Redwood Trust Inc. (RWT) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2011-06-30.

Redwood Trust Inc. has a market cap of $1.12 billion; its shares were traded at around $14.2 with a P/E ratio of 14.2 and P/S ratio of 4.9. The dividend yield of Redwood Trust Inc. stocks is 7.1%.

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Statements regarding the following subjects, among others, are forward-looking by their nature: (i) our belief that rebuilding our core residential and commercial businesses of managing, facilitating, and investing in mortgage credit offers the best long-term opportunity to increase earnings and dividends and to build franchise value for our shareholders; (ii) our competitive position and our ability to compete in the future, including our ability to effectively compete to acquire residential mortgage loans and our statement that we are making steady progress in building relationships with loans sellers and our ability to compete to originate and acquire commercial real estate loans; (iii) our future investment strategy and our ability to find attractive investments and future trends relating to our pace of acquiring or selling assets, including, without limitation, statements relating to our efforts to acquire residential mortgage loans, make commercial real estate investments, and potentially leverage the capital we have invested in commercial real estate investments without taking funding risk; (iv) our plan to acquire the $201 million of residential mortgage loans that, as of the end of the second quarter of 2011, we planned to purchase and our plan to acquire additional residential mortgage loans that we plan in the future to acquire after the end of the second quarter of 2011, including the $198 million of loans we plan to acquire in the future as of July 29, 2011; (v) our belief that our hedging strategy relating to loans acquired for future securitization has worked well in the face of significant interest rate volatility and that we would expect to recover all or a portion of any loss on hedges that relate to mortgage loans we are holding for future securitization over time through higher interest income; (vi) our belief that our loan conduit business and the systems and operational infrastructure we have in place for our loan conduit business can handle a substantially higher volume of business without a significant increase in our cost base and our statement that we believe the scale of the operational infrastructure we have in place will position us well for the future; (vii) future securitization transactions, the timing of the completion of those future securitization transactions, and the number and size of such transactions we expect to complete in 2011 and future periods, which future securitizations may not be completed when planned or at all, and, more generally, statements regarding the likelihood and timing of, and our participation in, future securitization transactions and our ability to finance loan acquisitions through the execution of securitization transactions; (viii) our expectation that new Sequoia securitization entities will represent a larger portion of our balance sheet in the future; (ix) our statement that we expect to reverse, through positive adjustments to earnings in future periods $6 million of loan loss reserves that relate to eleven Sequoia securitization entities in future periods upon the retirement or deconsolidation of those entities; (x) our expectations of future levels of our securities purchase and sale activity and our plans to invest our excess capital and our statements relating to the cash flows we expect to receive from our investments in securities; (xi) that we do not anticipate considering raising equity capital financing before 2012, that we do not plan to raise equity capital unless we believe we have attractive investment opportunities that exceed our investment capacity, our estimates of our short-term borrowing capacity, our investment capacity, and our excess capital, our statements regarding our ability to access additional short-term borrowings and to access capital through re-securitization transactions or other forms of debt financing, and our expectation that we will have established a warehouse borrowing facility to finance the acquisition of residential mortgage loans in the next several months; (xii) future market and economic conditions, including, without limitation, future conditions in the residential and commercial real estate markets and related financing markets, and the related potential opportunities for our residential and commercial businesses; (xiii) that the size of the jumbo residential mortgage market is potentially vast and could represent an opportunity that exceeds the current capital we have to invest and the potential that regulatory reforms could increase the size of the jumbo mortgage market, our statement that these trends could present a growth opportunity for us and our statements regarding our beliefs about our competitive advantages; (xiv) our beliefs about, and our outlook for, the future direction of housing market fundamentals, including, without limitation, home prices, demand for housing, delinquency rates, foreclosure rates, prepayment rates, inventory of homes for sale, and mortgage interest rates and their potential impact on our business and results of operations and our belief that the housing market is in the process of forming a bottom and our expectation that housing, in general, will not be a significantly appreciating asset class for several years; (xv) our beliefs about the future direction of commercial real estate fundamentals and statements regarding the competitive landscape for and availability of financing for commercial real estate; (xvi) our estimate that our commercial real estate loan originations are likely to be in the range of $25 million to $50

GAAP earnings for the second quarter of 2011 were $9 million or $0.11 per share, down from $18 million or $0.22 per share reported for the first quarter of 2011. We are not satisfied with these results, which are presented in more detail throughout this quarter’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. While fully investing our excess capital should improve our results going forward, it is not the sole answer to enhancing long-term profitability and growth. We have structured our residential loan business to operate on more volume than has recently been available at the right terms. As a result, our operating costs are high relative to the net revenues we can earn from our invested capital without taking undue risk. Ultimately, we believe the scale of our operating infrastructure will position us to invest more capital and better leverage our cost structure, while continuing to manage risk.

Residential Mortgage Loan Business We continued to sign up more sellers and expand our residential loan business during the second quarter. We deployed $152 million in capital during the quarter purchasing residential loans. At June 30, 2011, we held $203 million in residential mortgage loans and we had plans to purchase an additional $201 million in residential mortgage loans. By July 29, 2011, the total of loans owned plus those we planned to purchase had risen to $500 million from $404 million at June 30, 2011. We continue to target two additional securitizations in 2011, although this goal seems more challenging than it did a few months ago.

Commercial Loan Business During the second quarter, we put $29 million of capital to work in three separate commercial real estate loans. Our portfolio of commercial real estate loans consists of $71 million in loans on stabilized multifamily properties, central business district office buildings in major markets, necessity/grocery-anchored retail centers, and hotels with strong brands and operators. We continue to expect to originate in the range of $25 million to $50 million per quarter. Our portfolio has a weighted average maturity of over five years and an average unlevered yield of approximately 10.5%.

Summary of Results of Operations Net Income Our reported GAAP net income was $9 million ($0.11 per share) for the second quarter of 2011, as compared to $29 million ($0.35 per share) for the second quarter of 2010. We declared regular quarterly dividends of $0.25 per share for both the second quarter of 2011 and 2010.

Net Interest Income after Provision and Market Valuation Adjustments (MVA) Net interest income after provision and MVA was $17 million for the second quarter of 2011, as compared to $24 million for the second quarter of 2010, a decrease of $7 million. This decrease was primarily due to a decline in net interest income of $6 million at Other Consolidated Entities. The remaining $1 million decline was the net effect of a decline in provision for loan loss expense and an increase in negative market valuation adjustments.

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