Fannie Mae Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Feb 29, 2012
Fannie Mae (FNM, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31.

Fannie Mae has a market cap of $1.97 billion; its shares were traded at around $0 . The dividend yield of Fannie Mae stocks is 27%.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Total existing home sales rose 1.7% in 2011 from 2010, according to data available through January 2012, following a 3.5% decline in 2010, despite low mortgage rates and reduced home prices. Weak demand for homes, a weak labor market and elevated vacancy and foreclosure rates are the main obstacles to the housing recovery. Sales of foreclosed homes and preforeclosure, or short, sales (together, distressed sales) accounted for 32% of existing home sales in December 2011, compared to 36% in December 2010, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Faced with fierce competition from distressed sales, new home sales declined in 2011 for the sixth consecutive year, falling 6.2% to a record low. Homebuilding activity was mixed in 2011, as single-family housing starts fell approximately 9% to a record low, while multifamily starts rose 54%.

At the end of 2011, the number of months supply, or the inventory/sales ratio, was consistent with historical averages for both new and existing homes. While the demand for new homes was quite weak in 2011, the inventory was also very lean. The number of new homes available for sale reached an all-time low in December 2011, when, according to the Census December 2011 New Residential Sales Report, the months supply was 6.1 months. For existing homes, as a result of rising sales in the fourth quarter of 2011 and a persistent decline in the number of existing homes available for sale in the second half of 2011, the months supply fell sharply in the fourth quarter. According to the National Association of REALTORS® January 2012 Existing Home Sales Report, the months supply of existing unsold homes was 6.2 months as of December 31, 2011, compared with an 8.3 months supply as of September 30, 2011 and an 8.1 months supply as of December 31, 2010. Properties that are vacant and held off the market, combined with a portion of properties backing seriously delinquent mortgages not currently listed for sale, represent a significant shadow inventory putting downward pressure on home prices. The overall mortgage market serious delinquency rate, which has trended down since peaking in the fourth quarter of 2009, remained historically high at 7.7% as of December 31, 2011, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association National Delinquency Survey. We provide information about Fannie Maes serious delinquency rate, which also decreased during 2011, in Executive SummaryCredit Performance.

To serve low- and very low-income households, we also have a team that focuses exclusively on relationships with lenders financing privately-owned multifamily properties that receive public subsidies in exchange for maintaining long-term affordable rents. We enable borrowers to leverage housing programs and subsidies provided by local, state and federal agencies. These public subsidy programs are largely targeted to providing housing to families earning less than 60% of area median income (as defined by HUD) and are structured to ensure that the low and very low-income households who benefit from the subsidies pay no more than 30% of their gross monthly income for rent and utilities. As of December 31, 2011, this type of financing represented approximately 14% of our multifamily guaranty book of business, based on unpaid principal balance, including $16.1 billion in bond credit enhancements.

Other liabilities include Accrued interest payable in our GAAP consolidated balance sheets. The carrying value of this item in our GAAP consolidated balance sheets totaled $12.6 billion and $13.8 billion as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. We assume that certain other liabilities, such as deferred revenues, have no fair value. Although we report the Reserve for guaranty losses as part of Other liabilities in our GAAP consolidated balance sheets, it is incorporated into and reported as part of the fair value of our guaranty obligations in our non-GAAP supplemental consolidated fair value balance sheets. Other liabilities in our GAAP consolidated balance sheets include the following: (a) Derivative liabilities at fair value and (b) Guaranty obligations. The carrying value of these items totaled $1.7 billion and $2.5 billion as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

If a custodial depository institution were to fail while holding remittances of borrower payments of principal and interest due to us in our custodial account, we would be an unsecured creditor of the depository for balances in excess of the deposit insurance protection and might not be able to recover all of the principal and interest payments being held by the depository on our behalf, or there might be a substantial delay in receiving these amounts. If this were to occur, we would be required to replace these amounts with our own funds to make payments that are due to Fannie Mae MBS certificateholders. Accordingly, the insolvency of one of our principal custodial depository counterparties could result in significant financial losses to us. In the month of December 2011, approximately $6.1 billion or 9% of our total deposits for single-family payments received and held by these institutions was in excess of the deposit insurance protection limit compared with approximately $6.2 billion or 8% in the month of December 2010. These amounts can vary as they are calculated based on individual payments of mortgage borrowers and we must estimate which borrowers are paying their regular principal and interest payments and other types of payments, such as prepayments from refinancing or sales.

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