![]() According to CNN Business, 17 analysts who cover the company have a ‘hold’ rating. Rocket aspires to turn its Rocket Homes visitors and the 2.5 million it expects to add through its Truebill purchase to become Rocket customers when they purchase a house, according to the Journal.Īnalysts are not banging the drums to buy Rocket stock. The Journal noted that Rocket claimed to have 153 million visitors to its platform in 2010 - 61% more than in 2019. Rocket - which bids itself as a fintech - hopes to be valued as such. ![]() Gilbert, who founded the company in 1985, is now chair of Rocket - and with his wife controls 79% of the voting power of Rocket shares. If you are worried about Rocket’s future trajectory, you have to assess whether Dan Gilbert is the right source of vision. Truebill, a personal finance startup for splitting bills and canceling subscriptions, was acquired by Rocket last month, wrote the Journal.Rocket Autos connects car buyers to dealers and.Rocket Homes, a Zillow Z-like listings platform meant to connect it to would-be home buyers, was launched in 2018. ![]() Rocket - which gets “almost all of its revenue from mortgages” - has been more aggressive than its peers in trying to expand beyond refinancing. Rocket is trying to diversify its sources of revenue to grow faster than these negative trends would suggest. Could Rocket Grow Faster Than Investors Expect? As the Journal wrote, “Refinancings are expected to plummet across the industry by nearly two-thirds” in 2022. With strong tailwinds pushing - the milder Omicron variant and a resilient economy - George Ratiu, 's manager of economic research said, “I expect the upward momentum in Treasury rates to continue to drive mortgage rates higher.”ĭemand for mortgage refinancing will plunge. Joel Kan, MBA's associate vice president of economic and industry forecasting, said “Refinance demand continues to dwindle, as many borrowers refinanced in 2020, and in early 2021, when mortgage rates were around 40 basis points lower,” noted CNN. Lawrence Yun, chief economist at the National Association of Realtors, expects the 30-year fixed mortgage rate to end 2022 at 3.7% while Jacob Channel, LendingTree's TREE senior economic analyst, predicts rates of nearly 4%, according to CNN.ĭemand for purchase mortgages and refinances is down and likely to fall. That is likely to be bad for Rocket’s revenues and profits unless it can generate enough business from other services that are not so dependent on dropping mortgage rates.Įxperts forecast rising rates due to higher inflation, promising economic growth and a tight labor market. ![]() When mortgage interest rates rise, demand for mortgages and mortgage refinancing goes down. As CFO Julie Booth told investors on November 4, “ our full year 2021 closed loan origination volume to exceed $350 billion, exceeding the previous record of $320 billion achieved in 2020 by more than 10%.” How Rising Mortgage Rates Will Reduce Demand Rocket declined to provide revenue and earnings guidance for the fourth quarter - instead it sets loan volume targets. As Jay Farner, Vice Chairman and CEO of Rocket Companies, said in a statement, "We had an excellent third quarter.Our core mortgage business exceeded the high end of guidance for closed loan volume and gain-on-sale margin, while achieving record purchase volume.” While Rocket Mortgage’s closed loan origination volume was down slightly to around $88 billion, less profitable purchase loans constituted a greater portion of its assets and that cost Rocket considerable profitability - with its gain on sale margin declining from 4.52% to 3.05%, noted Inman. The problem facing Rocket is its dependence on its more profitable refinancing business which suffered as higher interest rates lowered demand and margins. According to Inman, its revenue fell 32% to $3.11 billion while net income declined 53% to $1.39 billion. Sadly for investors, Rocket’s revenues and profits fell substantially in the third quarter of 2021. It is now the biggest mortgage lender in the country, making nearly as many home loans as Wells Fargo & Co. As the Journal reported, Rocket “doubled its mortgage originations in 2020 and grew them by another third through last fall. During the pandemic, it grew very quickly.
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