Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results

ATLANTA, Nov. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. (NYSE: IVR) (the "Company") today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020.

Update from John Anzalone, Chief Executive Officer

"We are pleased to announce core earnings of $0.06 per common share for the third quarter of 2020. During the quarter, we resumed investing in Agency residential mortgage-backed securities ("Agency RMBS") and purchased approximately $5.6 billion of specified pools. In addition, we held $900.0 million notional in to-be-announced securities forward contracts ("TBAs") at quarter end. We further reduced our exposure to credit investments through select dispositions totaling approximately $1.1 billion. Valuations of our remaining credit investments continued to benefit from increased investor demand and contributed to a 9.5% increase in book value per common share. We also maintained a sizeable balance of unrestricted cash and unencumbered investments of $772.9 million as of September 30, 2020.

"We remain focused on restoring meaningful core earnings for distribution to stockholders and increased our third quarter dividend to $0.05 per common share. Over the coming quarters, we intend to increase our equity allocation to Agency RMBS as the asset class offers an attractive return profile, benefits from substantial liquidity and funding and is supported by ongoing purchases by the Federal Reserve."

Key performance indicators for the quarters ended September 30, 2020 and June 30, 2020 are summarized in the table below.

Financial Summary

The Company reported net income attributable to common stockholders for the third quarter of 2020 of $96.9 million primarily due to net gains on investments of $65.1 million and a one-time gain on settlement of a debt obligation of $16.0 million. The Company earned net interest income of $28.9 million and incurred total expenses of $5.9 million and dividends to preferred stockholders of $11.1 million. Book value per common share for the third quarter of 2020 rose to $3.47 per share, an increase of 9.5%, compared to $3.17 in the second quarter of 2020 primarily due to realized and unrealized gains on credit assets resulting from improved valuations and a one-time gain on settlement of a debt obligation.

The Company resumed investing in Agency RMBS specified pools during the third quarter and further reduced credit investments through select dispositions. The Company also added Agency TBAs to its investment portfolio. Total average assets increased to $4.2 billion from $1.9 billion in the second quarter of 2020, and total average borrowings increased to $3.4 billion from $1.0 billion in the second quarter of 2020. The Company primarily used proceeds from sales of credit investments to repay the remaining balance of its secured loans during the third quarter and financed its purchases of Agency RMBS with short-term repurchase agreements. The Company has entered into interest rate swaps with a notional amount of $4.6 billion as of September 30, 2020 to hedge its exposure to changing interest rates. The Company's debt-to-equity ratio increased to 4.3x as of September 30, 2020 compared to 0.6x as of June 30, 2020 due to the change in the composition of its investment portfolio. As of September 30, 2020, approximately 60% of the Company's equity was allocated to Agency RMBS and 40% was allocated to credit investments. The Company intends to increase its equity allocation to Agency RMBS in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Total expenses for the third quarter of 2020 decreased to $5.9 million compared to $13.9 million for the second quarter of 2020 due to lower management fees and costs incurred in the second quarter for legal and advisory services associated with navigating market disruption associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company's management fees declined to $4.1 million from $9.8 million in the second quarter of 2020 due to its lower equity base. The ratio of annualized total expenses to average stockholders' equity* decreased to 2.61% compared to 6.96% for the second quarter of 2020.

As previously announced, the Company declared the following dividends on September 10, 2020 and September 30, 2020: a Series A Preferred Stock dividend of $0.4844 per share paid on October 26, 2020 to its stockholders of record as of October 1, 2020 and a common stock dividend of $0.05 per share paid on October 27, 2020 to stockholders of record on October 12, 2020, respectively. The Company declared the following dividends on November 5, 2020: a Series A Preferred Stock dividend of $0.4844 per share payable on January 25, 2021 to its stockholders of record as of January 1, 2021, a Series B Preferred Stock dividend of $0.4844 per share payable on December 28, 2020 to its stockholders of record as of December 5, 2020 and a Series C Preferred Stock dividend of $0.46875 per share payable on December 28, 2020 to its stockholders of record as of December 5, 2020.

About Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.

Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc. is a real estate investment trust that primarily focuses on investing in, 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 registered investment adviser and an indirect, wholly-owned 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 Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 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 November 24, 2020 by calling:

866-463-2193 (North America) or 1-203-369-1378 (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 ongoing spread and the economic and operational impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for our target assets, our financial performance, including our core earnings, comprehensive income and changes in our book value, our intention and ability to pay dividends, 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.

Investor Relations Contact: Jack Bateman, 404-439-3323

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

The Company uses the following non-GAAP financial measures to analyze its operating results and believes these financial measures are useful to investors in assessing the Company's performance as further discussed below:

• 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
• economic debt-to-equity ratio

The most directly comparable U.S. GAAP measures are:

• net income (loss) attributable to common stockholders (and by calculation, basic earnings (loss) per common share),
• total interest income (and by calculation, earning asset yields),
• total interest expense (and by calculation, cost of funds),
• net interest income (and by calculation, net interest rate margin), and
• debt-to-equity ratio

The Company did not present core earnings for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 because core earnings excluded the material adverse impact of the market disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's financial condition. In addition, core earnings for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020 were not indicative of the reduced earnings potential of the Company's investment portfolio as of June 30, 2020. The Company commenced rebuilding its investment portfolio in July 2020 and is resuming reporting core earnings for the three months ended September 30, 2020 because the Company believes that core earnings provides a useful measure of its current investment portfolio's earning capacity.

The Company began investing in TBAs during the three months ended September 30, 2020 and is adjusting its core earnings calculation to include the impact of TBA dollar roll income. A TBA dollar roll is a series of derivative transactions where TBAs with the same specified issuer, term and coupon but different settlement dates are simultaneously bought and sold. The TBA settling in the later month typically prices at a discount to the TBA settling in the earlier month. TBA dollar roll income represents the price differential between the TBA price for current month settlement versus the TBA price for forward month settlement. The Company includes TBA dollar roll income in core earnings because it is the economic equivalent of interest income on the underlying Agency securities, less an implied financing cost, over the forward settlement period.

The Company is also presenting an economic debt-to-equity ratio as of September 30, 2020, a new non-GAAP financial measure, that considers the impact of TBAs on leverage as discussed further below.

The non-GAAP financial measures used by the Company's management should be analyzed in conjunction with U.S. GAAP financial measures and should not be considered substitutes for U.S. GAAP financial measures. In addition, the non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures of its peer companies.

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; unrealized (gain) loss on derivative instruments, net; TBA dollar roll income; realized and unrealized (gain) loss on GSE CRT embedded derivatives, net; (gain) loss on foreign currency transactions, net; amortization of net deferred (gain) loss on de-designated interest rate swaps; net (gain) loss on extinguishment of debt; and cumulative adjustments attributable to non-controlling interest. The Company may add and has added additional reconciling items to its core earnings calculation as appropriate.

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 excludes the impact of gains and losses because gains and losses are not accounted for consistently under U.S. GAAP. Under U.S. GAAP, certain gains and losses are reflected in net income whereas other gains and losses are reflected in other comprehensive income. For example, a portion of the Company's mortgage-backed securities are classified as available-for-sale securities, and changes in the valuation of these securities are recorded in other comprehensive income on its condensed consolidated balance sheet. The Company elected the fair value option for its mortgage-backed securities purchased on or after September 1, 2016, and changes in the valuation of these securities are recorded in other income (loss) in the condensed consolidated statement of operations. In addition, certain gains and losses represent one-time events.

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 that is recorded as realized and unrealized credit derivative income (loss), net. The Company includes its GSE CRT embedded derivative coupon interest in effective interest income because GSE CRT coupon interest is not accounted for consistently under U.S. GAAP. 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 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 contractual net interest income (expense) on its interest rate swaps that is recorded as gain (loss) on derivative instruments, net and the amortization of net deferred gains (losses) on de-designated interest rate swaps that is recorded as 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 excludes the amortization of net deferred gains (losses) on de-designated interest rate swaps from its calculation of effective interest expense 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 contractual net interest income (expense) on its interest rate swaps and that is recorded as gain (loss) on derivative instruments, net; amortization of net deferred gains (losses) on de-designated interest rate swaps that is recorded as repurchase agreements interest expense and GSE CRT embedded derivative coupon interest that is 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 tables reconcile 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 table reconciles net interest income to effective net interest income and net interest rate margin to effective interest rate margin for the following periods:

Economic Debt-to-Equity Ratio 

The table below shows the allocation of the Company's stockholders' equity to its target assets, the Company's debt-to-equity ratio, and the Company's economic debt-to-equity ratio as of September 30, 2020. The Company's debt-to-equity ratio is calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP and is the ratio of total debt to total stockholders' equity. The Company is also presenting an economic debt-to-equity ratio, a non-GAAP financial measure of leverage that considers the impact of the off-balance sheet financing of its new investments in TBAs. The Company includes its TBAs at implied cost basis in its measure of leverage because a forward contract to acquire Agency mortgage-backed securities ("MBS") in the TBA market carries similar risks to Agency MBS purchased in the cash market and funded with on-balance sheet liabilities. Similarly, a contract for the forward sale of Agency MBS has substantially the same effect as selling the underlying Agency MBS and reducing the Company's on-balance sheet funding commitments. The Company believes that presenting its economic debt-to-equity ratio, when considered together with its U.S. GAAP financial measure of debt-to-equity ratio, provides information that is useful to investors in understanding how management evaluates at-risk leverage and gives investors a comparable statistic to those other mortgage REITs who also invest in TBAs and present a similar non-GAAP measure of leverage.

September 30, 2020

Average Balances

The table below presents information related to the Company's average earning assets, average earning assets yields, average borrowings and average cost of funds for the following periods.

SOURCE Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc.