Company: ADAMM
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001273685-25-000028
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Company: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 the marketplace, our ability to identify and acquire assets on favorable terms, our ability to dispose of assets from time to time on favorable terms, the ability of our operating partners, tenants and borrowers of our loans and those that underlie our investment securities to meet their payment obligations, the terms and availability of adequate financing and capital, general economic and real estate conditions (both on a national and local level), the impact of government actions in the real estate, mortgage, credit and financial markets, and the credit performance of our credit sensitive assets.

Financial markets experienced modest positive performance in the fourth quarter of 2024 and strong positive performance for the full year 2024, spurred in part by economic growth and the Federal Reserve’s first cuts to the target range for the federal funds rate in approximately four and a half years. Mortgage-related markets were challenged in 2024 as borrowers remained sensitive to higher interest rates and origination volumes were down by some measures as compared to 2023, among other considerations. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the fourth quarter of 2024 up 0.51% and grew 12.88% for the full year 2024. The Nasdaq Composite Index finished the fourth quarter of 2024 up 6.17% and grew 28.64% for the full year 2024. However, interest rate and monetary policy uncertainty, mixed inflation data and geopolitical instability have cautioned some economic outlooks. We anticipate that due to uncertainty related to inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, the U.S. debt limit and the implementation of the new U.S. presidential administration’s policies, markets and the pricing for many of our assets will continue to experience volatility in 2025.

The market conditions discussed below significantly influence our investment strategy and results:

Select U.S. Financial and Economic Data. The U.S. economy grew modestly in 2024 with real gross domestic product (“GDP”) increasing by 2.8% for full year 2024, as compared to the GDP growth of 2.9% recorded for full year 2023. GDP grew at a 2.3% annualized rate in the fourth quarter of 2024, as compared to the annualized 3.1% GDP growth in the third quarter of 2024, annualized 3.0% GDP growth in the second quarter of 2024 and annualized 1.6% GDP growth in the first quarter of 2024. The fourth quarter 2024 GDP increase marks eleven straight