Given the widespread shuttering of consumer-focused businesses due to the coronavirus, it’s no surprise that securitization of loans on retail properties plummeted 90.1% to just $275.0 million.
Fannie Chief Financial Officer Celeste Brown credited the recently adapted current expected credit loss (CECL) standard for the improved showing because the mortgage giant now looks at lifetime losses whereas before it would have just looked ahead two years.
According to the S-1 initial public offering documents filed with the SEC, Rocket’s total share count (public and private) is roughly 1.9858 billion shares. At $22 a unit (the upper end of the range) that works out to a cool $43.69 billion. In short: Wow.
Cowen analyst Jaret Seiberg: “Our expectation is that FHA borrowers will be the first to suffer if Congress fails to extend enhanced unemployment benefits"...