Company: AOMN
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001766478-25-000099
Chunk: 38

Company: Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 38
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 economically similar to the Management Agreement, with a revision to the reimbursement for the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Sreeni Prabhu, and clarification of the considerations for which the Company may decline to renew the New Management Agreement on an annual basis.

We have elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2019. Commencing with our taxable year ended December 31, 2019, we believe that we have been organized and operated, and we intend to continue to operate in conformity with the requirements for qualification and taxation as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Our qualification as a REIT, and maintenance of such qualification, depends on our ability to meet, on a continuing basis, various complex requirements under the Code relating to, among other things, the sources of our gross income, the composition and values of our assets, our distribution levels, and the concentration of ownership of our stock. We also intend to operate our business in a manner that will allow us to maintain our exclusion from regulation as an investment company under the Investment Company Act. Our common stock commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange on June 17, 2021.

We expect to derive our returns primarily from the difference between the interest we earn on loans we invest in and our cost of capital, as well as the returns from bonds, including risk retention securities, that are retained after securitizing the underlying loan collateral.

Trends and Recent Developments

Overall macroeconomic environment and its effect on us

In the third quarter of 2025, the macroeconomic environment was characterized by general resilience despite competing headwinds and tailwinds surrounding inflation, consumer spending, gross domestic product, and continued geopolitical tension. Many of the themes driving uncertainty from earlier in the year persisted in the third quarter of 2025, yet equity markets again finished with quarter over quarter growth compared to the end of the second quarter of 2025. Inflation ticked up from 2.7% to 3.0% from June 2025 to September 2025. Combined with a weakening labor market, the Federal Reserve Bank (“Fed”) elected to cut the federal funds rate at their September meeting by 25 basis points to 4.00% - 4.25%, representing the first cut since December 2024. This was followed by an additional 25 basis point cut in the Fed’s October