MGIC INVESTMENT CORP

Consolidated Cash Flow Analysis

We have three primary types of cash flows: (1) operating cash flows, which consist mainly of cash generated by our insurance operations and income earned on our investment portfolio, less amounts paid for claims, interest expense and operating expenses, (2) investing cash flows related to the purchase, sale and maturity of investments and purchases of property and equipment and (3) financing cash flows generally from activities that impact our capital structure, such as changes in debt and shares outstanding, and dividend payments. The following table summarizes these three cash flows on a consolidated basis for the last two years.

Operating Activities

The following list highlights the major sources and uses of cash flow from operating activities:

Our largest source of cash is from premiums received from our insurance policies, which we receive on a monthly installment basis for most policies. Our largest cash outflows have generally been for our operating expenses and claims paid on our mortgage insurance policies. Net cash provided by operating activities in 2025 increased compared to 2024 primarily due to a decrease in taxes paid, an increase in premiums received, and a decrease in underwriting expenses paid, partially offset by an increase in losses paid, net.

We invest our net cash flow in various investment securities that earn interest. We also use cash to pay for our ongoing expenses such as employee costs, outside service expenses and debt interest.

In connection with our reinsurance transactions, we cede, or pay out, part of the premiums we receive to our reinsurers and collect cash when claims subject to our reinsurance coverage are paid.

In the next twelve months we will pay approximately $134.6 million for amounts owed to third parties for our purchase of transferable federal tax credits.

We also have purchase obligations totaling approximately $19.4 million which consist primarily of contracts related to our continued investment in our information technology infrastructure in the normal course of business. The majority of these obligations are under contracts that give us cancellation rights with notice. In the next twelve months we anticipate we will pay approximately $12.3 million for our purchase obligations.

We do not expect to make a contribution to the pension plan in 2026 and distributions from the supplemental executive retirement plan will be funded as incurred. The net funded status (the market value of our plan assets compared to the projected benefit obligation) will impact future contributions to our qualified pension plan.

Investing Activities

The following list highlights the major sources and uses of cash flow from investing activities:

We maintain an investment portfolio that is primarily invested in a diverse mix of fixed income securities. Net cash flows provided from investing activities in 2025 primarily reflects sales of fixed income securities that exceeded purchases of fixed income securities. Net cash flows used in investing activities in 2024 primarily reflected purchases of fixed income securities that exceeded sales of fixed income securities. For additional information on the composition of our investment portfolio refer to "Balance Sheet Review".

Financing Activities

The following list highlights the major sources and uses of cash flow from financing activities:

Net cash flows used in financing activities in 2025 and 2024 primarily reflects the repurchases of our common stock, dividends to shareholders, and the payment of withholding taxes related to share-based compensation net share settlement.

Capitalization

Capital Risk

Capital risk is the risk of adverse impact on our ability to comply with capital requirements (regulatory and GSE) and to maintain the level, structure and composition of capital required for meeting financial performance objectives.

A strong capital position is essential to our business strategy and is important to maintain a competitive position in our industry. Our capital strategy focuses on long-term stability, which enables us to build and invest in our business, even in a stressed environment.

Our capital management objectives are to:

•influence and maintain compliance with capital requirements,

•maintain access to capital and reinsurance markets,

•manage our capital to support our business strategies and the competing priorities of relevant stakeholders,

•assess appropriate uses for capital that cannot be deployed in support of our business strategies, including the size and form of capital return to shareholders, and

•support business opportunities by enabling capital flexibility and efficiently using company resources.

These objectives are achieved through ongoing monitoring and management of our capital position, mortgage insurance portfolio stress modeling, and a capital governance framework. Capital management is intended to be flexible in order to react to a range of potential events. The focus we place on any individual objective may change over time due to factors that include, but are not limited to, economic conditions, changes at the GSEs, competition, and alternative transactions to transfer mortgage risk.

Capital Structure

The following table summarizes our capital structure as of December 31, 2025, and 2024.

The decrease in shareholders' equity primarily relates to the repurchases of our common stock and dividends paid to shareholders, partially offset by net income in the year ended December 31, 2025. See Note 11 - "Shareholders' Equity" for further information.

Debt Obligations - Holding Company

As of December 31, 2025, our holding company's debt obligations was $650 million in aggregate principal amount consisting of our 5.25% Notes due in 2028. See Note 3 - "Debt" for further information on our outstanding debt obligations impacting our consolidated financial statements in 2025 and 2024.

Liquidity Analysis - Holding Company

Our holding company had approximately $1.1 billion in cash and investments as of December 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively. These resources are maintained primarily to service our debt interest expense, pay debt maturities, repurchase shares, pay dividends to shareholders, and to settle intercompany obligations. While these assets are held, we generate investment income that serves to offset a portion of our cash requirements. The payment of dividends from MGIC are the principal source of holding company cash inflow and their payment is restricted by insurance regulation. See Note 13 - “Statutory Information” to our consolidated financial statements for additional information about MGIC’s dividend restrictions. The payment of dividends from MGIC is also influenced by our view of the appropriate level of excess PMIERs Available Assets to maintain, which can change over time. Raising capital in the public markets is another potential source of holding company liquidity. The ability to raise capital in the public markets is subject to prevailing market conditions, investor demand for the securities to be issued, and our deemed creditworthiness.

During 2025 and 2024, we repurchased 30.1 million and 25.3 million shares of our common stock for $782.0 million and $566.6 million, respectively. Through February 20, 2026 we repurchased 4.5 million shares of our common stock for $120.5 million. The repurchase programs may be suspended or discontinued at any time. In 2026, we expect share repurchase programs will remain our primary means of returning capital to shareholders.

In 2025, we paid dividends of $0.13 to shareholders in the first and second quarters and $0.15 to shareholders in the third and fourth quarters. On January 27, 2026, our Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per common share to shareholders of record on February 17, 2026, payable on March 6, 2026. We expect to continue to make dividend payments to shareholders in 2026.

Over the next twelve months the principal demand on our holding company resources will be interest payments on our 5.25% Notes approximating $34.0 million, based on the debt outstanding at December 31, 2025, and dividends to our shareholders. We believe our holding company has sufficient sources of liquidity to meet its payment obligations for the foreseeable future.

We may use holding company cash to repurchase additional shares or to repurchase our outstanding debt obligations. Such repurchases may be material, may be made for cash (funded by debt) and/or exchanges for other securities, and may be made in open market purchases (including through 10b5-1 plans), privately negotiated acquisitions or other transactions.

Significant cash and investments inflows at our holding company during the year were:

•$800.0 million dividends received from MGIC,

•$101.7 million intercompany tax receipts, and

•$31.9 million of investment income.

Significant cash outflows at our holding company during the year were:

•$788.6 million of net share repurchase transactions,

•$132.5 million of cash dividends paid to shareholders, and

•$34.1 million of interest payments on our outstanding debt obligations.

The net unrealized losses on our holding company investment portfolio were approximately $0.4 million at December 31, 2025 and the portfolio had a modified duration of approximately 0.7 years.

The ability of MGIC to pay dividends is restricted by insurance regulation. Amounts in excess of prescribed limits are deemed “extraordinary” and may not be paid if disapproved by the OCI. A dividend is extraordinary when the proposed dividend amount, plus dividends paid in the twelve months preceding the dividend payment date exceed the ordinary dividend level. In 2026, MGIC can pay $89 million of ordinary dividends without OCI approval, before taking into consideration dividends paid in the preceding twelve months. In 2025 and 2024, MGIC paid a cash and/or investment security dividend of $800 million and $750 million, respectively, to our holding company. Future dividend payments from MGIC to the holding company will be determined in consultation with the Board of Directors, and after considering any updated estimates about our business. We ask the Wisconsin OCI not to object before MGIC pays dividends to the holding company.

Scheduled debt maturities beyond the next twelve months include $650 million of our 5.25% Notes in 2028. See Note 3 – “Debt” to our consolidated financial statements for additional information about our long term debt. The description in Note 3 - “Debt" to our consolidated financial statements is qualified in its entirety by the terms of the notes. The terms of our 5.25% Notes are contained in a Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 12, 2020, between us and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, which is included as an exhibit to our 8-K filed with the SEC on August 12, 2020, and in the Indenture dated as of October 15, 2000 between us and the trustee.

Although not anticipated in the near term, we may also contribute funds to our insurance operations to comply with the PMIERs or the State Capital Requirements. See “Overview – PMIERs” above for a discussion of these requirements.

Debt at Subsidiaries

MGIC did not have any outstanding debt obligations at December 31, 2025. MGIC is a member of the FHLB, which provides MGIC access to an additional source of liquidity through a secured lending facility. We may borrow from the FHLB at any time.

Capital Adequacy

PMIERs

As of December 31, 2025, MGIC’s Available Assets under the PMIERs totaled approximately $5.7 billion, an excess of approximately $2.5 billion over its Minimum Required Assets; MGIC is in compliance with the requirements of the PMIERs and eligible to insure loans delivered to or purchased by the GSEs.

The table below presents the PMIERs capital credit for our reinsurance transactions.

The total calculated PMIERs credit for risk ceded under our XOL Transactions are based on the PMIERs requirement of the covered policies and the attachment and detachment points of the coverage, all of which fluctuate over time. (See Note 1 - “Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation”.)

The PMIERs generally require us to hold significantly more Minimum Required Assets for delinquent loans than for performing loans and the Minimum Required Assets required to be held increases as the number of payments missed on a delinquent loan increases. Refer to "Overview - PMIERs" of this MD&A and our risk factor titled“We may not continue to meet the GSEs’ private mortgage insurer eligibility requirements and our returns may decrease if we are required to maintain more capital in order to maintain our eligibility” in Item 1A. for further discussion of PMIERs.

Risk-to-Capital

The risk-to-capital ratio is our net RIF divided by our policyholders' position. Our net RIF includes primary RIF and excludes risk on policies for which case loss reserves have been established and the risk covered by reinsurance transactions. MGIC's policyholders’ position consists primarily of statutory policyholders’ surplus (which generally changes due to statutory net income/loss and dividends paid, among other things), plus the statutory contingency loss reserve. The statutory contingency loss reserve is reported as a liability on the statutory balance sheet. A mortgage insurance company is required to make annual additions to a contingency loss reserve of approximately 50% of earned premiums. These contributions must generally be maintained for a period of ten years. However, with regulatory approval a mortgage insurance company may make early withdrawals from the contingency loss reserve when incurred losses exceed 35% of earned premiums in a calendar year.

The table below presents MGIC's risk-to-capital calculation.

(1)RIF – net, as shown in the table above, is net of reinsurance and exposure on policies for which case loss reserves have been established ($1.8 billion at December 31, 2025 and $1.8 billion at December 31, 2024).

For additional information regarding regulatory capital see Note 13 – “Statutory Information” to our consolidated financial statements as well as our risk factor titled“State capital requirements may prevent us from continuing to write new insurance on an uninterrupted basis” in Item 1A.

Financial Strength Ratings

Financial strength ratings are published by third-party rating agencies as an independent opinion of an insurer’s financial strength and ability to meet ongoing insurance and contract obligations. The financial strength ratings for MGIC and MAC through the date of this filing are listed below:

For further information about the importance of MGIC’s ratings and rating methodologies, see our risk factor titled“Competition or changes in our relationships with our customers could reduce our revenues, reduce our premium yields and / or increase our losses” in Item 1A.