Rocket Companies Announces Third Quarter 2023 Results

• Generated Q3'23 net revenue of $1.203 billion and adjusted revenue of $1.002 billion. Adjusted revenue exceeded the high end of guidance range
• Reported GAAP net income of $115 million, or $0.04 per GAAP diluted earnings per share
• Delivered profitability across GAAP net income, adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA metrics

DETROIT, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rocket Companies, Inc. (NYSE: RKT) ("Rocket Companies" or the "Company"), a Detroit-based fintech platform company consisting of tech-driven mortgage, real estate and financial services businesses – including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Homes, Rocket Loans and Rocket Money – today announced results for the quarter ended September 30, 2023.

"I am very proud of our team for delivering strong results against a challenging economic backdrop," said Varun Krishna, CEO of Rocket Companies. "In today's climate, innovation is essential. With the incredible amount of data in our ecosystem, paired with the transformative power of AI, Rocket is uniquely positioned to disrupt the industry. We're just getting started and can't wait to show you what we are building to revolutionize homeownership."

Third Quarter 2023 Financial Highlights

• Generated total revenue, net of $1.203 billion and GAAP net income of $115 million, or $0.04 per diluted share. Generated total adjusted revenue of $1.002 billion and adjusted net income of $7 million, or an adjusted income of $0.00 per diluted share.
• Rocket Mortgage generated $22.2 billion in mortgage origination closed loan volume. Gain on sale margin was 2.76%, the third consecutive quarter of gain on sale margin increase.
• Rocket gained purchase market share in the quarter, both year-over-year and quarter-over-quarter.
• Total liquidity was approximately $8.7 billion, as of September 30, 2023, which includes $1.0 billion of cash on-hand, $2.8 billion of corporate cash used to self-fund loan originations, $3.3 billion of undrawn lines of credit, and $1.7 billion of undrawn MSR lines.
• Servicing book unpaid principal balance, which includes subserviced loans, was $506 billion at September 30, 2023. As of September 30, 2023, our servicing portfolio includes 2.4 million loans serviced. The portfolio generates approximately $1.4 billion of recurring servicing fee income on an annualized basis. During the quarter, we acquired mortgage servicing rights on certain agency loans for total consideration of $103 million. The MSR acquisition added $6.2 billion of unpaid principal balance for loans with a weighted average coupon well above that of our current portfolio, providing a compelling refinance opportunity when rates decline.
• Rocket Mortgage net client retention rate was 97% for the 12 months ended September 30, 2023. There is a strong correlation between this metric and client lifetime value. We believe our net client retention rate is unmatched among mortgage companies and on par with some of the best performing subscription business models in the world.

Company Highlights

• Since launching in April, BUY+, our Rocket-exclusive collaboration between Rocket Mortgage and Rocket Homes, our 50-state home search platform and real estate agent referral network, has continued to exceed expectations, as we saw attachment rate, defined as clients who use both Rocket Mortgage and Rocket Homes, nearly double. BUY+ helps clients save thousands of dollars in upfront costs if they work with a Rocket Homes Partner Real Estate Agent and obtain financing with Rocket Mortgage.
• ONE+, our 1% down home loan program, has gained traction since our launch in May, with closing volume and loan units more than tripling from June to September. ONE+ increases access to home ownership for low-to-moderate-income Americans facing home affordability challenges.
• Our home equity loan product continued to resonate with clients, as volume more than doubled in the third quarter, compared to the beginning of this year. Our home equity loan product enables homeowners to tap record levels of home equity without impacting the lower rate on their first lien mortgage, a particularly compelling value proposition in the current market environment.
• In August of this year, we delivered 20% faster purchase turn times and reduced manual touches by over 20%, compared to the same time last year. Our vast scale of data assets provides a strong foundation to automate routine and complex tasks, enhance productivity and operational efficiency, and transform the client experience through generative AI.
• In October, we unveiled enhancements to our Pathfinder tool, a proprietary AI and machine learning-powered search engine that helps loan officers easily obtain answers to complex underwriting qualification or loan processing questions. Current testing of an AI chat interface within Pathfinder has shown a 69% improvement in speed to resolutions compared to the existing process. Building on this success, we are enhancing the Pathfinder experience by integrating large language models (LLM) to encompass over 3,300 new loan scenarios. Pathfinder, trained on 400,000 pieces of content and 75,000 daily data points, is utilized by over 40,000 mortgage professionals, generating 1.5 million monthly page views and automated actions. Launched in 2020, Pathfinder, an industry-first tool, has continually evolved, incorporating a machine learning framework, custom Google AI search, and now, generative AI.
• Lendesk Technologies, our Canadian technology services company offering a suite of products to digitize the Canadian mortgage experience, launched Lender Spotlight AI Assistant, a tool that helps brokers easily and seamlessly obtain accurate answers from a database of over 7,000 mortgage policies.
• We expect annualized cost savings of approximately $200 million, the high end of the original $150 to $200 million range, as a result of company-wide prioritization and cost reduction efforts across expense categories, including a voluntary career transition program conducted in July. These cost savings will take full quarter effect in Q4'23.

Rocket Environmental, Social, Governance: For-More-Than-Profit

• Rocket Companies placed #2 on Fortune's 'Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance' list. This marks the third straight year that the Company has finished in the top two for this award.
• Rocket Companies ranked #2 in People's '100 Companies That Care in 2023: Employers Putting Their Communities First' list, highlighting the Company's longstanding efforts to support the residents and communities of Detroit, particularly in the area of safe and stable housing.
• In September, the Rocket Community Fund, our philanthropic partner company, and MKE United, an initiative of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, announced a $300,000 investment to support the Anti-Displacement Fund program. The program aims to protect homeowners in downtown-adjacent neighborhoods from displacement caused by increasing property taxes. This investment expands the Rocket Community Fund's national housing stability coverage to Milwaukee, in addition to Detroit, Atlanta and Cleveland.
• Since 2018, Rocket Companies has been the anchor employer for the Urban Alliance program in Detroit. Urban Alliance connects high school students to equitable, inclusive careers through paid work experiences, mentorship, and professional development. To date, 300 Detroit high school students have graduated from the program, with over half of the students taking internship roles at Rocket Companies.

Fourth Quarter 2023 Outlook

In Q4 2023, we expect adjusted revenue of between $650 million to $800 million.

Direct to Consumer

In the Direct to Consumer segment, clients have the ability to interact with Rocket Mortgage online and/or with the Company's mortgage bankers. The Company markets to potential clients in this segment through various brand campaigns and performance marketing channels. The Direct to Consumer segment derives revenue from originating, closing, selling and servicing predominantly agency-conforming loans, which are pooled and sold to the secondary market. The segment also includes title insurance, appraisals and settlement services complementing the Company's end-to-end mortgage origination experience. Servicing activities are fully allocated to the Direct to Consumer segment and are viewed as an extension of the client experience. Servicing enables Rocket Mortgage to establish and maintain long term relationships with our clients, through multiple touchpoints at regular engagement intervals.

Partner Network

The Rocket Professional platform supports our Partner Network segment, where we leverage our superior client service and widely recognized brand to grow marketing and influencer relationships, and our mortgage broker partnerships through Rocket Pro TPO ("third party origination"). Our marketing partnerships consist of well-known consumer-focused companies that find value in our award-winning client experience and want to offer their clients mortgage solutions with our trusted, widely recognized brand. These organizations connect their clients directly to us through marketing channels and a referral process. Our influencer partnerships are typically with companies that employ licensed mortgage professionals that find value in our client experience, technology and efficient mortgage process, where mortgages may not be their primary offering. We also enable clients to start the mortgage process through the Rocket platform in the way that works best for them, including through a local mortgage broker.

Balance Sheet and Liquidity

We remain in a strong liquidity position, with total liquidity of $8.7 billion, which includes $1.0 billion of cash on-hand, $2.8 billion of corporate cash used to self-fund loan originations, a portion of which could be transferred to funding facilities (warehouse lines) at our discretion, $3.3 billion of undrawn lines of credit from financing facilities, and $1.7 billion of undrawn MSR lines. As of September 30, 2023 our available cash position was $3.8 billion, which includes cash on-hand and corporate cash used to self-fund loan originations, combined with the $6.7 billion of mortgage servicing rights, representing a total of $10.4 billion of asset value on our balance sheet. As of September 30, 2023, our total equity was $8.5 billion.

Third Quarter Earnings Call

Rocket Companies will host a live conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET on November 2, 2023 to discuss its results for the quarter ended September 30, 2023. A live webcast of the event will be available online by clicking on the "Investor Info" section of our website. The webcast will also be available via rocketcompanies.com.

A replay of the webcast will be available on the Investor Relations site following the conclusion of the event.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To provide investors with information in addition to our results as determined by GAAP, we disclose Adjusted Revenue, Adjusted Net Income (Loss), Adjusted Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Share and Adjusted EBITDA (collectively "our non-GAAP financial measures") as non-GAAP measures. We believe that the presentation of our non-GAAP financial measures provides useful information to investors regarding our results of operations because each measure assists both investors and management in analyzing and benchmarking the performance and value of our business. Our non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as a substitute for Total revenue, net, Net income (loss), or any other operating performance measure calculated in accordance with GAAP. Other companies may define non-GAAP financial measures differently, and as a result, our measures of our non-GAAP financial measures may not be directly comparable to those of other companies. Our non-GAAP financial measures provide indicators of performance that are not affected by fluctuations in certain costs or other items. Accordingly, management believes that these measurements are useful for comparing general operating performance from period to period, and management relies on these measures for planning and forecasting of future periods. Additionally, these measures allow management to compare our results with those of other companies that have different financing and capital structures.

We define "Adjusted Revenue" as total revenues net of the change in fair value of mortgage servicing rights ("MSRs") due to valuation assumptions (net of hedges). We define "Adjusted Net Income (Loss)" as tax-effected earnings (losses) before share-based compensation expense, the change in fair value of MSRs due to valuation assumptions (net of hedges), career transition program, change in Tax receivable agreement liability, and the tax effects of those adjustments as applicable. We define "Adjusted Diluted Earnings (Loss) Per Share" as Adjusted Net Income (Loss) divided by the diluted weighted average number of Class A common stock outstanding for the applicable period, which assumes the pro forma exchange and conversion of all outstanding Class D common stock for Class A common stock. We define "Adjusted EBITDA" as earnings (losses) before interest and amortization expense on non-funding debt, income tax, depreciation and amortization, share-based compensation expense, change in fair value of MSRs due to valuation assumptions (net of hedges), career transition program, and change in Tax receivable agreement liability.

We exclude from each of our non-GAAP financial measures the change in fair value of MSRs due to valuation assumptions (net of hedges) as this represents a non-cash non-realized adjustment to our total revenues, reflecting changes in assumptions including discount rates and prepayment speed assumptions, mostly due to changes in market interest rates, which is not indicative of our performance or results of operation. We also exclude effects of contractual prepayment protection associated with sales of MSRs. Adjusted EBITDA includes Interest expense on funding facilities, which are recorded as a component of Interest income, net, as these expenses are a direct cost driven by loan origination volume. By contrast, interest and amortization expense on non-funding debt is a function of our capital structure and is therefore excluded from Adjusted EBITDA.

Our definitions of each of our non-GAAP financial measures allow us to add back certain cash and non-cash charges, and deduct certain gains that are included in calculating Total revenue, net, Net income (loss) attributable to Rocket Companies or Net income (loss). However, these expenses and gains vary greatly, and are difficult to predict. From time to time in the future, we may include or exclude other items if we believe that doing so is consistent with the goal of providing useful information to investors.

Although we use our non-GAAP financial measures to assess the performance of our business, such use is limited because they do not include certain material costs necessary to operate our business. Our non-GAAP financial measures can represent the effect of long-term strategies as opposed to short-term results. Our presentation of our non-GAAP financial measures should not be construed as an indication that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or nonrecurring items. Our non-GAAP financial measures have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider them in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under U.S. GAAP. Because of these limitations, our non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered as measures of discretionary cash available to us to invest in the growth of our business or as measures of cash that will be available to us to meet our obligations.

Forward Looking Statements

Some of the statements contained in this document are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are generally identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "target," "will," "would" and, in each case, their negative or other various or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements reflect our views with respect to future events as of the date of this document and are based on our management's current expectations, estimates, forecasts, projections, assumptions, beliefs and information. Although management believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these expectations will prove to have been correct. All such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control, and could cause future events or results to be materially different from those stated or implied in this document. It is not possible to predict or identify all such risks. These risks include, but are not limited to, the risk factors that are described under the section titled "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this document and in our SEC filings. We expressly disclaim any obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

About Rocket Companies

Founded in 1985, Rocket Companies is a Detroit-based fintech platform company consisting of personal finance and consumer technology brands including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Homes, Amrock, Rocket Money, Rocket Loans, Rocket Mortgage Canada, Lendesk, Core Digital Media, Rocket Central and Rocket Connections.

Rocket Companies' mission is to be the best at creating certainty in life's most complex moments so its clients can pursue their financial dreams. The Company helps clients achieve the goal of home ownership and financial freedom through industry-leading client experiences powered by its simple, fast and trusted digital solutions. J.D. Power has ranked Rocket Mortgage, part of Rocket Companies, #1 in client satisfaction for both primary mortgage origination and servicing 21 times – the most of any mortgage lender.

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