MGIC Investment Corporation Releases Monthly Operating Statistics

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Jun 08, 2017, 06:45 ET

MILWAUKEE, June 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) today issued a May 2017 Operational Summary of the primary mortgage insurance of its insurance subsidiaries. The summary is also available on the company's website at http://mtg.mgic.com, under Investor Information, Press Releases.

The information concerning new delinquency notices and cures is compiled from reports received from loan servicers. The level of new notice and cure activity reported in a particular month can be influenced by, among other things, the date on which a servicer generates its report, the accuracy of the data provided by servicers, the number of business days in a month, transfers of servicing between loan servicers, and whether all servicers have provided the reports in a given month.

	May 2017	May 2016	Change
Insurance in Force (billions)	$185.5	$176.1	5.3%
Flow Only	$176.7	$166.1	6.4%

Beginning Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)	43,103	53,489	(19.4%)
Plus: New Delinquency Notices	5,023	5,375	(6.5%)
Less: Cures	4,479	4,821	(7.1%)
Less: Paids (including those charged to a deductible or captive reinsurer)	874	1,002	(12.8%)
Less: Rescissions and Denials	38	51	(25.5%)
Less: Items removed from inventory (1)	1,083	-	n/a
Ending Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)	41,652	52,990	(21.4%)

(1)	Includes 1,083 loans whose insurance was terminated by agreement to settle coverage on certain non-performing loans. The agreement became effective in the second quarter of 2017 and did not have a material financial impact in the quarter.

About MGIC

MGIC (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, serves lenders throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and other locations helping families achieve homeownership sooner by making affordable low-down-payment mortgages a reality. At May 31, 2017 MGIC had $185.5 billion of primary insurance in force covering over one million mortgages.

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