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Freddie Mac posts $4B profit in 1Q

Mortgage giant Freddie Mac posts $4B profit in 1Q; paying $4.5B dividend to US

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, April 9, 2013 file photo, a "Sold" sign is posted outside a home in Indianapolis. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac reports quarterly results for the January-March 2014 quarter on Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mortgage giant Freddie Mac posted net income of $4 billion for the January-through-March period, helped by a strengthening housing market. The government-controlled company has turned a profit in each of the past 10 quarters.

Freddie's first-quarter profit reported Thursday compared with earnings of $4.6 billion in the first three months of 2013.

Net income was bolstered in the latest period by a decline in mortgage delinquencies, the company said.

McLean, Virginia-based Freddie said it will pay a dividend of $4.5 billion to the U.S. Treasury next month. Freddie already had repaid its full government bailout of $71.3 billion after paying its third-quarter 2013 dividend.

The government rescued Freddie and larger sibling Fannie Mae at the height of the financial crisis in September 2008. Together the companies received taxpayer aid totaling $187 billion.