Company: MITN
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001628280-25-050624
Chunk: 38

Company: AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 38
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curitization transactions are used to repay any outstanding financing arrangements initially employed to acquire newly originated residential mortgage loans, replacing recourse financing with mark-to-market margin calls with securitized debt. Securitized debt is generally long-term in nature, non-recourse to us and is not subject to mark-to-market margin calls. Additionally, generally the holders of the securitized debt have no recourse to the general credit of the Company and we have no obligation to provide any other explicit or implicit support to the securitization trusts.

Senior Unsecured Notes

During 2024, we issued senior unsecured notes which consist of $34.5 million principal amount 9.500% Senior Notes due February 2029 and $65.0 million principal amount 9.500% Senior Notes due May 2029. See Note 6 to the "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (unaudited)" for additional information on the Senior Unsecured Notes.

Leverage

We use leverage to increase potential returns to our stockholders. Our financing strategy is designed to increase the size of our investment portfolio by borrowing against the fair value of the assets in our portfolio. As discussed above, financing arrangements are generally recourse to the Company whereas securitized debt used to finance our Non-Agency VIEs, Home Equity VIEs, and RPL/NPL VIEs is generally non-recourse to the Company. In addition to disclosing GAAP leverage, we also disclose Economic Leverage, which excludes non-recourse financing. Management believes that this non-GAAP measure, when considered with our GAAP financial statements, provides supplemental information useful for investors to help evaluate our use of leverage and the related risk associated with our leverage profile. Our presentation of Economic Leverage 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, GAAP leverage calculated in accordance with GAAP. Our GAAP financial results and the reconciliations from these results should be carefully evaluated. 

We define GAAP leverage as the sum of (1) Securitized debt, at fair value, (2) Financing arrangements, net of any restricted cash posted on such financing arrangements, (3) Senior Unsecured Notes, and (4) the amount payable on purchases that have not yet settled less the financing remaining on sales that have not yet settled. We define Economic Leverage, a non-GAAP metric, as the sum of our GAAP