AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results

AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. ("MITT," "we," the "Company," or "our") (NYSE: MITT) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023.

Q2 2023 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

• $11.89 Book Value per share as of June 30, 2023 compared to $11.85 as of March 31, 2023⁽¹⁾
• $11.52 Adjusted Book Value per share as of June 30, 2023 compared to $11.48 as of March 31, 2023⁽¹⁾
  • Increase of 0.3% from March 31, 2023
  • Quarterly economic return on equity of 1.9%⁽²⁾
• $0.17 and $0.08 of Net Income/(Loss) and Earnings Available for Distribution ("EAD") per diluted common share, respectively⁽³⁾
• $0.18 dividend per common share

MANAGEMENT REMARKS

"We are pleased with our results during the second quarter, during which we protected book value while maintaining ample liquidity and a low level of economic leverage," said TJ Durkin, Chief Executive Officer and President. "Our prudent and disciplined securitization strategy is beginning to evidence itself in our earnings power, growing our EAD per share to $0.08 through higher net interest margin and improving fundamentals at Arc Home."

INVESTMENT, FINANCING, AND CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS

• $4.5 billion Investment Portfolio as of June 30, 2023, consistent with March 31, 2023⁽⁴⁾
  • Purchased $219.2 million of Non-Agency and Agency-Eligible Loans during Q2 2023
  • Strategic sales of Non-Agency Loans for total proceeds of $99.9 million generating capital for reinvestment
  • Loans with a fair value of $225.7 million committed to be purchased from Arc Home⁽⁵⁾ as of quarter end
    • Growth in pipeline from Arc Home and third parties post quarter end currently approximating $354.5 million of unpaid principal balance as of the date of this release
• $4.1 billion of financing as of June 30, 2023, consistent with March 31, 2023⁽⁴⁾
  • $3.4 billion of non-recourse financing and $0.7 billion of recourse financing as of June 30, 2023
• 8.9x GAAP Leverage Ratio and 1.6x Economic Leverage Ratio as of June 30, 2023
• 0.8% Net Interest Margin⁽⁶⁾
• $80.3 million of total liquidity as of June 30, 2023, all of which was cash and cash equivalents
• Repurchased 0.2 million shares of common stock for $1.1 million, representing a weighted average cost of $5.93 per share. Repurchases resulted in approximately 0.4% of accretion to March 31, 2023 adjusted book value per share
  • As of the date of this release, $16.5 million of common stock remained authorized for future share repurchases under our repurchase programs

OUR MANAGER AND ANGELO GORDON

On July 31, 2023, our independent directors unanimously consented to the assignment of the Company's management agreement that will occur upon the closing of the previously announced acquisition of Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P. ("Angelo Gordon"), the parent company to our manager, by TPG Inc. ("TPG"). There will be no changes to the Company's management agreement in connection with TPG's acquisition of Angelo Gordon and the assignment of the management agreement will become effective upon the closing of such transaction.

INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO

The following summarizes the Company’s Investment Portfolio as of June 30, 2023⁽⁴⁾ ($ in millions):

FINANCING PROFILE

The following summarizes the Company’s financing as of June 30, 2023⁽⁴⁾ ($ in millions):

ARC HOME UPDATE⁽⁵⁾

• Arc Home originated $374.1 million of residential mortgage loans during the second quarter 2023, of which $275.1 million were Non-Agency Loans^(a)
• Cash of $13.8 million, along with Arc Home's $90.9 million mortgage servicing right portfolio that is largely unlevered, provides Arc Home with a strong financial position to manage the current dynamics in the mortgage origination market
• Arc Home generated an after-tax net income of $0.7 million in the second quarter primarily resulting from unrealized gains in the fair value of Arc Home's mortgage servicing right portfolio as rates increased during the quarter, offset by losses related to Arc Home's lending and servicing operations
  • MITT's portion of the after-tax net income was $0.3 million, prior to removing any gains on loans acquired by MITT from Arc Home which approximated $0.3 million during the second quarter of 2023^(b)
• As of June 30, 2023, the fair value of MITT’s investment in Arc Home was calculated using a valuation multiple of 0.94x book value, consistent with March 31, 2023

BOOK VALUE ROLL-FORWARD⁽¹⁾

The below table provides a summary of our second quarter activity impacting book value as well as a reconciliation to adjusted book value ($ in thousands, except per share data).

DIVIDENDS

The Company announced that on July 31, 2023 its Board of Directors (the "Board") declared third quarter 2023 preferred stock dividends as follows:

In accordance with the terms of its 8.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series A Preferred Stock"), the Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.51563 per share on its Series A Preferred Stock;

In accordance with the terms of its 8.00% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series B Preferred Stock"), the Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share on its Series B Preferred Stock; and

In accordance with the terms of its 8.000% Series C Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the "Series C Preferred Stock"), the Board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.50 per share on its Series C Preferred Stock.

The above dividends for the Series A Preferred Stock, the Series B Preferred Stock, and the Series C Preferred Stock are payable on September 18, 2023 to preferred shareholders of record on August 31, 2023.

On June 15, 2023, the Board declared a second quarter dividend of $0.18 per share of common stock that was paid on July 31, 2023 to common stockholders of record as of June 30, 2023.

On May 4, 2023, the Board declared a quarterly dividend of $0.51563 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock, $0.50 per share on the Series B Preferred Stock, and $0.50 per share on the Series C Preferred Stock. The dividends were paid on June 20, 2023 to preferred stockholders of record as of May 31, 2023.

STOCKHOLDER CALL

The Company invites stockholders, prospective stockholders, and analysts to participate in MITT’s second quarter earnings conference call on Monday, August 7, 2023 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

To participate in the call by telephone, please dial (800) 579-2543 at least five minutes prior to the start time. International callers should dial (785) 424-1789. The Conference ID is MITTQ223. To listen to the live webcast of the conference call, please go to https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/4285475/C556BD875E1EE01DC26D3839944E3086 and register using the same Conference ID.

A presentation will accompany the conference call and will be available prior to the call on the Company’s website, www.agmit.com, under "Presentations" in the "News & Presentations" section.

For those unable to listen to the live call, an audio replay will be available on August 7, 2023 through 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on September 7, 2023. To access the replay, please go to the Company’s website at www.agmit.com.

ABOUT AG MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST, INC.

AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. is a residential mortgage REIT with a focus on investing in a diversified risk-adjusted portfolio of residential mortgage-related assets in the U.S. mortgage market. AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. is externally managed and advised by AG REIT Management, LLC, a subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P., a leading alternative investment firm focusing on credit and real estate strategies.

Additional information can be found on the Company’s website at www.agmit.com.

ABOUT ANGELO, GORDON & CO., L.P.

Angelo, Gordon & Co., L.P. ("Angelo Gordon") is a leading alternative investment firm founded in November 1988. The firm currently manages approximately $73 billion* with a primary focus on credit and real estate strategies. Angelo Gordon has over 650 employees, including more than 200 investment professionals, and is headquartered in New York, with associated offices elsewhere in the U.S., Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.angelogordon.com.

*Angelo Gordon’s (the "firm") currently stated assets under management (“AUM”) of approximately $73 billion as of December 31, 2022 reflects fund-level asset-related leverage. Prior to May 15, 2023, the firm calculated its AUM as net assets under management excluding leverage, which resulted in firm AUM of approximately $53 billion as of December 31, 2022. The difference reflects a change in the firm’s AUM calculation methodology and not any material change to the firm’s investment advisory business. For a description of the factors the firm considers when calculating AUM, please see the disclosure at www.angelogordon.com/disclaimers/.

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 related to dividends, book value, adjusted book value, our investments, our business and investment strategy, investment returns, return on equity, liquidity, financing, taxes, our assets, our interest rate sensitivity, and our views on certain macroeconomic trends and conditions, among others. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates, projections, beliefs and assumptions of management of our company at the time of such statements and are not guarantees of future performance. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation, the uncertainty and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and of responsive measures implemented by various governmental authorities, businesses and other third parties; whether market conditions will improve and its impact on our performance, including our ability to continue growing earnings power; whether challenging market conditions will provide us with attractive investment opportunities we anticipate or at all; our ability to continue to grow our residential investment portfolio; our acquisition pipeline; our ability to invest in higher yielding assets through Arc Home, other origination partners or otherwise; our levels of liquidity, including whether our liquidity will sufficiently enable us to continue to deploy capital within the residential whole loan space as anticipated or at all; the impact of market, regulatory and structural changes on the market opportunities we expect to have, and whether we will be able to capitalize on such opportunities in the manner we anticipate; the impact of market volatility and economic recession on our business and ability to execute our strategy; whether we will be able to generate liquidity from additional opportunistic liquidations in our Re/Non-performing loan portfolio; our portfolio mix, including levels of Non-Agency/Agency-Eligible Loans and Agency RMBS; our ability to manage warehouse exposure as anticipated or at all; our levels of leverage and economic leverage, including our levels of recourse and non-recourse financing; our ability to execute securitizations, including at the pace anticipated or at all; our ability to achieve our forecasted returns on equity on warehoused assets and post-securitization, including whether such returns will support earnings growth; our ability to call securitizations, including the value we are able to derive from such calls if any; changes in our business and investment strategy; our ability to protect and grow our adjusted book value; our ability to predict and control costs; changes in inflation, interest rates and the fair value of our assets, including negative changes resulting in margin calls relating to the financing of our assets; the impact of credit spread movements on our business; the impact of interest rate changes on our asset yields and net interest margin; changes in the yield curve; the timing and amount of stock issuances pursuant to our ATM program or otherwise; the timing and amount of stock repurchases, if any; our capitalization, including the timing and amount of preferred stock repurchases or exchanges, if any; expense levels, including levels of management fees; changes in prepayment rates on the loans we own or that underlie our investment securities; our distribution policy; Arc Home’s performance, including its liquidity position and ability to increase origination volumes in Non-Agency loans or otherwise; the composition of Arc Home’s portfolio, including levels of MSR exposure; levels of leverage on Arc Home’s MSR portfolio; our percentage allocation of loans originated by Arc Home; increased rates of default or delinquencies and/or decreased recovery rates on our assets; the availability of and competition for our target investments; our ability to obtain and maintain financing arrangements on terms favorable to us or at all; changes in general economic or market conditions in our industry and in the finance and real estate markets, including the impact on the value of our assets; conditions in the market for Residential Investments and Agency RMBS; our levels of EAD; legislative and regulatory actions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and other agencies and instrumentalities; regional bank failures; how COVID-19 may affect us, our operations and personnel; our ability to make distributions to our stockholders in the future; our ability to maintain our qualification as a REIT for federal tax purposes; and our ability to qualify for an exemption from registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Additional information concerning these and other risk factors are contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including those described in Part I – Item 1A. "Risk Factors" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, as such factors may be updated from time to time in our filings with the SEC. Copies are available free of charge on the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov/. All forward looking statements in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. All financial information in this press release is as of June 30, 2023, unless otherwise indicated.

NON-GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION

In addition to the results presented in accordance with GAAP, this press release includes certain non-GAAP financial results and financial metrics derived therefrom, including Earnings Available for Distribution, investment portfolio, financing arrangements, and economic leverage ratio, which are calculated by including or excluding unconsolidated investments in affiliates as described in the footnotes to this press release. Our management team believes that this non-GAAP financial information, when considered with our GAAP financial statements, provides supplemental information useful for investors to help evaluate our financial performance. However, our management team also believes that our definition of EAD has important limitations as it does not include certain earnings or losses our management team considers in evaluating our financial performance. Our presentation of non-GAAP financial information may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures of other companies, who may use different calculations. This non-GAAP financial information should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our GAAP financial results and the reconciliations of the non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release to the most directly comparable financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP should be carefully evaluated.

NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

Earnings Available for Distribution

This press release contains Earnings Available for Distribution ("EAD"), a non-GAAP financial measure. Our presentation of EAD may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures of other companies, who may use different calculations. This non-GAAP measure should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our GAAP financial results and the reconciliations from these results should be carefully evaluated.

We define EAD, a non-GAAP financial measure, as Net Income/(loss) available to common stockholders excluding (i) (a) unrealized gains/(losses) on loans, real estate securities, derivatives and other investments, inclusive of our investment in AG Arc, and (b) net realized gains/(losses) on the sale or termination of such instruments, (ii) any transaction related expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition, disposition, or securitization of our investments, (iii) accrued deal-related performance fees payable to third party operators to the extent the primary component of the accrual relates to items that are excluded from EAD, such as unrealized and realized gains/(losses), (iv) realized and unrealized changes in the fair value of Arc Home's net mortgage servicing rights and the derivatives intended to offset changes in the fair value of those net mortgage servicing rights, (v) deferred taxes recognized at our taxable REIT subsidiaries, if any, and (vi) any gains/(losses) associated with exchange transactions on our common and preferred stock. Items (i) through (vi) above include any amount related to those items held in affiliated entities. Management considers the transaction related expenses referenced in (ii) above to be similar to realized losses incurred at the acquisition, disposition, or securitization of an asset and does not view them as being part of its core operations. Management views the exclusion described in (iv) above to be consistent with how it calculates EAD on the remainder of its portfolio. Management excludes all deferred taxes because it believes deferred taxes are not representative of current operations. EAD includes the net interest income and other income earned on our investments on a yield adjusted basis, including TBA dollar roll income/(loss) or any other investment activity that may earn or pay net interest or its economic equivalent.

A reconciliation of GAAP Net Income/(loss) available to common stockholders to EAD for the three months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022 is set forth below (in thousands, except per share data):

The components of EAD for the three months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022 is set forth below (in thousands, except per share data):

Economic Leverage Ratio

This press release contains Economic Leverage Ratio, a non-GAAP financial measure. Our presentation of Economic Leverage Ratio may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures of other companies, who may use different calculations. This non-GAAP measure should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our GAAP financial results and the reconciliations from these results should be carefully evaluated.

We define GAAP leverage as the sum of (1) GAAP Securitized debt, at fair value, (2) our GAAP Financing arrangements, net of any restricted cash posted on such financing arrangements, and (3) the amount payable on purchases that have not yet settled less the financing remaining on sales that have not yet settled. We define Economic Leverage, a non-GAAP metric, as the sum of: (i) our GAAP leverage, exclusive of any fully non-recourse financing arrangements, (ii) financing arrangements held through affiliated entities, net of any restricted cash posted on such financing arrangements, exclusive of any financing utilized through AG Arc, any adjustment related to unsettled trades as described in (2) in the previous sentence, and any non-recourse financing arrangements and (iii) our net TBA position (at cost), if any.

The calculation in the table below divides GAAP leverage and Economic Leverage by our GAAP stockholders’ equity to derive our leverage ratios. The following table presents a reconciliation of our GAAP Leverage to Economic Leverage ratio ($ in thousands).

Footnotes

(1) Book value is calculated using stockholders’ equity less net proceeds of our cumulative redeemable preferred stock ($220.5 million) as the numerator. Adjusted book value is calculated using stockholders’ equity less the liquidation preference of our cumulative redeemable preferred stock ($228.0 million) as the numerator.

(2) The economic return on equity represents the change in adjusted book value per share during the period, plus the common dividends per share declared over the period, divided by adjusted book value per share from the prior period.

(3) Diluted per share figures are calculated using diluted weighted average outstanding shares in accordance with GAAP.

(4) Our Investment Portfolio consists of Residential Investments and Agency RMBS, both of which are held at fair value, and our financing is inclusive of Securitized Debt, which is held at fair value, and Financing Arrangements. Throughout this press release where we disclose our Investment Portfolio and the related financing, we have presented this information inclusive of (i) mortgage loans and securities owned through investments in affiliates that are accounted for under GAAP using the equity method and, where applicable, (ii) long positions in TBAs, which are accounted for as derivatives under GAAP. This presentation excludes investments through AG Arc LLC unless otherwise noted.

(5) We invest in Arc Home LLC through AG Arc LLC, one of our equity method investees. Our investment in AG Arc LLC is $37.4 million as of June 30, 2023, representing a 44.6% ownership interest.

(6) Net interest margin is calculated by subtracting the weighted average cost of funds from the weighted average yield for our Investment Portfolio, which excludes cash held.

(7) The yield on our debt investments represents an effective interest rate, which utilizes all estimates of future cash flows and adjusts for actual prepayment and cash flow activity as of quarter end. Our calculation excludes cash held by the Company and excludes any net TBA position. The calculation of weighted average yield is weighted based on fair value.

(8) The cost of funds at quarter end is calculated as the sum of (i) the weighted average funding costs on recourse financing arrangements outstanding at quarter end, (ii) the weighted average funding costs on non-recourse financing arrangements outstanding at quarter end, and (iii) the weighted average of the net pay or receive rate on our interest rate swaps outstanding at quarter end. The cost of funds at quarter end are weighted by the outstanding financing arrangements at quarter end, including any non-recourse financing arrangements.

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