Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation Announces Third Quarter Results

Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – October 29, 2020) – Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation (TSX: AI) (TSX: AI.DB.B) (TSX: AI.DB.C) (TSX: AI.DB.D) (TSX: AI.DB.E) today released its financial results for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2020.

Q3 2020 Highlights

• Mortgage portfolio of $699.8 million

• High quality mortgage portfolio

  • 86.4% of portfolio in first mortgages

  • 94.0% of portfolio is less than 75% loan to value

  • average loan-to-value is 59.5%

• Quarterly revenues of $15.3 million

• Quarterly net income of $9.5 million

• $0.22 basic and diluted earnings per share for the quarter

• $0.69 basic and diluted earnings per share year-to-date

“Atrium’s mortgage portfolio continues to show strong resilience to the economic downturn caused by COVID-19. Our portfolio has few arrears and the 59.5% average loan to value in the portfolio is close to an historic low for the company. We are pleased with our third quarter and year to date results, with year to date net income up 1.1% over last year. Our year to date earnings per share exceeds our dividends, even after taking another $800,000 non-specific loan loss provision. Atrium has increased its aggregate loan loss provision to 1.18% of our mortgage portfolio, which will help protect our balance sheet from the impact of COVID-19,” said Rob Goodall, CEO of Atrium. “In Q3, we began to actively seek new lending opportunities after scaling back lending the previous quarter in order to reassess market conditions. These marketing efforts for new lending business will be reflected in Q4 when we expect that our portfolio will grow substantially.”

Results of operations

For the three months ended September 30, 2020, Atrium reported revenues of $15.3 million and net income of $9.5 million, down from $16.7 million and $9.9 million respectively, from the third quarter of the prior year. This decrease is a result of lower interest income and a higher provision for mortgage losses which were offset by lower financing costs compared to the third quarter of 2019. A lower mortgage portfolio balance, coupled with a lower weighted average interest rate due to the drop in the Prime Rate in March 2020 contributed to the decrease in interest income.

For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, revenues were $48.6 million, down from $49.1 million for the first nine months of the prior year. Net income for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was $29.2 million, up from net income of $28.8 million from the prior year period.

Basic and diluted earnings per common share were $0.22, for the three months ended September 30, 2020, compared with $0.25 basic and diluted earnings per common share for the comparable quarter in the prior year. Basic and diluted earnings per common share were $0.69 for the nine months ended September 30, 2020, compared with $0.74 basic and $0.73 diluted earnings per common share for the nine months ended September 30, 2019.

Atrium ended its third quarter of 2020 with assets of $710.8 million. Mortgages receivable as at September 30, 2020 were $694.5 million, an increase of 2.8% from June 30, 2020 and down 4.5% from December 31, 2019. During the nine month period ended September 30, 2020, $145.5 million of mortgage principal was advanced and $173.5 million was repaid.

The weighted average interest rate on the mortgage portfolio at September 30, 2020 was 8.53%, compared to 8.55% at June 30, 2020 and 8.81% at December 31, 2019.

As at October 29, 2020, the company had collected 96% of the mortgage interest due in October, which is in line with historical collection rates.

Financial summary
Interim Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income
(Unaudited, 000s, except per share amounts)

Analysis of mortgage portfolio

For further information on the financial results, and further analysis of the company’s mortgage portfolio, please refer to Atrium’s interim consolidated financial statements and its management’s discussion and analysis for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and on the company’s website at www.atriummic.com.

Conference call

Interested parties are invited to participate in a conference call with management Friday, October 30, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. ET to discuss the results. To participate or listen to the conference call live, please call
1 (888) 241-0551 or (647) 427-3415, conference ID 3779979. For a replay of the conference call (available until November 12, 2020) please call 1 (855) 859-2056, conference ID 3779979.

About Atrium

Canada’s Premier Non-Bank Lender™

Atrium is a non-bank provider of residential and commercial mortgages that lends in major urban centres in Canada where the stability and liquidity of real estate are high. Atrium’s objectives are to provide its shareholders with stable and secure dividends and preserve shareholders’ equity by lending within conservative risk parameters. Atrium is a Mortgage Investment Corporation (MIC) as defined in the Canada Income Tax Act, so is not taxed on income provided that its taxable income is paid to its shareholders in the form of dividends within 90 days after December 31 each year. Such dividends are generally treated by shareholders as interest income, so that each shareholder is in the same position as if the mortgage investments made by the company had been made directly by the shareholder. For further information about Atrium, please refer to regulatory filings available at www.sedar.com or investor information on Atrium’s website at www.atriummic.com.

For additional information, please contact
Robert G. Goodall
President and Chief Executive Officer
(416) 867-1053

Jennifer Scoffield
Chief Financial Officer

info@atriummic.com
www.atriummic.com