Redwood Trust

RWT

Market cap $732M

MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redwood Trust Announces Date of First Quarter 2026 Financial Results Webcast and Conference Call.

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MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redwood Trust, Inc. (NYSE: RWT; “Redwood” or the “Company”), a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, today announced the closing of SEMT 2026-MED1, the inaugural Medical Professionals loan securitization issued through Sequoia, Redwood's jumbo mortgage platform. The $482 million transaction marks Sequoia's 165th securitization and represents an important milestone for the platform as a first-of-its-kind securitization backed by m.

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Redwood Trust baby bond (RWTP) is downgraded to a hold due to rising delinquency rates and opaque disclosure practices. Net interest income improved in Q4, but remains below historical levels, while leverage has surged to over 4.5x. Book value per share declined every quarter in 2025, with no positive year-over-year growth since early 2022.

Redwood Trust, Inc. offers four fixed-rate senior notes maturing between 2029 and 2030, with coupons ranging from 9.00% to 9.50%. Recent RWT note issuances reflect increasing market skepticism, as evidenced by rising coupons and declining Egan-Jones ratings from BBB to BBB-. Fixed rate notes provide higher payment surety, seniority over preferreds, and calculable YTM, but expose investors to reinvestment risk at maturity.

Redwood Trust 9.5% Senior Notes Due 2030 have sharply underperformed peers due to technical selling, not deteriorating fundamentals. RWTQ's -9% YTD decline versus -2% for other RWT baby bonds creates an arbitrage opportunity, as the price drop is not justified by credit spreads or duration. Investors can exploit this by buying RWTQ outright or executing a pair trade: long RWTQ, short RWTO or RWTN, to capture the spread normalization.

MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Redwood Trust, Inc. (NYSE: RWT; “Redwood” or the “Company”), a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, today announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) has declared first quarter 2026 common and preferred stock dividends. Common Stock Dividend The Board has authorized the declaration of a first quarter 2026 regular common stock dividend of $0.18 per share, unchanged from the fourth quarter of 2025. This marks the Company's.

Redwood Trust, Inc. trades at a significant 18% discount to book value, reflecting persistent market skepticism despite record $23B mortgage banking volume in 2025. RWT is shifting from passive portfolio management to active mortgage banking, emphasizing loan origination and distribution via Sequoia, CoreVest, and Aspire platforms. The dividend yield is an attractive 12%, but coverage relies on distributable earnings, raising sustainability concerns amid negative net profit margin and sector headwinds.