Yahoo Finance Radian (RDN) Boosts Mortgage Market Presence With New Unit
Radian Group Inc. RDN recently unveiled a new unit, Radian Mortgage Capital LLC (RMC), which is expected to render residential mortgage lenders a further secondary-market option for high-quality loans. This new unit is also likely to provide mortgage investors with a high-quality sponsor.
RMC is likely to enhance the competencies of Radian to participate in the mortgage market to manage and distribute residential mortgage credit risk.
The newly introduced RMC will provide RDN with an opportunity to expand its market reach and boost its relationships across the mortgage ecosystem with mortgage lenders and investors.
RMC intends to use Radian’s lender relationships to distribute high-quality residential mortgage loans in the capital markets through private label securitizations and direct sales to mortgage investors. This will have the option to retain and manage structured components of the underlying credit risk where the company sees value. This will provide additional secondary market options to mortgage insurance customers.
RDN boasts a diversified mortgage and real estate business, which provides credit-related mortgage insurance coverage. The Mortgage segment of Radian distributes U.S. mortgage credit risk on behalf of mortgage lending institutions and mortgage credit investors, principally through private mortgage insurance on residential first-lien mortgage loans. In addition to providing private mortgage insurance, the insurer participates in credit risk transfer programs as part of its initiative to distribute mortgage credit risk and enhance the role of private capital in the mortgage market.
Radian remains focused on improving its mortgage insurance portfolio to drive long-term earnings growth. The title insurer thus remains poised to benefit from the launch as it will get the opportunity to expand the products it delivers to lenders through RMC.
Radian presently estimates the private mortgage insurance market to be worth approximately $500 billion to $525 billion for 2022, which will represent the third-largest MI volume year in history.
Price Performace
Shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) insurer have lost 7.5% in a year’s time, compared with the industry's decrease of 14.4%.
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