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Rithm Capital Corp.’s largest business runs through Newrez and New Residential Mortgage LLC. They originate residential mortgages, sell the loans to government-sponsored mortgage enterprises and Ginnie Mae or package them into securities, and generally keep the right to collect fees for managing payments and overdue loans. They also manage loans for third-party owners for a fee. Servicing supplies more revenue than loan origination, and Newrez handles most mortgages tied to Rithm’s owned servicing rights. Most loan production comes from other mortgage lenders that sell loans into its platform.
Rithm also manages investor money through Sculptor, Crestline and Rithm Advisers, earning fees based on assets or invested capital and a share of investment profits when contractual conditions are met. This business depends on retaining investor capital and investment performance. Separately, Genesis lends to property investors and developers for construction, renovation and bridge financing, earning interest and fees. Rithm invests its own capital in loans and mortgage-related assets for investment income and owns rental homes and commercial properties that earn tenant rent.
The mortgage businesses need financing to fund loans before sale and to cover payments and property expenses they must advance when borrowers fall behind; these advances are generally recovered from later collections. Lending and servicing depend on maintaining licenses, agency approvals and required capital and liquidity. Rithm operates as an internally managed real estate investment trust, whose tax qualification requirements also constrain the assets it can hold and income it can earn.
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Privately held Freedom Mortgage, absent from this list, is another important rival to watch in the mortgage origination and servicing businesses that drive Rithm Capital’s earnings.
Rocket Companies competes with Rithm Capital’s Newrez to make and service home loans, but also services mortgages from which Rithm collects fees above the base servicing charge—its Excess MSRs. Those mortgages had $47.9 billion of unpaid principal at December 31, 2025, making Rocket’s servicing performance relevant to Rithm’s investment income as well as its competition for borrowers.
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. competes directly with Rithm Capital’s Newrez for home-loan borrowers and investors paying for loan servicing, including work performed on other owners’ behalf. Its loan-production results and servicing performance show the competition Newrez faces in winning loans and servicing clients.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust competes with Rithm Capital to buy newly made home loans from lenders and resell them to capital markets, while both invest in mortgage servicing rights and mortgage-credit assets. Watch its earnings from these loan purchases and sales—correspondent production—for a comparison with Rithm’s generally lower-margin correspondent channel.
Onity Group Inc. competes with Newrez in making and servicing mortgages, but Rithm Capital also pays it to service Rithm-owned loans, making Onity’s execution a direct concern for those investments. Watch the announced transfer to Rithm’s platform, which was expected to start in the first half of 2026; transferring $8.3 billion of unpaid principal under the RMSR agreement still required trustee and other consents, with timing and success uncertain.
Redwood Trust, Inc. and Rithm Capital both make or buy mortgages for homeowners and residential property investors, then earn from selling loans, packaging them into securities or keeping investments for interest income. Redwood’s mortgage-banking income offers a comparison for Rithm’s ability to turn originated and acquired loans into revenue.
MFA Financial, Inc’s Lima One competes with Rithm Capital’s Genesis to lend to residential property investors, while both parents hold residential loans and mortgage securities. Lima One’s lending and servicing results are the closer comparison for Genesis; MFA’s loan-portfolio performance speaks to the parents’ overlapping mortgage-credit investments.
Annaly Capital Management and Rithm Capital both collect income from mortgage servicing rights and residential mortgage-credit investments, so borrower prepayments and repayment performance affect both portfolios’ cash flows and values. Annaly’s servicing-rights and residential-credit results provide a comparison for these parts of Rithm, rather than its loan-origination business.
Chimera Investment Corp.’s HomeXpress competes with Rithm Capital to make residential mortgages, while both parents invest in home loans, servicing rights and mortgage securities. HomeXpress’s origination results show the lending competition; Chimera’s investment interest income after borrowing costs offers a separate comparison for Rithm’s mortgage investments.
Adamas Trust, Inc.’s Constructive competes with Rithm Capital’s Genesis for residential real-estate investor borrowers, and both parents hold residential mortgage-credit portfolios. Constructive’s revenue from making and selling rental and transitional loans is the part to compare with Genesis’s construction, renovation and bridge lending.
Ellington Financial and Rithm Capital both invest in mortgage and consumer-credit assets alongside mortgage operating businesses, making Ellington a comparison for Rithm’s credit investments rather than a like-for-like lender. Its Longbridge business earns from originating, buying, selling and servicing reverse mortgages, so keep those results separate when comparing the companies’ loan portfolios.
CHERRY HILL MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORPORATION and Rithm Capital both own rights to mortgage servicing fees, including the portion above the base fee, so their income and investment values depend on how long borrowers keep loans outstanding. Cherry Hill’s servicing-related asset results are the relevant comparison for Rithm’s MSRs and Excess MSRs, distinct from its mortgage-securities portfolio.
Annaly Capital Management. Inc. earningsNLY
Annaly’s report gives Rithm Capital a read on whether shared mortgage-servicing and residential-credit exposures are facing similar cash-flow pressures.
Read Annaly’s mortgage-servicing-rights income alongside repayment performance on residential mortgage credit. Steady servicing income and sound repayments would suggest these loans still support servicing cash flows and credit collections, backing Rithm’s related holdings. Weaker servicing income and deteriorating repayments would point to pressure on cash flows or asset values from faster prepayments, missed payments, or both. The conclusion is whether Rithm’s overlapping mortgage exposures have resilient cash flows or face greater collection pressure.
Rithm Capital Corp. earningsThis company
Rithm Capital’s report will show whether income from newly originated mortgages is keeping pace with loan volume and whether servicing-fee revenue is growing.
Read funded loan volume alongside the gain-on-sale margin, then check servicing-fee revenue. More loans with a steady margin and rising servicing fees would show that Rithm is turning production into both sale income and a growing stream of servicing income. More loans but a falling margin and little growth in servicing fees would show that expansion is not bringing in commensurate revenue. The conclusion is whether Rithm is making its mortgage business pay through greater scale, or merely doing more volume.
Fed Interest Rate Decision
For Rithm, the Fed’s rate decision signals the direction of borrowing costs: it can change interest earned on Genesis’s SOFR-linked real-estate loans, the cost of funding them, and demand for mortgage refinancing that supports loan-sale gains and servicing income.
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If it comes in above expectations
Higher rates could lift interest income on Genesis’s variable-rate loans, but if Rithm’s funding costs rise faster, the spread it earns may narrow; weaker refinancing demand could also reduce mortgage originations and related sale gains and servicing activity.
If it comes in below expectations
Lower rates could reduce interest income on Genesis’s variable-rate loans, but cheaper or slower-rising funding may protect its spread; stronger refinancing demand could also support Rithm’s mortgage originations, sale gains and servicing activity.
PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. earningsPFSI
PennyMac Financial’s report will show how it is performing in loan production and servicing work that competes with Newrez for borrowers and clients.
Read loan production alongside servicing performance. Strength in both would show that borrowers and loan owners are still generating business, while also showing that PennyMac Financial is competing for customers and work Newrez might otherwise win. Weakness in both would point to a tougher market, not an automatic benefit for Newrez. The conclusion is whether Newrez faces active demand and strong competition, or a broader slowdown in business.
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust earningsPMT
PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust’s report will show whether competition to buy and resell correspondent loans is squeezing the economics of a channel Rithm Capital also uses heavily.
Read PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust’s loan-purchase volume alongside the income it earns from reselling those loans. Steady activity without thinner economics would suggest buyers remain available and the channel is still workable. If volume holds or rises while resale economics weaken, competition for loans may be pushing up purchase costs, squeezing the same correspondent channel Rithm uses. The conclusion is whether this channel supports mortgage production or delivers more volume at thinner margins.
Rocket Companies, Inc. earningsRKT
Rocket Companies’ report will give Rithm Capital a read on mortgages Rocket services, some of which support Rithm’s cash flows from Excess MSRs—the servicing income above the base fee.
Look at Rocket Companies’ servicing results, including the size of the loans it services and borrower repayment performance. Loans that remain with Rocket and are repaid as scheduled, with fewer early payoffs, would support Rithm’s Excess MSR cash flows; faster prepayments or weaker repayments could shorten or pressure those cash flows. Rocket reports on its broader business, not Rithm’s specific loans. The conclusion is whether conditions around these mortgages support or weaken Rithm’s income from the excess servicing fees.
MFA Financial, Inc earningsMFA
MFA Financial’s report will show how Lima One is doing in loans to residential property investors, a direct comparison for Rithm Capital’s Genesis business.
Read Lima One’s lending activity alongside loan performance. Steady lending and sound loans would suggest residential property investors are still borrowing and repayments support this type of business, while also indicating active competition for Genesis. Weaker lending or deteriorating loans could point to softer borrower demand or rising collection risk; a weaker competitor alone does not mean Genesis benefits. The conclusion is whether Genesis’s investor-lending market still has sustainable demand and repayments.
