Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT (NYSE:EARN) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 10, 2022 11:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Jason Frank - Deputy General Counsel and Secretary

Laurence Penn - Chief Executive Officer, President and Trustee

Christopher Smernoff - Chief Financial Officer

Mark Tecotzky - Co-Chief Investment Officer

Conference Call Participants

Crispin Love - Piper Sandler

Doug Harter - Credit Suisse

Ethan Saghi - BTIG

Mikhail Goberman - JMP Securities

Operator

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT 2022 Third Quarter Financial Results Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode. And the floor will be open for your questions following the presentation. [Operator Instructions]

It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to Jason Frank, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary. Sir, you may begin.

Jason Frank

Thank you, and welcome to Ellington Residential's third quarter 2022 earnings conference call. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that certain statements made during this conference call may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are not historical in nature. As described under Item 1A of our annual report on Form 10-K, forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause the company's actual results to differ from its beliefs, expectations, estimates and projections.

Consequently, you should not rely on these forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Statements made during this conference call are made as of the date of this call, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Joining me on the call today are Larry Penn, Chief Executive Officer of Ellington Residential; Mark Tecotzky, our Co-Chief Investment Officer; and Chris Smernoff, our Chief Financial Officer.

As described in our earnings press release, our third quarter earnings conference call presentation is available on our website, earnreit.com. Our comments this morning will track the presentation. Please note that any references to figures in this presentation are qualified in their entirety by the end notes at the back of the presentation.

With that, I will now turn the call over to Larry.

Laurence Penn

Thanks, Jay, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate your time and interest in Ellington Residential. After a challenging first half of the year, the third quarter started off on a constructive note with interest rate declining and interest rate volatility subsiding in July. As has been the typical pattern this year, yield spreads follow the direction of interest rates with both declining in July, and virtually all fixed income products benefited.