by Calculated Risk on 2/21/2014 12:46:00 PM

From Fannie Mae: Fannie Mae Reports Comprehensive Income of $84.8 Billion for 2013 and $6.6 Billion for Fourth Quarter 2013

Fannie Mae reported annual net income for 2013 of $84.0 billion, which includes the release of the company’s valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets, and annual pre-tax income for 2013 of $38.6 billion.

Fannie Mae will pay Treasury $7.2 billion in dividends in March 2014. With the March dividend payment, Fannie Mae will have paid a total of $121.1 billion in dividends to Treasury in comparison to $116.1 billion in draw requests since 2008. Dividend payments do not offset prior Treasury draws.
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While Fannie Mae expects to be profitable for the foreseeable future, the company does not expect to repeat its 2013 financial results, as those results were positively affected by the release of the company’s valuation allowance against its deferred tax assets, a significant increase in home prices during the year, and the large number of resolutions the company reached relating to representation and warranty matters and servicing matters.
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Here are some summary stats on Fannie’s single family REO activity.

Fannie SF REO Activity
	Acquisitions	Dispositions	Inventory
Q3/09	40,959	31,299	72,275
Q4/09	47,189	33,309	86,155
Q1/10	61,929	38,095	109,989
Q2/10	68,838	49,517	129,310
Q3/10	85,349	47,872	166,787
Q4/10	45,962	50,260	162,489
Q1/11	53,549	62,814	153,224
Q2/11	53,697	71,202	135,719
Q3/11	45,194	58,297	122,616
Q4/11	47,256	51,344	118,528
Q1/12	47,700	52,071	114,157
Q2/12	43,783	48,674	109,266
Q3/12	41,884	43,925	107,225
Q4/12	41,112	42,671	105,666
Q1/13	38,717	42,934	101,449
Q2/13	36,106	40,635	96,920
Q3/13	37,353	33,332	100,941
Q4/13	32,208	29,920	103,229

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Here is a graph of Fannie REO. This was the second consecutive quarterly increase in REO.

Fannie’s SF REO inventory increased in Q4 mostly because of a decline in REO dispositions.  Fannie reported the decline in acquisitions was related to long time lines in certain states (judicial foreclosure process).  It is unclear why there was a sharp decline in dispositions over the last two quarters.