Price Price
Ticker Close Close 52-Week 52-Week
Company Symbol 9/30/06 8/31/06 High Low
Indymac Bancorp Inc. NDE 41.16 39.10 50.50 34.40
Countrywide Financial Corp.
CFC 35.04 33.80 43.67 29.34
Fannie Mae FNM 55.91 52.65 58.60 41.41
Freddie Mac FRE 66.33 63.60 68.75 54.85
Washington Mutual Inc. WM 43.47 41.89 47.01 36.64
Wells Fargo & Co. WFC 36.18 34.75 36.89 28.81
Thornburg Mortgage Inc. TMA 25.47 22.97 29.00 22.27
New Century Financial Corp. NEW 39.31 38.71 51.97 30.22
Annaly Mortgage Management NLY 13.14 12.51 14.21 10.90
Inc.
Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc. IMH 9.37 9.09 12.49 7.17
Redwood Trust Inc. RWT 50.37 48.64 52.26 40.27
MGIC Investment Corp. MTG 59.97 57.87 72.73 53.96
PMI Group Inc. PMI 43.81 43.24 47.33 36.65
Radian Group Inc. RDN 60.00 59.88 65.80 47.40
Triad Guaranty Inc. TGIC 51.17 50.27 57.87 34.99
Bank of America Corp. BAC 53.57 51.47 54.00 40.93
Saxon Capital Inc. SAX 14.04 13.91 14.29 8.84
Ocwen Financial Corp. OCN 14.90 14.75 16.35 6.80
American Home Mortgage AHM 34.87 31.70 36.96 25.45
Investment Corp.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM 46.96 45.66 47.49 32.92
Accredited Home Lenders LEND 35.94 31.93 60.13 30.48
Holding Co.
HomeBanc Corp. HMB 6.15 6.70 8.99 5.55
New York Mortgage Trust Inc. NTR 3.86 4.00 7.53 3.59
MortgageIT Holdings Inc. MHL 14.08 14.48 15.00 8.86
Aames Investment Corp. AIC 3.52 4.01 7.11 3.43
PHH Corp. PHH 27.40 25.11 30.44 23.70
SOURCE: Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. (FBR). This list is based
on a sampling of mortgage industry companies that are publicly traded,
but it is not a complete list of such companies. Data are complied from
New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ stock market postings.
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. provides investment banking*,
institutional brokerage*, asset management and private wealth services
through its operating subsidiaries, and invests in mortgage-related
assets and merchant banking opportunities. FBR focuses capital and
financial expertise on eight industry sectors: consumer, diversified
industrials, energy and natural resources, financial institutions,
health care, insurance, real estate and technology, and media and
telecommunications. FBR is headquartered in the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan area, with offices in Arlington, Virginia; Boston; Dallas;
Denver; Houston; Irvine, California; New York; Phoenix; San Francisco;
and London.
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. is the parent company of First NLC
Financial Services Inc., a nonconforming residential mortgage originator
headquartered in Deerfield Beach, Florida. For more information, visit
www.fbr.com.
*Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. Inc.
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