Item 8.01
Other Events.
The Company reported net income attributable to common shareholders of $22.8 million, or $0.85 per diluted common share, and non-GAAP core operating income of $13.8 million, or $0.52 per diluted common share, for the quarter ended September 30, 2017. The Company reported book value of $13.71 per common share and tangible book value of $12.88 per common share as of September 30, 2017.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains “forward-looking statements” made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding future results or expectations about our investments, interest rates, portfolio allocation, dividends, financing agreements, returns on invested capital, investment strategy, taxes, portfolio, earnings, book value, housing market, compensation, growth in capital, agency mortgage-backed security (“MBS”) spreads,
prepayments, hedging instruments, duration, credit performance of private-label MBS, cash flow and benefit of deferred tax asset value. Forward-looking statements can be identified by forward-looking language, including words such as “believes,” “antic
ipates,” “views,” “expects,” “estimates,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “projects,” “potential,” “prospective,” “will” and similar expressions, or the negative of these words. Such forward-looking statements are based on facts and conditions as they exist at
the time such statements are made. Forward-looking statements are also based on predictions as to future facts and conditions, the accurate prediction of which may be difficult and involve the assessment of events beyond our control. Forward-looking stat
ements are further based on various operating and return assumptions. Caution must be exercised in relying on forward-looking statements. Due to known and unknown risks, actual results may differ materially from expectations or projections. You should car
efully consider these risks when you make a decision concerning an investment in our common stock or senior notes, along with the following factors, among others, that may cause our actual results to differ materially from those described in any forward-lo
oking statements: availability of, and our ability to deploy, capital; growing our business primarily through our current strategy of focusing on acquiring primarily agency MBS; our ability to forecast our tax attributes, which are based upon various facts
and assumptions, and our ability to protect and use our net operating losses and net capital losses to offset future taxable income, including whether our shareholder rights plan will be effective in preventing an ownership change that would significantl
y limit our ability to utilize such losses; our business, acquisition, leverage, asset allocation, operational, investment, hedging and financing strategies and the success of these strategies; the effect of changes in prepayment rates, interest rates and
default rates on our portfolio; the effect of governmental regulation and actions; our ability to roll our repurchase agreements on favorable terms, if at all; our liquidity; our asset valuation policies; our decisions with respect to, and ability to make,
future dividends; investing in assets other than MBS or pursuing business activities other than investing in MBS; our ability to maintain our exclusion from the definition of “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; our d
ecision to not elect to be taxed as a real estate investment trust under the Internal Revenue Code; competition for investment opportunities, including competition from the U.S. Department of Treasury and the U.S. Federal Reserve, for investments in agenc
y MBS, as well as the timing of the termination by the U.S. Federal Reserve of its purchases of agency MBS; the federal conservatorship of the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac
”) and related efforts, along with any changes in laws and regulations affecting the relationship between Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the federal government; mortgage loan prepayment activity, modification programs and future legislative action; changes
in, and success of, our acquisition, hedging and leverage strategies, changes in our asset allocation and changes in our operational policies, all of which may be changed by us without shareholder approval; failure of sovereign or municipal entities to me
et their debt obligations or a downgrade in the credit rating of such debt obligations; fluctuations of the value of our hedge instruments; fluctuating quarterly operating results; changes in laws and regulations and industry practices that may adversely a
ffect our business; volatility of the securities markets and activity in the secondary securities markets in the United States and elsewhere; our ability to successfully expand our business into areas other than investing in MBS; changes in, and our abilit
y to remain in compliance with, law, regulations or governmental policies affecting our business; and the factors described in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 201
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Reports on Form 10-Q and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC from time to time. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made. New risks and uncertainties arise over time, and it is not possible to predict
those events or how they may affect us. Except as required by law, the Company is not obligated to, and does not intend to, update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.