Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001514281-25-000026
Chunk: 17

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-04
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 17
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4, we are in compliance with all of our financial covenants.

In connection with the WMC acquisition, one of our subsidiaries assumed, and the Company guaranteed, $86.25 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured indebtedness, represented by WMC's 6.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2024 (the "Legacy WMC Convertible Notes"). During the first quarter of 2024, we repurchased $7.1 million of principal amount of the Legacy WMC Convertible Notes and paid off the remaining $79.1 million principal amount outstanding at maturity in September 2024. 

During 2024, we issued senior unsecured notes which consist of $34.5 million principal amount 9.500% Senior Notes due February 2029 ("February 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes") and $65.0 million principal amount 9.500% Senior Notes due May 2029 ("May 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes" and together with the February 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes, the "Senior Unsecured Notes"). The February 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes were issued on January 26, 2024 in a public offering for net proceeds of approximately $32.8 million and the May 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes were issued on May 15, 2024 in a public offering for net proceeds of approximately $62.4 million. We may redeem the Senior Unsecured Notes in whole or in part at any time or from time to time at our option on or after the redemption date, upon not less than 30 days written notice to holders prior to the redemption date, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the Senior Unsecured Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. The redemption date for the February 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes is February 15, 2026 and the redemption date for the May 2029 Senior Unsecured Notes is May 15, 2026.

Subject to maintaining our qualification as a REIT and our Investment Company Act exemption, we utilize derivative instruments in an effort to hedge certain interest rate risk associated with the financing of our investment portfolio. Specifically, we seek to hedge our exposure to potential interest rate mismatches between the interest we earn on our investments and our borrowing costs caused by fluctuations in short-term interest rates. We may utilize interest rate swaps, swaption agreements, and other financial instruments such as short positions in to-be