MGIC Investment Corporation (MTG) Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
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Overview
The earnings call reflects strong financial performance with a 15% dividend increase, substantial share repurchases, and favorable loss reserve development. Despite flat revenue, the positive aspects like disciplined expense management and book value growth are promising. The Q&A section reassures continued capital returns, with management addressing all concerns clearly. The slight increase in delinquency rates is offset by strong capital management and optimistic guidance. Overall, the positive financial metrics and shareholder return plans suggest a positive stock price movement in the short term.
Key Financial Performance
Net Income $193 million, with an annualized return on equity of 15%. This reflects disciplined market approach, prudent risk and capital management strategies.
New Insurance Written $16 billion. Insurance in force ended the quarter at $297 billion, remaining relatively flat over the past 2 quarters due to market conditions.
Share Repurchases 7.1 million shares for $181 million in Q2. Over the prior 4 quarters, share repurchases totaled $721 million, reflecting capital strength and solid financial results.
Common Stock Dividend $0.13 per share in Q2, totaling $31 million. A 15% increase to $0.15 per share was authorized, marking 5 consecutive years of dividend increases.
Adjusted Net Operating Income $0.82 per diluted share, compared to $0.77 last year, driven by solid operating performance and a strong balance sheet.
Book Value Per Share $22.11, an increase of 13% year-over-year, reflecting strong financial performance.
Favorable Loss Reserve Development $54 million due to higher-than-expected cure rates on delinquency notices received in 2023 and 2024.
Delinquency Rate Decreased 9 basis points to 2.21% in Q2, consistent with seasonal trends. However, it was 12 basis points higher than a year ago.
In-Force Premium Yield 38.3 basis points, relatively flat year-over-year, due to high persistency and similar MI origination trends.
Net Investment Income $61 million, relatively flat year-over-year, with a book yield of 4%, up 10 basis points from a year ago.
Operating Expenses $52 million in Q2, down from $55 million last year, reflecting disciplined expense management.
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Operating Highlights
New Insurance Written: $16 billion of new insurance written in Q2 2025.
Insurance in Force: Ended the quarter at $297 billion, remaining relatively flat over the past two quarters.
Housing Market Trends: The housing market faces headwinds from elevated interest rates, affordability challenges, and a slowdown in home sales. However, demographic trends and pent-up demand support long-term growth in mortgage insurance opportunities.
Home Price Growth: Moderated in many markets, with rising inventory in the South and West.
Capital Management: Allocated $181 million to share repurchases (7.1 million shares) and paid $31 million in dividends in Q2 2025. Increased quarterly dividend by 15% to $0.15 per share.
Operational Efficiency: Operating expenses decreased to $52 million in Q2 2025 from $55 million in Q2 2024. Full-year operating expenses are expected to remain within $195 million to $205 million.
Reinsurance Program: Reduced PMIERs required assets by $2.5 billion (43%) through reinsurance agreements. Added two excess of loss agreements for 2025 and 2026 NIW.
Tax Deduction for MI Premium: The passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act restores and makes permanent the tax deduction for MI premium, providing meaningful tax relief to homeowners.
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Risk or Challenges
Market Conditions: The housing market faces headwinds from elevated interest rates, ongoing affordability challenges, and a slowdown in home sales. These factors could limit growth in insurance in force and impact the company's ability to expand its market share.
Delinquency Trends: An increase in new delinquency notices and the delinquency rate is expected in the second half of the year due to seasonality and aging of 2021 and 2022 book year vintages into historically higher loss emergence years.
Capital Return Constraints: Elevated levels of capital return and a decline in shorter-term interest rates are limiting the growth of the investment portfolio, which could impact overall financial performance.
Regulatory and Taxation Risks: While the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides tax relief, any future changes in regulatory or tax policies could pose risks to the company's operations and financials.
Operational Efficiency: The company faces challenges in maintaining disciplined expense management and operational efficiency, particularly with accounting charges related to pension plan settlements.
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Guidance & Outlook
Market Conditions and Housing Trends: The housing market continues to face headwinds from elevated interest rates, ongoing affordability challenges, and a slowdown in home sales. However, demographic trends and pent-up demand are expected to support long-term growth in mortgage insurance (MI) opportunities. Home price growth has moderated in many markets, with rising inventory in the South and West. Affordability challenges persist, but private mortgage insurance remains critical for low down payment borrowers.
Insurance in Force and Persistency: Market conditions have limited the growth of insurance in force, a trend expected to persist through the remainder of the year. Annual persistency remains high at 85%, and credit performance is strong.
Delinquency Trends: The delinquency rate is expected to increase in the second half of the year due to seasonality and the aging of 2021 and 2022 book year vintages into historically higher loss emergence years. However, delinquency rates and new notices remain low by historical standards.
In-Force Premium Yield: The in-force premium yield is expected to remain relatively flat for 2025, supported by high persistency and similar MI origination trends as last year.
Investment Income: The book yield on the investment portfolio is anticipated to remain relatively flat for the remainder of the year due to a decline in shorter-term interest rates and elevated levels of capital return.
Capital Management and Shareholder Returns: Capital levels at both MGIC and the holding company are expected to remain above targets, supporting elevated payout ratios. Share repurchases will continue to be the primary method of returning capital to shareholders, complemented by quarterly common stock dividends. The quarterly dividend was recently increased by 15% to $0.15 per share.
Reinsurance Program: The company bolstered its reinsurance program with two excess of loss agreements covering most of 2025 and 2026 new insurance written (NIW). These agreements complement existing quota share agreements and provide capital diversification and flexibility.
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Shareholder Return Plan
Quarterly Common Stock Dividend: Paid a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.13 per share, totaling $31 million.
Annual Dividend Increase: Authorized a 15% increase to the quarterly common stock dividend to $0.15 per share, marking 5 consecutive years of dividend increases with a compound annual growth rate of 20% over that period.
Total Shareholder Dividends (Last 4 Quarters): Shareholder dividends totaled $132 million over the prior 4 quarters.
Share Repurchases (Q2 2025): Allocated $181 million to repurchase 7.1 million shares.
Share Repurchases (Last 4 Quarters): Repurchased shares totaling $721 million over the prior 4 quarters.
Share Repurchases (Q3 2025, through July 25): Repurchased an additional 2.6 million shares for $68 million.
Remaining Share Repurchase Authorization: $734 million remaining on the current share repurchase authorization.
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Key Q&A
Q:Can you remind us how you are thinking about sizing the level of capital return you're doing? How you're thinking about the amount of holdco liquidity you want to hold? And what are the gating factors as far as getting dividends up from the MI subsidiary?
A:Nathaniel Colson explained that dividends have been paid twice a year in the range of $300 million to $400 million, driven by excellent credit performance and financial results. The size of dividends depends on factors like capital levels being above targets. At the holding company level, they have $1 billion in cash, supported by elevated payout ratios of over 110% in the trailing 4 quarters. Elevated payout ratios are expected to continue if credit conditions remain favorable and financial results are excellent.
Q:Could there be a case where you could even increase the payout further given the strong capital and strong capital generation?
A:Nathaniel Colson stated that while there is enough statutory surplus to continue current dividend levels, the contingency reserve balance acts as a natural constraint. The company prefers a long-term approach, maintaining elevated payout ratios to slowly draw down excess capital while monitoring market conditions.
Q:Can you talk about your expectation for home prices? And to the extent home prices continue to slow or potentially turn negative, could we see the industry pricing adjust for that?
A:Nathaniel Colson mentioned that national home prices are expected to remain flat over the next several years, with regional variations. The company uses risk-based pricing to adjust dynamically to market conditions. While there are no significant home price declines currently, slowing home price appreciation is seen as beneficial in the long term. The company is well-positioned to react to regional differences in supply-demand dynamics.
Q:Does the $195 million to $205 million OpEx guidance exclude the $4 million charge? And is that a number we could see annually until the pension runs out fully?
A:Nathaniel Colson clarified that the $4 million charge is included in the Q2 number and the full-year guidance. Smaller charges are expected in Q3 and Q4 due to lump sum activity, and these will be included in future expense guidance. The pension-related charges are detailed in the financial statement footnotes.
Q:Review of Unclear Management Responses
A:None of the questions were avoided or lacked clarity. Management provided detailed and direct responses to all questions.
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