Company: AOMN
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001766478-25-000019
Chunk: 178

Company: Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 178
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 its ownership provides the Company with the obligation to absorb losses or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could be significant to the VIE. In addition, the Company has the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic  performance.As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company was considered to be a primary beneficiary in certain VIEs which held certain interests in the assets held by consolidated securitization vehicles which were created under the purview of its wholly-owned securitization shelf, Angel Oak Mortgage Trust (“AOMT”) II, LLC. These securitization vehicles are consolidated on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet, and are restricted by the structural provisions of the associated securitization trusts. The recovery of the Company’s investment in the securitization vehicles, if any, will be limited by each securitization vehicle’s distribution provisions. The liabilities of the securitization vehicles, which are also consolidated on the Company’s consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, are non-recourse to the Company, and can only be satisfied using proceeds from each securitization vehicle’s respective asset pool.The assets of securitization entities are comprised of RMBS or residential mortgage loans. See Note 3 - Variable Interest Entities for further discussion of the characteristics of the securities and loans in the Company’s portfolio relating to asset pools arising from securitization transactions.The Company performs ongoing reassessments of whether changes in the facts and circumstances regarding the Company’s involvement with a VIE would cause the Company’s consolidation conclusion to change.Segment ReportingOperating segments are defined as a component of a public entity that engages in business activities from which it may recognize revenues and incur expenses, has operating results that are regularly reviewed by the public entity’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”) to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and has discrete financial information available. The Company’s CODM is its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Sreeniwas Prabhu. The Company has determined it currently operates in a single operating segment and has one reportable segment, which is to acquire, invest in, and finance mortgage‑related assets. The CODM reviews net interest income (interest income less interest expense) earned on its portfolio of residential mortgage loans, residential mortgage loans in securitization trusts, RMBS, and other assets as presented on a consolidated basis for purposes of