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| It's great to see those buybacks and the nice book value accretion |
| And we feel really good about those assets |
| We're maximizing the value of our investments made to offset the company's NOLs and we're continuing to serve the needs of our borrower clients |
| So that's why we were happy to return capital to shareholders through the repurchases that we did in the Q4 |
| The portfolio generally continues to perform, demonstrating sound and consistent underwriting and proactive asset management |
| And congrats on a strong finish to the year |
| And looking into 2024, we see improvements as capital markets are reopening and asset level transactions are beginning again |
| And, yeah, I would say that the majority of the conversations have been very positive |
| So as the stock continues to rally that gap gets narrowed then it will be more favorable to deploy capital into the loan book and ultimately begin returning capital to shareholders through a dividend |
| So at the levels that we were repurchasing in the fourth quarter, you can do the math that we're significantly above that 15% ROE number |
| ACRES team continues to execute on our business plan by selectively originating high-quality investments, actively managing the portfolio and continuing to focus on growing earnings and book value for our shareholders |
| Stephen Laws I appreciate the comments this morning, and congrats on a nice quarter |
| And then lastly, the stock repurchases were very accretive during the quarter |
| There were some block volume that were presented to us in the late part of the fourth quarter that we took advantage of because we felt the discount was just significantly attractive |
| So we took advantage of some pretty meaningful discounts |
| In summary, the ACRES team continues to be focused on the overall quality of the investment portfolio including investments in real estate, with the goal of improving credit quality and recycling capital into performing categories |
| This increase was primarily due to our buyback program, which generated $1.32 of book value per share for the fourth quarter |
| Mark Fogel Good morning, everyone and thank you for joining our call |
| Eldron Blackwell Thank you and good morning, everyone |
| Mark Fogel Thank you |
| Thank you |
| Kyle Brengel Good morning, and thank you for joining our call |
| Turning to results from our real estate investments, net loss from real estate investments increased to approximately $800,000 in the fourth quarter from approximately $400,000 in the third quarter |
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| I think as we all know 2023 was a challenging year for the mortgage markets broadly |
| The difference being a $0.15 decline in net interest income from net payoffs and the impact of two non-performing loans and 8% increase in G&A expenses, offset by a $0.05 reduction in management fees |
| We closed one new commitment of $29.7 million and net funded commitments during the quarter were $3.9 million, producing a net decrease to the loan portfolio of $64.7 million |
| Included in the fourth quarter property operating loss was $1.2 million of non-cash, depreciation, and amortization |
| This was primarily due to the seasonality of hotel operations |
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