MGIC Investment Corporation Releases Monthly Operating Statistics

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Dec 10, 2018, 06:45 ET

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) today issued an Operational Summary of its insurance subsidiaries for the month of November 2018 for their primary mortgage insurance. The summary is also available on the company's website under Newsroom, 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.

	November 2018		November 2017		Change

Insurance in force (billions)	$	208.4	$	193.5	7.7%
Flow only	$	201.4	$	185.3	8.7%

Beginning Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)	33,336		43,816		(23.9%)
Plus: New Delinquency Notices (1)	4,741		8,875		(46.6%)
Less: Cures	4,348		5,149		(15.6%)
Less: Paids	391		617		(36.6%)
Less: Rescissions and Denials	24		25		(4.0%)
Ending Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)	33,314		46,900		(29.0%)


(1)	November 2017 new delinquency notices were impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which occurred in August - September 2017. The number of new delinquency notices from geographical areas that the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared Individual Assistance Disaster Areas as a result of those hurricanes were 541 in 2018, 4,525 in 2017, and 633 in 2016.

About MGIC

Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation "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 November 30, 2018, MGIC had $208.4 billion of primary insurance in force covering over one million mortgages.

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SOURCE MGIC Investment Corporation