billion for the 30-year, according to Wells Fargo & Co. data. As the 15-year is primarily a creation of borrowers refinancing into a shorter maturity, this runs counter to expectations for a period of increasing prepayments, but this anomaly is likely explained in part by two factors.First, the flat yield curve reduces the ability of lenders to offer lower rates to 15-year borrowers, muting their supply. Second, the most recent 30-year vintage borrowers have been the most enthused to refinance their mortgage and there hasn’t been enough time for them to build the equity needed to make a shorter amortization mortgage such as the 15-year worth their while. It’s notable that the average size of a refinanced loan in the latest MBA report is at its highest in a month, suggesting more recent vintage borrowers continue to take advantage of lower rates.In fact, the latest prepayment speed report showed a slowdown in Fannie Mae 15-year MBS of 3%, compared to an 11% increase in Fannie Mae 30-year MBS. From the two having both paid at 11.2 CPR in April, 30-year MBS has subsequently paid faster every month, with September’s report showing them 5.8 CPR higher than the 15-year. In a world where most mortgage backed securities are priced at a premium, slower speeds benefit performance.The option-adjusted spread differential seen between the Fannie Mae 30-year and 15-year current coupon indexes has dropped below zero, meaning the 15-year is offering more spread than the longer duration 30-year. At -1.4 basis points, it is below both its trailing five-year and year-to-date averages of +13 and +5, respectively.Last, while the duration profiles of the two indexes are similar -- with the 15-year index at 2.66 and the 30-year at 2.79 years -- in the event of a rate sell-off it is the longer maturity 30-year which may see prepayments drop off more precipitously, likely leading to a greater extension in its duration profile.NOTE: Christopher Maloney is a market strategist and former portfolio manager who writes for Bloomberg. The observations he makes are his own and are not intended as investment adviceTo contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Maloney in New York at cmaloney16@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Nikolaj Gammeltoft at ngammeltoft@bloomberg.net, Christopher DeRezaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Yahoo Finance
Low mortgage rates are fueling a housing shortage
The number of homes for sale nationwide fell 2.5% from last year, according to a Realtor.com study released Tuesday. The drop in inventory was prompted by low mortgage rates and has led to fast-paced sales and higher home prices.
- MarketWatch
This widening crack in the mortgage market could sink U.S. home prices
Wall Street and the news media have paid considerable attention to U.S. home mortgage modifications, but not much notice has been given to the growing problem of re-defaults on these modifications. Re-defaults are a massive problem — and endanger the U.S. mortgage and housing markets. What is a mortgage modification? In the midst of the housing collapse more than a decade ago, mortgage modifications were rolled out to enable millions of delinquent homeowners to avoid having their home foreclosed. In its latest report, the non-profit Hope Now consortium — the major source for modification data — estimated that 8.7 million permanent mortgage modifications have been implemented in the U.S. since the end of 2007.
- Yahoo Finance
US housing market optimism slides
Optimism about the housing market may have peaked after hitting its all-time high in August, according to the Fannie Mae Housing Purchase Sentiment Index.
- PR Newswire
Consumers' Economic and Financial Concerns Keep Housing Confidence in Check
Three of the six HPSI components decreased month over month, including an 8-percentage point drop in the net "Confidence About Not Losing Job" component and 7-percentage point drop in the net "Home Prices Will Go Up" component. "Consumer sentiment remains relatively strong overall, though uncertainty about the economy and individual financial circumstances appear to be weighing on housing market attitudes a bit more than a month ago," said Doug Duncan, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist.
- Barrons.com
This Widening Crack in the Mortgage Market Could Sink U.S. Home Prices
Wall Street and the news media have paid considerable attention to U.S. home mortgage modifications, but not much notice has been given to the growing problem of re-defaults on these modifications. What is a mortgage modification? In the midst of the housing collapse more than a decade ago, mortgage modifications were rolled out to enable millions of delinquent homeowners to avoid having their home foreclosed.
- Bloomberg
When Climate Change Leads to Mortgage Defaults
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Climate change poses risks to real estate that homebuyers may not be able to predict. As sea level rises, coastal properties, for example, may be subject to increased flooding and intensifying storm surges. First-time homebuyers often lack the expertise to evaluate these new risks, and thus tend to underestimate them and overpay for increasingly exposed properties.Unfortunately, the risks they accept are not borne by themselves alone. Rather, our research has found, it is shared by mortgage lenders and, through the operations of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, American taxpayers.Consider how most home purchases are arranged with long-term mortgages. While the conditions vary, a buyer of a $400,000 home may arrange a 5% fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage on $320,000, and agree to pay it back by making 360 monthly payments of about $1,700. If the lender holds this loan on its balance sheet, and climate change creates new expenses — from flooding, storms or wildfires — the borrower becomes more likely to default on the loan.Consider that lenders originate an estimated $60-100 billion in mortgages on coastal properties, and it’s clear the potential aggregate impact of default due to climate change is significant.Lenders can lower their risk, however, by exercising their option to sell loans to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises that were created by Congress to improve access to mortgage lending. Fannie and Freddie have an important public mission, but lenders’ ability to sell them mortgages means that the risk of climate-related real estate expenses is easily relayed from homebuyers to taxpayers.To gain some insight into the scope of this problem, we examined what happened in mortgage markets after 15 “billion-dollar” disasters, including Hurricanes Katrina ($119 billion) and Sandy ($73 billion). We found that natural disasters significantly raise the number of delinquencies, defaults and foreclosures. This is probably a consequence of the decline in flood insurance: When fewer homes are insured, less of the damage from storm surges and the like is repaired. Fewer homes are rebuilt. And many more homeowners default on their loans.These mortgage defaults and payment delinquencies affect both lenders and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In areas where natural disasters hit, we found, bank lenders transfer substantially more mortgages to the government-supported enterprises. And this increase is largest in neighborhoods where floods are “new news” — that is, where flooding has only recently become a regular occurrence. Indeed, lenders quickly learn where not to hold loans in their portfolios.The existing rules of the mortgage-lending game actually maximize this risk to taxpayers, as Fannie and Freddie’s guarantee becomes a substitute for flood insurance. Simple reforms could discourage lenders from leaning so hard on the government-supported enterprises to absorb climate risks. The securitization fees (also called guarantee fees) that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac charge lenders to take on their loans should be higher for properties at relatively high risk of flooding. And the fee structure should be designed to shift along with changes in risk and improvements in forecasting, as new climate-change scenarios materialize.At the same time, when homebuyers neglect to buy the insurance that’s federally mandated in flood hazard areas, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should exercise their existing authority to transfer losses back to the lenders.To make sure federal mortgage-market regulators have an accurate picture of flood risks, they should encourage the private-sector data-science industry to compete to provide the best possible forecasting algorithms. If mortgage lenders can steadily improve their understanding of climate risks, they can increasingly work those risks into their loan calculations, by asking for larger down payments and charging higher interest rates to borrowers buying vulnerable houses.The risks of climate change keep growing, and homebuyers may never develop the expertise required to recognize them. But mortgage lenders have a responsibility to see what’s ahead. They should ensure that their customers know what they’re getting into, and that taxpayers are not unwittingly exposed.To contact the authors of this story: Matthew E. Kahn at mkahn10@jhu.eduAmine Ouazad at amine.ouazad@hec.caTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Mary Duenwald at mduenwald@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Matthew E. Kahn is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of economics and business and the director of the 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University.Amine Ouazad is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montreal.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Moody's
RCKT Mortgage Trust 2019-1 -- Moody's assigns provisional ratings to Prime RMBS issued by RCKT Mortgage Trust 2019-1
Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) has assigned provisional ratings to 23 classes of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) issued by RCKT Mortgage Trust 2019-1 (RCKT 2019-1). RCKT Mortgage Trust 2019-1 (RCKT 2019-1) is a securitization of prime jumbo and agency-eligible mortgage loans originated and serviced by Quicken Loans Inc. (Quicken Loans, rated long-term senior unsecured Ba1).
- PR Newswire
Fannie Mae Prices $1.3 Billion Connecticut Avenue Securities (CAS) REMIC Deal
Transaction Represents Company's Continued Commitment to Credit Risk Transfer WASHINGTON , Oct. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities ® (CAS) Series 2019-R06, ...
- PR Newswire
Fannie Mae Completes Multi-Tranche Credit Insurance Risk Transfer Transaction on more than $10 Billion of Multifamily Loans
WASHINGTON , Oct. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (OTCQB: FNMA) announced that it has completed a multi-tranche Multifamily Credit Insurance Risk Transfer (MCIRT™) transaction covering a pool of approximately ...
- PR Newswire
Fannie Mae Executes Credit Insurance Risk Transfer Transaction on $14.8 Billion of 30-year Single-Family Loans
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae (FNMA) announced today that it has completed its sixth Credit Insurance Risk Transfer™ (CIRT™) transaction of 2019, covering loans previously acquired by the company. The deal, CIRT 2019-3, covers $14.8 billion in unpaid principal balance of 21-year to 30-year original term fixed-rate loans as part of Fannie Mae's ongoing effort to reduce taxpayer risk by increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market. To date, Fannie Mae has committed to acquire approximately $10 billion of insurance coverage on $375 billion of single-family loans through the CIRT program, measured at the time of issuance for both post-acquisition (bulk) and front-end transactions.
- Bloomberg
Fannie, Freddie Allowed to Boost Capital Buffers by Billions
(Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be allowed to boost their capital by billions of dollars to protect against potential losses, a key step in the Trump administration’s push to free the mortgage giants from U.S. control.Fannie will be permitted to retain earnings until its capital buffer hits $25 billion, while Freddie will be allowed to hold $20 billion, the Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced Monday. Last year, Fannie reported net income of $16 billion and Freddie made $9.2 billion, signaling it could take more than a year for the companies to reach the administration’s new goal.Treasury and FHFA, Fannie and Freddie’s regulator, also committed to making more changes to the bailout agreements that were struck after the companies were rescued with taxpayer funds at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.The agencies said they may make additional tweaks to Fannie and Freddie’s capital structures, as well. The moves are all part of an effort -- outlined in a plan released by Treasury earlier this month -- to end the companies’ decade long conservatorships and return them to the private market.Read More: Trump Fannie-Freddie Plan Urges Ending Decade of U.S. Rule“These modifications are an important step toward implementing Treasury’s recommended reforms that will define a limited role for the federal government in the housing finance system and protect taxpayers against future bailouts,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.Fannie rose 3.3% to $3.80 in New York Trading, while Freddie gained 3.2% to $3.59.Monday’s changes, which have been telegraphed by FHFA Director Mark Calabria and Mnuchin for weeks, mark some of the biggest for Fannie and Freddie since they were made wards of the state. Under the companies’ current bailout agreements, they are restricted from holding more than $3 billion in capital apiece, much less than they would need to survive outside government control. Instead of retaining earnings, they send their profits each quarter to the Treasury -- a process known as the net worth sweep.But even at the levels outlined in Monday’s statement, Fannie and Freddie would still be far short of the capital cushions that most everyone agrees are required. Calabria and Mnuchin have both said the companies will need to raise private capital, potentially through a share sale. One way to interpret Monday’s announcement is as a suspension of the net worth sweep.With much still to be sorted out, it’s unclear how soon hedge funds and other investors that own Fannie and Freddie stock might make windfalls on their stakes. And if a Democrat beats President Donald Trump in the 2020 election next November, Calabria and Mnuchin’s plans would likely be scrapped.‘Significant Challenges’“There are still some significant challenges to recapitalization," KBW analyst Brian Gardner said in a note earlier this month. “Recapitalization is unlikely to happen until after the 2020 election and then it will obviously be dependent to a large degree on the outcome of the election."Still, Fannie and Freddie shares have rallied this year on Wall Street optimism that the Trump administration is making progress.Fannie and Freddie don’t make loans. Instead they keep the mortgage market humming by buying loans from banks and other lenders and packaging them into securities. Bond investors consider the companies’ mortgage securities to be extremely safe because they have guarantees in case homebuyers default on their loans. The process provides liquidity for home purchases and keeps borrowing rates low.Read More: Fannie and Freddie Died But Were Reborn, ProfitablyThe government took control of Fannie and Freddie when the housing market tanked in 2008, eventually injecting them with more than $187 billion. Their bailout agreements originally called for Fannie and Freddie to pay 10% dividends each quarter to the Treasury, but in 2012 the government changed the terms to sweep nearly all of the companies’ profits. In 2017, Treasury and FHFA amended that agreement to allow the companies to retain $3 billion in earnings apiece.Under the agreement announced Monday, the amount of a senior preferred stock of Fannie and Freddie that is owned by Treasury will increase by $22 billion and $17 billion respectively, according to the statement.The change announced Monday in some way kicks the can down the road until FHFA and Treasury are prepared make more sweeping changes. Calabria has indicated that the process of ending the companies’ conservatorships will take some time. In a Bloomberg Television interview earlier this month, he predicted that the companies probably won’t be ready to seek private capital until early 2021.“The enterprises are leveraged nearly 1,000-to-1, ensuring they would fail during an economic downturn -- exposing taxpayers once again,” Calabria said in a Monday statement. The revised agreement with Treasury is “an important milestone on the path to reform.”(Updates with closing share prices in sixth paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Elizabeth Dexheimer in Washington at edexheimer@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jesse Westbrook at jwestbrook1@bloomberg.net, Gregory MottFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
- Reuters
UPDATE 1-U.S. allows Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac to start keeping profits
Housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be permitted to retain a total of $45 billion in earnings going forward, as an initial step toward exiting government control. In a joint statement released Monday, the Treasury Department and Federal Housing Finance Agency, which regulates the pair, said the new policy will allow the two to rebuild capital reserves. "This letter agreement between Treasury and FHFA...is an important milestone on the path to reform," said FHFA Director Mark Calabria in a statement.
