Mr. Cooper Group Reports Fourth Quarter 2024 Results

Mr. Cooper Group Reports Fourth Quarter 2024 Results

  • Reported net income of $204 million including other mark-to-market of $92 million, equivalent to ROCE of 17.3% and operating ROTCE of 15.8%

  • Book value per share and tangible book value per share increased to $75.70 and $71.61

  • Servicing portfolio grew 57% y/y to $1,556 billion

  • Repurchased 0.4 million shares of common stock for $38 million

  • Completed acquisition of Flagstar’s mortgage operations

  • Recognized as the top mortgage servicer by Freddie Mac, receiving 2024 SHARP Gold Award

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Mr. Cooper Group Inc. (NASDAQ: COOP) (the “Company”), reported fourth quarter income before income tax expense of $280 and net income of $204 million. Excluding other mark-to-market and other adjustments, the Company reported pretax operating income of $235 million. Adjustments included other mark-to-market net of hedges of $92 million and other items shown below in the reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP results.

Chairman and CEO Jay Bray commented, “The fourth quarter capped off an outstanding year for Mr. Cooper, with an operating ROTCE of 15.8% and substantial portfolio growth of 57% year-over-year. We enter 2025 with strong capital, liquidity, and an outstanding team, energized to serve our customers, clients, and stakeholders.”

Mike Weinbach, President, added, “I’m extremely proud of our team’s consistently strong servicing performance and agile execution in originations. Our robust operations and technology enabled us to successfully close the Flagstar acquisition and welcome new customers, clients, and team members. We continue to see exciting opportunities to grow our customer base, while our focus on cost leadership, fee revenues, and expanding our originations platform will help us generate strong returns.”

Servicing

The Servicing segment provides a best-in-class home loan experience for our 6.7 million customers while simultaneously strengthening asset performance for investors. In the fourth quarter, Servicing recorded pretax income of $393 million, including other mark-to-market of $92 million. The servicing portfolio ended the quarter at $1,556 billion. Servicing generated pretax operating income, excluding other mark-to-market, of $318 million. At quarter end, the carrying value of the MSR was $11,736 million equivalent to 159 bps of MSR UPB.

 

Quarter Ended

($ in millions)

 

Q4’24

 

Q3’24

 

$

 

BPS

 

$

 

BPS

Operational revenue

$

672

 

 

 

19.1

 

 

$

616

 

 

 

20.1

 

Amortization, net of accretion

 

(264

)

 

 

(7.5

)

 

 

(235

)

 

 

(7.6

)

Mark-to-market

 

94

 

 

 

2.7

 

 

 

(125

)

 

 

(4.1

)

Total revenues

 

502

 

 

 

14.3

 

 

 

256

 

 

 

8.4

 

Total expenses

 

(185

)

 

 

(5.3

)

 

 

(180

)

 

 

(5.9

)

Total other income, net

 

76

 

 

 

2.2

 

 

 

101

 

 

 

3.3

 

Income before taxes

 

393

 

 

 

11.2

 

 

 

177

 

 

 

5.8

 

Other mark-to-market

 

(92

)

 

 

(2.6

)

 

 

126

 

 

 

4.1

 

Accounting items

 

9

 

 

 

0.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intangible amortization

 

8

 

 

 

0.2

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

0.1

 

Pretax operating income

$

318

 

 

 

9.1

 

 

$

305

 

 

 

10.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quarter Ended

 

Q4’24

 

Q3’24

MSRs UPB ($B)

$

736

 

 

$

678

 

Subservicing and Other UPB ($B)

 

820

 

 

 

561

 

Ending UPB ($B)

$

1,556

 

 

$

1,239

 

Average UPB ($B)

$

1,407

 

 

$

1,225

 

60+ day delinquency rate at period end

 

1.6

%

 

 

1.5

%

Annualized CPR

 

7.5

%

 

 

7.1

%

Modifications and workouts

 

24,899

 

 

 

21,817

 

Originations

The Originations segment creates servicing assets at attractive margins by acquiring loans through the correspondent channel and refinancing existing loans through the direct-to-consumer channel. Originations earned pretax income of $46 million and pretax operating income of $47 million.

The Company funded 32,954 loans in the third quarter, totaling approximately $9.3 billion UPB, which was comprised of $2.6 billion in direct-to-consumer and $6.7 billion in correspondent. Funded volume increased 36% quarter-over-quarter, while pull through adjusted volume increased 21% quarter-over-quarter to $9.1 billion.

 

Quarter Ended

($ in millions)

 

Q4’24

 

Q3’24

Income before taxes

$

46

 

$

69

Accounting items

 

1

 

 

Pretax operating income

$

47

 

$

69

 

Quarter Ended

($ in millions)

 

Q4’24

 

Q3’24

Total pull through adjusted volume

$

9,063

 

 

$

7,491

 

Funded volume

$

9,290

 

 

$

6,825

 

Refinance recapture percentage

 

35

%

 

 

69

%

Recapture percentage

 

21

%

 

 

22

%

Purchase volume as a percentage of funded volume

 

65

%

 

 

69

%

Conference Call Webcast and Investor Presentation

The Company will host a conference call on February 12, 2025 at 10:00 A.M. Eastern Time. Preregistration for the call is now available in the Investor section of www.mrcoopergroup.com. Participants will receive a toll-free dial-in number and a unique registrant ID to be used for immediate call access. A simultaneous audio webcast of the conference call will be available under the investors section on www.mrcoopergroup.com.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company utilizes non-GAAP financial measures as the measures provide additional information to assist investors in understanding and assessing the Company’s and our business segments’ ongoing performance and financial results, as well as assessing our prospects for future performance. The adjusted operating financial measures facilitate a meaningful analysis and allow more accurate comparisons of our ongoing business operations because they exclude items that may not be indicative of or are unrelated to the Company’s and our business segments’ core operating performance, and are better measures for assessing trends in our underlying businesses. These notable items are consistent with how management views our businesses. Management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in making financial, operational and planning decisions and evaluating the Company’s and our business segment’s ongoing performance. Pretax operating income (loss) in the servicing segment eliminates the effects of mark-to-market adjustments which primarily reflects unrealized gains or losses based on the changes in fair value measurements of MSRs and their related financing liabilities for which a fair value accounting election was made. These adjustments, which can be highly volatile and material due to changes in credit markets, are not necessarily reflective of the gains and losses that will ultimately be realized by the Company. Pretax operating income (loss) in each segment also eliminates, as applicable, transition and integration costs, gains (losses) on sales of fixed assets, certain settlement costs that are not considered normal operational matters, intangible amortization, change in equity method investments, fair value change in equity investments and other adjustments based on the facts and circumstances that would provide investors a supplemental means for evaluating the Company’s core operating performance. Return on tangible common equity (ROTCE) is computed by dividing net income by average tangible common equity (also known as tangible book value). Tangible common equity equals total stockholders’ equity less goodwill and intangible assets. Management believes that ROTCE is a useful financial measure because it measures the performance of a business consistently and enables investors and others to assess the Company’s use of equity. Tangible book value is defined as stockholders’ equity less goodwill and intangible assets. Our management believes tangible book value is useful to investors because it provides a more accurate measure of the realizable value of shareholder returns, excluding the impact of goodwill and intangible assets.

Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements in this release that are not historical or current facts are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Results for any specified quarter are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year or any future period. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are described in the “Risk Factors” section of Mr. Cooper Group’s most recent annual reports and other required documents as filed with the SEC which are available at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. Mr. Cooper undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement or any other financial information contained herein, and the statements made in this press release are current as of the date of this release only.

Financial Tables

 

MR. COOPER GROUP INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(millions of dollars, except for earnings per share data)

 

 

Three Months Ended December 31, 2024

 

Three Months Ended September 30, 2024

Revenues:

 

 

 

Service related, net

$

537

 

 

$

288

 

Net gain on mortgage loans held for sale

 

117

 

 

 

136

 

Total revenues

 

654

 

 

 

424

 

Total expenses:

 

367

 

 

 

335

 

Other (expense) income, net:

 

 

 

Interest income

 

216

 

 

 

227

 

Interest expense

 

(220

)

 

 

(199

)

Other expense, net

 

(3

)

 

 

(5

)

Total other expense, net

 

(7

)

 

 

23

 

Income before income tax expense

 

280

 

 

 

112

 

Income tax expense

 

76

 

 

 

32

 

Net income

$

204

 

 

$

80

 

 

 

 

 

Earnings per share:

 

 

 

Basic

$

3.20

 

 

$

1.24

 

Diluted

$

3.13

 

 

$

1.22

 

Weighted average shares of common stock outstanding (in millions):

 

 

 

Basic

 

63.8

 

 

 

64.3

 

Diluted

 

65.1

 

 

 

65.5

 

 
 

MR. COOPER GROUP INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(millions of dollars)

 

 

December 31, 2024

 

September 30, 2024

Assets

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

$

753

 

$

733

Restricted cash

 

220

 

 

186

Mortgage servicing rights at fair value

 

11,736

 

 

10,035

Advances and other receivables, net

 

1,345

 

 

940

Mortgage loans held for sale at fair value

 

2,211

 

 

1,962

Property and equipment, net

 

58

 

 

58

Deferred tax assets, net

 

230

 

 

315

Other assets

 

2,386

 

 

1,957

Total assets

$

18,939

 

$

16,186

 

 

 

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

 

Unsecured senior notes, net

$

4,891

 

$

4,885

Advance, warehouse and MSR facilities, net

 

6,495

 

 

4,379

Payables and other liabilities

 

2,322

 

 

1,841

MSR related liabilities – nonrecourse at fair value

 

418

 

 

443

Total liabilities

 

14,126

 

 

11,548

Total stockholders’ equity

 

4,813

 

 

4,638

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

$

18,939

 

$

16,186

 
 

UNAUDITED SEGMENT STATEMENT OF

OPERATIONS & EARNINGS RECONCILIATION

(millions of dollars, except for earnings per share data)

 

 

Three Months Ended December 31, 2024

 

Servicing

 

Originations

 

Corporate/ Other

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service related, net

$

493

 

 

$

27

 

 

$

17

 

 

$

537

 

Net gain on mortgage loans held for sale

 

9

 

 

 

108

 

 

 

 

 

 

117

 

Total revenues

 

502

 

 

 

135

 

 

 

17

 

 

 

654

 

Total expenses

 

185

 

 

 

90

 

 

 

92

 

 

 

367

 

Other income (expense), net:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

184

 

 

 

32

 

 

 

 

 

 

216

 

Interest expense

 

(108

)

 

 

(31

)

 

 

(81

)

 

 

(220

)

Other expense, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3

)

 

 

(3

)

Total other income (expense), net

 

76

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

(84

)

 

 

(7

)

Pretax income (loss)

$

393

 

 

$

46

 

 

$

(159

)

 

$

280

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

76

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

204

 

Earnings per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

3.20

 

Diluted

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

3.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-GAAP Reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretax income (loss)

$

393

 

 

$

46

 

 

$

(159

)

 

$

280

 

Other mark-to-market

 

(92

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(92

)

Accounting items / other

 

9

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

29

 

 

 

39

 

Intangible amortization

 

8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8

 

Pretax operating income (loss)

$

318

 

 

$

47

 

 

$

(130

)

 

$

235

 

Income tax expense(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(57

)

Operating income

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

178

 

Operating ROTCE(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.8

%

Average tangible book value (TBV)(3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,514

 

(1)

Assumes tax-rate of 24.2%.

(2)

Computed by dividing annualized earnings by average TBV.

(3)

Average of beginning TBV of $4,474 and ending TBV of $4,553.

 

UNAUDITED SEGMENT STATEMENT OF

OPERATIONS & EARNINGS RECONCILIATION

(millions of dollars, except for earnings per share data)

 

 

Three Months Ended September 30, 2024

 

Servicing

 

Originations

 

Corporate/ Other

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service related, net

$

246

 

 

$

24

 

 

$

18

 

 

$

288

 

Net gain on mortgage loans held for sale

 

10

 

 

 

126

 

 

 

 

 

 

136

 

Total revenues

 

256

 

 

 

150

 

 

 

18

 

 

 

424

 

Total expenses

 

180

 

 

 

83

 

 

 

72

 

 

 

335

 

Other income (expense), net:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

201

 

 

 

25

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

227

 

Interest expense

 

(100

)

 

 

(23

)

 

 

(76

)

 

 

(199

)

Other expense, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(5

)

 

 

(5

)

Total other income (expense), net

 

101

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

(80

)

 

 

23

 

Pretax income (loss)

$

177

 

 

$

69

 

 

$

(134

)

 

$

112

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

32

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

80

 

Earnings per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

1.24

 

Diluted

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

1.22

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-GAAP Reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretax income (loss)

$

177

 

 

$

69

 

 

$

(134

)

 

$

112

 

Other mark-to-market

 

126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

126

 

Accounting items / other

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

6

 

Intangible amortization

 

2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

Pretax operating income (loss)

$

305

 

 

$

69

 

 

$

(128

)

 

$

246

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(60

)

Operating income(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

186

 

Operating ROTCE(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16.8

%

Average tangible book value (TBV)(3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,451

 

(1)

Assumes tax-rate of 24.2%.

(2)

Computed by dividing annualized earnings by average TBV.

(3)

Average of beginning TBV of $4,428 and ending TBV of $4,474.

 

UNAUDITED SEGMENT STATEMENT OF

OPERATIONS & EARNINGS RECONCILIATION

(millions of dollars, except for earnings per share data)

 

 

Year Ended December 31, 2024

 

Servicing

 

Originations

 

Corporate/ Other

 

Consolidated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service related, net

$

1,625

 

 

$

86

 

 

$

77

 

 

$

1,788

 

Net gain on mortgage loans held for sale

 

39

 

 

 

398

 

 

 

 

 

 

437

 

Total revenues

 

1,664

 

 

 

484

 

 

 

77

 

 

 

2,225

 

Total expenses

 

721

 

 

 

304

 

 

 

294

 

 

 

1319

 

Other income (expense), net:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest income

 

705

 

 

 

84

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

790

 

Interest expense

 

(411

)

 

 

(79

)

 

 

(286

)

 

 

(776

)

Other expense, net

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(19

)

 

 

(19

)

Total other income (expense), net

 

294

 

 

 

5

 

 

 

(304

)

 

 

(5

)

Pretax income (loss)

$

1237

 

 

$

185

 

 

$

(521

)

 

$

901

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

232

 

Net income

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

669

 

Earnings per share

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

10.40

 

Diluted

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

10.19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Non-GAAP Reconciliation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretax income (loss)

$

1,237

 

 

$

185

 

 

$

(521

)

 

$

901

 

Other mark-to-market

 

(76

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(76

)

Accounting items / other

 

9

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

50

 

 

 

60

 

Intangible amortization

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

 

 

 

14

 

Pretax operating income (loss)

$

1,182

 

 

$

186

 

 

$

(469

)

 

$

899

 

Income tax expense

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(218

)

Operating income(1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

681

 

Operating ROTCE(2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15.6

%

Average tangible book value (TBV)(3)

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

4,368

(1)

Assumes tax-rate of 24.2%.

(2)

Computed by dividing annualized earnings by average TBV.

(3)

Average of quarterly TBV averages of $4,176 for 1Q’24, $4,333 for 2Q’24, $4,451 for 3Q’24, and $4,514 for 4Q’24.

 

Non-GAAP Reconciliation:

Quarter Ended

($ in millions except value per share data)

Q4’24

 

Q3’24

Stockholders’ equity (BV)

$

4,813

 

 

$

4,638

 

Goodwill

 

(141

)

 

 

(141

)

Intangible assets

 

(119

)

 

 

(23

)

Tangible book value (TBV)

$

4,553

 

 

$

4,474

 

Ending shares of common stock outstanding (in millions)

 

63.6

 

 

 

64.0

 

 

 

 

 

BV/share

$

75.70

 

 

$

72.49

 

TBV/share

$

71.61

 

 

$

69.93

 

 

 

 

 

Net income

$

204

 

 

$

80

 

ROCE(1)

 

17.3

%

 

 

6.9

%

 

 

 

 

Beginning stockholders’ equity

$

4,638

 

 

$

4,594

 

Ending stockholders’ equity

$

4,813

 

 

$

4,638

 

Average stockholders’ equity (BV)

$

4,726

 

 

$

4,616

(1)

Return on Common Equity (ROCE) is computed by dividing annualized earnings by average BV.

 

Investor Contact:

Kenneth Posner, SVP Strategic Planning and Investor Relations

(469) 426-3633

[email protected]

Media Contact:

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