Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050624
Chunk: 23

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 23
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. The initial dividend rate for our Series C Preferred Stock, from issuance through September 16, 2024, was 8.000%. On and after September 17, 2024, dividends on the Series C Preferred Stock accumulate at an annual floating rate of three-month CME Term SOFR (plus a tenor spread adjustment of 0.26161%) plus a spread of 6.476%. 

Earnings Available for Distribution

One of our objectives is to generate net income from net interest margin on the portfolio, and management uses EAD, as one of several metrics, to help measure our performance against this objective. Management believes that this non-GAAP measure, when considered with our GAAP financial statements, provides supplemental information useful for investors to help evaluate our financial performance. However, management also believes that our definition of EAD has important limitations as it does not include certain earnings or losses our management team considers in evaluating our financial performance. Our presentation of EAD may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures of other companies, who may use different calculations. This non-GAAP measure should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, Net Income/(loss) available to common stockholders or Net income/(loss) per diluted common share calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our GAAP financial results and the reconciliations from these results should be carefully evaluated. 

We define EAD, a non-GAAP financial measure, as Net Income/(loss) available to common stockholders excluding (i) (a) unrealized gains/(losses) on loans, real estate securities, derivatives and other investments, inclusive of our investment in AG Arc, and (b) net realized gains/(losses) on the sale or termination of such instruments, (ii) any transaction related expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition, disposition, or securitization of our investments as well as transaction related expenses incurred in connection with the WMC acquisition, (iii) accrued deal-related performance fees payable to third party operators to the extent the primary component of the accrual relates to items that are excluded from EAD, such as unrealized and realized gains/(losses), (iv) realized and unrealized changes in the fair value of Arc Home's net mortgage servicing rights and the derivatives intended to offset changes in the fair value of those net mortgage servicing rights, (v) deferred taxes recognized at our taxable REIT subsidiaries, if any, (vi) any bargain purchase gains recognized, and (vii) certain other nonre