CPR Report: SBA 7(a) Prepays Remain Above 8%
August 20, 2014
By Bob Judge
Editor, CPR Report
In June, prepays stayed above 8% for the second month in a row and for the fourth time this year.
As to the cause, voluntary prepayments stayed above 6% for the second month in a row, while defaults remained below 2%.
Defaults fell back slightly last month and remained below 2% for a record tenth month in a row. This continues the longest such stretch in our database, which goes back to 1999.
As for the detail, overall prepayments fell 2% to 8.19% from 8.38% in May. In comparing prepayment speeds for the first five months of 2014 to the same period in 2013, we see that this year is running 11.72% ahead of last year, 7.69% versus 6.88%.
As for the largest sector of the market, 20+ years to maturity, prepayment speeds fell by 8% to 7.82% from 8.48%.
Turning to the CPR breakdown, the default CPR decreased by 11% to 1.59% while the voluntary prepayment CPR was basically flat at 6.60%. This represents the second month in a row of +6% voluntary prepayment speeds.
Preliminary data for next month suggests that prepayments will fall back below 7%, giving some relief from +8% CPRs.
Turning to our maturity buckets, prepayment speeds rose in four out of six categories.
Increases were seen, by order of magnitude, in the 13-16 year sector (+75% to CPR 5.41%), 16-20 (+73% to CPR 9.54%), 8-10 (+17% to CPR 14.34% and <8 (+14% to CPR 14.99%).
Decreases were seen in 20+ (-8% to CPR 7.82%) and 10-13 (-6% to CPR 7.96%).
While next month should show a sub-7% prepayment speed, don’t be deceived. We are definitely entrenched in an 8% CPR world.