by Semper Capital, on Aug 23, 2021
The table below, most recently included in our 2021 Outlook, has been updated to show relative yield and spread data for a representative RMBS deal, highlighting the relative yield movements of tranches across the capital stack. This is a Non-Qualified Mortgage deal, AOMT 2019-5, issued in October 2019. The table shows each class/tranche in the deal, along with its level of credit enhancement (C/E) in February 2020 before the impact of COVID-19, in November 2020, reflecting growing credit enhancement (better credit quality) and slow recovery of prices/yields/spreads, especially for mezzanine classes, and again in May 2021. C/E is a measure of how much collateral loss a bond can withstand before suffering principal loss. For example, C/E for the BBB rated M1 class increased from 10.7% to 13.3% from February to November, and again to 16.9% by May 2021. At this same time, our view of expected lifetime collateral losses has only marginally increased, a benefit of the very strong housing market and strong loan performance we have witnessed this year.
Source: Semper Capital
Credit rating is determined by using the highest credit rating for each security from Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, Fitch Ratings, DBRS Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC and Kroll, five credit rating agencies providing credit assessments for mortgage-backed securities.
While spreads have continued to contract and mezzanine spreads in particular have improved, the levels remain wider than pre-COVID, while credit quality is much stronger and uncertainty with respect to these bonds’ performance is much lower.
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