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Radian Group Inc. (RDN)

Q1 2014 Earnings Call· Wed, May 7, 2014

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Executives

Management

Emily Riley - Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Sanford A. Ibrahim - Chief Executive Officer and Director C. Robert Quint - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore - President of Radian Guaranty Inc David J. Beidler - President of Radian Asset Assurance Inc Derek V. Brummer - Chief Risk Officer and Executive Vice President

Analysts

Management

Eric Jansen Beardsley - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division Mark C. DeVries - Barclays Capital, Research Division Sean Dargan - Macquarie Research Douglas Harter - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC Christopher Gamaitoni - Autonomous Research LLP Jordan Neil Hymowitz - Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco, LLC Rick Sherman Seth Glasser Steve Stelmach - FBR Capital Markets & Co., Research Division James J. Fowler - Harvest Capital Strategies LLC Jack Micenko - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to Radian's First Quarter 2014 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, today's conference is being recorded.[Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to Emily Riley, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications.

Emily Riley

Analyst

Thank you, and welcome to Radian's First Quarter 2014 Conference Call. Our press release, which contains Radian's financial results for the quarter, was issued yesterday and is posted to the Investors section of our website at www.radian.biz. This press release includes a non-GAAP financial measure that will be discussed during today's call. The complete description of this measure and the reconciliation to GAAP may be found on press release Exhibit E and on the Investors section of our website. During today's call, you will hear from S.A. Ibrahim, Radian's Chief Executive Officer; and Bob Quint, Chief Financial Officer. Also on hand for the Q&A portion of the call are Teresa Bazemore President of Radian Guaranty; David Beidler, President of Radian Asset Assurance; and Derek Brummer, Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of Radian Group. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that comments made during this call will include forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially. For a discussion of these risks, please review the cautionary statements regarding forward-looking statements included in our earnings release and the risk factors included in our 2013 Form 10-K, our first quarter 10-Q, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC. These are also available on our website. Now I would like to turn the call over to S.A.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Thank you, Emily. Thank you, all, for joining us and for your interest in Radian. Today, I'm excited to share our results for the first quarter of 2014. along with the strategic announcement of our plans to acquire Clayton Holdings, a leading provider of outsourced solutions to the mortgage industry. Next, Bob will cover the financial details of our first quarter performance and the Clayton acquisition. Finally, I'll summarize a few key points before opening the call to your questions. Before we discuss our outstanding financial results and our exciting acquisition announcement, let me first remind you that our vision at Radian has been twofold: To lead our company out of the downturn by writing strong volumes of extremely profitable mortgage insurance business, and to position Radian for future growth and success by expanding and broadening our customer base and strengthening our franchise with the addition of complementary products and services. Radian strives to be a leader in providing the mortgage industry with mortgage insurance and other products that offer secondary market access as well as services that enables success in originating, underwriting, servicing and securitizing mortgage loans. You've heard me talk about our top priorities of writing new high-quality mortgage insurance business and effectively reducing our legacy mortgage insurance and Financial Guaranty risk. We've had outstanding success in both of these areas creating a strong foundation for future earnings at Radian. Now, we are taking a step that will help us build on our success by adding a diversified, fee-based revenue business that leverages and complements our existing strength at Radian as we position ourselves for the next phase in the evolution of the U.S. housing finance markets. This acquisition will not distract or compromise our focus on our MI business. Clayton is an attractive and well-managed business with…

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Thank you, S.A. I will be covering our P&L activity and trends for the first quarter of 2013, our capital and liquidity positions as of quarter end, some updated expectations regarding the balance of 2014, and some initial observations about the financial implications of the Clayton acquisition. We introduced non-GAAP measures last quarter to more closely align with the way we evaluate our business performance. And beginning this quarter, for segment reporting, we will only be showing adjusted pretax operating income or loss. In addition to GAAP net income or loss and diluted net income or loss per share for consolidated purposes, we will be showing total adjusted pretax operating income or loss. A reconciliation of these consolidated numbers is presented in Exhibit E. In order to compute diluted operating income per share for as long as we have a valuation allowance, our tax rate is expected to be negligible. If and when the VA fully reverses, we would expect a tax rate close to the 35% statutory rate. Our EPS calculation for the first quarter includes both the dilutive impact of our 2019 convertible debt, which adds 37.7 million shares to our share count and add back $5.5 million of interest expense to income for EPS calculation purposes. And additional EPS dilution this quarter related to our 2017 convertible debt of approximately 9 million shares. A table of our fully diluted share count is presented on Exhibit B. The MI provision for losses was $49 million this quarter compared to $144 million last quarter and $132 million a year ago. Lower incurred losses continue to reflect improving trends, as new primary default totals were 18% better than the first quarter of last year and cure rates have increased. The reduction of new defaults in April was 18.5% year-over-year. Many…

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Thanks, Bob. Once again, we are pleased to share with you our outstanding financial results for the first quarter and our exciting announcement of our acquisition of Clayton. Now operator, We'd like to open the call to questions.

Operator

Operator

[Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from the line of line of Bose George with KBW.

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

This is actually Chas Dyson [ph] in for Bose. First question is just around Clayton. I wanted to get you guys thoughts on a high level on the timing of the acquisition. Why now? And what are you guys seeing in the private label RMBS market that causes you to think this is the right time for this acquisition? And then, just kind of a follow-on to that, you guys mentioned the $135 million in revenues for 2013, do you guys have a breakout in terms of how levered that is to private label RMBS versus the REO-type services?

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

So I'll take the first part of that. So looking at why Clayton and why now, strategically, Radian is -- if you look at the strategic premise for this, Radian is in the mortgage risk business. And the mortgage industry participants typically deal with 4 types of risk: Interest rate and prepayment is one area; credit risk is the other area; operational risk, which deals with manufacturing and servicing defects, is the third area; and the fourth is regulatory compliance risk. We currently operate in the credit risk area and that, too, within the GSE footprint and that, too, within the 80% and higher LTV portion of the GSE footprint. So Clayton provides services that primarily focus on the operational risk with manufacturing and servicing defects and the regulatory compliance risks. Everything we've been hearing from the industry and our customers is those operational risks and regulatory and compliance risks are becoming more and more important as the industry tries to focus on producing as close to 0 defect loans as possible. And in that process we have been, to some extent, on our own, helping our customers with training. We believe that the Clayton acquisition will allow us to offer them other solutions to meet those needs. As you know, many players in the industry got burnt by loans that were not serviced properly, so that we, on our own, have started looking at how do we get on top of how loans are being serviced, and we found that some of our customers were interested in accessing that service, that capability, and Clayton provides us that. So I'll let Teresa expand on that a little bit more before getting to Bob on the second part of your question.

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

So Clayton really has 4 areas of their business. The first one that I think a lot of people are familiar is the due diligence business, and that's being used in the past to support -- and currently, to support the RMBS market. But in addition, over the last few years, it's also been expanded to focus on QC regulatory compliance, and so, there has been demand in those areas. The second area is the servicing, surveillance business that S.A just mentioned, and Clayton has sort of pipes, if you will, to 60 servicers that they get data from on a monthly basis, and it allows them to monitor the performance of those books of business and also to look at individual loans to get feedback on what needs to happen with those loans. And there's been increased focus on that, in part because of the concerns related to servicing that we all know about, but also as more servicers have also used sub-servicers. It's been an opportunity to help them understand what's going on with their sub-servicers. The third area is Green River Capital, which has, really, 2 parts to their business. One is really giving services related to REO management and to short sale management. The other part, which is the interesting part of the business, is giving services to investors in REO-to-rental or buy-to-rental markets. And those are a number of different services that they do which help those investors finance those properties on warehouse lines or prepare those properties to be securitized. So that's been -- and they've been a leader in, really, all of these areas. And the last area is their European business. They have a company called Euro Risk. Its the leading provider of outsourcing services, including due diligence, in the U.K. and Europe. And that's the primary market for that business.

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

And just quickly on the revenues, they're pretty well divided among the businesses. Less than 30% of revenue was the due diligence revenue in 2013, and that's on such a small base of private securitization. So there's a lot upside there, clearly.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

And to answer that question -- the other part of the question which is, why Clayton? Why now? We believe Clayton is the strongest player in its industry, with the largest share, the strongest reputation, highly respected by rating agencies, GSEs, and investors, and those kind of opportunities, with a strong management team, don’t come about all the time. And one of the things we've done at Radian is we've constantly focused on managing our existing business, but also in positioning us for the future in terms of growth and profitability and for the next phase of the market. We did that at the onset of the financial downturn by being the first to place an emphasis on expanding our sales force and growing our business, even while being challenged with our legacy business, and it has paid off. So this is again positioning ourselves for what we believe is the next opportunity in the future of the housing finance system, in an area where we have already started doing things to a small extent on our own.

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

Okay. That's helpful. And then you guys talked about contributions from Clayton to the holding company in terms of cash. Do you have a cash flow metric for 2013 for Clayton?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

We -- well, we gave you some numbers. We gave the net income, which was $9.1 million, and then the non-cash expense of amortization. So if you add those 2 up, there is a little bit of other stuff in there, but that's a good measure.

Unknown Analyst

Analyst

Okay. And then, one last one. It looked like, to us, that the premium margin might have ticked down a little bit in the first quarter. Do you guys have any color there around why that might have happened in terms of the product mix or anything else?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

No, premiums really -- the margins really haven't changed and the premiums really haven't changed. You're -- what you're seeing from quarter-to-quarter sometimes is a rescission of refund accrual, either it's up or down, and that sometimes looks like the margins have changed, but that's not really the case.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Eric Beardsley with Goldman Sachs.

Eric Jansen Beardsley - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Analyst

I was wondering how we could expect the severities to move over the next year, there's quite strong improvement. In the first quarter, I think you had mentioned some of that was because of just your lower loan balances. Just curious on how much of an impact that was versus just lower losses on the actual loans?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I mean, it's really a combination, I think, what we've seen is that the pay claims are being more dispersed. The past several years, they were coming from maybe some of the higher-cost areas. So just the loan balances are lower and I think we saw that effect, as well. We've continued to curtail loans. So I think it's really a combination of those.

Eric Jansen Beardsley - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Yes. I mean, could we expect it to improve it at a similar rate over the rest of the year?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I wouldn't expect -- I would expect a continuation, I would not expect a continued improvement.

Eric Jansen Beardsley - Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Research Division

Analyst

Okay. And just on the OpEx. It looks like it came down a bit this past quarter, I guess, some of that might have been due to just the actual benefit plans. But how could we could see that trend developing over the rest of the year?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I think, this is a pretty good run rate this quarter. We've got -- we'll always call out this variable comp item. And as we said, midway through this year, the effect of stock price changes gets mitigated. And then, as of -- about this time next year, that will kind of go away. But I think other than that, you're seeing a fair run rate on our expense level.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from the line of Mark DeVries with Barclays.

Mark C. DeVries - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays.

Bob, can you talk about whether this unregulated cash flow that you'll get from Clayton will now allow you to manage cash at the holdco more aggressively, particularly after you've kind of pushed out your next maturity to 2017?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst · Barclays.

Yes. I would, say, so, Mark, we're -- it creates flexibility for us. So Clayton doesn't need very much working capital to be running their business. So positive cash flows can come to the holding company and give us flexibility. Certainly, the money that is at holdco today is there to support the operating company and we plan to use it for that purpose. But yes, more flexibility and options, absolutely, that's part of the benefit of the acquisition.

Mark C. DeVries - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays.

Okay. And along those lines, I mean, I appreciate S.A.'s comment earlier that if you pushed down $500 million, that it gets you to 14:1. But given that flexibility and the kind of relatively low cash burn you know how at the holding company and the unregulated cash flow, I mean, could you realistically push most of that cash down? And also I guess, the incremental $50-or-so million you'll be raising over and above what you need to buy Clayton and retire the 2015 maturity? And if so, kind of -- I'm sorry, if so, kind of where could that actually take you, are you closer to 12:1 or something like that?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst · Barclays.

Yes. I mean, it's certainly conceivable. Well, we would always have a level of cash at holdco that we would acquire, and that would be subject to our management decision. But, again, the flexibility is there. And yes, if we downstream $550 million or $600 million, it gets incrementally better than the numbers that S.A. put out there.

Mark C. DeVries - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays.

Okay. Great. And then, are there any assumptions you can share with us around revenue or expense synergies you're looking for from the acquisition?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst · Barclays.

I mean, as far as expense synergies, we really haven't built very much in. We think we'll have some opportunity over time, but they will be modest from an expense standpoint.

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst · Barclays.

And then with respect to revenues, we think there's an opportunity given the services that Clayton provides to market those services in a cross-sell way using our sales force. And so we've been thinking about how do we package those services so that our sales force can introduce them. And we think that's upside to the transaction.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst · Barclays.

And remember, over the last few years, we expanded our customer base quite significantly. And we have customers, in addition to large banks, we've got medium-sized banks, independent mortgage companies of all sizes, community banks, credit unions. And they all have to deal with some of these compliance challenges and they may all participate in some way in selling loans to investors.

Mark C. DeVries - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays.

Okay. And then -- I'm sorry if I missed this. Did you talk about what's your customer overlap and how much of an opportunity there is to cross-sell to your existing customer base, to people they may have not reached out to?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst · Barclays.

Yes. Our customer base is significantly larger than their customer base. So there is a large portion of our customer base that we would be able to cross-sell their services to.

Mark C. DeVries - Barclays Capital, Research Division

Analyst · Barclays.

Okay. Great. And then, just one last question. Any thoughts on where your loss ratio can get to when we just think about kind of the quality of the recent books, whether it would be normalized or kind of a below normalized level in the next several years?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst · Barclays.

That's because current level is pretty good. No, look, I think we've said, on a consistent basis, the book of business would end up with a loss ratio in that sort of 35% range, give or take. If you're growing your business and you've got a lot of business that's young, you can see overall loss ratios lower than 30% into the 20s. But this quarter was a very, very good quarter from a loss ratio standpoint and we would sign up for it, for sure.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Sean Dargan with Macquarie.

Sean Dargan - Macquarie Research

Analyst

If we look at Slide 14 an the components of the loss provision, and you mentioned the $27.8 million of favorable development, is that net of any bad guys, last week when Genworth reported, they said that they modestly increased reserve factors to reflect higher severity expectations for late-stage delinquencies?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Yes. That number is always going to be net and there are a number of things in there. So, yes, there are some things in there that go the other way. We called out -- I called out kind of the 3 main reasons that's negative this quarter, but we haven't made any changes to our roll rate assumptions for quite some time, and we didn't this quarter. So there was nothing like that was incorporated.

Sean Dargan - Macquarie Research

Analyst

Okay. But would it be fair to say that you are feeling incrementally better about late stage delinquencies now?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

As delinquencies decline, as claims submitted continue to decrease, we absolutely feel better. There is still uncertainty, but we feel better.

Sean Dargan - Macquarie Research

Analyst

Okay. Great. And then, I don't know if you had called out the amounts of the extraordinary dividend that you're asking the New York DFS for?

David J. Beidler

Analyst

No. This is Dave Beidler. We are not going to disclose that while it's still pending with the department. But one way to sort of get a general perspective on it is that our ordinary dividend this year would have been within the range of $30 million approximately, and you can assume that this request materially in excess of that.

Sean Dargan - Macquarie Research

Analyst

Okay. Well, can you frame what you think the excess capital you have at Radian Asset is?

David J. Beidler

Analyst

We think Radian Asset is substantially overcapitalized given the reduction in risk that we've executed over the last 4 or 5 years.

Sean Dargan - Macquarie Research

Analyst

Maybe you can put a number on it?

David J. Beidler

Analyst

No.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Douglas Harter with Crédit Suisse. Douglas Harter - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: I was wondering if -- help us with the thoughts around the growth potential for Clayton, whether it's what 2014 revenues were or sort of a quarterly breakdown, just to see where they are relative to 2013 full year?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

The opportunities are, really, sort of, within the different business lines, depending on -- the good example is the private securitization market, which could grow the due diligence side of the business. There are other opportunities in other parts of the business, so we're not really timing that projections per se, but we gave the '13 revenues and then cited a number of ways to have upside and to grow that over time. Douglas Harter - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: Got it. I mean, is that -- I mean, I guess, the securitization market is clearly a longer-term opportunity. I guess, when you see the opportunities, is there a balance between near-term opportunities and kind of longer term? I guess, how do you -- or are they all sort of the longer term like the securitization market?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

No. I think, there is certainly diligence and surveillance opportunities that are more near term, and that they've been building on those opportunities over the last few years. I think, the securitization market will grow a lot more slowly. But having said that, we think that the requirements with respect to the diligence that has to be done for those pools of loans will be -- and what we've seen recently is that they've been much more extensive, where a much larger number of loans have -- whether it's 100% or something, just less than that, have to be reviewed in order for a deal to go forward. So we think that the securitization market doesn't have to get back to the levels that it has been before in order for Clayton to benefit.

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

And then the recent increases in revenues have come a lot from the rent-to-own [ph] securitization market, which we think has some legs left in it. Douglas Harter - Crédit Suisse AG, Research Division: Great. And then, if you can give us any color on sort of what applications for May new insurance is looking like? What type of pickup you're seeing relative to April?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

I think, we're just seeing that it's growing and we've seen the commitments for our insurance continue to grow since the early part of the year.

Operator

Operator

The next question comes from the line of Geoffrey Dunn with Dowling & Partners. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: A few questions here. Bob, I wanted to follow-up on your comments on the expense line first. If you back out, see the commission and the performance comp, it looks like your core expense is down from $53 million to $40 million this quarter. I think, last quarter, you indicated maybe a mid-40s number was more appropriate. So just to be clear, is the $40 million a good run rate or should we still be gravitating into that $45 million level on a core basis?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I think, you're right in that range, Geoff. I think this quarter is a fair run rate, but sometimes we have quarters where they might be a little bit higher. So I would look at that range and say that's a fair run rate. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: Okay. And then, kind of jumping on expenses from a Clayton perspective. Under the new master policies, there was going to be, it sounds like a fair amount of incremental underwriting if lenders opted into the 12-month rescission program. How much money does this save you maybe on a go-forward basis having Clayton in house for those underwriting needs? Is it something material to the expense line or is it something that was probably more of a rounding error?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

I wouldn't call it a savings, so to speak, because, obviously, we will have kind of at arm's length transaction between the insurance company and in Clayton. But it certainly is an opportunity to keep those revenues within Radian Group. And so as a result, as we see a need to increase the amount of services that we're using or even to transition some of what we're doing now to them, we'll see that benefit sort of within the full holding company.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

So, Geoff, that would be characterized as taking what is today a Radian expense, pure expense, and turning it into a revenue for Clayton and earnings, which potentially could get the benefit of paid in multiples. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: Is that -- I guess, qualified, is that a material expense, over time, or is that more of a rounding error on your expense base?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

I think, it's really hard for us to be able to determine that at this point.

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I don’t think its material, Geoff. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: Okay. Great. Bob, another question on the stat DTA. Why are you or Pennsylvania are waiting for 15%, when -- we assume other peers get 10%, 15% admittance already. Is there anything different or is it just your approach or PA's approach versus other states?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

No, it's not. We're doing it exactly the way that we are prescribed. So it's really the GAAP analysis that drives then the stat recovery. So you've got to have the GAAP analysis done first. We haven't gone to Pennsylvania to request anything in advance of that, and we don't plan to at this point. So that's -- sort of the time schedule that we gave. Now we have gotten some stat DTAs back in some of the smaller subs within Radian. But Radian Guaranty, where most of it exists, is going to pretty much follow the timeline I set forth. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: Okay. And then, last question for NIW. In December. you noted, you had fallen out of -- or fallen lower in certain rotations, but you had a couple of new lenders coming on. Can you talk about the development this quarter? Pros and cons versus what you're expecting. And how you think maybe the market share delta should trend from here?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

Yes. I mean, I think that what we've seen is that we've continued to do well with customers. We've seen a little bit of risk to allocation, but we've also seen new customers coming on, and NIW coming in from those new customers. And there continues to be a significant pipeline of potential new customers to bring on. We think that we are serving about 70% of the mortgage lenders that are out there, so we think there is some considerable opportunity at this point with respect to that. We think that most of the impact in what we saw in the first quarter had to do with the size of the market. And so when you look at kind of the reforecast, from the MBA and the GSEs, they really had the largest impact on what we wrote. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: Okay. And any update on the timeline of the new, 2 big customers coming on that you mentioned this summer?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

Well, I think, they -- the 2 customers that we referred to, at that time, we are now doing business with. Geoffrey M. Dunn - Dowling & Partners Securities, LLC: All right. So they are fully on and running?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

Well, I'm not -- I think, those 2 are, and there are other customers that we are working with that may be coming on over the course of -- there is another customer that we are working on that would be coming on over the course of this year, that's not up and running yet.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Chris Gamaitoni with Autonomous Research.

Christopher Gamaitoni - Autonomous Research LLP

Analyst

Most of my questions have been answered. Just the only remaining question I have is, it looked like there was a big pickup in 12-month-plus cures, I think it went from 4% to 7% quarter-over-quarter. Could you just talk about what's driving that? Is that home price recovery, ability to sale, or if some were just cured for other reasons?

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

No. Yes -- okay...

Derek V. Brummer

Analyst

We haven't seen a big pickup in terms of cures on the 12-month buckets. We've seen more substantial pickup in cure rates, quite frankly, on the 3 or fewer missed payment bucket in the 4 to 11, is where we've seen the most substantial pickup. For the most part, the 12-month bucket in terms of roll to claim rates and cure rates have been somewhat stable over the year.

Christopher Gamaitoni - Autonomous Research LLP

Analyst

Okay. And then, you mentioned that you hadn't changed any of your assumptions as far as delinquency declaim rates for the buckets. At what point, as we move to the cycle, do you change for that for the early stage to be more towards traditional levels?

Derek V. Brummer

Analyst

I think, generally, the development we're seeing on the early stage is consistent with what others have recognized in the industry. I would say, over time, in terms of kind of the newly delinquent loans, I think we could maybe see a rate -- a cure rate of ultimately 85%. We're continuing to watch the development. And there's been some seasonal effects here in the first quarter, so I think throughout this year we'll continue to watch it. And based upon data, make an adjustment potentially on -- further on in the year.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Jordan Hymowitz from Philadelphia Financial.

Jordan Neil Hymowitz - Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco, LLC

Analyst

Could we get the numbers -- this used to be a public company, if I remember right. Can we get the net income the past couple of years, or is there going to be a filing with that on it?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

As we start to disclose numbers, we'll have to do comparisons. So you'll see a lot more over time.

Jordan Neil Hymowitz - Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco, LLC

Analyst

Is it possible we can just get the net income the past couple of years, as opposed to just the general breakeven?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

That's all we've given. All we -- so far, all we've given is what you see and we'll -- when we do more, it'll be done in a public way.

Jordan Neil Hymowitz - Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco, LLC

Analyst

And second, does Clayton, at all, compete against the LPS's of the world at this point? And given the conflict -- potential conflicts of interest with some of the Auckland companies, is that a potential business channel you could get?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

When we've review with Clayton who they're main competitors are, and it varies depending on the line of business that you're talking about, neither of those have come up as really significant competitors with respect to the services that they offer.

Jordan Neil Hymowitz - Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco, LLC

Analyst

Got it. And last question is with the couple or more players entering the market, have you seen any market share shifts in anyway? I know the numbers are up slowly, so we can slightly compete the market share, but have you seen any shift?

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

We did see some shift in the market share, kind of from the third quarter of last year until now. That's one of the reasons why we continue to be very focused on bringing on new customers.

Jordan Neil Hymowitz - Philadelphia Financial Management of San Francisco, LLC

Analyst

And do you have an estimate of what your share was in the quarter, I mean, we can start to estimate it, but do you have your estimate at this point?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I think our share maybe down a little bit. And then once we get reliable numbers with so many new players, it is harder to get the market share numbers that we used to get more easily in the past. And -- but we believe it's down a little bit from where it was, but still we are very happy with what it is.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of the Rick Sherman with Oppenheimer.

Rick Sherman

Analyst

My question is about your legacy business, Radian Asset Assurance. Over the many years, basically, it upstreamed some dividends up to the holding company to help support it. Hypothetically, if you're a retail municipal bond owner that has a bond that's insured by you, how should they think about it in terms of, if, hypothetically, you had a tremendous amount of defaults or whatever, would the holding company subsequently come back the other way and support that company to honor those bonds or not?

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Radian Asset has more than enough capital to pay its claims, and we are quite confident of that.

Rick Sherman

Analyst

Okay. But I'm just saying, if there was an outlier, is there anything that would -- since it's in -- is the capital requirements of the company, because it isn't writing any more business and its basically in runoff, are those capital requirements much lower than a company that is still is in business, like Assured Guaranty or something, in terms of statutory capital and maintenance capital?

David J. Beidler

Analyst

The statutory capital requirements are exactly the same and -- from a rating agency perspective, the capital requirements are the same.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

They're based on exposure rather than whether your writing business or not.

David J. Beidler

Analyst

Correct.

Rick Sherman

Analyst

Okay. But are you not willing to say that if the -- if you had a black swan event in that segment that overwhelmed the current -- the fact that you are properly capitalized, but it required more additional cash, would cash flow back? Since cash has always seemed to go up to the holding company, would it ever go the other way if necessary to honor those commitments?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

There are no guarantees from the holding company upon the obligations of writing an asset.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Seth Glasser with Decade Capital.

Seth Glasser

Analyst

I wanted to ask, I guess, drill into a little detail around the statutory DTA. Is that number still around $500 million?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

It's in that range, yes. The NOLs are $1.8 billion, so sounds like you're in that range.

Seth Glasser

Analyst

Okay. And so, I mean, based on the stat accounting rules, once you've reached a minimum level of capital, where you can start readmitting DTAs, it looks like you'd be able to readmit around $200 million in 2015 and another $200 million plus in '16, am I thinking about that right?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

The first one is right. I think, then it's a continuous relooking at the surplus that you're going to be between 10% and 15% of surplus, depending on your risk to capital level. So it's a formula, but I don't know that the second year would be that much, because that's going to depend on how fast your surplus is growing.

Seth Glasser

Analyst

Right. So -- but, I mean, it would grow by $200 million-ish in '15 just due to the readmittance of the DTA. So then I would think, in '16, you'd actually have an even higher number that you'll be able to let back in. But I guess it depends on some other things as well.

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Yes. If you're talking about an incremental $200 million, I think, that sounds high. But there'll be something incremental. That we do expect.

Seth Glasser

Analyst

Okay. So I mean, basically, right in the middle of this likely phase-in period for whatever the new FHFA rules are, I mean, you'll be adding another $200 million to stat capital just based on -- at some point during '15, just based on the DTA issue. And then over the next, say, 2 to 3 years, you'll be adding about the same dollar amount to stat capital as the $500 million cash downstream that you were discussing earlier. Is that -- I mean, that's basically what's going to happen, right?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Yes. Directionally, certainly, we expect to add -- based on projections, we expect to add to our stat surplus via admission of stat DTAs.

Seth Glasser

Analyst

Right. Okay. And so, if you took today's risk in force, and you assumed the full readmittance of the full DTA amount, including that $500 million cash downstream, that actually would take your leverage to well under 10x. I mean, it would be probably something like 8x or 9x, right?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Sounds right.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Steve Stelmach with FBR. Steve Stelmach - FBR Capital Markets & Co., Research Division: Looking at Clayton from a return on capital perspective and the numbers that you provided, just sort of back of the envelope-ing, it looks like it's a return on capital a little bit lower than the traditional MI business, yet, Bob, you talked about Clayton being a capital light or not as capital-intensive business, implying maybe your turns are a little bit better. How should I think about return on capital relative to sort of legacy MIs?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

I mean, I think, you have to look at this business on a little bit different basis than we look at our MI business, which is sort of pure return on allocated capital. We're looking at the cash flow it can provide to the holdco. We're looking at some of the expenses being non-cash expenses. But we think the returns sort of by any measure are fair and can improve over time and certainly, present a really good complement to the MI business historically. And I think, even today, businesses like this are valued differently than financial services businesses that have a lot of capital requirements.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

And this business does not hold credit risk unlike Radian Mortgage Insurance. So, typically, these businesses, if you look at the industry, are measured more on EBITDA, and then they trade at a multiple of EBITDA. So it's a very -- its apples-to-oranges comparison. Quite frankly, I've been envious at the kind of multiples those businesses get. Steve Stelmach - FBR Capital Markets & Co., Research Division: And also, lastly, on Clayton, at least. Do you acknowledge -- are any of your MI competitors current customers of Clayton. And then, if so, are there any implementation issues there?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

It's a very small amount of their revenues are generated from the MI industry. Steve Stelmach - FBR Capital Markets & Co., Research Division: Got it. And then -- well, lastly, S.A., you mentioned persistency and how that, perhaps, trending towards mid-80s. Just via normal amortization of the loan back down to 78% LTV, how good can persistency get? I mean, where do we sort of cap off at that number?

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Well, as we said, mid-80s. I don’t know, Bob, if you've got the historical high-water mark for persistency?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Yes. I mean, I think, mid-80s is fair, Steve, and that's why we've said it. There's a lot of other factors besides just interest rates playing into it, but I think that's what we're seeing.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Yes. The interesting thing though is, having written a leading share of the business over the last 4 years, that persistency benefits us in a meaningful way.

Operator

Operator

The next question is from the line of Jim Fowler with Harvest Capital.

James J. Fowler - Harvest Capital Strategies LLC

Analyst

You've provided some of the detail, but I wanted to ask a couple of questions on the revenue mix at Clayton. You said that less than 30% was due diligence, I'd be interested to know if you would provide the Green River percentage? But more specifically, is the large portion of the revenue related to the servicing surveillance, and what percentage of that is contractual in the waterfall of the deals that they are surveilling? And approximately how much longer, in average, are those deals expected to remain outstanding?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Yes. So its about 1/3 of the revenues are Green River, and about 1/3 -- in 2013 were the surveillance. And in terms of the surveillance revenues that are coming directly from the waterfall, its a smaller amount. It's kind of a shrinking amount. A lot of the surveillance is coming from other kinds of projects like sub-servicer reviews and compliance kinds of things, so we're confident that, that is an area that we'll continue to be strong.

James J. Fowler - Harvest Capital Strategies LLC

Analyst

So if the servicing transfer activity isn't as robust looking forward as it has been, and if the REO rental isn't as robust as it has been, is this still a breakeven opportunity or are you thinking that those 2 segments will sort of recover from some of the overhang that they've had recently, specifically in the servicing segment?

C. Robert Quint

Analyst

Yes. I think, what we've done is we've built the accretion dilution statement on the '14 projections, which are fairly visible at this time, based on the fact that we're halfway through the year. Certainly, some of the -- they do so many things and they've got so many different ways to generate revenue. Some of them may falloff over time, but then there are opportunities to grow some of the others. We think that the REO-to-rental is a good one for the next few years, and maybe for many years. So we're pretty confident that the revenues that are generated will hold up and grow over time as we seek this opportunities.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

And the servicing surveillance business is not just depend on servicing transfers.

Teresa A. Bryce Bazemore

Analyst

Yes. I mean, I think, there's a lot of focus now when you think about regulatory compliance situation, where people are really very focused on how the servicing is performing and in terms of their own compliance issues. And I think, we'll continue to see sub-servicing being done in the marketplace as well. So there's a lot of opportunity there.

Operator

Operator

And our final question comes from the line of Jack Micenko with SIG.

Jack Micenko - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Analyst

Comparing Slide 15 for this quarter to Slide 15 from last quarter, and looking at the net claim rate numbers, I mean, obviously, the pending number came in and drove some of the number. But, I guess, what we've been looking for, and I think there's some gas in the tank on the sort of early stage, that's still at 22%. And I know some others have brought the number in a bit on their assumptions. What does it take for you guys to see that number come down, and as it flows to the loss -- incurred number?

Derek V. Brummer

Analyst

Yes. I think its just watching continued developments. And as I had indicated earlier, the developments we've been seeing on their early-stage delinquencies have been positive. They've been trending particularly positive, I would say, since the second half of 2013. You had some seasonal effect in the first quarter, I think, which made that development even more favorable. So I think we'll continue to watch it, to see if it holds up in the second and third quarter, and make a determination based upon the data at that point in time.

Jack Micenko - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Analyst

Is there a noticeable vintage breakdown, sort of the 3,600 plus claims, I mean, is there a vintage breakdown in that number that's noteworthy?

Derek V. Brummer

Analyst

Well, I mean, generally, in terms of vintage, it's still the case that the default inventory is predominately from the legacy portfolio. And that's in terms of claims paid, reserves and incremental defaults are still predominately coming from that. I think, as you see a shift in the portfolio of defaulted loans to newer vintages, that will also have an effect in terms of probably driving down that roll rate over time. But I don't think there has been a substantial enough movement for that in and of itself to cause a change in the roll rate at this point in time.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Which is a good thing, because the newer vintages are performing well.

Jack Micenko - Susquehanna Financial Group, LLLP, Research Division

Analyst

Right. Right. And then, the New York State request, I mean, is there any handicapping on timing of a potential announcement on that?

David J. Beidler

Analyst

We hope that its soon, but it's completely within the department's discretion.

Sanford A. Ibrahim

Analyst

Well, with that, I'd like to thank everybody for participating on our call, and talk to you next quarter.

Operator

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude our conference for today. Thank you for your participation and for using AT&T Teleconference. You may now disconnect.