(B)(N) AAMC Altisource Asset Management

Deal Book. Altisource Asset Management built a better mouse trap and its share price is up +3000% since December from $15 to $640 and off a little bit from highs of $730 this year. The company has a market value of $1.5 billion at these prices and a net worth of $3.5 million (at any price) as well as liabilities of $770 million because it’s in the business of helping Americans to recover the houses that they lost in the “asset bubble” of 2001 through 2007 (The Street, October 30, 2013, Bill Erbey Made $2.3B Off Your Underwater Mortgage).

Courtesy: Altisource Asset Management

Altisource is just one of a suite of companies with complementary skills that has been created by Mr. Bill Erbey and Ocwen Financial Corporation to return houses, sell houses and rent houses that would otherwise be vacant in the inventories of the America’s largest banks. Please see Exhibit 1 below.

It’s estimated that there is still about $1 trillion (10 million $100,000 loans) in delinquent mortgage loans and the largest banks are stepping away from that business which was dominated by the US Savings & Loan business in 80s and 90s, and now, once again, needs some new attention and it seems that Ocwen and its subsidiaries are on the leading edge of new models for the origination and servicing of home mortgages (ibid, The Street).

Exhibit 1: Ocwen Financial Corporation

Ocwen Financial Corporation

Based on the numbers in Exhibit 1 above, investors are expecting great things of these companies nor are they alone as the stock prices of its competitors are also very active on thin evidence; NSM Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has doubled this year and WAC Walter Investment Management is up +30% from lows earlier this year but still down from $50 last year.

Although we can’t explain the prices, we can temper the vision with the price of risk which is a common denominator. Ocwen became eligible for inclusion in the Perpetual Bond™ at much lower prices of $20 last year and our estimate of the downside in the stock price due to the demonstrated volatility is minus ($7.50) per share so that it could be trading between the current price of $60 and $55 to $65 without surprise. On the other hand, the December put option at $55 is expensive at $2.40 per share but could be easily paid out of the current profits on the stock and guarantee our price at $55 until we have more information.

Exhibit 2: (B)(N) OCN Ocwen Financial Corporation – Risk Price Chart

(B)(N) ONC Ocwen Financial Corporation

Ocwen Financial Corporation is a financial services holding company. The Company through its subsidiaries provides residential and commercial mortgage loan servicing, special servicing and asset management services.

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From the Company: Ocwen Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the servicing and origination of mortgage loans in the United States and internationally. The company’s Servicing segment provides residential and commercial mortgage loan servicing, special servicing, and asset management services to owners of mortgage loans and foreclosed real estate. This segment primarily offers services for subprime residential loans. Its Lending segment is involved in the origination, packaging, and sale of agency mortgage loans into the secondary market. Ocwen Financial Corporation was founded in 1988, has 7,600 employees and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

For more information on the Chart Elements, please see our recent Post, The RiskWerk Company Glossary.

For more on what risk averse investing has done for us this year, please see our recent Posts on The S&P TSX “Hangdog” Market or The Wall Street Put or specialty markets such as The Dow Transports & Utilities or (B)(N) The Woods Are Burning, or for the real class action, La Dolce Vita – Let’s Do Prada! and It’s For You, Dear on the smartphone business.

And for more stocks at high prices, The World’s Most Talked About Stocks or Earnings Don’t Matter – NASDAQ 100.

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