RADIAN GROUP INC

Radian Group serves as the holding company for our operating subsidiaries and does not have any operations of its own. Our consolidated operating results for 2025, 2024 and 2023 primarily reflect the financial results and performance of our Mortgage Insurance business.

As further described in Note 3 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, in the quarter ended September 30, 2025, Radian Group’s board of directors approved a plan to divest our Mortgage Conduit, Title and Real Estate Services businesses. As a result, we have reclassified the results related to these businesses to discontinued operations for all periods presented in our consolidated statements of operations. Certain corporate expenses that were previously allocated to these businesses, as well as other general corporate expenses and income (losses) from assets held by Radian Group, were not reclassified to discontinued operations, and therefore have been reallocated to the Mortgage Insurance segment.

All amounts included in this “Results of Operations—Consolidated” section relate to continuing operations unless otherwise noted.

In addition to the results of our Mortgage Insurance reportable segment, pretax income (loss) from continuing operations is also affected by other factors. See “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below and “Key Factors Affecting Our Results” for more information.

The following table highlights selected information related to our consolidated results of operations for the periods indicated.

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See “Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.

Revenues

Net Premiums Earned. The following tables provide additional information about the components of our net premiums earned for the periods indicated, including the effects of our reinsurance programs.

(1)

Includes the impact of related profit commissions.

(2)

Represents profit commissions under our QSR Program, excluding the impact of Single Premium Policy cancellations.

(3)

Calculated by dividing direct premiums earned, excluding revenue from cancellations, by average primary IIF.

(4)

Calculated by dividing direct premiums earned, by average primary IIF.

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Calculated by dividing net premiums earned by average primary IIF. The calculation for all periods presented incorporates the impact of profit commission adjustments related to our reinsurance programs.

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The average of beginning and ending balances of primary IIF, for each period presented.

Our in force portfolio premium yield was relatively stable for 2025, as compared to 2024. Based on current NIW pricing and the impact of the higher Persistency Rates we have been experiencing, we currently expect our in force portfolio premium yield in 2026 to continue to be stable; however, due to the potential impacts of Single Premium Policy cancellations and reinsurance, among other things, the net premium yield may fluctuate from period to period.

The level of mortgage prepayments affects the revenue ultimately produced by our Mortgage Insurance business and is influenced by the mix of business we write. See “Key Factors Affecting Our Results—Mortgage Insurance—IIF and Persistency” for more information.

The following table provides information related to the impact of our reinsurance transactions on premiums earned. See Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for more information about our reinsurance programs.

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Includes the impact of changes in the profit commission retained by the Company due to changes in loss reserves.

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Does not include the benefit from ceding commissions from the reinsurance agreements in our QSR Program, which is primarily included in other operating expenses on the consolidated statements of operations. See Note 8 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

Net Investment Income. The following table provides information related to our investments for the periods indicated.

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For each period presented, reflects the average of the beginning and ending amortized cost of our total investments for each month of the year.

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Calculated by dividing net investment income by average investments balance.

Net investment income decreased for 2025 compared to 2024, primarily driven by declines in average investment balances and lower investment yields. The decline in average balances was primarily driven by the redemption of our $450 million senior notes in September 2024. Net investment income increased for 2024 compared to 2023 primarily due to increasing yields from higher interest rates and higher investment balances. See Note 7 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for comparative detail about the components of our net investment income.

Net Gains (Losses) on Investments and Other Financial Instruments. See Note 7 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional detail about our net gains (losses) on investments and other financial instruments by investment category.

Expenses

Provision for Losses. The following table details the financial impact of the significant components of our provision for losses for the periods indicated.

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Related to defaulted loans with a most recent default notice dated in the year indicated. For example, if a loan had defaulted in a prior year, but then subsequently cured and later re-defaulted in the current year, that default would be considered a current year default.

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Related to defaulted loans with a default notice dated in a year earlier than the year indicated, which have been continuously in default since that time.

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Provision for losses as a percentage of net premiums earned.

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Calculated by dividing provision for losses for new defaults, net of reinsurance, by the number of new primary defaults for each period.

The change in the provision for losses from 2024 to 2025 and from 2023 to 2024 was primarily driven by a reduction in favorable development on prior year defaults and an increase in current year new primary defaults, which impacted our mortgage insurance reserves.

Current year new primary defaults increased by 2% for 2025, as compared to 2024, and 15% for 2024, as compared to 2023, consistent with the natural seasoning of the portfolio given the increase in our IIF in recent years. Our gross Default to Claim Rate assumption for new primary defaults was 7.5% at both December 31, 2025 and 2024, and 8.0% at December 31, 2023. We continue to closely monitor the trends in Cures and claims paid for our default inventory, while also weighing the risks and uncertainties associated with the current economic environment.

Our provision for losses during 2025, 2024 and 2023 was positively impacted by favorable reserve development on prior year defaults, primarily as a result of more favorable trends in Cures than originally estimated. These Cures have been due primarily to favorable outcomes resulting from positive trends in home price appreciation, which has also contributed to a higher rate of claims that result in no ultimate loss and that are withdrawn by servicers as a result. These favorable observed trends resulted in reductions in our Default to Claim Rate and other reserve adjustments for prior year default notices. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for additional information.

Our primary default rate as a percentage of total insured loans at December 31, 2025, was 2.6% compared to 2.4% at December 31, 2024. The following table provides a rollforward of the number of our primary loans in default.

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Prior periods have been recast to conform to current presentation for Cures, claims paid and Rescissions and Claim Denials.

(2)

Net of any cancelled defaulted policies that were reinstated back into an active default status during the period.

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Includes any previously rescinded or denied policies that ultimately resulted in a paid claim during the period, and net of any previously paid claims that were reinstated into an active default status. Claims resolved without payment were moved from Cures into claims paid for all periods presented.

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Net of any previous Rescissions and Claim Denials that were reinstated during the period. Such reinstated Rescissions and Claim Denials may ultimately result in a paid claim.

The following table provides additional information about our primary loans in default as of the dates indicated.

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Loans in the stage of default in which a foreclosure sale has been scheduled or held.

We develop our Default to Claim Rate estimates on defaulted loans based on models that use a variety of loan characteristics to determine the likelihood that a default will reach claim status. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional details about our Default to Claim Rate assumptions.

Our aggregate weighted-average net Default to Claim Rate assumption for our primary defaulted loans used in estimating our reserve for losses, which is net of estimated Claim Denials and Rescissions, was 23% at both December 31, 2025 and 2024, and 25% at December 31, 2023. This decrease was primarily due to a shift in the mix of defaults as of December 31, 2025, and December 31, 2024, as compared to December 31, 2023, given the larger proportion of more recent defaults and loans with fewer missed payments, as well as reduced claim rate assumptions for prior period defaults due to more favorable trends in Cures than originally estimated. See Note 11 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for information regarding our reserve for losses and a reconciliation of our Mortgage Insurance segment’s beginning and ending reserves for losses and LAE.

Although expected claims are included in our reserve for losses, the timing of claims paid is subject to fluctuation from quarter to quarter, based on the rate that defaults cure and other factors, including the impact of foreclosure moratoriums (as further described in “Item 1. Business—Mortgage Insurance—Rescissions, Defaults and Claims”), which make the timing of paid claims difficult to predict.

The following table provides net claims paid by product and the average claim paid by product for the periods indicated.

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Net of reinsurance recoveries.

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Includes payments to commute mortgage insurance coverage on certain performing and non-performing loans.

(3)

Calculated excluding the impact of: (i) LAE; (ii) commutations and settlements; and (iii) claims resolved without payment, including claims subsequently withdrawn by the servicer.

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Before reinsurance recoveries.

Other Operating Expenses. The following table provides information about our other operating expenses for the periods indicated.

The decrease in other operating expenses for 2025 compared to 2024 is primarily due to: (i) favorable impacts from lower non-employee expenses as a result of expense reduction initiatives, particularly those related to other general operating expenses and (ii) higher ceding commissions from QSR agreements, which were partially offset by an increase in performance-based variable and share-based incentive compensation expenses.

Other general operating expenses also included the following expenses: (i) $11 million of acquisition-related expenses in 2025 for the acquisition of Inigo and (ii) $13 million of impairments of internal-use software and lease-related expenses in 2024.

The increase in other operating expenses for 2024 as compared to 2023 is primarily due to higher employee-related expenses, partially offset by higher ceding commission from QSR agreements.

Interest Expense. The decrease in interest expense for 2025, as compared to 2024, is primarily due to a decline in senior notes outstanding due to: (i) the redemption in September 2024 of $450 million of senior notes and (ii) the redemption in March 2024 of $525 million of senior notes, including the impact of a $4 million loss on extinguishment of debt related to the redemption of these senior notes. These decreases were partially offset by the issuance in March 2024 of the Senior Notes due 2029. See Note 12 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional detail about our interest expense.

Income Tax Provision

Our 2025 effective tax rate for continuing operations was 21.9%, generally consistent with the federal statutory rate of 21%. State income taxes and certain permanent book-to-tax adjustments were the primary drivers of differences in the effective tax rate compared to the federal statutory rate. See Note 10 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for a reconciliation of our provision for income taxes.

Income (Loss) from Discontinued Operations, Net of Tax

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, includes the results of our Mortgage Conduit, Title and Real Estate Services businesses, which have been reclassified to discontinued operations for all periods presented. The decrease in the loss from discontinued operations, net of tax for 2025 as compared to 2024 is primarily driven by a decrease in other operating expenses related to our expense reduction initiatives for these businesses. The loss from discontinued operations for the year ended December 31, 2025, included $7 million of estimated costs related to the expected future sale of these businesses.

The decrease in the loss from discontinued operations, net of tax for 2024 as compared to 2023 is primarily driven by a decrease in non-operating items including $15 million of amortization and impairment of goodwill and other acquired intangible assets, which was recorded in 2023. See Note 3 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional details.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to traditional GAAP financial measures, we have presented “adjusted pretax operating income (loss),” “adjusted diluted net operating income (loss) per share” and “adjusted net operating return on equity,” which are non-GAAP financial measures for the consolidated company, among our key performance indicators to evaluate our fundamental financial performance. These non-GAAP financial measures align with the way our business performance is evaluated by both management and by our board of directors. These measures have been established in order to increase transparency for the purposes of evaluating our operating trends and enabling more meaningful comparisons with our peers. Although on a consolidated basis adjusted pretax operating income (loss), adjusted diluted net operating income (loss) per share and adjusted net operating return on equity are non-GAAP financial measures, for the reasons discussed above we believe these measures aid in understanding the underlying performance of our operations.

Total adjusted pretax operating income (loss), adjusted diluted net operating income (loss) per share and adjusted net operating return on equity are not measures of overall profitability, and therefore should not be considered in isolation or viewed as substitutes for GAAP pretax income (loss) from continuing operations, diluted net income (loss) from continuing operations per share or return on equity from continuing operations. Our definitions of adjusted pretax operating income (loss), adjusted diluted net operating income (loss) per share and adjusted net operating return on equity, as discussed and reconciled below to the most comparable respective GAAP measures, may not be comparable to similarly named measures reported by other companies.

Our senior management, including our Chief Executive Officer (Radian’s chief operating decision maker), uses adjusted pretax operating income (loss) as our primary measure to evaluate the fundamental financial performance of our businesses.

Beginning with the first quarter of 2025, when calculating adjusted diluted net operating income per share and adjusted net operating return on equity, the Company no longer adjusts for the difference between the Company’s statutory and effective tax rates to calculate those non-GAAP financial measures using the Company’s federal statutory tax rate of 21%. The impact of this incremental adjustment for the difference between the Company’s statutory and effective tax rates had been immaterial in recent periods because the number and magnitude of non-recurring fluctuations in the Company’s effective tax rate had declined in recent years. As such, the Company believes that this incremental adjustment for the difference between the two rates was no longer meaningful to users of our financial statements. We reflected this change in our calculations of adjusted diluted net operating income per share and adjusted net operating return on equity for all periods presented herein. As it relates to the impact of reconciling income (expense) items included in these non-GAAP financial measures, the Company continues to reflect these items on a gross basis and calculates the income tax provision (benefit) on these items using the Company’s federal statutory tax rate of 21%.

The results of our Mortgage Conduit, Title and Real Estate Services businesses are included in income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, for all periods presented herein. The calculation of adjusted pretax operating income, as detailed below, excludes income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, for all periods presented herein. As a result, the calculations of adjusted diluted net operating income per share and adjusted net operating return on equity also exclude income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of tax, for all periods presented herein.

Adjusted pretax operating income (loss) is defined as GAAP pretax income (loss) from continuing operations excluding the effects of: (i) net gains (losses) on investments and other financial instruments and (ii) impairment of other long-lived assets and other non-operating items, if any, such as gains (losses) from the sale of lines of business, acquisition-related income (expenses) and gains (losses) on extinguishment of debt, among others.

Although adjusted pretax operating income (loss) excludes certain items that have occurred in the past and are expected to occur in the future, the excluded items represent those that are: (i) not viewed as part of the operating performance of our primary activities or (ii) not expected to result in an economic impact equal to the amount reflected in pretax income (loss) from continuing operations. These adjustments, along with the reasons for their treatment, are described in Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

The following table provides a reconciliation of pretax income from continuing operations to our non-GAAP financial measure of adjusted pretax operating income.

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For 2025, primarily relates to acquisition-related expenses that are included in other operating expenses on the consolidated statement of operations. For 2024 and 2023 primarily relates to impairments of other long-lived assets that are included in other operating expenses on the consolidated statements of operations. See Note 5 of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

Adjusted diluted net operating income (loss) per share is calculated by dividing adjusted pretax operating income (loss), net of taxes computed using the Company’s statutory tax rate, by the sum of the weighted average number of common shares outstanding and all dilutive potential common shares outstanding. The following table provides a reconciliation of diluted net income (loss) from continuing operations per share to our non-GAAP financial measure for the consolidated Company of adjusted diluted net operating income (loss) per share.

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Calculated using the Company’s federal statutory tax rate of 21%.

Adjusted net operating return on equity is calculated by dividing annualized adjusted pretax operating income (loss), net of taxes computed using the Company’s statutory tax rate, by average stockholders’ equity, based on the average of the beginning and ending balances for each period presented. The following table provides a reconciliation of return on equity from continuing operations to our non-GAAP financial measure for the consolidated Company of adjusted net operating return on equity.

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Calculated by dividing net income from continuing operations by average stockholders’ equity, based on the average of the beginning and ending balances for each period presented.

(2)

As a percentage of average stockholders’ equity.

(3)

Calculated using the Company’s federal statutory tax rates of 21%.