Chimera Investment Corporation Reports 2nd Quarter 2020 Earnings

• GAAP Net Loss of $(0.37) Per Common Share
• Core Earnings⁽¹⁾ of $0.32 Per Common Share
• GAAP Book Value of $10.63 Per Common Share
• Financed Nearly $2 Billion of Non-Agency Securities on Non-Mark-to-Market Facilities
• Removed the Mark-to-Market Warehouse Financing Risk of Our Non-Securitized Residential Loan Portfolio Through Three Securitizations and a New Non-Mark-to-Market Facility

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE:CIM) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020. The Company’s GAAP net loss for the second quarter was $(73) million, or $(0.37) per common share. Core earnings⁽¹⁾ for the second quarter was $76 million, or $0.32 per common share.

We entered into three non-mark-to-market facilities to finance approximately $2 billion of our non-agency portfolio, including our risk retention securities. We also entered into a limited mark-to-market facility to finance roughly $611 million of non-agency securities. As a result of these actions approximately 54% of our non-agency borrowings are not subject to full mark-to-market risk. In addition, we have increased the weighted average day to maturity of our non-agency financing from 223 days in the first quarter to 698 days in the second quarter. As of the end of the second quarter, more than 42% of our non-agency financings have terms longer than 1 year.

Additionally, we removed the mark-to-market warehouse financing risk of our non-securitized residential loan portfolio by completing two loan securitizations during the second quarter totaling approximately $715 million, one loan securitization in July for approximately $338 million, and one non-mark-to market loan facility which financed the remaining $393 million of residential loans.

“During the second quarter we prioritized our focus on liquidity and non-mark-to-market and longer-term financing arrangements,” said Matthew Lambiase, President and Chief Executive Officer. “This strategy has allowed us to retain high-yielding assets, provide time for asset price recovery, while remaining positioned for opportunistic investments.”

(1) Core earnings is a non-GAAP measure. See additional discussion below.

Other Information

Chimera Investment Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is primarily engaged in the business of investing directly or indirectly through our subsidiaries, on a leveraged basis, in a diversified portfolio of mortgage assets, including residential mortgage loans, Non-Agency RMBS, Agency CMBS, Agency RMBS, and other real estate related securities.

Core earnings

Core earnings is a non-GAAP measure and is defined as GAAP net income excluding unrealized gains on the aggregate portfolio, provision for credit losses, interest expense on long term debt, impairment losses, realized gains on sales of investments, realized gains or losses on futures, realized gains or losses on swap terminations, gain on deconsolidation, extinguishment of debt and expenses incurred in relation to securitizations. In addition, stock compensation expense charges incurred on awards to retirement eligible employees is reflected as an expense over a vesting period (36 months) rather than reported as an immediate expense.

As defined, core earnings include interest income and expense, as well as periodic cash settlements on interest rate swaps used to hedge interest rate risk and other expenses. Core earnings is inclusive of preferred dividend charges, compensation and benefits (adjusted for awards to retirement eligible employees), general and administrative expenses, servicing fees, as well as income tax expenses incurred during the period. Management believes that the presentation of core earnings provides investors with a useful measure but has important limitations. We believe core earnings as described above helps us evaluate our financial performance period over period without the impact of certain transactions but is of limited usefulness as an analytical tool. Therefore, core earnings should not be viewed in isolation and is not a substitute for net income or net income per basic share computed in accordance with GAAP. In addition, our methodology for calculating core earnings may differ from the methodologies employed by other REITs to calculate the same or similar supplemental performance measures, and accordingly, our reported core earnings may not be comparable to the core earnings reported by other REITs.

The following table provides GAAP measures of net income and net income per diluted share available to common stockholders for the periods presented and details with respect to reconciling the line items to core earnings and related per average diluted common share amounts. The Core earnings is presented on an adjusted dilutive shares basis. The adjusted dilutive shares used for core earnings is a non-GAAP measure which includes the GAAP dilutive shares of 199 million, adjusted for potentially dilutive shares of 43 million less the dilutive effect of approximately 5 million shares on warrants issued in second quarter of 2020. We exclude the dilutive effect of the warrants as the warrant holders do not participate in dividends. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period’s presentation.

The following tables provide a summary of the Company’s MBS portfolio at June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019.

At June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019, the repurchase agreements collateralized by MBS and Loans held for investment had the following remaining maturities.

The following table summarizes certain characteristics of our portfolio at June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019.

Economic Net Interest Income

Our “Economic net interest income” is a non-GAAP financial measure, that equals interest income, less interest expense and realized losses on our interest rate swaps. Realized losses on our interest rate swaps are the periodic net settlement payments made or received. For the purpose of computing economic net interest income and ratios relating to cost of funds measures throughout this section, interest expense includes net payments on our interest rate swaps, which is presented as a part of Realized gains (losses) on derivatives in our Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income. Interest rate swaps are used to manage the increase in interest paid on repurchase agreements in a rising rate environment. Presenting the net contractual interest payments on interest rate swaps with the interest paid on interest-bearing liabilities reflects our total contractual interest payments. We believe this presentation is useful to investors because it depicts the economic value of our investment strategy by showing actual interest expense and net interest income. Where indicated, interest expense, including interest payments on interest rate swaps, is referred to as economic interest expense. Where indicated, net interest income reflecting interest payments on interest rate swaps, is referred to as economic net interest income.

The following table reconciles the GAAP and non-GAAP measurements reflected in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

The table below shows our average earning assets held, interest earned on assets, yield on average interest earning assets, average debt balance, economic interest expense, economic average cost of funds, economic net interest income, and net interest rate spread for the periods presented.

The table below shows our Net Income and Economic Net Interest Income as a percentage of average stockholders’ equity and Core Earnings as a percentage of average common stockholders’ equity. Return on average equity is defined as our GAAP net income (loss) as a percentage of average equity. Average equity is defined as the average of our beginning and ending stockholders’ equity balance for the period reported. Economic Net Interest Income and Core Earnings are non-GAAP measures as defined in previous sections.

The following table presents changes to Accretable Discount (net of premiums) as it pertains to our Non-Agency RMBS portfolio, excluding premiums on IOs, during the previous five quarters.

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