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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
Form 10-Q
(Mark One)
☒
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2025
Or
☐
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from to
Commission file number: 001-34416
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Maryland
27-0186273
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
3043 Townsgate Road, Westlake Village, California
91361
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
(818) 224-7442
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of Each Class
Trading Symbol (s)
Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Shares of Beneficial Interest, $0.01 Par Value
PMT
New York Stock Exchange
8.125% Series A Cumulative Redeemable PreferredShares of Beneficial Interest, $0.01 Par Value
PMT/PRA
8.00% Series B Cumulative Redeemable PreferredShares of Beneficial Interest, $0.01 Par Value
6.75% Series C Cumulative Redeemable PreferredShares of Beneficial Interest, $0.01 Par Value
PMT/PRB
PMT/PRC
8.50% Senior Note Due September 2028
PMTU
9.00% Senior Notes Due February 2030
PMTV
9.00% Senior Notes Due June 2030
PMTW
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes ☒ No ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer
Accelerated filer
Non-accelerated filer
Smaller reporting company
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act): Yes ☐ No ☒
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
Class
Outstanding at October 27, 2025
Common Shares of Beneficial Interest, $0.01 par value
87,016,604
PENNYMAC MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST
FORM 10-Q
September 30, 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
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Item 1.
Financial Statements (Unaudited)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
Consolidated Statements of Income
5
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity
6
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
7
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
9
Item 2.
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
61
Our Company
Results of Operations
65
Net Investment Income
66
Expenses
76
Balance Sheet Analysis
78
Asset Acquisitions
79
Investment Portfolio Composition
80
Cash Flows
82
Liquidity and Capital Resources
83
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Aggregate Contractual Obligations
88
Item 3.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Item 4.
Controls and Procedures
89
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
90
Legal Proceedings
Item 1A
Risk Factors
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Defaults Upon Senior Securities
Mine Safety Disclosures
Item 5.
Other Information
Item 6.
Exhibits
91
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Report”) contains certain forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements are generally identifiable by use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “potential,” “intend,” “expect,” “seek,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “approximately,” “believe,” “could,” “project,” “predict,” “continue,” “plan” or other similar words or expressions.
Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions, discuss future expectations, describe future plans and strategies, contain financial and operating projections or state other forward-looking information. Examples of forward-looking statements include the following:
Our ability to predict results or the actual effect of future events, actions, plans or strategies is inherently uncertain. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, our actual results and performance could differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. There are a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control that could cause actual results to differ significantly from management’s expectations. Some of these factors are discussed below.
You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement and should consider the following uncertainties and risks, as well as the risks and uncertainties discussed elsewhere in this Report and the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 20, 2025.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated include, but are not limited to:
Other factors that could also cause results to differ from our expectations may not be described in this Report or any other document. Each of these factors could by itself, or together with one or more other factors, adversely affect our business, income and/or financial condition.
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statement was made.
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Item 1. Financial Statements
PENNYMAC MORTGAGE INVESTMENT TRUST AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (UNAUDITED)
September 30,
December 31,
2025
2024
(in thousands, except share information)
ASSETS
Cash
$
263,488
337,694
Short-term investments at fair value
181,043
103,198
Mortgage-backed securities at fair value pledged to creditors
4,609,164
4,063,706
Loans held for sale at fair value ($2,398,221 and $2,087,615 pledged to creditors, respectively)
2,421,033
2,116,318
Loans held for investment at fair value ($5,981,451 and $2,191,869 pledged to creditors, respectively)
5,983,197
2,193,575
Derivative assets with non-affiliates ($31,432 and $29,377 pledged to creditors, respectively)
51,345
56,840
Derivative assets with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
7,097
—
Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements pledged to creditors
1,033,008
1,110,708
Mortgage servicing rights at fair value ($3,608,170 and $3,807,065 pledged to creditors, respectively)
3,668,755
3,867,394
Servicing advances ($50,338 and $89,396 pledged to creditors, respectively)
61,599
105,037
Due from PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
18,171
16,015
Other ($527 pledged to creditors as of December 31, 2024)
227,771
438,221
Total assets
18,525,671
14,408,706
LIABILITIES
Assets sold under agreements to repurchase
7,708,183
6,500,938
Mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreements
11,593
Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets
2,248,609
2,929,790
Unsecured senior notes
876,510
605,860
Interest-only security payable at fair value
36,558
34,222
Asset-backed financings of variable interest entities at fair value
5,439,582
2,040,375
Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities with non-affiliates at fair value
10,407
7,351
Derivative liabilities with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
1,779
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities
135,585
139,124
Due to PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
40,165
30,206
Income taxes payable
143,832
163,861
Liability for losses under representations and warranties
5,152
6,886
Total liabilities
16,646,362
12,470,206
Commitments and contingencies ─ Note 17
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Preferred shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value per share—authorized 100,000,000 shares, issued and outstanding 22,400,000, liquidation preference $560,000,000
541,482
Common shares of beneficial interest, $0.01 par value—authorized, 500,000,000 issued and outstanding, 87,016,604 and 86,860,960 shares, respectively
870
869
Additional paid-in capital
1,926,552
1,925,067
Accumulated deficit
(589,595
)
(528,918
Total shareholders’ equity
1,879,309
1,938,500
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
Assets and liabilities of consolidated variable interest entities (“VIEs”) included in total assets and liabilities (the assets of each VIE can only be used to settle liabilities of that VIE) are summarized below:
(in thousands)
Loans held for investment at fair value
5,981,451
2,191,709
Derivative assets
31,432
29,377
Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements
Other—interest receivable
25,190
6,382
7,071,081
3,338,176
Asset-backed financings of the variable interest entities at fair value
Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities at fair value
9,330
4,060
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities—interest payable
5,510,660
2,085,039
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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (UNAUDITED)
Quarter ended September 30,
Nine months ended September 30,
(in thousands, except earnings per common share)
Net investment income
Net gains on investments and financings
64,087
146,695
160,080
166,705
Net gains on loans held for sale at fair value:
From nonaffiliates
14,326
18,065
39,803
41,088
From PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
531
1,994
5,204
5,649
14,857
20,059
45,007
46,737
Loan origination fees
3,095
6,640
9,632
11,099
Net loan servicing fees:
Contractually specified
151,395
162,605
456,705
485,089
Other
4,428
4,012
13,472
9,838
155,823
166,617
470,177
494,927
Change in fair value of mortgage servicing rights
(116,379
(184,918
(336,097
(263,676
Mortgage servicing rights hedging results
(27,360
(67,220
(127,941
(175,399
12,084
(85,521
6,139
55,852
3,345
441
6,027
1,267
15,429
(85,080
12,166
57,119
Net interest income (expense):
Interest income
230,088
176,734
602,660
472,128
Interest expense
228,394
184,171
615,680
527,539
1,694
(7,437
(13,020
(55,411
Results of real estate acquired in settlement of loans
(27
(65
(169
(155
97
52
202
173
99,232
80,864
213,898
226,267
Earned by PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.:
Loan servicing fees
21,012
22,240
64,386
62,766
Management fees
6,912
7,153
20,793
21,474
Loan fulfillment fees
6,162
11,492
17,266
19,935
Professional services
8,608
2,614
23,952
6,738
Compensation
2,817
1,326
8,623
4,611
Loan collection and liquidation
1,503
2,257
5,857
4,297
Safekeeping
1,194
1,174
3,532
3,067
Loan origination
794
1,408
2,146
2,414
3,232
4,666
9,638
13,441
Total expenses
52,234
54,330
156,193
138,743
Income before benefit from income taxes
46,998
26,534
57,705
87,524
Benefit from income taxes
(11,298
(14,873
(17,805
(26,925
Net income
58,296
41,407
75,510
114,449
Dividends on preferred shares of beneficial interest
10,455
31,364
Net income attributable to common shareholders
47,841
30,952
44,146
83,085
Earnings per common share
Basic
0.55
0.36
0.50
0.95
Diluted
Weighted average common shares outstanding
87,017
86,861
86,979
86,800
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)
Quarter ended September 30, 2025
Preferred shares
Common shares
Number of shares
Amount
Par value
Total
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
Balance at June 30, 2025
22,400
1,925,740
(602,447
1,865,645
Share-based compensation
812
Dividends:
(10,455
Common shares ($0.40 per share)
(34,989
Balance at September 30, 2025
Quarter ended September 30, 2024
Balance at June 30, 2024
1,923,780
(526,262
1,939,869
816
(34,850
Balance at September 30, 2024
1,924,596
(530,160
1,936,787
Nine months ended September 30, 2025
Balance at December 31, 2024
156
1,485
1,486
(31,364
Common shares ($1.20 per share)
(104,823
Nine months ended September 30, 2024
Balance at December 31, 2023
86,624
866
1,923,437
(508,695
1,957,090
237
1,159
1,162
(104,550
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)
Cash flows from operating activities
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in operating activities:
(160,080
(166,705
Net gains on loans held for sale
(45,007
(46,737
336,097
263,676
127,941
175,399
Accrual of unearned discounts and amortization of purchase premiums on mortgage-backed securities, loans held for investment, and asset-backed financings
(27,036
(25,967
Amortization of debt issuance costs
15,322
16,742
169
155
Share-based compensation expense
2,613
3,008
Purchase of loans held for sale from nonaffiliates
(59,033,943
(67,670,193
Purchase of loans held for sale from PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
(5,673,014
(191,250
Sale to nonaffiliates and repayment of loans held for sale
7,480,047
9,340,802
Sale of loans held for sale to PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
52,856,500
57,502,461
Repurchase of loans subject to representations and warranties
(21,113
(25,318
Decrease in servicing advances
43,309
134,885
Increase in due from PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
(2,156
(8,482
Decrease (increase) in other assets
131,263
(225,737
Decrease in accounts payable and accrued liabilities
(3,838
(242,451
Increase in due to PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
9,959
3,341
Decrease in income taxes payable
(20,029
(34,459
Net cash used in operating activities
(3,907,486
(1,082,381
Cash flows from investing activities
Net (increase) decrease in short-term investments
(77,845
25,551
Purchase of mortgage-backed securities
(942,462
(479,960
Sale and repayment of mortgage-backed securities
552,184
1,245,129
Repayment of loans held for investment
299,531
75,113
Net settlement of derivative financial instruments
5,110
(1,346
Distribution from credit risk transfer arrangements
115,232
118,668
Purchase of mortgage servicing rights
(27,981
Transfer of mortgage servicing rights relating to delinquent loans to Agency
(675
(341
Sale of real estate acquired in settlement of loans
686
1,127
(Increase) decrease in margin deposits
(74,811
122,389
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
(123,050
1,078,349
Statements continued on the next page
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Cash flows from financing activities
Sale of assets under agreements to repurchase
88,710,128
91,889,781
Repurchase of assets sold under agreements to repurchase
(87,506,607
(91,766,070
Issuance of mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreements
665,124
1,771,100
Repayment of mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreements
(676,775
(1,742,221
Issuance of notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets
150,000
1,306,500
Repayment of notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets
(835,552
(1,384,419
Issuance of unsecured senior notes
277,500
216,500
Issuance of asset-backed financings of variable interest entities
3,617,501
8,137
Repayment of asset-backed financings of variable interest entities
(293,955
(73,083
Payment of debt issuance costs
(14,019
(21,260
Payment of dividends to preferred shareholders
Payment of dividends to common shareholders
(104,524
(104,450
Payment of vested share-based compensation tax withholdings
(1,127
(1,846
Net cash provided by financing activities
3,956,330
67,305
Net (decrease) increase in cash
(74,206
63,273
Cash at beginning of period
281,085
Cash at end of period
344,358
Supplemental cash flow information
Payments, net:
Income taxes
2,223
7,534
Interest
615,598
564,417
Non-cash investing activities:
Recognition of loans held for investment resulting from initial consolidation of variable interest entities
4,013,749
Receipt of mortgage servicing rights as proceeds from sales of loans
136,783
159,456
Unsettled purchase of mortgage servicing rights
1,447
Exchange of mortgage servicing spread for interest-only stripped mortgage-backed securities and interest receivable
35,609
Non-cash financing activities:
Dividends declared, not paid
35,137
34,850
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (UNAUDITED)
Note 1—Organization
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (“PMT” or the “Company”) is a specialty finance company, which invests in residential mortgage-related assets. The Company operates in three reportable segments: credit sensitive strategies, interest rate sensitive strategies and correspondent production. All other activities are included in corporate:
The Company primarily sells the loans it acquires through its correspondent production activities to government-sponsored enterprises ("GSEs") such as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) or to PLS primarily for sale into securitizations guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association ("Ginnie Mae"), or the GSEs. Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae are each referred to as an “Agency” and, collectively, as the “Agencies.” The Company may also securitize loans directly and retain senior and subordinate MBS created in the securitizations.
The Company conducts substantially all of its operations and makes substantially all of its investments through its subsidiary, PennyMac Operating Partnership, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”), and the Operating Partnership’s subsidiaries. A wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company is the sole general partner, and the Company is the sole limited partner, of the Operating Partnership.
The Company believes that it qualifies, and has elected to be taxed, as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. To maintain its tax status as a REIT, the Company is required to distribute at least 90% of its taxable income in the form of qualifying distributions to shareholders.
Note 2—Basis of Presentation and Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncement
Basis of Presentation
The Company’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared in compliance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”) as codified in the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification for interim financial information and with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 10-01 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, these financial statements and notes do not include all of the information required by GAAP for complete financial statements. This interim consolidated information should be read together with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024.
These unaudited consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, income, and cash flows for the interim periods presented, but are not necessarily indicative of the income that may be expected for the full year. Intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
Preparation of financial statements in compliance with GAAP requires the Company to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results will likely differ from those estimates.
The Company held no restricted cash during the periods presented. Therefore, the consolidated statements of cash flows do not include references to restricted cash.
Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncement
During 2023 the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”), that is intended to enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures. ASU 2023-09 does not require any changes to the Company’s accounting for income taxes. ASU 2023-09 requires disclosures of:
The disclosures required by ASU 2023-09 are required in the Company’s annual financial statements beginning with the year ended December 31, 2025.
Note 3—Concentration of Risks
As discussed in Note 1 – Organization above, PMT’s operating and investing activities are centered in residential mortgage-related assets, including CRT arrangements, subordinate MBS, Agency and senior Non-Agency MBS and MSRs.
The Company is exposed to fair value risk and credit risk and, as a result of prevailing market conditions, may be required to recognize losses associated with adverse changes to the fair value of its investments in MSRs, CRT arrangements, and MBS as well as credit losses arising from its investments in CRT arrangements and subordinate MBS.
Fair Value Risk
The Company carries its non-cash financial assets and MSRs at fair value with changes in fair value included in its income:
Credit Risk
Note 6 – Variable Interest Entities details the Company’s investments in CRT arrangements whereby the Company sold pools of loans into Fannie Mae guaranteed loan securitizations which became reference pools underlying the CRT arrangements. Fannie Mae transferred interest-only (“IO”) ownership interests and recourse obligations based upon the securitized reference pools of loans subject to the CRT arrangements into trust entities, and the Company acquired the IO ownership interests and assumed the recourse obligations in the CRT arrangements through the acquisition of beneficial interests in the trust entities.
The Company also invests in subordinate MBS, which are among the first beneficial interests in the issuing trusts to absorb credit losses on the underlying loans.
The Company’s retention of credit risk through its investment in CRT arrangements and subordinate MBS subjects it to risks associated with delinquency and foreclosure similar to the risks of loss associated with owning the underlying loans, which is greater than the risk of loss associated with selling loans to the Agencies without the retention of credit risk in the case of CRT arrangements and investing in senior mortgage-backed securities in the case of subordinate MBS.
Certain of the Company's investments in CRT arrangements are structured such that loans that reach a specific number of days delinquent trigger losses chargeable to the CRT arrangements based on the sizes of the delinquent loans and a contractual schedule of loss severity. Therefore, the risks associated with delinquency and foreclosure may in some instances be greater than the risks associated with owning the related loans because the structure of those CRT arrangements provides that the Company may be required to absorb losses in the event of delinquency or foreclosure even when there is ultimately no loss realized with respect to such loans (e.g., as a result of a borrower’s re-performance). In contrast, the structure of the Company’s other investments in CRT arrangements requires PMT to absorb losses only when the reference loans realize losses.
The Company maintains cash and short-term investment balances at financial institutions in excess of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") insurance limits. Should one or more of the financial institutions at which the Company's deposits are
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maintained fail, there is no guarantee as to the extent that the Company would recover the funds deposited, whether through FDIC coverage or otherwise, or the timing of any recovery.
Note 4—Transactions with Related Parties
The Company enters into transactions with subsidiaries of PFSI in support of its operating, investing and financing activities as summarized below.
Operating Activities
Servicing Agreement
The Company has a loan servicing agreement with PLS (the “Servicing Agreement”) pursuant to which PLS provides subservicing for the Company's portfolio of MSRs, loans held for sale, loans held in VIEs (prime servicing), and its portfolio of residential loans purchased with credit deterioration (special servicing or distressed loans).
Under the Servicing Agreement, as amended, servicing fees for all subserviced MSRs and loans are established at a per loan monthly amount based on the delinquency, bankruptcy and/or foreclosure status of the serviced loan or real estate acquired in settlement of loans (“REO") as shown below:
Through 2024, the loan servicing fees were established based on whether the serviced loans were “prime” loans (loans included in PMT’s MSRs, private label securitization portfolios and its inventory of loans held for sale) or “special servicing” loans (loans purchased by PMT with credit deterioration) as follows:
Prime Servicing
Special Servicing
The Servicing Agreement expires on December 31, 2029, subject to automatic renewal for an additional 18-month period unless terminated in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
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MSR Recapture Agreement
The Company has an MSR recapture agreement with PLS. Pursuant to the terms of the MSR recapture agreement, if PLS refinances (recaptures) mortgage loans for which the Company previously held the MSRs, PLS is generally required to transfer and convey to the Company cash in an amount equal to:
The “recapture rate” means, during each month, the ratio of (i) the aggregate unpaid principal balance ("UPB") of all refinance mortgage loans originated in such month, plus the aggregate UPB of all "preserved mortgage loans" relating to closed end second loans originated in such month, to (ii) the aggregate UPB of all mortgage loans from the portfolio that PLS has determined in good faith were refinanced in such month, plus the aggregate UPB of all "preserved mortgage loans" relating to closed end second lien loans originated in such month. For purposes of such calculation, “preserved mortgage loan” means a mortgage loan in PMT’s portfolio as to which PLS or its affiliates originated a new closed end second lien loan in a subordinate position to such mortgage loan. PFSI has further agreed to allocate sufficient resources to target a recapture rate of at least 30%.
Through December 2024, the MSR recapture agreement provided for the fee to be determined as follows:
Through December 31, 2024, the “recapture rate” meant, during each month, the ratio of (i) the aggregate UPB of all recaptured loans, to (ii) the aggregate UPB of all mortgage loans for which the Company held the MSRs and that were refinanced or otherwise paid off in such month.
The MSR recapture agreement expires on December 31, 2029, subject to automatic renewal for an additional 18-month period unless terminated in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
Following is a summary of loan servicing and recapture fees earned by PLS:
Loan servicing fees:
Loans held for sale
383
158
891
342
Loans held for investment
(233
60
161
185
Mortgage servicing rights
20,862
22,022
63,334
62,239
Average investment in loans:
Held for sale
2,058,167
1,069,653
2,087,048
1,002,719
Held for investment
5,235,047
1,388,368
3,885,345
1,401,643
Average MSR portfolio unpaid principal balance
220,178,747
227,804,449
222,854,243
229,174,686
Mortgage servicing rights recapture fees
Unpaid principal balance of loans recaptured
205,055
71,370
547,577
207,651
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Correspondent Production Activities
Mortgage Banking Servicing Agreement
The Company is provided fulfillment and other services for the operation of its correspondent production business under an amended and restated mortgage banking services agreement with PLS. These services include: provision of models and technology for the pricing of loans and MSRs; reviews of loan data; documentation and appraisals to assess loan quality and risk; hedging the fair value of the Company's mortgage loan inventory and commitments to purchase mortgage loans; correspondent seller performance and credit monitoring; and the sale of loans through secondary mortgage markets on behalf of the Company.
The mortgage banking services agreement was amended and renewed effective January 1, 2025. As part of the amendment of the mortgage banking services agreement, PLS assumed the role of initial correspondent loan purchaser instead of the Company effective July 1, 2025. Under the amended agreement, the Company retains the right to purchase up to 100% of the non-government insured or guaranteed loans purchased by PLS at its cost plus accrued interest, less any loan administrative fee paid to PLS by the correspondent seller, and subject to quarterly fulfillment fees as described below. PLS may hold or otherwise sell correspondent loans to other investors if the Company chooses not to purchase such loans. As a result of the new structure, the sourcing fee arrangement described below no longer has any effect for correspondent loan commitments entered into beginning on July 1, 2025.
Effective January 1, 2025, fulfillment fees in any quarter shall not exceed the following:
Through December 2024, the mortgage banking services agreement provided for a quarterly fulfillment fee not to exceed the following:
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The Company does not hold the Ginnie Mae approval required to issue Ginnie Mae MBS and/or to act as a servicer for loans in Ginnie Mae MBS. Accordingly, under the mortgage banking services agreement, through June 30, 2025, PLS purchased mortgage loans underwritten in accordance with the Ginnie Mae MBS Guide “as is” and without recourse of any kind from the Company at its cost less an administrative fee plus accrued interest and a sourcing fee ranging from one to two basis points of the UPB of the loan, generally based on the average number of calendar days the loans were held by the Company before purchase by PLS. PLS could also acquire conventional loans from the Company on the same terms upon mutual agreement between the Company and PLS.
While PLS purchased these mortgage loans “as is” and without recourse of any kind from the Company, where PLS has a claim for repurchase, indemnity or otherwise against a correspondent seller, it is entitled, at its sole expense, to pursue any such claim through or in the name of the Company.
The mortgage banking services agreement expires on December 31, 2029, subject to automatic renewal for an additional 18-month period unless terminated in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
The Company may also purchase newly originated conforming balance non-government insured or guaranteed loans from PLS under a mortgage loan purchase and sale agreement.
Following is a summary of correspondent production activity between the Company and PLS:
Loan fulfillment fees earned by PLS
Unpaid principal balance of loans fulfilled by PLS (1)
3,343,181
5,948,057
9,210,743
9,949,135
Sourcing fees received from PLS included in Net gains on loans held for sale
Unpaid principal balance of loans sold to PLS:
Government guaranteed or insured
3,081,974
11,843,268
27,060,094
30,200,608
Conventional conforming
2,322,914
8,092,380
24,984,726
26,289,016
5,404,888
19,935,648
52,044,820
56,489,624
Purchases of loans held for sale from PLS:
Under the fulfillment agreement
2,656,334
1,326,988
191,250
3,016,680
3,983,322
5,673,014
Tax service fees paid to PLS
558
1,112
1,537
1,902
December 31, 2024
Loans included in Loans held for sale at fair value pending sale to PLS
2,584
602,108
Management Agreement
PMT has a management agreement with PCM, pursuant to which the Company pays PCM management fees as follows:
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The performance incentive fee is equal to the sum of:
For the purpose of determining the amount of the performance incentive fee:
“Net income” is defined as net income or loss attributable to the Company’s common shares of beneficial interest (“Common Shares”) calculated in accordance with GAAP, and adjusted to exclude one-time events pursuant to changes in GAAP and certain other non-cash charges after discussion between PCM and the Company’s independent trustees and after approval by a majority of the Company’s independent trustees.
“Common shareholders’ equity” is defined as average "shareholder’s equity" less the average GAAP carrying value of the Company’s preferred equity.
“High watermark” is the annual adjustment that reflects the amount by which the “net income” (stated as a percentage of return on “equity”) in that year exceeds or falls short of the lesser of 8% and the average Fannie Mae 30‑year MBS Yield (the “Target Yield”) for the year then ended. If the “net income” is lower than the Target Yield, the high watermark is increased by the difference. If the “net income” is higher than the Target Yield, the high watermark is reduced by the difference. Each time a performance incentive fee is earned, the high watermark is reset to zero. As a result, the threshold amount required for the Company to earn a performance incentive fee is adjusted cumulatively based on the performance of the Company’s net income over (or under) the Target Yield, until the net income in excess of the Target Yield exceeds the then-current cumulative high watermark amount, and a performance incentive fee is earned. The high watermark is calculated based on the two years preceding the fiscal year for which the incentive fee is calculated, and will never be less than zero after including all high watermark increases and high watermark decreases over any such rolling two fiscal year period.
The base management fee is paid quarterly in arrears and the performance incentive fee is paid annually in arrears. The performance incentive fee may be paid in cash or a combination of cash and the Company’s Common Shares (subject to a limit of no more than 50% paid in Common Shares), at the Company’s option.
Through 2024, under the management agreement, both base management and performance incentive fees were paid quarterly and the high watermark was assessed and calculated on a cumulative basis since inception.
In the event of termination of the management agreement between the Company and PCM, PCM may be entitled to a termination fee in certain circumstances. The termination fee is equal to three times the sum of (a) the average annual base management fee, and (b) the average annual performance incentive fee earned by PCM, in each case during the 24-month period before termination of the management agreement.
Following is a summary of management fee expenses:
Base management fee
Performance incentive fee
Average shareholders' equity amounts used to calculate base management fee expense
1,828,365
1,897,006
1,853,613
1,912,310
The management agreement expires on December 31, 2029, subject to automatic renewal for an additional 18-month period unless terminated in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
Expense Reimbursement
Under the management agreement, the Company reimburses PCM for its organizational and operating expenses, including third-party expenses, incurred on the Company’s behalf, it being understood that PCM and its affiliates shall allocate a portion of their personnel’s time to provide certain legal, tax, accounting, internal audit and investor relations services for the direct benefit of the Company. The Company is also required to pay its pro rata portion of the rent, telephone, utilities, office furniture, equipment,
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machinery and other office, internal and overhead expenses (common overhead) of PCM and its affiliates required for the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ operations. These expenses are based on the resources PCM and its affiliates dedicate to investment management activities for the Company, as determined by PCM in its sole discretion.
Through 2024, the Company reimbursed PCM for its organizational and operating expenses, including third-party expenses, incurred on the Company’s behalf, it being understood that PCM and its affiliates would allocate a portion of their personnel’s time to provide certain legal, tax and investor relations services for the direct benefit of the Company. With respect to the allocation of PCM’s and its affiliates’ personnel compensation, PCM was reimbursed $165,000 per fiscal quarter. Overhead expenses were previously allocated based on the ratio of the Company’s proportion of gross assets compared to all remaining gross assets owned or managed PCM and its affiliates, as calculated at each fiscal quarter end.
Following is a summary of the Company’s reimbursements to PCM and its affiliates for expenses:
Reimbursement of:
Expenses incurred on the Company’s behalf, net
6,873
6,318
16,437
15,511
1,629
165
4,886
495
Common overhead
982
1,867
2,945
5,811
9,484
8,350
24,268
21,817
Payments and settlements during the period (1)
27,709
31,752
88,385
91,100
Financing Activities
PFSI Investment in the Company
PFSI held 75,000 of the Company’s Common Shares at both September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024.
Amounts Receivable from and Payable to PFSI
Amounts receivable from and payable to PFSI are summarized below:
Due from PFSI-Miscellaneous receivables
Due to PFSI:
Correspondent production activities
24,277
11,122
7,149
6,778
6,822
Allocated expenses and expenses and costs
2,198
3,508
Fulfillment fees
1,605
The Company has also transferred cash to PLS to fund loan servicing advances and REO property acquisition and preservation costs on its behalf. Such amounts are included in various of the Company's balance sheet items as summarized below:
Balance sheet line including advance amount
Servicing advances
Other assets-Real estate acquired in settlement of loans
835
1,265
62,434
106,302
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Note 5—Loan Sales
The following table summarizes cash flows between the Company and transferees in transfers of loans that are accounted for as sales where the Company maintains continuing involvement with the loans:
Cash flows:
Proceeds from sales
2,496,351
5,172,208
Loan servicing fees received
The following table summarizes for the dates presented collection status information for loan transfers that are accounted for as sales where the Company maintains continuing involvement:
Unpaid principal balance of loans outstanding
215,531,799
222,761,227
Collection status (Unpaid principal balance)
Delinquency:
30-89 days delinquent
2,714,650
2,618,767
90 or more days delinquent:
Not in foreclosure
980,439
1,078,362
In foreclosure
117,024
105,810
Bankruptcy
336,957
281,821
Custodial funds managed by the Company (1)
3,338,306
2,385,602
Note 6—Variable Interest Entities
The Company is a variable interest holder in various VIEs that relate to its investing and financing activities as discussed below.
Credit Risk Transfer Arrangements
The Company has previously entered into certain loan sales arrangements pursuant to which it accepted credit risk relating to the loans sold in exchange for a portion of the interest earned on such loans. These arrangements absorb scheduled or realized credit losses on those loans and comprise the Company’s investments in CRT arrangements.
The Company, through its subsidiary, PennyMac Mortgage Corp (“PMC"), entered into CRT arrangements with Fannie Mae, pursuant to which the Company sold pools of loans into Fannie Mae-guaranteed securitizations while retaining recourse obligations as part of the retention of IO ownership interests in such loans. CRT arrangements include:
The Company placed Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements into subsidiary trust entities to secure its recourse obligations. The Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements represent the Company’s maximum contractual exposure to claims under its recourse obligations and are the sole source of settlement of losses under the CRT arrangements.
The Company’s exposure to losses under its recourse obligations was initially established at rates ranging from 3.5% to 4.0% of the UPB of the loans sold under the CRT arrangements. As the UPB of the underlying loans subject to each CRT arrangement decreased through repayments, the percentage exposure to losses of each CRT arrangement increased to maximums ranging from 4.5% to 5.0% of outstanding UPB, although the total dollar amount of exposure to losses did not increase.
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The Company has concluded that the subsidiary trust entities holding its CRT arrangements are VIEs and the Company is the primary beneficiary of the VIEs as it is the holder of the primary beneficial interests which absorb the variability of the trusts’ income. For CRT arrangements where losses are triggered based on the loans’ delinquency status, the Company recognizes its IO ownership interests and recourse obligations on the consolidated balance sheets as CRT derivatives in Derivative assets and Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities. For CRT securities where losses are absorbed when the reference loans realize credit losses, the Company recognizes its IO ownership interests and recourse obligations as CRT strips which are included on the consolidated balance sheet in Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities. Gains and losses on the derivatives, strips and the IO ownership interest sold to a nonaffiliate included in the CRT arrangements are included in Net gains on investments and financings in the consolidated statements of income.
Following is a summary of the CRT arrangements:
Net investment income:
Credit risk transfer derivatives and strips:
Credit risk transfer derivatives
Realized
2,599
3,275
8,034
10,248
Valuation changes
348
5,460
2,268
13,716
2,947
8,735
10,302
23,964
Credit risk transfer strips
9,623
10,990
29,350
34,368
1,177
3,499
(5,124
33,217
10,800
14,489
24,226
67,585
Interest-only security payable at fair value — valuation changes
(5
(2,390
(2,336
(2,431
13,742
20,834
32,192
89,118
Interest income — Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements
11,125
15,042
34,201
46,121
24,867
35,876
66,393
135,239
Net payments made to settle losses on credit risk transfer arrangements
1,250
827
3,718
1,140
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Carrying value of credit risk transfer arrangements:
Derivative assets - credit risk transfer derivatives
Derivative and credit risk transfer liabilities — credit risk transfer strip liabilities
(9,330
(4,060
(36,558
(34,222
1,018,552
1,101,803
Credit risk transfer arrangement assets pledged to secure borrowings:
Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements (1)
Unpaid principal balance of loans underlying credit risk transfer arrangements
19,937,381
21,249,304
Collection status (unpaid principal balance):
Delinquency
Current
19,314,008
20,628,148
433,928
414,605
90-179 days delinquent
105,783
131,191
180 or more days delinquent
59,042
51,343
Foreclosure
24,620
24,017
68,491
63,697
Subordinate and Senior Non-Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities
The Company retains or purchases subordinate and senior non-agency MBS in transactions sponsored by PMC or a nonaffiliate. Cash inflows from the loans underlying these securities are distributed to investors and service providers in accordance with the respective securities' contractual priorities of payments and, as such, most of these inflows must be directed first to service and repay the senior securities.
The rights of holders of subordinate securities to receive distributions of principal and/or interest, as applicable, are subordinate to the rights of holders of senior securities. After the senior securities are repaid, substantially all cash inflows will be directed to the subordinate securities, including those held by the Company, until they are fully repaid.
The Company’s retention or purchase of subordinate MBS exposes PMT to the credit risk in the underlying loans because the Company’s subordinate MBS investments are among the first beneficial interests to absorb credit losses on those assets. The Company’s exposure to losses from its investments in subordinate MBS is limited to its recorded investment in such securities.
The Company has concluded that the trusts holding the assets underlying these transactions are VIEs. The Company also has concluded that it is the primary beneficiary of certain of the VIEs as it has the power, through PLS, in its role as the servicer or sub-servicer of the underlying loans, to direct the activities of the trusts that most significantly impact the trusts’ economic performance and, as a holder of subordinate securities, that PMT is exposed to losses that could potentially be significant to the VIEs. Therefore, PMT consolidates those VIEs.
The Company recognizes the interest earned on the loans owned by the VIEs as Interest income and the interest attributable to the asset-backed securities issued to nonaffiliates by the VIEs as Interest expense on its consolidated statements of income.
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Following is a summary of the Company’s investment in MBS backed by assets held in consolidated VIEs:
Net gains on investments and financings:
48,488
75,360
90,800
71,381
Asset-backed financings at fair value
(35,707
(72,922
(79,923
(64,151
67,153
16,037
151,513
41,594
65,409
10,838
140,573
34,918
14,525
7,637
13,906
Retained mortgage-backed securities at fair value pledged to secure Assets sold under agreements to repurchase
473,472
130,839
Financing of Mortgage Servicing Assets
The Company entered into financing transactions in which it pledged participation interests in its Fannie Mae MSRs to VIEs which issued variable funding notes, term notes and term loans backed by the participation interests. The Company holds the variable funding notes and acts as guarantor of the variable funding notes, term notes and term loans. The Company determined that it is the primary beneficiary of the VIEs because, as the holder of the variable funding notes and issuer of performance guarantees, it holds the variable interests in the VIEs. Therefore, the Company consolidates the VIEs.
For financial reporting purposes, the MSRs financed by the consolidated VIEs are included in Mortgage servicing rights at fair value, the variable funding notes sold under agreements to repurchase are included in Assets sold under agreements to repurchase and the term notes and term loans are included in Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. These financings are described in Note 15— Long-Term Debt.
Note 7— Fair Value
The Company’s consolidated financial statements include assets and liabilities that are measured at or based on their fair values. Measurement at or based on fair value may be on a recurring or nonrecurring basis depending on the accounting principles applicable to the specific asset or liability and whether the Company has elected to carry the item at its fair value as discussed in the following paragraphs.
The Company groups its assets and liabilities at fair value in three levels, based on the markets in which the assets and liabilities are traded and the observability of the assigned inputs used to determine fair value. The fair value level assigned to an asset or liability is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. These levels are:
As a result of the difficulty in observing certain significant valuation inputs affecting “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities, the Company is required to make judgments regarding these items’ fair values. Different persons in possession of the same facts may reasonably arrive at different conclusions as to the inputs to be applied in valuing these assets and liabilities and their fair values. Such differences may result in significantly different fair value measurements. Likewise, due to the general illiquidity of some of these assets and liabilities, subsequent transactions may be at values significantly different from those reported.
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The Company reclassifies its assets and liabilities between levels of the fair value hierarchy when the significant inputs required to establish fair value at a level of the fair value hierarchy are no longer readily available, requiring the use of lower-level inputs, or when the significant inputs required to establish fair value at a higher level of the hierarchy become available.
Fair Value Accounting Elections
The Company identified all of PMT’s non-cash financial assets and MSRs to be accounted for at fair value. The Company has elected to account for these assets at fair value so such changes in fair value will be reflected in income as they occur and more timely reflect the results of the Company’s performance.
The Company has also identified its Asset-backed financings at fair value and Interest-only security payable at fair value to be accounted for at fair value to reflect the generally offsetting changes in fair value of these borrowings to changes in fair value of the assets at fair value collateralizing these financings. For other borrowings, the Company has determined that historical cost accounting is more appropriate because under this method debt issuance costs are amortized over the term of the debt facility, thereby matching the debt issuance cost to the periods benefiting from the availability of the debt.
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Financial Statement Items Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
Following is a summary of financial statement items that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Assets:
Short-term investments
Mortgage-backed securities
4,533,807
75,357
2,418,699
2,334
1,746
Derivative assets with non-affiliates:
Call options on interest rate futures purchase contracts
3,387
Put options on interest rate futures purchase contracts
4,508
Forward purchase contracts
2,466
Forward sale contracts
8,051
Total derivative assets with non-affiliates before netting
7,895
10,517
49,844
Netting
1,501
Total derivative assets with non-affiliates after netting
Derivative assets with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.:
Interest rate lock commitments
534
Total derivative assets with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. before netting
7,631
(534
Total derivative assets with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. after netting
188,938
12,945,008
3,786,721
16,921,634
Liabilities:
Interest-only security payable
Asset-backed financings of variable interest entities
Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities with non-affiliates:
2,467
Forward sales contracts
26,696
Total derivative liabilities with non-affiliates before netting
29,163
(28,086
Total derivative liabilities with non-affiliates after netting
1,077
Total derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities with non-affiliates
Derivative liabilities with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc:
1,608
705
Total derivative liabilities with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc before netting
2,313
Total derivative liabilities with PennyMac Financial Services, Inc after netting:
5,469,450
47,496
5,488,326
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3,977,446
86,260
2,108,347
7,971
1,866
Derivative assets:
6,372
614
54,056
MBS put options
2,114
CRT derivatives
3,562
Total derivative assets before netting
6,528
56,784
32,939
96,251
(39,411
Total derivative assets after netting
109,726
8,334,286
3,996,430
12,401,031
Derivative liabilities and credit risk transfer strips:
6,336
1,753
3,118
Total derivative liabilities before netting
8,089
11,207
(7,916
Total derivative liabilities after netting
3,291
Total derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities
7,178
2,048,464
41,400
2,081,948
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The following is a summary of changes in items measured at fair value on a recurring basis using Level 3 inputs that are significant to the estimation of the fair values of the assets and liabilities at either the beginning or end of the periods presented:
Assets (1)
Interest-only stripped mortgage-backed securities
Loans heldfor sale
Interestrate lockcommitments (2)
CRTstrips
Balance, June 30, 2025
79,052
7,165
1,854
31,147
6,485
(10,479
3,739,106
3,854,330
Purchases and issuances
(1,305
13,533
12,228
Repayments and sales
(4,387
(3,771
(99
(2,662
(9,651
(20,570
Accrual of unearned discounts
2,161
Amounts received pursuant to sales of loans
45,744
Changes in fair value included in income arising from:
Changes in instrument - specific credit risk
Other factors
(1,469
245
(9
11,290
(92,575
Transfers of:
Interest rate lock commitments to loans held for sale (3)
(25,819
Mortgage servicing rights relating to delinquent loans to Agency
284
Balance, September 30, 2025
5,489
3,775,783
Changes in fair value recognized during the quarter relating to assets still held at September 30, 2025
(15
(31
(110,880
Liabilities
Interest-only security payable:
36,553
Changes in fair value recognized during the quarter relating to liability outstanding at September 30, 2025
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CRTderivatives
Interestrate lockcommitments
Mortgageservicingrights
Balance, June 30, 2024
87,841
7,994
1,998
24,305
1,552
(16,974
3,941,861
4,048,577
(156
18,971
18,815
(40,487
(1,728
(38
(3,350
(10,990
(56,593
2,264
87,588
(3,971
(41
(10
27,776
(137,940
Exchange of mortgage servicing spread for interest-only stripped mortgage -backed securities
(35,609
Interest rate lock commitments to loans held for sale (2)
(42,397
125
Balance, September 30, 2024
81,256
6,069
1,950
29,690
5,902
(13,475
3,809,047
3,920,439
Changes in fair value recognized during the quarter relating to assets still held at September 30, 2024
(19
(180,885
(170,023
32,708
2,390
35,098
Changes in fair value recognized during the quarter relating to liability outstanding at September 30, 2024
25
Balance, December 31, 2024
444
3,989,252
1,826
21,685
23,511
(13,547
(7,989
(139
(8,247
(29,496
(59,418
6,611
(3,967
526
23,210
(281,781
(39,850
675
Changes in fair value recognized during the period relating to assets still held at September 30, 2025
(1
(337,343
2,336
Changes in fair value recognized during the period relating to liability outstanding at September 30, 2025
26
CRT strips
Balance, December 31, 2023
94,231
2,131
16,160
7,532
(46,692
3,919,107
3,998,787
5,341
26,842
29,428
61,611
(50,541
(5,404
(129
(10,434
(34,368
(100,876
Accrual of unearned discount
6,870
(4,913
(186
(52
22,774
(154,504
(51,246
341
Changes in fair value recognized during the period relating to assets still held at September 30, 2024
(154
(71
(261,304
(213,607
32,667
2,431
Changes in fair value recognized during the period relating to liability outstanding at September 30, 2024
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Financial Statement Items Measured at Fair Value under the Fair Value Option
Following are the fair values and related principal amounts due upon maturity of loans accounted for under the fair value option(including loans held for sale, loans held in consolidated VIEs, and distressed loans):
Fair value
Principalamount dueupon maturity
Difference
Loans held for sale:
Current through 89 days delinquent
2,418,553
2,348,387
70,166
2,114,556
2,092,030
22,526
1,870
1,817
53
1,687
(427
610
826
(216
75
96
(21
2,480
2,643
(163
1,762
2,210
(448
2,351,030
70,003
2,094,240
22,078
Loans held for investment:
Held in consolidated VIEs:
5,980,525
5,943,621
36,904
2,190,432
2,413,214
(222,782
765
904
1,277
1,658
(381
203
(42
926
1,107
(181
5,944,728
36,723
2,414,872
(223,163
Distressed:
387
(108
445
595
(150
1,084
2,942
(1,858
1,421
3,796
(2,375
275
732
(457
1,359
3,674
(2,315
4,169
(2,423
4,391
(2,525
5,948,897
34,300
2,419,263
(225,688
Following are the changes in fair value included in current period income by consolidated statements of income line item for financial statement items accounted for under the fair value option:
Net loanservicing fees
Net interestincome(expense)
37,572
20,537
58,109
51,146
48,480
(11,240
37,240
96,852
9,297
40,916
Asset-backed financings of VIEs
2,389
(33,318
(35,712
(33,323
28
123,433
15,663
139,096
65,611
75,350
2,229
77,579
213,272
17,892
111,857
1,026
(71,896
(75,312
(74,286
116,991
38,189
155,180
131,737
90,820
(15,415
75,405
232,037
50,451
4,262
(75,661
(82,259
(77,997
50,310
25,340
75,650
67,243
71,330
(511
70,819
189,225
24,829
17,621
1,138
(63,013
(66,582
(65,444
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Financial Statement Item Measured at Fair Value on a Nonrecurring Basis
Following is a summary of the carrying value of assets that were remeasured during the period based on fair value on a nonrecurring basis:
Real estate acquired in settlement of loans
243
532
Following is a summary of the fair value changes recognized during the period on assets held at period end that were remeasured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis:
(28
(78
105
The Company remeasures its REO based on fair value when it evaluates the REO properties for impairment. The Company evaluates its REO for impairment with reference to the respective properties’ fair values less costs to sell. REO may be revalued after acquisition due to the Company receiving greater access to the property, the property being held for an extended period or receiving indications that the property’s fair value may not be supported by developing market conditions. Any subsequent change in fair value to a level that is less than or equal to the property’s cost is recognized in Results of real estate acquired in settlement of loans in the Company’s consolidated statements of income.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments Carried at Amortized Cost
Most of the Company’s borrowings are carried at amortized cost. The Company’s Assets sold under agreements to repurchase, Mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreements, Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets and the exchangeable notes included in Unsecured senior notes are classified as “Level 3” fair value liabilities due to the Company’s reliance on unobservable inputs to estimate these instruments’ fair values. The Company classifies its senior notes as “Level 2” fair value liabilities.
The Company has concluded that the fair values of these borrowings other than term notes and term loans included in Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets and the Unsecured senior notes approximate the agreements’ carrying values due to the borrowing agreements’ variable interest rates and short maturities.
The Company estimates the fair values of the term notes and term loans included in Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets using indications of fair value provided by nonaffiliate brokers for the term notes and internal estimates of fair value for the term loans. The Company estimates the fair values of its Unsecured senior notes using pricing services. The fair values and carrying values of these liabilities are summarized below:
Instrument
Carrying value
2,260,335
2,944,956
903,824
606,185
Valuation Governance
Most of the Company’s assets, its Asset-backed financings of variable interest entities at fair value, Interest-only security payable at fair value and Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities at fair value are carried at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in current period income. A substantial portion of these items are “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities which require the use of unobservable inputs that are significant to the estimation of the fair values of the assets and liabilities. Unobservable inputs reflect the Company’s own judgments about the factors that market participants use in pricing an asset or liability and are based on the best information available under the circumstances.
Due to the difficulty in estimating the fair values of “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities, the Company has assigned responsibility for estimating the fair values of these assets and liabilities to specialized staff within PFSI's capital markets group and subjects the valuation process to significant senior management oversight.
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With respect to “Level 3” valuations other than IRLCs, the capital markets valuation staff reports to PFSI’s senior management valuation subcommittee, which oversees the valuations. The capital markets valuation staff monitors the models used for valuation of the Company’s “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities other than IRLCs, including the models’ performance versus actual results, and reports those results to PFSI’s senior management valuation subcommittee. PFSI’s senior management valuation subcommittee includes the Company’s chief financial and investment officers as well as other senior members of PFSI’s finance, risk management and capital markets staffs.
The capital markets valuation staff is responsible for reporting to PFSI’s senior management valuation subcommittee on the changes in the valuation of the non-IRLC “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities, including major factors affecting the valuation and any changes in model methods and inputs. To assess the reasonableness of its valuations, the capital markets valuation staff presents an analysis of the effect on the valuation of changes to the significant inputs to the models and, for MSRs, comparisons of its estimates of fair value and key inputs to those procured from nonaffiliate brokers and published surveys.
The fair values of the Company’s IRLCs are developed by PFSI's capital markets risk management staff and are reviewed by its capital markets operations staff.
Valuation Techniques and Inputs
The following is a description of the techniques and inputs used in estimating the fair values of “Level 2” and “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities:
Mortgage-Backed Securities
The Company’s categorization of its current holdings of MBS is based on whether the respective security is an IO stripped MBS:
The key inputs used in the estimation of the fair value of IO stripped MBS include pricing spread or option-adjusted spreads ("OAS") (pricing spread and OAS are each a component of discount rate) and prepayment speed. Significant changes to those inputs in isolation may result in significant changes in the IO stripped MBS' fair value measurements. Changes in these key inputs are not directly related.
Following are the key inputs used in determining the fair value of IO stripped MBS:
Fair value (in thousands)
Key inputs (1)
Option-adjusted spread (2)
Range
4.5% – 4.5%
Weighted average
4.5%
Pricing spread (3)
5.9% – 6.5%
6.5%
Annual total prepayment speed (4)
11.1% – 13.7%
9.4% – 10.2%
11.2%
9.4%
Equivalent life (in years)
4.1 – 7.7
4.6 – 8.0
7.6
7.9
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Changes in the fair value of MBS are included in Net gains on investments and financings in the consolidated statements of income.
Loans
Fair value of loans is estimated based on whether the loans are saleable into active markets:
Changes in fair values of loans held for sale are included in Net gains on loans held for sale in the consolidated statements of income. Changes in fair values of loans held for investment are included in Net gains on investments and financings in the consolidated statements of income.
Derivative and Credit Risk Transfer Strip Assets and Liabilities
CRT Derivatives
The Company categorizes CRT derivatives as “Level 3” fair value assets. The fair values of CRT derivatives are based on indications of fair value provided to the Company by nonaffiliate brokers for the certificates representing the beneficial interests in the trusts holding the Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements pledged to creditors, the recourse obligations and the IO ownership interests. Together, the recourse obligation and the IO ownership interest comprise the CRT derivative. Fair values of the CRT derivatives are derived by deducting the balances of the Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements pledged to creditors from the fair values of the certificates representing the beneficial interests in the trusts.
The Company assesses the fair values it receives from nonaffiliate brokers using the discounted cash flow approach. The significant unobservable inputs used by the Company in its review and approval of the valuation of CRT derivatives are the discount rates, voluntary and involuntary prepayment speeds and the remaining loss expectations of the reference loans. Changes in fair value of CRT derivatives are included in Net gains on investments and financings in the consolidated statements of income.
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Following is a quantitative summary of key unobservable inputs used in the Company’s review and approval of broker-provided fair values for CRT derivatives:
(dollars in thousands)
UPB of loans in reference pools
4,663,673
4,961,644
Discount rate
8.6% – 12.9%
9.0% – 11.4%
8.8%
9.3%
Voluntary prepayment speed (2)
6.0% – 7.1%
7.0% – 7.6%
7.0%
7.3%
Involuntary prepayment speed (3)
0.1% – 0.2%
0.1%
Remaining loss expectation
0.0% – 0.1%
0.0% – 0.2%
Interest Rate Lock Commitments
The Company categorizes IRLCs as “Level 3” fair value assets and liabilities. The Company estimates the fair values of IRLCs based on quoted Agency MBS prices, the probability that the loans will be purchased under the commitments (the “pull-through rate”) and the Company’s estimate of the fair values of the MSRs it expects to receive upon sale of the loans.
The significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement of the Company’s IRLCs are the pull-through rates and the estimated MSRs attributed to the mortgage loans subject to the commitments. Significant changes in the pull-through rates or the MSR components of the IRLCs, in isolation, may result in a significant change in the IRLCs’ fair values. The financial effects of changes in these inputs are generally inversely correlated as increasing interest rates have a positive effect on the fair value of the MSR component of an IRLC’s fair value, but also increase the pull-through rate for the loan principal and interest payment cash flow component that has decreased in fair value. Changes in fair value of IRLCs are included in Net gains on loans held for sale at fair value in the consolidated statements of income.
Following is a quantitative summary of key unobservable inputs used in the valuation of IRLCs:
Fair value (in thousands) (1)
Committed amount (in thousands)
1,222,335
1,166,566
Key inputs (2)
Pull-through rate
57.7% – 100%
51.0% – 98.0%
88.5%
86.3%
MSR fair value expressed as
Servicing fee multiple
1.6 – 8.4
2.6 – 7.8
5.7
Percentage of unpaid principal balance
0.4% – 2.8%
0.6% – 2.7%
1.7%
1.9%
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Hedging Derivatives
Fair values of derivative financial instruments actively traded on exchanges are categorized by the Company as “Level 1” fair value assets and liabilities. Fair values of derivative financial instruments based on observable interest rates, volatilities and prices in the MBS or other markets are categorized by the Company as “Level 2” fair value assets and liabilities. Changes in the fair value of hedging derivatives are included in Net gains on investments and financings, Net gains on loans held for sale at fair value or Net loan servicing fees – from nonaffiliates – Mortgage servicing rights hedging results as applicable, in the consolidated statements of income.
Credit Risk Transfer Strips
The Company categorizes CRT strips as “Level 3” fair value liabilities. The fair values of CRT strips are based on indications of fair value provided to the Company by nonaffiliate brokers for the securities representing the beneficial interests in the trusts holding the Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements pledged to creditors, the IO ownership interests and the recourse obligations. Together, the IO ownership interest and the recourse obligation comprise the CRT strip.
Fair values of the CRT strips are derived by deducting the balance of the Deposits securing credit risk transfer arrangements pledged to creditors from the indications of fair value of the securities provided by the nonaffiliate brokers.
The Company assesses the indications of fair value it receives from nonaffiliate brokers using the discounted cash flow approach. The significant unobservable inputs used by the Company in its review and approval of the valuation of the CRT strips are the discount rates, voluntary and involuntary prepayment speeds and the remaining loss expectations of the reference loans. Changes in fair value of CRT strips are included in Net gains on investments and financings in the consolidated statements of income.
Following is a quantitative summary of key unobservable inputs used in the Company’s review and approval of the broker-provided fair values used to derive the fair value of the CRT strip liabilities:
Unpaid principal balance of loans in the reference pools
15,273,708
16,287,660
5.5% – 8.7%
7.1% – 9.1%
8.2%
6.9% – 7.4%
6.9% – 7.5%
0.1% – 0.3%
0.4% – 1.5%
0.5%
Mortgage Servicing Rights
The Company categorizes MSRs as “Level 3” fair value assets. The fair values of MSRs are derived from the net positive cash flows associated with the servicing agreements. The Company uses a discounted cash flow approach to estimate the fair values of MSRs. The Company receives a servicing fee based on the remaining UPB of the loans subject to the servicing agreements and generally has the right to receive other remuneration including various mortgagor-contracted fees such as late charges and collateral reconveyance charges, and is generally entitled to retain any placement fees earned on certain custodial funds held pending remittance of mortgagor principal, interest, tax and insurance payments.
Beginning in the third quarter of 2025, the company enhanced its discounted cash flow approach to estimate the period-end fair value of its MSRs with the adoption of an OAS discounted cashflow model. The OAS model allows the Company to account for the likelihood of interest rates moving along different paths as economic conditions change in its assessment of the fair value of MSRs as opposed to a single assumed rate path.
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The key inputs used in the estimation of the fair value of MSRs include the applicable prepayment rate (prepayment speed), OAS or pricing spread (the OAS and pricing spread are components of the discount rate), and annual per-loan cost to service the underlying loans, all of which are unobservable. Significant changes to any of those inputs in isolation could result in a significant change in the MSR fair value measurement. Changes in these key inputs are not directly related. Changes in the fair value of MSRs are included in Net loan servicing fees – From nonaffiliates – Change in fair value of mortgage servicing rights in the consolidated statements of income.
MSRs are generally subject to loss in fair value when prepayment speed expectations and experience increase, when returns required by market participants (expressed as OAS or pricing spreads) increase, or when annual per-loan cost of servicing increases. Reductions in the fair value of MSRs affect income primarily through recognition of the change in fair value.
Following are the key inputs used in determining the fair value of MSRs at the time of initial recognition:
MSRs recognized (in thousands)
Unpaid principal balance of underlying loans (in thousands)
2,488,333
5,130,285
7,433,949
9,203,814
Weighted average annual servicing fee rate (in basis points)
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Prepayment speed (2)
9.8% – 15.3%
11.7% - 26.7%
9.4% – 15.5%
10.8% - 26.7%
9.9%
13.6%
9.8%
13.1%
Equivalent average life (in years)
3.8– 8.0
3.5 – 6.4
3.7– 8.2
3.4 – 7.2
6.3
8.0
6.5
5.2% - 7.3%
5.4% - 7.3%
5.4% - 8.5%
5.2%
5.5%
5.3%
5.6%
Annual per-loan cost of servicing
$68 – $91
$68 – $87
$68
$69
Following is a quantitative summary of key inputs used in the valuation of MSRs as of the dates presented, and the effect on the fair value from adverse changes in those inputs:
218,799,013
226,237,613
Weighted average note interest rate
3.9%
3.8%
7.0% – 21.7%
6.5% – 17.7%
8.5%
6.7%
2.2 – 8.0
2.4 – 8.9
7.7
8.6
Effect on fair value (in thousands) of (3):
5% adverse change
$(61,314)
$(51,798)
10% adverse change
$(120,466)
$(102,010)
20% adverse change
$(232,710)
$(197,970)
Option-adjusted spread (4)
3.6% – 6.1%
3.6%
Pricing spread (5)
5.4% – 8.1%
5.4%
Effect on fair value (in thousands) of (3) (4):
$(30,525)
$(47,568)
$(60,542)
$(94,018)
$(119,102)
$(183,710)
$69 – $89
$(16,094)
$(16,645)
$(32,187)
$(33,291)
$(64,374)
$(66,582)
Real Estate Acquired in Settlement of Loans
REO is measured based on its fair value on a nonrecurring basis and is categorized as a “Level 3” fair value asset. Fair value of REO is established by using a current estimate of fair value from either a broker’s price opinion, a full appraisal, or the price given in a pending contract of sale.
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REO fair values are reviewed by PLS staff appraisers when the Company obtains multiple indications of fair value and there is a significant difference between the indications of fair value. PLS staff appraisers will attempt to resolve the difference between the indications of fair value. In circumstances where the staff appraisers are not able to generate adequate data to support a fair value conclusion, the staff appraisers obtain an additional appraisal to determine fair value. Recognized changes in the fair value of REO are included in Results of real estate acquired in settlement of loans in the consolidated statements of income.
Note 8— Mortgage-Backed Securities
Following is a summary of activity in the Company’s holdings of MBS:
Balance at beginning of period
3,967,045
4,068,337
4,836,292
Purchases
905,380
80,500
942,462
479,960
Sales
(194,513
(35,667
(977,007
Repayments
(126,857
(105,493
(357,671
(268,122
Exchange of mortgage servicing spread for interest-only stripped mortgage-backed securities
Amortization and accrual of net purchase premiums and discounts
Valuation adjustments, net
Balance at end of period
4,182,382
Fair value of mortgage-backed securities pledged to secure Assets sold under agreements to repurchase
Following is a summary of the Company’s investments in MBS:
Security type (1)
Principalbalance or notional amount
Purchase premiums (discounts), net
Cumulativevaluationchanges
Agency fixed-rate pass-through
2,899,578
(2,076
29,554
2,927,056
Principal-only stripped
682,939
(131,512
21,329
572,756
Floating rate collateralized mortgage obligations
871,733
1,105
282
873,120
Senior non-Agency
163,981
(386
(2,720
160,875
4,618,231
(132,869
48,445
Interest-only stripped
356,387
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Security type
3,132,005
(901
(51,612
3,079,492
776,455
(160,960
(19,195
596,300
Subordinate credit-linked
174,813
(4,292
25,951
196,472
111,479
(3,269
(3,028
105,182
4,194,752
(169,422
(47,884
386,040
Note 9—Loans Held for Sale at Fair Value
Following is a summary of the distribution of the Company’s loans held for sale at fair value:
Loan type
Held for sale to PLS:
GSE eligible (1)
175,145
Government insured or guaranteed
426,963
Held for sale to nonaffiliates—GSE eligible
1,843,932
1,311,754
Jumbo
572,183
194,485
Home equity lines of credit
969
1,368
Repurchased pursuant to representations and warranties
1,365
6,603
Loans pledged to secure:
2,398,221
2,075,473
12,142
2,087,615
Note 10—Loans Held for Investment at Fair Value
Loans held for investment at fair value are comprised primarily of loans held in VIEs securing asset-backed financings as described in Note 6 –Variable Interest Entities – Subordinate and Senior Non-Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Following is a summary of the distribution of the Company’s loans held for investment:
Loans in variable interest entities:
Agency-conforming loans secured by non-owner occupied properties
5,302,478
2,146,328
Fixed interest rate jumbo loans
678,973
45,381
Distressed loans
Loans held for investment pledged to secure:
Asset-backed financings at fair value (1)
160
2,191,869
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Note 11—Derivative and Credit Risk Transfer Strip Assets and Liabilities
Derivative and credit risk transfer assets and liabilities are summarized below:
Derivative assets with non-affiliates
Derivative liabilities with non-affiliates
Credit risk transfer strip liabilities
The Company records all derivative and CRT strip assets and liabilities at fair value and records changes in fair value in current period income.
Derivative Activities
The Company holds and issues derivative financial instruments in connection with its operating, investing and financing activities. Derivative financial instruments are created as a result of certain of the Company’s operations and the Company also enters into derivative transactions as part of its interest rate risk management activities.
Derivative financial instruments created as a result of the Company’s operations are comprised of IRLCs that are created when the Company commits to purchase loans held for sale.
The Company engages in interest rate risk management activities in an effort to reduce the variability of earnings caused by the effects of changes in interest rates on the fair values of certain of its assets and liabilities. The Company bears price risk related to its mortgage production, MSRs and MBS financing activities due to changes in market interest rates as discussed below:
To manage the price risk resulting from these interest rate risks, the Company uses derivative financial instruments with the intention of moderating the risk that changes in market interest rates will result in unfavorable changes in the fair values of the Company’s MBS, inventory of loans held for sale, IRLCs and MSRs. The Company does not designate and qualify any of its derivative financial instruments for hedge accounting.
Cash flows from derivative financial instruments relating to hedging of IRLCs and loans held for sale are included in Cash flows from operating activities in Sale to nonaffiliates and repayment of loans held for sale at fair value. Cash flows from derivative financial instruments relating to hedging of MSRs are included in Cash flows from investing activities.
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Derivative Notional Amounts and Fair Value of Derivatives
The Company had the following derivative assets and liabilities recorded within Derivative assets and Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities and related margin deposits on the consolidated balance sheets:
Notional
Derivative
amount (1)
assets
liabilities
Non-affiliates:
Hedging derivatives subject to master netting arrangements (2):
2,225,000
500,000
2,850,000
1,690,000
4,521,515
1,154,515
9,208,366
7,080,982
450,000
Bond futures
2,042,600
1,713,000
Swap futures
951,200
Other derivatives not subject to master netting arrangements:
Total derivative instruments before netting
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.:
Interest rate lock commitments not subject to master netting arrangements
Forward sale contract subject to master netting arrangement
203,121
Total derivatives before netting
Margin deposits placed with (received from) derivative counterparties included in derivative balances above, net
29,586
(31,497
Derivative assets pledged to secure:
Assets Sold Under Agreements to Repurchase and Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets
(1)Notional amounts provide an indication of the volume of the Company’s derivative activity.
(2) All hedging derivatives are interest rate derivatives that are used as economic hedges.
Netting of Financial Instruments
The Company has elected to net derivative asset and liability positions, and cash collateral placed with or received from its counterparties when such positions are subject to legally enforceable master netting arrangements and the Company intends to set off. The derivative financial instruments that are not subject to master netting arrangements are CRT derivatives and IRLCs. As of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, the Company was not a party to any reverse repurchase agreements or securities lending transactions that are required to be disclosed in the following tables.
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Derivative Assets, Financial Instruments and Collateral Held by Counterparty
The following table summarizes by significant counterparty the amounts of derivative asset positions after considering master netting arrangements and financial instruments or cash pledged that do not meet the accounting guidance qualifying for setoff accounting:
Net amount
Gross amounts
of assets
not offset in the
presented
consolidated
in the
balance sheet
balance
Financial
collateral
Net
Counterparty
sheet
instruments
received
amount
Interest rate lock commitments:
Non-affiliates
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
RJ O’Brien & Associates, LLC
Bank of America, N.A.
4,655
3,150
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
3,338
9,303
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
712
Mizuho Financial Group
695
David Kempner Capital Management
Barclays Capital Inc.
517
Bank of Montreal
501
Nomura
170
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
167
251
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
152
1,237
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
895
422
1,813
58,442
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Derivative Liabilities, Financial Liabilities and Collateral Pledged by Counterparty
The following table summarizes by significant counterparty the amounts of derivative liabilities and assets sold under agreements to repurchase after considering master netting arrangements and financial instruments or cash pledged that do not meet the accounting guidance to qualify for setoff accounting. All assets sold under agreements to repurchase are secured by sufficient collateral with fair values that exceed the liability amounts recorded on the consolidated balance sheets.
of liabilities
(1)
pledged
1,471,218
(1,471,218
1,695,007
(1,695,007
1,160,940
(1,160,940
787,883
(787,883
Atlas Securitized Products, L.P.
948,133
(948,133
609,780
(609,780
Santander US Capital
911,983
(911,954
362,196
(362,196
747,199
(746,964
235
670,605
(670,605
645,596
(645,596
431,201
(431,201
491,764
(491,764
545,678
(545,678
324,328
(324,328
280,561
(280,561
RBC Capital Markets, L.P.
274,092
(274,092
353,765
(353,765
204,388
(204,388
311,997
(311,997
Daiwa Capital Markets
200,415
(200,415
230,033
(230,033
161,147
(161,147
72,859
(72,859
83,277
(83,277
98,196
(98,121
Nomura Holdings America, Inc
56,320
(56,320
BNP Paribas
32,508
(32,401
107
59,729
(59,729
706
62
7,715,793
(7,712,937
2,856
6,512,706
(6,509,415
Following are the net gains (losses) recognized by the Company on derivative financial instruments and the consolidated statements of income line items where such gains and losses are included:
Derivative activity
Consolidated statements of income line
Net gains on loans held for sale (1)
(2,033
4,349
5,045
(1,631
Hedged item:
Interest rate lock commitments and loans acquired for sale
(30,433
(45,471
(69,130
(35,698
Net loan servicing fees
20,098
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Note 12—Mortgage Servicing Rights
Following is a summary of MSRs:
MSRs resulting from loan sales
Transfers to Agency of mortgage servicing rights relating to delinquent loans
Changes in fair value:
Due to changes in inputs used in valuation model (1)
(26,975
(84,306
(60,093
33,303
Other changes in fair value (2)
(89,404
(100,612
(276,004
(296,979
Fair value of mortgage servicing rights pledged to secure Assets sold under agreements to repurchase and Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets
3,608,170
3,807,065
Servicing fees relating to MSRs are recorded in Net loan servicing fees – from nonaffiliates on the Company’s consolidated statements of income and are summarized below:
Contractually specified servicing fees
Ancillary and other fees:
Late charges
1,092
1,044
3,155
3,019
3,336
2,968
10,317
6,819
Average UPB of underlying loans
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Note 13— Other Assets
Other assets are summarized below:
Margin deposits
89,133
346,241
Interest receivable
65,433
38,661
Servicing fees receivable
9,606
10,820
Correspondent lending receivables
7,272
3,930
Other receivables
24,104
16,706
1,738
2,464
30,485
19,399
Real estate acquired in settlement of loans pledged to secure Assets sold under agreements to repurchase
527
Note 14— Short-Term Debt
The borrowing facilities described throughout these Notes 14 and 15 contain various covenants, including financial covenants governing the Company and its subsidiaries’ net worth, debt-to-equity ratio, and liquidity. Management believes that the Company was in compliance with these covenants as of September 30, 2025.
Assets Sold Under Agreements to Repurchase
Following is a summary of financial information relating to assets sold under agreements to repurchase:
Weighted average interest rate (1)
5.16
%
6.02
5.19
6.09
Average balance
6,670,245
5,513,519
6,408,372
5,225,906
Total interest expense
88,587
86,900
254,071
244,821
Maximum daily amount outstanding
8,082,484
6,474,799
8,733,460
7,624,113
September 30, 2025, respectively, and $3.4 million and $6.4 million for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively.
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Carrying value:
Unpaid principal balance
7,712,937
6,509,415
Unamortized debt issuance costs
(4,754
(8,477
Weighted average interest rate
5.06
5.37
Available borrowing capacity (1):
Committed
500,894
565,488
Uncommitted
4,625,949
4,559,239
5,126,843
5,124,727
Margin deposits placed with counterparties included in Other assets, net
53,781
296,922
Assets securing agreements to repurchase:
Mortgage-backed securities at fair value
Loans held for sale at fair value
Loans held for investment at fair value:
Securities retained in asset-backed financings
Distressed
Credit risk transfer arrangements:
180,873
199,965
12,020
Mortgage servicing rights at fair value (2)
1,785,681
1,906,043
Servicing advances (3)
30,182
50,333
Maturities
Following is a summary of maturities of outstanding advances under repurchase agreements by maturity date:
Remaining maturity at September 30, 2025 (1)
Unpaidprincipal balance
Within 30 days
1,996,630
Over 30 to 90 days
4,880,798
Over 90 days to 180 days
386,775
Over 180 days to 1 year
448,734
Weighted average maturity (in months)
1.7
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Amounts at Risk
The amount at risk (the fair value of the assets pledged plus the related margin deposit, less the amount advanced by the counterparty and interest payable) and maturity information relating to the Company’s assets sold under agreements to repurchase is summarized by pledged asset and counterparty below as of September 30, 2025:
Loans and MSRs
Weighted-average maturity
Amounts at risk
Advances
Facility
464,900
November 19, 2025
June 27, 2026
Citibank, N.A.
85,288
October 5, 2025
July 22, 2026
74,440
January 19, 2027
73,472
December 8, 2025
March 30, 2026
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
3,004
November 30, 2025
June 28, 2026
23,673
December 11, 2025
April 28, 2026
13,884
December 5, 2025
February 11, 2026
3,180
November 28, 2025
June 11, 2027
Nomura Holdings America, Inc.
12,629
October 19, 2025
11,703
December 30, 2025
August 10, 2026
1,704
September 30, 2026
2,660
October 9, 2025
Securities
8,816
October 20, 2025
19,179
November 7, 2025
15,687
October 7, 2025
53,754
November 1, 2025
11,748
October 21, 2025
17,755
October 31, 2025
10,826
November 9, 2025
4,635
October 23, 2025
Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.
3,002
November 5, 2025
36,492
November 24, 2025
CRT arrangements
17,900
January 28, 2026
26,527
March 25, 2026
Mortgage Loan Participation Purchase and Sale Agreement
One of the borrowing facilities secured by loans held for sale is in the form of a mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreement. Participation certificates, each of which represents an undivided beneficial ownership interest in a pool of loans that have been pooled with Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae, are sold to the lender pending the securitization of such loans and the sale of the resulting security. The commitment between the Company and a nonaffiliate to sell such security is also assigned to the lender at the time a participation certificate is sold.
The purchase price paid by the lender for each participation certificate is based on the trade price of the security, plus an amount of interest expected to accrue on the security to its anticipated delivery date, minus a present value adjustment, any related hedging costs
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and a holdback amount. The holdback amount is based on a percentage of the purchase price and is not required to be paid to the Company until the settlement of the security and its delivery to the lender.
The mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreement is summarized below:
1,612
32,353
6,618
18,829
5.93
6.59
5.69
6.66
55
568
375
1,033
11,371
78,068
49,266
Amount outstanding
11,650
(57
5.58
Loans held for sale pledged to secure mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreement
Note 15— Long-Term Debt
Notes Payable Secured By Credit Risk Transfer and Mortgage Servicing Assets
CRT Arrangement Financing
The Company, through various wholly-owned subsidiaries, issued secured term notes (the “CRT Term Notes”) to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). All of the CRT Term Notes rank pari passu with each other.
Following is a summary of the CRT Term Notes outstanding:
CRT TermNotes
Issuance date
Issuance amount
Unpaid principalbalance
Annual interest rate spread (1)
Maturity date
2024 3R
August 28, 2024
158,500
140,553
3.10%
September 27, 2028
2024 2R
April 4, 2024
247,000
216,312
3.35%
March 29, 2027
2024 1R
March 6, 2024
306,000
266,455
3.50%
March 1, 2027
623,320
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Fannie Mae MSR Financing
The Company, through two subsidiaries, PMT ISSUER TRUST-FMSR and PMT CO-ISSUER TRUST-FMSR (together, the "Issuer Trusts"), finances MSRs owned by PMC and the related excess servicing spread ("ESS") owned by PennyMac Holdings, LLC (“PMH”), another subsidiary of PMT, through a combination of repurchase agreements and term financing.
The repurchase agreement financings for Fannie Mae MSRs and ESS are effected through the issuance of variable funding notes (a Series 2017-VF1 Note, a Series 2024-VF1 Note, and a Series 2024-VF2 Note, together the "FMSR VFNs") by the Issuer Trusts to PMC and PMH in exchange for participation certificates for MSRs and ESS. The FMSR VFNs are then sold by PMC and PMH to qualified institutional buyers under agreements to repurchase. The amounts outstanding under the FMSR VFNs are included in Assets sold under agreements to repurchase in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The FMSR VFNs have a combined committed borrowing capacity of $1.1 billion under two-year repurchase agreement facilities.
The term financing for Fannie Mae MSRs is effected through the issuance of term notes (the “FT-1 Term Notes”) by the Issuer Trusts to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act and a series of syndicated term loans with various lenders (the “FTL-1 Term Loans").
The FT-1 Term Notes, FTL-1 Term Loans and the FMSR VFNs are secured by participation certificates relating to Fannie Mae MSRs and ESS and rank pari passu with each other.
Following is a summary of the term financing of the Company’s Fannie Mae MSRs:
Issuance
Stated
Optional extension (2)
Term Loans
2023
May 25, 2023
370,000
3.00%
May 25, 2028
May 25, 2029
Term Notes
June 27, 2024
355,000
2.75%
December 27, 2027
June 26, 2028
725,000
Freddie Mac MSR and Servicing Advance Receivables Financing
The Company, through PMC and PMH, finances certain MSRs (including any related ESS) relating to loans pooled into Freddie Mac securities through various credit agreements. The total loan amount available under the agreements is approximately $2.0 billion, bearing interest at an annual rate equal to SOFR plus a spread as defined in each agreement. The agreements have maturities on various dates through August 2026. The total loan amount available under the agreements may be reduced by other debt outstanding with the counterparties. Advances under the credit agreements are secured by MSRs relating to loans serviced for Freddie Mac guaranteed securities.
The Company, through its indirect, wholly owned subsidiaries, PMT ISSUER TRUST - FHLMC SAF, PMT SAF Funding, LLC, and PMC, entered into a structured finance transaction that PMC may use to finance Freddie Mac servicing advance receivables (the “Series 2023-VF1”). The maturity date of the related Series 2023-VF1, Class A-VF1 Variable Funding Note is March 6, 2026 and has a maximum principal amount of $175 million.
Following is a summary of financial information relating to notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets:
2,539,717
2,854,487
2,693,728
2,871,883
7.69
8.60
7.64
8.84
51,465
66,305
160,524
198,760
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Unpaid principal balance:
Credit risk transfer arrangement financing
710,329
Fannie Mae mortgage servicing rights financing
1,075,000
Freddie Mac mortgage servicing rights and servicing advance receivable financing
904,942
1,153,486
2,253,262
2,938,815
(4,653
(9,025
7.39
7.60
Assets securing notes payable:
Mortgage servicing rights at fair value (1)
Servicing advances (1)
20,156
39,063
852,135
910,743
19,412
Unsecured Senior Notes
Exchangeable Senior Notes
The exchangeable senior notes are summarized below:
Initial issuance date
Annual interest rate
Conversion rates (1)
Maturity date (2)
May 24, 2024 (3)
8.50%
63.3332
June 1, 2029
March 5, 2021
345,000
5.50%
46.1063
March 15, 2026
561,500
The exchangeable senior notes are exchangeable for: (1) cash for the principal amount of the notes to be exchanged; and (2) cash, Common Shares or a combination of cash and Common Shares, at the Company’s election, for the remainder, if any, of the exchange obligation in excess of the principal amount of the notes being exchanged, at any time until the close of business on the second scheduled trading day immediately preceding the maturity date.
The exchangeable senior notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company.
Senior Notes
The senior notes are summarized below:
Annual interest rate spread
Redemption date
June 2025
105,000
9.00%
June 15, 2030
June 15, 2027
February 2025
172,500
February 15, 2030
February 15, 2027
September 2023
53,500
September 30, 2028
331,000
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Interest on the senior notes is payable quarterly. PMT may redeem for cash all or any portion of the senior notes, at its option, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the applicable redemption date.
The senior notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by PMC, including the due and punctual payment of principal and interest, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
Following is financial information relating to the unsecured senior notes:
892,500
825,000
805,055
710,496
7.43
6.45
7.34
6.16
18,010
14,571
47,610
35,884
Exchangeable senior notes
Senior notes
615,000
(15,990
(9,140
Asset-Backed Financing of Variable Interest Entities at Fair Value
Following is a summary of financial information relating to the asset-backed financings of VIEs at fair value described in Note 6 ‒ Variable Interest Entities ‒ Subordinate Mortgage-Backed Securities:
4,888,507
1,542,753
3,727,458
1,561,810
5.50
3.06
5.20
3.08
5,494,442
2,269,742
5.90
3.22
The asset-backed financings are non-recourse liabilities and are secured solely by the assets of consolidated VIEs and not by any other assets of the Company. The assets of the VIEs are the only source of funds for repayment of the asset-backed financings.
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Maturities of Long-Term Debt
Contractual maturities of long-term debt obligations (based on final maturity dates) are as follows:
Twelve months ending September 30,
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
Thereafter
Notes payable secured by credit risk transfer and mortgage servicing assets (1)
482,767
865,553
Interest-only security payable at fair value (2)
Asset-backed financings at fair value (2)
8,676,762
1,249,942
919,053
5,531,000
Note 16—Liability for Losses Under Representations and Warranties
Following is a summary of the Company’s liability for losses under representations and warranties:
Balance, beginning of period
5,064
13,183
26,143
Provision for losses:
Pursuant to loan sales
222
459
753
917
Reduction in liability due to change in estimate
(39
(5,180
(2,119
(18,598
Losses incurred
(95
(147
(368
Balance, end of period
8,315
UPB of loans subject to representations and warranties at end of period
216,361,811
223,245,804
Note 17—Commitments and Contingencies
Commitments
The following table summarizes the Company’s outstanding contractual commitments:
Commitments to purchase loans held for sale from PLS
From time to time, the Company may be involved in various legal and regulatory proceedings, lawsuits and claims arising in the ordinary course of business. The amount, if any, of ultimate liability with respect to such matters cannot be determined, but despite the inherent uncertainties of litigation, management believes that the ultimate disposition of any such proceedings and exposure will not have, individually or taken together, a material adverse effect on the financial condition, income, or cash flows of the Company.
Litigation
On June 14, 2024, a purported shareholder of the Company’s Series A Preferred Shares and Series B Preferred Shares (each, as defined hereafter) filed a complaint in a putative class action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California (the "District Court”), captioned Roberto Verthelyi v. PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust and PNMAC Capital Management, LLC, Case No. 2:24-cv-05028 (the “Verthelyi Action”). The Verthelyi Action alleges, among other things, that the Company (and its external investment advisor, PCM), committed unlawful and unfair acts in violation of California’s Unfair Competition Law by replacing its floating three-month London Inter-bank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") dividend rate for the Series A and Series B Preferred Shares with a fixed rate, in violation of the LIBOR Act, 12 U.S.C. § 5801 et seq., and the LIBOR Rule, 12 C.F.R. § 253 et seq.
The Verthelyi Action seeks injunctive relief requiring the Company to implement SOFR as a replacement to the three-month LIBOR rate and damages for the putative class in the form of restitution, interest, disgorgement and other relief. The Company believes it has interpreted the Articles Supplementary to its Series A and Series B Preferred Shares consistent with their terms and, more specifically, the interest rate fallback provisions contained therein, as applied under the LIBOR Act and the LIBOR rules, and that the Verthelyi Action is without merit.
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On August 20, 2024, the Company filed a Motion to Dismiss that was denied by the District Court in an order dated February 26, 2025. The Company responded by filing a motion to certify the order denying the motion for interlocutory appeal, and on May 5, 2025, the District Court issued an Order Granting Certification for Interlocutory Appeal and Staying Action. The Company subsequently petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the “Ninth Circuit”) for permission to appeal, and that petition was granted by the Ninth Circuit in an order dated July 17, 2025. The matter remains pending.
While no assurance can be provided as to the ultimate outcome of this claim, the Company and PCM plan to vigorously defend the matter. Pursuant to the terms of the Third Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2020, by and between the Company and PCM, the Company has assumed the defense of PCM in the Verthelyi Action.
Note 18—Shareholders’ Equity
Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest
Preferred shares of beneficial interest are summarized below:
Dividends per share, period ended September 30,
Quarter
Nine months
Series
Description (1)
Liquidation preference
Issuance discount
(in thousands, except dividends per share)
A
8.125% Issued March 2017
4,600
115,000
3,828
111,172
0.51
1.53
B
8.00% Issued July 2017
7,800
195,000
6,465
188,535
1.50
C
6.75% Issued August 2021
10,000
250,000
8,225
241,775
0.42
1.26
560,000
18,518
In accordance with the Articles Supplementary for each of the Series A Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest (the “Series A Preferred Shares”) and the Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest (the “Series B Preferred Shares”), and disregarding the polling provisions contained in the Articles Supplementary for the Series A Preferred Shares and the Series B Preferred Shares that are deemed null and void in accordance with Federal Reserve rules, the applicable dividend rate for dividend periods from and after March 15, 2024, in the case of the Series A Preferred Shares, or June 15, 2024, in the case of the Series B Preferred Shares, are and will continue being calculated at the dividend rate in effect for the immediately preceding dividend period and will not transition to floating reference rates.
The Series A Preferred Shares became redeemable on March 15, 2024 and the Series B Preferred Shares became redeemable on June 15, 2024. The Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares will not be redeemable before August 24, 2026, except in connection with the Company’s qualification as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes or upon the occurrence of a change of control. On or after the date the preferred shares become redeemable, or 120 days after the first date on which such change of control occurs, the Company may, at its option, redeem any or all of the preferred shares at $25.00 per share plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends to, but not including, the redemption date. No preferred shares were redeemed during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025.
The preferred shares have no stated maturity, are not subject to any sinking fund or mandatory redemption and will remain outstanding indefinitely unless redeemed or repurchased by the Company or converted into Common Shares in connection with a change of control by the holders of the preferred shares.
Common Shares of Beneficial Interest
“At-The-Market” (“ATM”) Equity Offering Program
On June 14, 2024, the Company filed a shelf registration statement and a prospectus supplement, and entered into separate equity distribution agreements to sell from time to time, through an ATM equity offering program under which the counterparties will act as sales agents and/or principals, the Company’s Common Shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $200 million. As of September 30, 2025, the Company had not sold any Common Shares under the ATM equity offering program.
Common Share Repurchase Program
The Company has a Common Share repurchase program with a repurchase authorization of $500 million before transaction fees.
The Company made no share repurchases during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, or 2024 and has made cumulative repurchases under the Common Share repurchase program totaling $427.2 million, which includes $582,000 of transaction fees.
Note 19— Net Gains on Investments and Financings
Net gains on investments and financings are summarized below:
Asset-backed financings
Hedging derivatives
Note 20— Net Gains on Loans Held for Sale
Net gains on loans held for sale are summarized below:
From nonaffiliates:
Cash losses:
Sales of loans
5,289
(23,594
(8,244
(94,999
Hedging activities
(18,535
(72,868
(97,652
(116,797
(13,246
(96,462
(105,896
(211,796
Non-cash gains:
Receipt of MSRs in mortgage loan sale transactions
Provision for losses relating to representations and warranties provided in loan sales:
(222
(459
(753
(917
Reduction of liability due to change in estimate
5,180
2,119
18,598
(183
4,721
1,366
17,681
Changes in fair value of loans and derivatives
(4,058
(9,528
(26,017
(3,721
(11,898
27,397
28,522
81,099
(17,989
22,218
7,550
75,747
27,572
114,527
145,699
252,884
Total from nonaffiliates
From PFSI ‒ cash gains
Note 21—Net Interest Income (Expense)
Net interest income (expense) is summarized below:
Interest income:
Cash and short-term investments
5,694
7,590
16,955
22,867
69,908
66,573
182,903
184,762
33,100
23,900
102,252
50,804
67,160
16,044
151,533
41,617
Deposits securing CRT arrangements
Placement fees relating to custodial funds
42,306
47,256
112,071
124,226
795
329
2,745
1,731
Interest expense:
Interest shortfall on repayments of loans serviced for Agency securitizations
2,405
1,913
6,289
5,011
Interest on loan impound deposits
2,235
2,285
5,149
5,284
228
791
1,089
1,828
Note 22—Share-Based Compensation
The Company has an equity incentive plan that provides for the issuance of equity based awards based on Common Shares that may be made by the Company to its officers and trustees, and the members, officers, trustees, directors and employees of PCM, PFSI, or their affiliates and to PCM, PFSI and other entities that provide services to PMT and the employees of such other entities.
The equity incentive plan is administered by the Company’s compensation committee, pursuant to authority delegated by PMT’s board of trustees, which has the authority to make awards to the eligible participants referenced above, and to determine what form the awards will take, and the terms and conditions of the awards.
The equity incentive plan allows for the grant of restricted and performance-based share and unit awards.
The shares underlying award grants will again be available for award under the equity incentive plan if:
Restricted share units have been awarded to trustees and officers of the Company and to other employees of PFSI and its subsidiaries at no cost to the grantees. Such awards generally vest over a one- to three-year period.
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The following table summarizes the Company’s share-based compensation activity:
Grants:
Restricted share units
199
182
Performance share units
168
140
367
322
Grant date fair value:
2,815
2,605
2,365
2,007
4,612
Vestings:
144
164
Performance share units (1)
Forfeitures:
Compensation expense relating to share-based grants
Shares expected to vest:
Number of restricted shares units (in thousands)
291
279
Grant date average fair value per unit
14.06
14.05
Note 23—Income Taxes
The Company’s effective tax rate was (24.0)% and (30.9)% with consolidated pretax income of $47.0 million and $57.7 million for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025. The Company’s taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”) recognized a tax benefit of $11.2 million on a pretax loss of $43.8 million and a tax benefit of $18.7 million on a pretax loss of $131.0 million for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025. For the same periods in 2024, the TRS recognized a tax benefit of $15.5 million on a pretax loss of $64.7 million and a tax benefit of $27.5 million on a pretax loss of $115.6 million. The primary difference between the Company’s effective tax rate and the statutory tax rate is generally attributable to nontaxable REIT income resulting from the dividends paid deduction. The results for the nine months ended September 30, 2025 were impacted by the enactment of California Senate Bill 132, signed into law on June 27, 2025 and effective January 1, 2025. The law requires financial institutions to apportion their California income using a single sales factor instead of a factor equally weighted with property, payroll and sales. The change in apportionment method resulted in the TRS providing for taxes at a higher rate and a repricing of the TRS’s net deferred tax liability.
The Company assesses the available positive and negative evidence to estimate whether sufficient future taxable income will be generated to permit use of the existing deferred tax assets. On the basis of this evaluation, as of September 30, 2025, the valuation allowance remains zero. The conclusion was primarily based on the fact that the TRS has reported cumulative GAAP income over the three-year period ended September 30, 2025. The amount of deferred tax assets considered realizable may be adjusted in future periods based on future income.
In general, cash dividends declared by the Company will be considered ordinary income to the shareholders for income tax purposes. Some portion of the dividends may be characterized as capital gain distributions or a return of capital. For tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (subject to certain limitations) provides a 20% deduction from taxable income for ordinary REIT dividends.
Note 24—Earnings Per Common Share
The Company determines earnings per share using the two-class method. Under the two-class method, all earnings (distributed and undistributed) are allocated to Common Shares and participating securities based on their respective rights to receive dividends. The Company’s participating securities are grants of restricted share units that entitle the recipients to receive dividend equivalents during the vesting period on a basis equivalent to the dividends paid to holders of Common Shares.
Basic earnings per share is determined by dividing net income available to common shareholders (net income reduced by preferred dividends and income attributable to the participating securities) by the weighted average Common Shares outstanding during the period.
Diluted earnings per share is determined by dividing net income by the weighted average number of Common Shares and dilutive securities. The Company’s potentially dilutive securities are share-based compensation awards and the exchangeable senior notes described in Note 15— Long-Term Debt. The number of dilutive securities included in diluted earnings per share is calculated using either the treasury stock or if-converted method (whichever is most dilutive) for share-based compensation awards and the if-converted method for the exchangeable senior notes. The number of potentially dilutive securities relating to the exchangeable senior notes is calculated based on the exchange obligation in excess of the principal amount of the exchangeable notes as described in Note 15.
The following table summarizes the basic and diluted earnings per share calculations:
(in thousands except per share amounts)
Dividends on preferred shares
Effect of participating securities—share-based compensation awards
(226
(106
(405
(323
47,615
30,846
43,741
82,762
Weighted average basic and diluted shares outstanding
Basic earnings per share
Diluted earnings per share
Calculation of diluted earnings per share requires certain potentially dilutive shares to be excluded when the inclusion of such shares would be anti-dilutive. The following table summarizes the potentially dilutive shares excluded from the diluted earnings per share calculation:
Shares issuable under share-based compensation plan
151
216
210
Note 25—Segments
The Company operates in three segments as described in Note 1 ‒ Organization.
The Company’s reportable segments are identified based on PMT’s investment strategies. The following disclosures about the Company’s business segments are presented consistent with the way the Company’s chief operating decision maker organizes and evaluates financial information for making operating decisions and assessing performance. The reportable segments are evaluated based on income or loss before benefit from income taxes. The chief operating decision maker uses pre-tax segment results to assess segment performance and allocate operating and capital resources among the segments. The Company’s chief operating decision maker is its chief executive officer.
During the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company adopted the FASB’s Accounting Standards Update 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosure. Prior year amounts have been recast to conform those years’ presentations to current year presentation.
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Financial highlights by segment are summarized below:
Credit
Interest rate
Reportable
sensitive
Correspondent
segment
Consolidated
strategies
production
total
Corporate
Net investment income (1):
(817
38,389
8,118
12,773
Credit risk transfer arrangements
17,580
46,507
Net interest expense:
20,912
173,810
33,071
227,793
2,295
19,615
179,206
28,214
227,035
1,297
(5,396
4,857
758
936
3,193
3,165
18,849
56,540
22,907
98,296
Expenses:
21,011
6,589
2,019
1,494
Other (2)
85
577
698
2,534
95
24,194
13,663
37,952
14,282
Pretax income (loss)
18,754
32,346
9,244
60,344
(13,346
Total assets at end of quarter
1,442,766
14,161,304
2,477,016
18,081,086
444,585
57
559
122,874
5,721
(3,292
2,429
20,833
27,113
119,582
21,389
128,458
23,853
173,700
3,034
21,921
136,873
24,273
183,067
1,104
(532
(8,415
(420
(9,367
1,930
6,692
6,627
26,516
26,087
26,331
78,934
22,220
2,217
994
180
174
4,492
67
25,596
13,082
38,745
15,585
26,449
491
13,249
40,189
(13,655
1,453,245
9,429,883
1,724,696
12,607,824
447,830
13,055,654
58
(1,321
118,312
4,432
10,897
37,336
122,744
61,432
431,199
102,155
594,786
7,874
56,557
469,151
86,009
611,717
3,963
4,875
(37,952
16,146
(16,931
3,911
9,834
9,665
42,042
96,958
70,987
209,987
64,381
17,850
6,102
72
5,785
3,290
242
267
1,520
388
2,175
7,463
344
74,976
37,892
113,212
42,981
41,698
21,982
33,095
96,775
(39,070
Total assets at end of period
59
7,256
63,152
70,408
7,740
(561
7,179
104,114
62,591
68,520
343,954
50,652
463,126
9,002
69,204
403,262
51,541
524,007
(684
(59,308
(889
(60,881
5,470
11,272
11,117
103,275
60,402
57,120
220,797
62,705
94
4,203
2,765
302
607
714
12,727
262
70,280
22,651
93,193
45,550
103,013
(9,878
34,469
127,604
(40,080
Note 26—Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Requirements
The Company, through PMC, is subject to financial eligibility requirements established by the Federal Housing Finance Agency for sellers/servicers eligible to sell or service mortgage loans with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The Agencies' applicable capital and liquidity amounts and requirements are summarized below:
Net worth (1)
Tangible net worth / total assets ratio (1)
Liquidity (1)
Actual
Required
782,035
570,252
504,751
212,125
876,324
579,383
564,311
215,801
Noncompliance with the Agencies’ capital and liquidity requirements can result in the Agencies taking various remedial actions up to and including removing the Company’s ability to sell loans to and service loans on behalf of the Agencies.
Note 27—Subsequent Events
Management has evaluated all events and transactions through the date the Company issued these consolidated financial statements. During this period, all agreements to repurchase assets that matured before the date of this Report were extended or renewed.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations should be read with the consolidated financial statements and the related notes of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (“PMT”) included within this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (this “Report”).
Statements contained in this Report may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied in such statements. You can identify these forward-looking statements by words such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “intend,” “plan” and other similar expressions. You should consider our forward-looking statements in light of the risks discussed under the heading “Risk Factors,” as well as our consolidated financial statements, related notes, and the other financial information appearing elsewhere in this Report and our other filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The forward-looking statements contained in this Report are made as of the date hereof and we assume no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements.
The following discussion and analysis provides information that we believe is relevant to an assessment and understanding of our consolidated results of operations and financial condition. Unless the context indicates otherwise, references in this Report to the words “we,” “us,” “our” and the “Company” refer to PMT and its consolidated subsidiaries.
We are a specialty finance company that invests in mortgage-related assets. Our objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors over the long-term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation. A significant portion of our investment portfolio is comprised of mortgage-related assets that we have created through our correspondent production activities, including mortgage servicing rights (“MSRs”), senior and subordinate mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”), and credit risk transfer (“CRT”) arrangements, which absorb credit losses on certain of the loans we have sold. We also invest in Agency and senior non-Agency MBS, subordinate credit-linked MBS and interest-only (“IO”) and principal-only (“PO”) stripped MBS.
We are externally managed by PNMAC Capital Management, LLC (“PCM”), an investment adviser that specializes in and focuses on U.S. mortgage assets. Our loans and MSRs are serviced by PennyMac Loan Services, LLC (“PLS”). PCM and PLS are both indirect controlled subsidiaries of PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. (“PFSI”), a publicly-traded mortgage banking and investment management company separately listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
We operate our business in three segments: credit sensitive strategies, interest rate sensitive strategies and correspondent production. Non-segment activities are included in our corporate operations. Our segment and corporate activities are described below.
We primarily sell the loans we acquire through our correspondent production activities to government-sponsored enterprises ("GSEs") such as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) and the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”), or the GSEs, or to PLS for sale into securitizations guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association ("Ginnie Mae"). Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae and Ginnie Mae are each referred to as an “Agency” and, collectively, as the “Agencies.” We also securitize certain of our loans directly and may retain interests, such as senior and subordinate MBS, from these securitizations.
Our Investment Activities
Credit Sensitive Investments
CRT Arrangements
We have previously entered into loan sales arrangements with Fannie Mae pursuant to which we accepted credit risk relating to the loans sold in exchange for a portion of the interest earned on such loans. These arrangements absorb scheduled or realized credit losses on those loans and comprise the Company’s investments in CRT arrangements.
We held net CRT-related investments (comprised of deposits securing CRT arrangements, CRT derivatives, CRT strips and an IO security payable) totaling approximately $1.0 billion at September 30, 2025.
Subordinate Mortgage-Backed Securities
Subordinate credit-linked MBS provide us with a higher yield than senior MBS. However, we incur credit risk in the subordinate credit-linked MBS since they are the first securities to absorb credit losses relating to the underlying loans. During the quarter ended September 30, 2025, we sold our holdings of the subordinate credit-linked securities that we account for as MBS.
As the result of the Company’s consolidation of the variable interest entities that issued certain of our holdings of subordinate MBS as described in Note 6 – Variable Interest Entities – Subordinate and Senior Non-Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report, we reflect our investments in those securities as loans held for investment and reflect the securities we sell to nonaffiliates as asset-backed financings. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we invested approximately $235.9 million in non-Agency subordinate bonds and held $372.8 million at September 30, 2025.
Interest Rate Sensitive Investments
Our interest rate sensitive investments include:
Correspondent Production
Our correspondent production activities involve the acquisition and sale of newly originated prime credit quality residential loans. Correspondent production has served as the source of our investments in MSRs, private label non-Agency securitizations and CRT arrangements. Our correspondent production and resulting investment activity are summarized below:
Sales of loans held for sale:
To nonaffiliates
To PennyMac Financial Services, Inc.
5,474,275
20,341,142
7,970,626
25,513,350
60,336,547
66,843,263
Investment activities resulting from correspondent production:
Retention of interests in securitizations of loans, net of associated asset-backed financings (1)
133,264
341,849
Receipt of MSRs as proceeds from sales of loans
Total investments resulting from correspondent activities
179,008
478,632
Beginning in July 2025, PLS became the initial purchaser of loans from correspondent sellers and began transferring agreed-upon volumes of such loans to us. Accordingly, we no longer purchase government loans, and we retain the right to purchase up to 100% of PLS's non-government correspondent production.
During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we purchased newly originated prime credit quality residential loans with fair values totaling $64.7 billion, including $5.7 billion from PLS, as compared to $67.9 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2024, in our correspondent production business. Our loan sales included $52.9 billion and $57.5 billion of loans we sold to PLS during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024, respectively. We received a sourcing fee based on the unpaid principal balance (“UPB”) of each loan that we sold to PLS under such arrangement, and earned interest income on the loan for the period we held it before the sale. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024, we received sourcing fees totaling $5.2 million and $5.6 million, respectively.
To the extent that we purchased loans that were insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through the Federal Housing Administration, or guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or U.S. Department of Agriculture, we and PLS previously agreed that PLS would fulfill and purchase such loans, as PLS is a Ginnie Mae approved issuer and we are not. This arrangement enabled us to compete with other correspondent aggregators that purchase both government and conventional loans. We also sold conventional loans that we purchased to PLS subject to our and PLS's mutual agreement. During the nine months ended September 30, 2025, we sold $25.0 billion in UPB of conventional loans to PLS in order to optimize our use and allocation of capital.
Taxation
We believe that we qualify to be taxed as a REIT and as such will not be subject to federal income tax on that portion of our income that is distributed to shareholders as long as we meet applicable REIT asset, income and share ownership tests. If we fail to qualify as a REIT, and do not qualify for certain statutory relief provisions, our profits will be subject to income taxes and we may be precluded from qualifying as a REIT for the four tax years following the year we lose our REIT qualification.
A portion of our activities, including our correspondent production business, is conducted in our taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”), which is subject to corporate federal and state income taxes. Accordingly, we make a provision for income taxes with respect to the operations of our TRS. We expect that the effective rate for the provision for income taxes may be volatile in future periods. Our goal is to manage the business to take full advantage of the tax benefits afforded to us as a REIT.
We evaluate our deferred tax assets quarterly to determine if valuation allowances are required based on the consideration of all available positive and negative evidence using a “more-likely-than-not” standard with respect to whether deferred tax assets will be realized. Our evaluation considers, among other factors, taxable loss carryback availability, expectations of sufficient future taxable income, trends in earnings, existence of taxable income in recent years, the future reversal of temporary differences, and available tax planning strategies that could be implemented, if required. The ultimate realization of our deferred tax assets depends primarily on our ability to generate future taxable income during the periods in which the related deferred tax assets become deductible.
Non-Cash Investment Income
A substantial portion of our net investment income is comprised of non-cash items, including fair value adjustments and recognition of the fair value of assets created and liabilities incurred in loan sales transactions. Because we have elected, or are required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), to record certain of our financial assets (comprised of MBS, loans held for sale at fair value and loans held for investment at fair value), our derivatives and CRT strips, our MSRs, and our asset-backed financings and interest-only security payable at fair value, a substantial portion of the income or loss we record with respect to such assets and liabilities results from non-cash changes in fair value.
The amounts of net non-cash investment income items included in net investment income are as follows:
1,525
8,959
(2,856
46,933
51,865
132,430
122,696
101,991
Net loan servicing fees‒MSR valuation adjustments (2)
(22,284
(78,905
(127,029
122,378
57,153
168,052
141,366
477,253
Non-cash items as a percentage of net investment income
208
211
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We receive or pay cash relating to:
Business Trends
Recent actions by the U.S. government administration with respect to trade, tariffs and government cost reduction initiatives and the shutdown of the federal government have led to significant volatility in financial markets and uncertainty regarding the economic outlook, including inflation and interest rates. Elevated interest rates in recent years have constrained growth in the size of the mortgage origination market, which is currently projected to rise from $1.7 trillion in 2024 to $2.0 trillion in 2025, according to mortgage industry economists.
Opportunity for refinancing has increased in recent periods, driven by interest rate volatility and a greater proportion of outstanding mortgage loans with note rates near current market rates. If such interest rate volatility continues, it may drive greater mortgage production activity and higher prepayment speeds than we have experienced in recent years. Additionally, reductions in the Federal Reserve's federal funds rate have reduced the costs of floating rate borrowings and placement fees we receive in relation to custodial funds that we manage as compared to the same period in the prior year.
The current period of economic uncertainty and market volatility may also lead to a reduction in economic activity and slowing home price growth or depreciation, which could lead to increasing mortgage delinquencies or defaults and increased losses. If these effects are realized, they could negatively affect the performance of our credit-sensitive assets such as our CRT arrangements or subordinate MBS and increase losses from our representations and warranties. A prolonged federal government shutdown could increase loan delinquencies, delay the processing of government loan applications and make it more difficult for customers in flood-prone areas to procure government-backed insurance. However, many of the loans underlying our assets have favorable credit characteristics including low loan-to-value ratios, which are likely to moderate the negative effects of credit performance in an economic downturn.
We expect to acquire a portion of the conventional loans and all of the jumbo loans produced in the correspondent channel from PFSI in the fourth quarter of 2025.
We expect to continue investing in subordinate MBS generated from the private label securitization of Agency eligible non-owner occupied and jumbo loans as well as begin to invest in subordinate MBS generated from the private label securitization of Agency eligible owner-occupied loans. This investment activity is also expected to increase our asset-back financing of variable interest entities.
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The following is a summary of our key performance measures:
(dollar amounts in thousands, except per common share amounts)
Loan production income (1)
17,952
26,699
54,639
57,836
Net interest income (expense)
70
(13
Pretax income
Pretax income by segment and corporate:
Credit sensitive strategies
Interest rate sensitive strategies
Correspondent production
Corporate operations
Annualized return on average common shareholders' equity
14.3
8.8
4.3
7.8
Dividends per common share
0.40
1.20
Book value per common share
15.16
15.87
Closing price per common share
12.26
12.59
Our net income increased by $16.9 million during the quarter ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the quarter ended September 30, 2024, reflecting the effect of reduced mortgage servicing rights and hedging losses partially offset by decreased gains on our investments.
The increase in the quarterly pretax results is summarized below:
Our net income decreased by $38.9 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024, reflecting the effect of the increased fair value losses from our MSRs and reduced gains on our CRT-related investments, partially offset by increased gains on MBS and loans held for investment.
The decrease in the nine months pretax results is summarized below:
Our net investment income is summarized below:
Net interest expense
Net Gains on Investments and Financings
The decrease in net gains on investments for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the same periods in 2024, was primarily due to decreased gains from our CRT-related investments. Credit spreads tightened less significantly during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to the same periods in 2024.
During the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, we recognized net valuation gain of $37.6 million and $117.0 million, respectively, as compared to valuation gains of $123.4 million and $50.3 million for the same periods in 2024. The decreased gains recognized during the quarter ended September 30, 2025 reflects interest rates decreasing to a lesser degree compared to the same period in 2024. The increased gains recognized during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 reflect more significant reductions in interest rates compared to the same period in 2024.
Loans Held for Investment – Held in VIEs and Asset-backed Financings at Fair Value
Loans held for investment in VIEs and Asset-backed financings at fair value recorded combined net valuation gains of $12.8 million and $10.9 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to valuation gains of $2.4 million and $7.2 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively. The net gains during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 reflect the gains on the underlying assets exceeding the losses on the asset-backed financing as the result of interest rate declines and credit spread tightening on our net investments secured by jumbo loans and investment properties.
The activity in and balances relating to our CRT arrangements are summarized below:
The performance of our investments in CRT arrangements during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 reflects credit spread widening, as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2024.
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Net Gains on Loans Held for Sale
Our net gains on loans held for sale are summarized below:
From non-affiliates:
Receipt of MSRs in loan sale transactions
Changes in fair value of financial instruments held at end of period:
From PFSI—cash
Interest rate lock commitments issued on loans acquired for sale (unpaid principal balance):
4,399,438
7,373,266
10,673,417
12,447,372
To PFSI
8,229,074
50,753,290
26,756,917
15,602,340
61,426,707
39,204,289
Acquisition of loans for sale (unpaid principal balance):
1,816,268
19,880,534
48,795,472
56,544,379
5,159,449
25,828,591
58,006,215
66,493,514
The changes in gain on loans held for sale during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the same periods in 2024, reflect decreased interest rate lock commitments.
Non-cash elements of gain on sale of loans:
Our Net gains on loans held for sale include our estimates of gains or losses we expect to realize upon the sale of mortgage loans we have committed to purchase but have not yet purchased or sold. Therefore, we recognize a substantial portion of our net gains before we purchase the loans. These gains are reflected on our balance sheet as IRLC derivative assets and liabilities. We adjust the fair values of our IRLCs as the loan acquisition process progresses until we complete the acquisitions or the commitments are canceled. Such adjustments are included in our Net gains on loans held for sale at fair value. The fair values of our IRLCs become part of the carrying values of our loans when we complete the purchases of the loans. The methods and key inputs we use to measure the fair values of IRLCs are summarized in Note 7 – Fair value – Valuation Techniques and Inputs to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report.
The MSRs and liabilities for representations and warranties we recognize represent our estimate of the fair value of future benefits and costs we will realize for years in the future. These estimates change as circumstances change, and changes in these estimates are
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recognized in our consolidated statements of income in subsequent periods. Subsequent changes in the fair value of our MSRs significantly affect our income.
The methods we use to measure and update the measurements of our MSRs as well as the effect of changes in valuation inputs on MSR fair value are detailed in Note 7 – Fair Value – Valuation Techniques and Inputs to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report.
Liability for Losses Under Representations and Warranties
We recognize liabilities for losses we expect to incur relating to the representations and warranties we provide to purchasers in our loan sales transactions. The representations and warranties we provide require adherence to purchaser and insurer origination and underwriting guidelines, including but not limited to the validity of the lien securing the loan, property eligibility, borrower credit, income and asset requirements, and compliance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
In the event of a breach of our representations and warranties, we may be required to either repurchase the loans with the identified defects, reimburse the investor for its loss or indemnify the investor or insurer against credit losses attributable to the loans with indemnified defects. In such cases, we bear any subsequent credit losses on the loans. Our credit losses may be reduced by any recourse we have to correspondent sellers that, in turn, had sold such loans to us and breached similar or other representations and warranties. In such event, we have the right to seek a recovery of those repurchase losses from that correspondent seller.
We recorded a provision for losses relating to representations and warranties relating to current period loan sales of $222,000 and $753,000 for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, and $459,000 and $917,000 for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively.
Following is a summary of the indemnification, repurchase and loss activity and loans subject to representations and warranties:
Indemnification activity (unpaid principal balance):
Loans indemnified at beginning of period
15,587
15,178
15,289
12,124
New indemnifications
620
343
1,113
3,397
Less: indemnified loans sold, repaid or refinanced
540
195
Loans indemnified at end of period
16,207
14,981
Indemnified loans indemnified by correspondent lenders at end of period
6,045
5,772
UPB of loans with deposits received from correspondent sellers collateralizing prospective indemnification losses at end of period
5,488
Repurchase activity (unpaid principal balance):
Loans repurchased
8,094
7,612
21,191
25,383
Less:
Loans repurchased by correspondent sellers
9,321
7,621
19,253
19,622
Loans resold or repaid by borrowers
2,711
1,810
5,414
5,267
Net loans repurchased (resolved) with losses chargeable to liability to representations and warranties
(3,938
(1,819
(3,476
494
Losses charged to liability for representations and warranties
147
368
At end of period:
Loans subject to representations and warranties
Liability for representations and warranties
The losses on representations and warranties we have recorded to date have been moderated by our ability to recover most of the losses inherent in the repurchased loans from the correspondent sellers. As the outstanding balance of loans we purchase and sell subject to representations and warranties increases, as the loans outstanding season, as our investors’ and guarantors’ loss mitigation strategies change and as our correspondent sellers’ ability and willingness to repurchase loans change, we expect that the level of repurchase activity and associated losses may increase.
The method we use to estimate the liability for representations and warranties is a function of our estimates of future defaults, loan repurchase rates, severities of loss in the event of default and the probabilities of reimbursement by the correspondent loan sellers. We establish a liability at our estimate of its fair value at the time loans are sold and review the adequacy of our recorded liability on a periodic basis.
The amount of the liability for representations and warranties is difficult to estimate and requires considerable judgment. The level of loan repurchase losses is dependent on economic factors, investor and guarantor loss mitigation strategies, our ability to recover any losses inherent in the repurchased loan from the correspondent seller and other external conditions that change over the lives of the underlying loans. We may be required to incur losses related to such representations and warranties for several periods after the loans are sold or liquidated.
We record adjustments to our liability for losses on representations and warranties as economic fundamentals change, as investor and Agency evaluations of their loss mitigation strategies (including claims under representations and warranties) change and as economic conditions affect our correspondent sellers’ ability or willingness to fulfill their recourse obligations to us. Such adjustments may be material to our financial position and results of operations in future periods.
Adjustments to our liability for representations and warranties are included as a component of our Net gains on loans held for sale at fair value. We recorded a $39,000 and $2.1 million reduction in liability for representations and warranties during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, compared to $5.2 million and $18.6 million for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2024, respectively, due to the effects of certain loans reaching specified performance histories identified by the Agencies as sufficient to limit repurchase claims relating to such loans.
Loan Origination Fees
Loan origination fees represent fees we charge correspondent sellers relating to our purchase of loans from those sellers. Loanorigination fees decreased during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as we purchased fewer loans for sale to nonaffiliates compared to the same periods in 2024.
Net Loan Servicing Fees
Our net loan servicing fees have two primary components: fees earned for servicing loans and the effects of MSR valuation changes, net of hedging results, as summarized below:
Effect of mortgage servicing rights and hedging results
(140,394
(251,697
(458,011
(437,808
Loan Servicing Fees
Following is a summary of our loan servicing fees:
Loan servicing fees that relate to our MSRs are primarily related to servicing we provide for loans included in Agency securitizations. These fees are contractually established at an annualized percentage of the UPB of the loans serviced and we collect
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these fees from borrower payments. Other loan servicing fees are comprised primarily of borrower-contracted fees, such as late charges and reconveyance fees, as well as incentive fees we receive from the Agencies for loss mitigation activities and fees we charge to correspondent lenders for loans repaid by the borrower shortly after purchase.
The change in contractually-specified fees during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 is due primarily to the slight reduction in our MSR servicing portfolio, reflecting the reduction of loan sales to nonaffiliates with servicing right retained.
Mortgage Servicing Rights and Hedging
We have elected to carry our MSRs at fair value. Changes in fair value have two components: changes due to realization of the expected servicing cash flows and changes due to changes in the inputs used to estimate fair value. We endeavor to moderate the effects of changes in fair value attributable to changes in fair value inputs (market conditions) primarily by entering into derivative transactions.
Changes in fair value of MSRs and hedging results are summarized below:
Change in fair value of MSRs
Changes in valuation inputs used in valuation model
Recapture income from PFSI
Hedging results
(50,990
(151,085
(182,007
(140,829
Realization of expected cash flows
Average balance of mortgage servicing rights
3,717,551
3,876,497
3,769,381
3,935,371
Changes in fair value due to changes in valuation inputs used in our valuation model during the nine months ended September 30, 2025 reflect the effects of expectations for faster future prepayments of the underlying loans due to decreases in interest rates during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, compared to a steepening interest rate yield curve in the same period in 2024 reflecting slower prepayments and higher projected revenues from custodial deposits.
The increase in loan recapture income from PFSI reflects the increase in refinancing activity in our MSR portfolio during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the same period in 2024. We have an agreement with PFSI that requires that when PFSI refinances a loan for which we held the MSRs, we receive a recapture fee. The MSR recapture agreement is summarized in Note 4 ‒ Transactions with Related Parties – Operating Activities to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report.
Hedging results during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 were primarily attributable to the impact of volatile interest rates and resulting elevated hedging costs, which were partially offset by fair value gains in Agency MBS.
Changes in realization of cash flows are influenced by changes in the level of servicing assets and liabilities and changes in estimates of remaining cash flows to be realized.
Following is a summary of our loan servicing portfolio by collection status:
UPB of loans outstanding
Collection status (unpaid principal balance)
2,743,880
2,645,952
987,929
1,084,587
117,916
106,092
341,438
285,163
Following is a summary of characteristics of the loans comprising our MSR servicing portfolio as of September 30, 2025:
Average
Loan count
Note rate
Seasoning (months)
Remainingmaturity (months)
Loan size
FICO credit score at origination
Original LTV (1)
Current LTV (1)
60+ Delinquency (by UPB)
(Dollars and loan count in thousands)
Agency:
Freddie Mac
107,787,836
3.9
301
278
762
0.6
Fannie Mae
106,716,106
417
3.8
293
256
757
1.0
4,295,072
5.1
315
281
0.8
819
297
760
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Net Interest income (expense)
income/
yield/
expense
cost %
503,038
4.50
502,592
6.01
4,188,259
6.64
4,105,749
6.40
8.89
5.10
4.60
1,051,697
4.21
1,157,694
5.17
186,987
13,036,208
5.71
129,149
8,224,056
6.25
7.02
8.55
5.28
6.27
13.57
6.98
8.06
9.24
8.03
7.03
5.32
2.79
223,526
14,992,581
179,182
10,768,112
6.62
6.06
6.80
499,325
4.55
535,677
5.70
4,078,026
4,087,442
6.04
6.57
6.77
5.23
3.97
1,077,318
4.26
1,176,798
5.24
487,844
11,627,062
5.63
346,171
8,204,279
5.64
6.95
6.26
7.33
7.99
7.93
6.75
2.99
603,153
13,641,231
515,416
10,388,924
6.63
6.05
6.78
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The effects of changes in the yields and costs and composition of our investments on our net interest expense are summarized below:
vs.
Increase (decrease)due to changes in
Rate
Volume
(1,903
(1,896
(4,423
(1,489
(5,912
1,981
1,354
3,335
(1,195
(664
(1,859
(8,138
17,338
9,200
(1,539
52,987
51,448
1,954
49,162
51,116
16,740
93,176
109,916
(2,624
(1,293
(3,917
(8,209
(3,711
(11,920
(8,730
66,568
57,838
1,374
140,299
141,673
(4,950
(12,155
466
1,014
53,354
130,532
(14,905
16,592
(40,416
49,666
9,250
(795
(513
(694
(658
(7,961
(6,879
(14,840
(26,247
(11,989
(38,236
2,185
1,254
3,439
6,664
5,062
11,726
16,063
38,508
54,571
35,208
70,447
105,655
(4,336
48,680
44,344
(24,755
112,492
87,737
492
1,278
(50
(135
(563
(739
44,223
88,141
(4,394
17,888
9,131
26,129
27,807
42,391
The changes in net interest income (expense) during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the same periods in 2024, is due to an increased volume of interest earning assets decreased costs of repurchase agreement financing in relation to the long-lived assets they finance, along with reduced financing of MSRs and CRT arrangements.
Our expenses are summarized below:
Expenses decreased $2.1 million, or 4%, and increased $17.5 million, or 13%, during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024, as discussed below.
Loan servicing fees payable to PLS are summarized below:
Loan servicing fees decreased by $1.2 million and increased by $1.6 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024. The decrease is due to a decline in the MSR portfolio during the quarter ended September 30, 2025, and the increase is due to an increase in supplemental fees relating to loan modifications and servicing of delinquent loans in our MSR portfolio.
Management Fees
Management fees payable to PCM are summarized below:
Base fee
Management fees decreased by $241,000 and $681,000 during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024. This decrease reflects lower average shareholders’ equity during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to the same periods in 2024.
Loan Fulfillment Fees
Loan fulfillment fees represent fees we pay to PLS for the services it performs on our behalf in connection with our acquisition, packaging and sale of loans. Fulfillment fees decreased $5.3 million and $2.7 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024. The decrease was due to the decrease in the volume of loans purchased for sale to nonaffiliates. Our loan fulfillment fee structure is described in Note 4 – Transactions with Related Parties to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report.
Professional services expense increased by $6.0 million and $17.2 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024, due to increased legal and consulting fees as a result of our securitization activities during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025.
Compensation expense increased $1.5 million and $4.0 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024, primarily due to an increased allocation of compensation based on the updated terms of the management agreement as described in Note 4 – Transactions with Related Parties to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report. This increase was partially offset by an $885,000 and $2.9 million decrease in common overhead allocation from PFSI during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, which is included in Other expense.
Loan collection and liquidation expenses decreased by $754,000 and increased by $1.6 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024. The increase during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, is due to increased servicing costs related to delinquent loans serviced for the Agencies' foreclosure avoidance programs compared to the same period in 2024.
Other Expenses
Other expenses are summarized below:
Common overhead allocation from PFSI
Bank service charges
702
622
2,187
1,662
Technology
554
511
1,514
1,449
Insurance
468
436
1,169
1,390
1,230
1,823
3,129
Common overhead allocation from PFSI decreased by $885,000 and $2.9 million during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, respectively, as compared to the same periods in 2024, due to changes to the allocation method included in the management agreement, described in Note 4 – Transactions with Related Parties to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report.
Income Taxes
We have elected to treat PennyMac Corp. (“PMC”), as a TRS. Income from a TRS is only included as a component of REIT taxable income to the extent that the TRS makes dividend distributions of income to us. A TRS is subject to corporate federal and state income tax. Accordingly, a provision for income taxes for PMC is included in the accompanying consolidated statements of income.
The Company’s effective tax rate was (24.0)% and (30.9)% with consolidated pretax income of $47.0 million and $57.7 million for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025. The Company’s TRS recognized a tax benefit of $11.2 million on a pretax loss of $43.8 million and a tax benefit of $18.7 million on a pretax loss of $131.0 million for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025. For the same periods in 2024, the TRS recognized a tax benefit of $15.5 million on a pretax loss of $64.7 million and a tax benefit of $27.5 million on a pretax loss of $115.6 million. The primary difference between the Company’s effective tax rate and the statutory tax rate is generally attributable to nontaxable REIT income resulting from the dividends paid deduction. The
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September 30, 2025 nine month results were impacted by the enactment of California Senate Bill 132, signed into law on June 27, 2025 and effective January 1, 2025. The law requires financial institutions to apportion their California income using a single sales factor instead of a factor equally weighted with property, payroll and sales. The change in apportionment method resulted in the TRS providing for taxes at a higher rate and a repricing of the TRS’s net deferred tax liability.
The Company assesses the available positive and negative evidence to estimate whether sufficient future taxable income will be generated to permit use of the existing deferred tax assets. On the basis of this evaluation, as of September 30, 2025, the valuation allowance remains zero as a result of cumulative GAAP income at the TRS for the three-year period ended September 30, 2025. The amount of deferred tax assets considered realizable could be adjusted in future periods based on future income.
In general, cash dividends declared by the Company will be considered ordinary income to the shareholders for income tax purposes. Some portion of the dividends may be characterized as capital gain distributions or a return of capital. For tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (subject to certain limitations) provides a 20% deduction from taxable income for ordinary REIT dividends. One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025, permanently extends the 20% deduction. The remainder of the Act’s provisions are not expected to have a material impact on the Company.
Following is a summary of key balance sheet items as of the dates presented:
Assets
444,531
440,892
Mortgage servicing rights and servicing advances
3,730,354
3,972,431
18,279,729
13,954,470
245,942
454,236
Debt:
Short-term
6,512,531
Long-term:
Recourse
3,125,119
3,535,650
Non-recourse
5,476,140
2,074,597
8,601,259
5,610,247
16,309,442
12,122,778
336,920
347,428
Shareholders’ equity
Total assets increased by approximately $4.1 billion, or 29%, from December 31, 2024 to September 30, 2025, primarily due to an increase of $3.8 billion in Loans held for investment at fair value and $304.7 million in loans held for sale at fair value, offset by a decrease of $242.1 million in mortgage servicing rights and servicing advances. The increase in Loans held for investments reflect the Company’s ongoing securitizations of loans in non-Agency securitizations. As described in Note 6 – Variable Interest Entities to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report, such transactions are accounted for as on-balance sheet financings, with the loans included in Loans held for investment at fair value and the securities sold treated as Asset-backed financings at fair value.
Our asset acquisitions are summarized below:
Following is a summary of our correspondent production acquisitions at fair value:
Correspondent loan purchases:
GSE-Eligible Loans (1)
6,473,445
14,384,633
36,205,387
36,834,544
Government insured or guaranteed (2)
2,164,041
12,047,525
27,097,047
30,892,013
Jumbo loans
706,045
97,982
1,404,523
134,886
9,343,531
26,530,140
64,706,957
67,861,443
During the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025, we purchased for sale $9.3 billion and $64.7 billion, respectively, in fair value of correspondent production loans as compared to $26.5 billion and $67.9 billion during the same periods in 2024. The decrease in loan purchases during the quarter ended September 30, 2025, relates to PFSI's assumption of the role of initial purchaser of correspondent loans as described in Note 4—Transactions with Related Parties to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report.
Other Investment Activities
Following is a summary of our acquisitions (sales) of mortgage-related investments held in our credit sensitive strategies and interest rate sensitive strategies segments:
Credit sensitive assets:
Subordinate credit-linked securities
(111,044
Loans secured by non-owner occupied properties and jumbo loans, net of associated asset-backed financing (subordinate MBS)
83,321
235,930
(111,192
41,417
Interest rate sensitive assets:
Agency fixed-rate pass-through securities
(830,296
Principal-only stripped mortgage-backed securities
80,442
479,902
876,394
Senior non-Agency securities
28,987
66,069
Loans secured by non-owner occupied properties and jumbo loans, net of associated asset-backed financing (senior MBS)
49,943
105,919
Mortgage servicing rights:
Received in loan sales
51,979
123,847
1,001,068
132,421
1,185,165
(197,119
889,876
1,226,582
(308,163
Our acquisitions during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 were financed through the use of a combination of proceeds from borrowings and liquidations of existing investments. We continue to identify additional means of
increasing our investment portfolio through cash flow from our business activities, existing investments, borrowings, and transactions that minimize current cash outlays. However, we expect that, over time, our ability to continue our investment portfolio growth will depend on our ability to raise additional equity capital.
Following is a summary of our MBS holdings:
Fair
Principal/
Life
value
notional
(in years)
Coupon
Agency pass-through securities
5.3
8.7
5.4
Principal-only stripped securities
4.6
0.1
6.7
5.5
0.0
3.6
12.4
9.2
Interest-only stripped securities
4.8
4,974,618
4,580,792
Our Mortgage-backed securities at fair value does not include any mortgage-backed securities held from variable interest entities that we consolidate.
Following is a summary of our investment in CRT arrangements:
Carrying value of CRT arrangements:
Derivative assets - CRT derivatives
Derivative and credit risk transfer strip liabilities- CRT strips
UPB of loans subject to credit guarantee obligations
Following is a summary of the composition of the loans underlying our investment in CRT arrangements as of September 30, 2025:
Year of origination
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
(in millions)
UPB:
Outstanding
4,102
9,266
2,406
2,103
1,671
389
19,937
Liquidations:
Balances
12.7
64.6
172.9
127.4
62.9
442.2
Losses
1.6
21.9
13.7
51.7
Modifications (1):
71.1
572.8
314.4
958.3
2.4
26.2
19.9
48.5
Weighted average:
Original debt-to income ratio
33.5
35.9
39.1
36.8
35.1
35.8
Origination FICO credit score
754
735
743
750
752
Origination loan-to value ratio
80.6
83.3
83.5
82.5
80.9
82.4
Current loan-to value ratio (2)
48.3
48.1
46.2
41.5
37.2
34.9
46.0
Distribution by state
California
440
932
308
233
333
2,317
Florida
447
881
306
219
2,058
Texas
477
796
191
200
1,905
Virginia
221
412
117
973
163
400
110
121
927
2,354
5,845
1,403
1,255
738
162
11,757
Regional geographic distribution (1)
Southeast
1,391
3,154
853
715
520
118
6,751
Southwest
1,056
2,031
450
413
4,334
West
888
1,940
613
472
481
101
4,495
Northeast
1,172
285
307
217
Midwest
379
205
196
1,928
81
Collection status
Current - 89 Days
4,084
9,180
2,080
1,663
19,749
90 - 179 Days
106
180+ Days
Our cash flows for the quarters ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 are summarized below:
Operating activities
Investing activities
Financing activities
Net cash flows
Our cash flows resulted in a net decrease in cash of $74.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as discussed below.
Cash used in operating activities totaled $3.9 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to cash used in our operating activities of $1.1 billion during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. Cash flows from operating activities are influenced by cash flows from loans held for sale as shown below:
Operating cash flows from:
(4,391,523
(1,043,498
484,037
(38,883
The primary source of negative operating cashflow from loans held for sale relates to the transfer of loans to held for investment pursuant to our securitization activities. The securitization of portions of our correspondent loan production and cash received from such securitizations is accounted for as a financing activity. We may sell these loans based on the market conditions before committing to securitize the loans.
Net cash used in our investing activities was $123.1 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to net cash provided by our investing activities of $1.1 billion during the nine months ended September 30, 2024, which included significant sales of MBS.
Net cash provided by our financing activities was $4.0 billion for the nine months ended September 30, 2025, as compared to net cash used in our financing activities of $67.3 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2024. This change primarily reflectsthe increase in borrowings required to finance the increase in inventory of loans held for sale and newly created investments from our ongoing securitization efforts during the nine months ended September 30, 2025.
As discussed below in Liquidity and Capital Resources, our Manager continually evaluates and pursues additional sources of financing to provide us with future investing capacity. We do not raise equity or enter into borrowings for the purpose of financing the payment of dividends. We believe that our cash earnings are adequate to fund our operating expenses and dividend payment
requirements. However, we manage our liquidity in the aggregate and are reinvesting our cash flows in new investments as well as using such cash to fund our dividend requirements.
Our liquidity reflects our ability to meet our current obligations (including the purchase of loans from correspondent sellers, our operating expenses and, when applicable, retirement of, and margin calls relating to, our debt and derivatives positions), make investments as our Manager identifies them, pursue our share repurchase program and make distributions to our shareholders. We generally need to distribute at least 90% of our taxable income each year (subject to certain adjustments) to our shareholders to qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. This distribution requirement limits our ability to retain earnings and thereby replenish or increase capital to support our activities.
We expect our primary sources of liquidity to be cash flows from our investment portfolio, including cash earnings on our investments, cash flows from business activities, liquidation of existing investments and proceeds from borrowings and/or additional equity offerings. When we finance a particular asset, the amount borrowed is less than the asset’s fair value and we must provide the cash in the amount of such difference. Our ability to continue making investments is dependent on our ability to invest the cash representing such difference.
We expect to continue investing in subordinate MBS generated from the private label securitization which is also expected to increase our variable interest entities’ asset-backed financings.
On August 20, 2025, the Company, PMT ISSUER TRUST—FMSR, PennyMac Corp. (“PMC”), and PennyMac Holdings, LLC (“PMH”) redeemed $350 million of secured term notes (the “Series 2021-FT1 Term Notes”).
Debt Financing
Our current debt financing strategy is to finance our assets where we believe such borrowing is prudent, appropriate and available. We make collateralized borrowings in the form of sales of assets under agreements to repurchase, loan participation purchase and sale agreements and notes payable, including secured term financing for our MSRs and our CRT arrangements that have allowed us to match the term of our borrowings more closely to the expected lives of the assets securing those borrowings. We have also borrowed money by issuing unsecured senior notes.
Our debt financing is summarized below:
Financing
Adjustments for VIE Financing (2)
Excluding VIE Financing
Assets sold under agreements torepurchase
Notes payable secured by CRTarrangements and MSRs
(in thousands except for debt-to equity amounts)
Agency-backed securities
4,448,289
4,290,063
Senior non-agency securities
148,895
Credit risk transfer securities relating to consolidated variable interest entities
141,443
621,439
762,882
Non-agency securities relating to consolidated variable interest entities
389,379
1,492,024
6,101,188
4,969,780
5,591,219
2,225,084
(5,981,451
(31,432
27,010
(1,033,008
68,397
3,798,751
513,319
1,627,170
2,140,489
(5,485,470
12,794,259
9,956,792
Total assets and secured financing
13,040,201
Unsecured debt
Debt excluding non-recourse
10,833,302
Debt in consolidated variable interest entities (2)
Total debt
Equity
Debt-to equity ratio:
Excluding non-recourse debt (3)
5.8:1
Total (4)
8.7:1
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Sales of Assets Under Agreements to Repurchase
Our repurchase agreements represent the sales of assets together with agreements for us to buy back the assets at a later date. Following is a summary of the activities in our repurchase agreements financing:
Average balance outstanding
Maximum daily balance outstanding
Ending balance (UPB)
5,751,519
The difference between the maximum and average daily amounts outstanding is primarily due to timing of loan purchases and sales in our correspondent production business. The total facility size of our Assets sold under agreements to repurchase was approximately $12.8 billion at September 30, 2025.
Because a significant portion of our current debt facilities consists of short-term borrowings, we expect to either renew these facilities in advance of maturity in order to ensure our ongoing liquidity and access to capital or otherwise allow ourselves sufficient time to replace any necessary financing.
As discussed above, all of our repurchase agreements, and mortgage loan participation purchase and sale agreements have short-term maturities:
The amount at risk (the fair value of the assets pledged plus the related margin deposit, less the amount advanced by the counterparty and accrued interest) relating to our Assets sold under agreements to repurchase is summarized by counterparty below as of September 30, 2025:
Amount at risk
94,104
93,619
89,159
56,758
41,573
39,152
Royal Bank of Canada
38,230
25,632
20,935
996,858
In June 2025, the Company issued $105 million principal amount of unsecured 9.00% senior notes due June 15, 2030 (the “June 2030 Senior Notes”) and in February 2025, the Company issued $172.5 million principal amount of unsecured 9.00% senior notes due February 15, 2030, together (the "February 2030 Senior Notes” and, collectively with the June 2030 Senior Notes, the “2030 Senior
Notes”). In September 2023, the Company issued $53.5 million principal amount of unsecured 8.50% senior notes due September 30, 2028 (the "2028 Senior Notes”). The 2030 Senior Notes and the 2028 Senior Notes are referred to collectively as the “Senior Notes”.
We may redeem for cash all or any portion of the Senior Notes, at our option, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the applicable redemption date. No “sinking fund” will be provided for the Senior Notes. The 2028 Senior Notes may be redeemed on or after September 30, 2025, the June 2030 Senior Notes may be redeemed on or after June 15, 2027 and the February 2030 Senior Notes may be redeemed on or after February 15, 2027.
The Senior Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by PMC, including the due and punctual payment of principal of and interest on the Senior Notes, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise (the “PMC Guarantee”). PMC’s operations and investing activities are centered in residential mortgage-related assets, including the creation of and investment in MSRs.
Under the terms of the PMC Guarantee, holders of the Senior Notes will not be required to exercise their remedies against us before they proceed directly against PMC. PMC’s obligations under the guarantee are limited to the maximum amount that will not, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of PMC, result in the guarantee constituting a fraudulent transfer or conveyance. The PMC Guarantee will:
The following summarized financial information for PMT and PMC is presented on a combined basis. Intercompany balances and transactions between PMT and PMC have been eliminated:
Mortgage servicing rights at fair value
3,736,821
Other assets
641,829
From PFSI
25,235
From non-issuer or non-guarantor subsidiaries (1)
534,322
7,359,240
Payable to nonaffiliates
2,100,203
Payable to PFSI
33,485
Payable to non-issuer or non-guarantor subsidiaries
5,108,027
7,241,715
86
197,351
279,889
(33,741
443,499
38,122
94,898
133,020
Pre-tax income
310,479
Provision for income taxes
79,483
230,996
Debt Covenants
Our debt financing agreements require us and certain of our subsidiaries to comply with various financial covenants. As of the filing of this Report, these financial covenants include the following:
Although these financial covenants limit the amount of indebtedness we may incur and impact our liquidity through minimum cash reserve requirements, we believe that these covenants currently provide us with sufficient flexibility to successfully operate our business and obtain the financing necessary to achieve that purpose.
PLS is also subject to various financial covenants, both as a borrower under its own financing arrangements and as our servicer under certain of our debt financing agreements. The most significant of these financial covenants currently include the following:
Many of our debt financing agreements contain a condition precedent to obtaining additional funding that requires us to maintain positive net income for at least one (1) of the previous two consecutive quarters, or other similar measures. For the most recent fiscal quarter, the Company is compliant with all such conditions. However, we may be required to obtain waivers from certain lenders in the future if this condition precedent is not met.
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Our debt financing agreements also contain margin call provisions that, upon notice from the applicable lender at its option, require us to transfer cash or, in some instances, additional assets in an amount sufficient to eliminate any margin deficit. A margin deficit will generally result from any decline in the market value (as determined by the applicable lender) of the assets subject to the related financing agreement, although in some instances we may agree with the lender upon certain thresholds (in dollar amounts or percentages based on the market value of the assets) that must be exceeded before a margin deficit will arise. Upon notice from the applicable lender, we will generally be required to satisfy the margin call on the day of such notice or within one business day thereafter, depending on the timing of the notice.
Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Requirements
In addition to the financial covenants imposed upon us and PLS as our servicer under our debt financing agreements, we, through PMC and/or PLS, as applicable, are also subject to liquidity and net worth requirements established by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) for Agency seller/servicers and Ginnie Mae for single-family issuers. FHFA and Ginnie Mae have established minimum liquidity and net worth requirements for their approved non-depository single-family sellers/servicers in the case of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae for their approved single-family issuers, and Ginnie Mae has also issued risk-based capital requirements. We believe that we and our servicer, PLS, are in compliance with the applicable FHFA and Ginnie Mae requirements as of September 30, 2025.
We and our Manager continue to explore a variety of additional means of financing our business, including debt financing through bank warehouse lines of credit, repurchase agreements, term financing, securitization transactions and unsecured debt and equity offerings. However, there can be no assurance as to how much additional financing capacity such efforts will produce, what form the financing will take or that such efforts will be successful.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of September 30, 2025, we have not entered into any off-balance sheet arrangements.
Our management, servicing, and loan fulfillment fee agreements are described in Note 4 – Transactions with Related Parties to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report and are filed as exhibits to our periodic reports.
Critical Accounting Estimates
Preparation of financial statements in compliance with GAAP requires us to make estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Certain of these estimates significantly influence the portrayal of our financial condition and results, and they require us to make difficult, subjective or complex judgments. Our critical accounting policies primarily relate to our fair value estimates.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 contains a discussion of our critical accounting policies, which utilize relevant critical accounting estimates.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Market risk is the exposure to loss resulting from changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, commodity prices, equity prices, real estate values and other market-based risks. The primary market risks that we are exposed to are real estate risk, credit risk, interest rate risk, prepayment risk, inflation risk and market value risk.
Our primary trading asset is our inventory of loans held for sale. We believe that such assets’ fair values respond primarily to changes in the market interest rates for comparable recently-originated loans. Our other market-risk assets are a substantial portion of our investments and are primarily comprised of MSRs, CRT arrangements and MBS. We believe that the fair values of MSRs and MBS also respond primarily to changes in the market interest rates for comparable loans or yields on MBS. Changes in interest rates are reflected in the prepayment speeds underlying these investments and in the pricing spread (an element of the discount rate) used in their valuation. We believe that the primary market risks to the fair values of our investment in CRT arrangements are changes in market credit spreads and the fair value of the real estate securing the loans underlying such arrangements.
The following sensitivity analyses are limited in that they were performed at a particular point in time; only contemplate the movements in the indicated variables; do not incorporate changes to other variables; are subject to the accuracy of various models and assumptions used; and do not incorporate other factors that would affect our overall financial performance in such scenarios, including operational adjustments made by management to account for changing circumstances. For these reasons, the following estimates should not be viewed as earnings forecasts.
The following table summarizes the estimated change in fair value of our mortgage-backed securities as of September 30, 2025, given several hypothetical (instantaneous) changes in interest rates and parallel shifts in the yield curve:
Interest rate shift in basis points
-200
-75
-50
Change in fair value
131,885
125,994
92,761
(110,296
(167,511
(448,623
The following tables summarize the estimated change in fair value of MSRs as of September 30, 2025, given several shifts in option adjusted spreads, prepayment speeds and annual per-loan cost of servicing:
Change in fair value attributable to shift in:
-20%
-10%
-5%
+5%
+10%
+20%
Option-adjusted spread
127,414
62,619
31,044
(30,525
(60,542
(119,102
Prepayment speed
269,307
129,583
63,591
(61,314
(120,466
(232,710
64,374
32,187
16,094
(16,094
(32,187
(64,374
Following is a summary of the effect on fair value of various changes to the pricing spread input used to estimate the fair value of our CRT arrangements given several shifts in pricing spread:
Pricing spread shift in basis points
-100
-25
100
35,232
17,369
8,624
(8,507
(16,898
(33,337
Following is a summary of the effect on fair value of various instantaneous changes in home values from those used to estimate the fair value of our CRT arrangements given several shifts:
Property value shift in %
-15%
5%
10%
15%
(9,549
(5,764
(2,625
2,222
4,078
5,625
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. However, no matter how well a control system is designed and operated, it can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that it will detect or uncover failures within the Company to disclose material information otherwise required to be set forth in our periodic reports.
Our management has conducted an evaluation, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Report as required by paragraph (b) of Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act. Based on our evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective, as of the end of the period covered by this Report, to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the applicable rules and forms, and that it is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended September 30, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may be involved in various legal actions, claims and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. See Note 17 — Commitments and Contingencies, to the consolidated financial statements included in this Report for a discussion of legal actions, claims and proceedings that are incorporated by reference into this Item 1.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
There are no material changes from the risk factors set forth under Item 1A. of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 20, 2025.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
There were no sales of unregistered equity securities during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025.
The following table provides information about our repurchases of common shares of beneficial interest (“Common Shares”) during the quarter ended September 30, 2025:
Period
Totalnumber ofsharespurchased
Averageprice paidper share
Total number ofsharespurchased aspart of publiclyannounced plansor programs (1)
Amountavailable forfuture sharerepurchasesunder theplans orprograms (1)
(in thousands, except average price paid per share)
July 1, 2025 – July 31, 2025
73,353
August 1, 2025 – August 30, 2025
September 1, 2025 – September 30, 2025
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable
Item 5. Other Information
(c) Trading Plans
During the quarter ended September 30, 2025, none of our trustees or officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) of the Exchange Act) adopted, terminated or modified a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as such terms are defined in Item 408 of Regulation S-K).
Item 6. Exhibits
Incorporated by Reference from the
Below-Listed Form (Each Filed under
SEC File Number 001-34416)
Exhibit No.
Exhibit Description
Form
Filing Date
3.1
Declaration of Trust of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, as amended and restated.
10-Q
November 6, 2009
3.2
Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust
8-K
March 16, 2018
3.3
Articles Supplementary classifying and designating the 8.125% Series A Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest.
8-A
March 7, 2017
3.4
Articles Supplementary classifying and designating the 8.00% Series B Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest.
June 30, 2017
3.5
Articles Supplementary classifying and designating the 6.75% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares of Beneficial Interest.
August 20, 2021
10.1
Amendment No. 1 to Fifth Amended and Restated Flow Servicing Agreement, between PennyMac Operating Partnership, L.P. and PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, dated as of September 15, 2025.
*
10.2
Amendment No. 1 to Amended and Restated Flow Servicing Agreement, between PennyMac Operating Partnership, L.P. and PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, dated as of September 15, 2025.
10.3
Amendment No. 2 to Third Amended and Restated Mortgage Banking Services Agreement, between PennyMac Loan Services, LLC and PennyMac Corp., dated as of September 16, 2025.
31.1
Certification of David A. Spector pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
31.2
Certification of Daniel S. Perotti pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
32.1**
Certification of David A. Spector pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
**
32.2**
Certification of Daniel S. Perotti pursuant to Rule 13a-14(b) and 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Interactive data files pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T: (i) the Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 (ii) the consolidated statements of income for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024, (iii) the Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders' Equity for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024, (iv) the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and September 30, 2024 and (v) the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
101.INS
Inline XBRL Instance Document – the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document.
101.SCH
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
101.CAL
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document
101.DEF
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document
101.LAB
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document
101.PRE
Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
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Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)
* Filed herewith.
** The certifications attached hereto as Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 are furnished to the SEC pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not be deemed filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust
(Registrant)
Dated: October 29, 2025
By:
/s/ David A. Spector
David A. Spector
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ Daniel S. Perotti
Daniel S. Perotti
Senior Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)
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