Rocket Mortgage Is at a Risky Phase in the Cycle

InvestorPlace2021-07-23

RKT stock is risky at this stage in the nation's economic cycle. Most investors have very short memories and tend to enjoy the positive money-making trends in current market environments. Even worse,...

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专业赌徒
2021-07-23
专业赌徒
Hold first
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2021-07-23
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KLS
2021-07-23
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RyanT2021
2021-07-23
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Wah
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2021-07-23
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2021-07-23
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But if a customer stops paying, RKT is oftenon the hook:\n\n “During any period in which one of our clients is not making payments on a loan we service, including in certain circumstances where a client prepays a loan, we are required under most of our servicing agreements to advance our own funds to meet contractual principal and interest remittance requirements, pay property taxes and insurance premiums, legal expenses and other protective advances”\n\nYes the currently average credit score is decent at 755 and LTV is solid at 67%. Delinquency rates are low at 0.72%. But as many prognosticators learned the hard way in 2007 and 2008. They statedreal estate never goes down, but things change. They always do.\nValuation of RKT Stock\nThe very cyclical nature and highly competitive nature of mortgage banking makes it almost impossible to deliver consistently high economic returns and steady growth. Like banks, most analysts use price-to-book value as a metric. 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