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MGIC Investment Corporation Releases Monthly Operating Statistics

Mar 8, 2019

MILWAUKEE, March 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) today issued an Operational Summary of its insurance subsidiaries for the month of February 2019 for their primary mortgage insurance. The summary is also available on the company's website under Newsroom, Press Releases.

The information concerning new delinquency notices and cures is compiled from reports received from loan servicers. The level of new notice and cure activity reported in a particular month can be influenced by, among other things, the date on which a servicer generates its report, the accuracy of the data provided by servicers, the number of business days in a month, transfers of servicing between loan servicers, and whether all servicers have provided the reports in a given month.

February 2019

February 2018

Change








Insurance in force (billions)

$

210.8

$

196.5

7.3%

Flow only

$

204.1

$

188.7

8.1%








Beginning Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans)

33,488

46,289

(27.7%)

Plus: New Delinquency Notices

4,468

4,805

(7.0%)

Less: Cures

4,848

6,463

(25.0%)

Less: Paids

396

476

(16.8%)

Less: Rescissions and Denials

20

18

11.1%

Ending Primary Delinquent Inventory (# of loans) (1)

32,692

44,137

(25.9%)


(1)

February 2018 ending primary delinquent inventory was impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, which occurred in August - September 2017. The number of loans in ending primary delinquent inventory from geographical areas that the Federal Emergency Management Agency declared Individual Assistance Disaster Areas as a result of those hurricanes was 5,094 in February 2019, 10,778 in February 2018, and 6,874 in February 2017.

About MGIC

Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation "MGIC" (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, serves lenders throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and other locations helping families achieve homeownership sooner by making affordable low-down-payment mortgages a reality. At February 28, 2019, MGIC had $210.8 billion of primary insurance in force covering over one million mortgages.

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SOURCE MGIC Investment Corporation

Investor Contact: Michael J. Zimmerman, (414) 347-6596, mike_zimmerman@mgic.com