MGIC Increases Streak on Quarterly Losses

Due to the collapse of the housing boom in the States, an event which made housing prices achieve its highest in early 2006 down to its decline in 2007 and reaching the lowest in 2012. Many real-estate and large institutional investors were subject to recession. This became part of the ongoing 20th century financial crisis which has devastated the country and other nations worldwide.

Even MGIC, a large mortgage insurer couldn’t escape the plague, which has devastated its balance sheet in seven straight quarterly losses.

Mortgage Insurer Investment Corp (MGIC) has insured millions of civilians on mortgage at low premiums during the housing boom. Not, knowing the fact that this would beget the risk they currently experience, as plenty of Americans suffered mortgage problems which led to a wave of foreclosures. The insurers were forced to pay out billions of dollars and were left with weak balance sheets and high risk ratios.

The company one of the largest mortgage broker in the United States, posted a narrower first-quarter loss of $19.6 million, or 10 cents per share, helped by higher realized gains.
Realized gains rose to $77.6 million, from $5.8 million a year ago.

Net paid claims, paid in case of a default or foreclosure, fell slightly to $673 million.
"Our company's capital position and financial results continue to be adversely affected by the lackluster economic recovery the country is experiencing, and particularly the lack of a meaningful decline in the number of unemployed people," Curt S. Culver, MGIC's chairman and chief executive, said in a conference call with industry analysts Monday.

The company has posted just one quarter of profit in the last 4 years. A positive notion but nonetheless still isn’t enough concerning the losses that occurred.

The Milwaukee-based company's shares, which traded at the $65 levels before the housing crisis began, closed at $3.68 on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

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