Thanks to rising rates, mortgage stocks have been under pressure of late but most of the declines have affected lenders that recently went public as opposed to “older” firms such as Mr. Cooper and PennyMac Financial Services.
Changes are afoot at Acra Lending, which helped revive the nonprime sector early last decade. On the to-do list: a retail shift and a partnership with ServiceMac.
The slope also remained slippery for home-equity debt outstanding. The Federal Reserve reported $441.6 billion of home-equity loans outstanding at the end of 2020, an 11.9% drop from the previous year.