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Muhlenkamp's Fund Loses Ground From Shakeout in Mortgage Market
Submitted on 03/08/2007
Ronald Muhlenkamp's $2.4 billion Muhlenkamp Fund, which lost value just once in the past 12 years, is getting hurt by the shakeout in the U.S. mortgage market. Muhlenkamp's mutual fund dropped 4.8 percent since the start of the year, the worst performance of 90 competing funds tracked by Bloomberg that buy shares of companies perceived as being undervalued. The manager counts Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage lender, among his 10 largest holdings.
Rising mortgage rates and falling home prices caused the proportion of subprime loans that were either delinquent or in foreclosure to reach 10 percent in December, up from about 5 percent in May 2005, according to Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc. of Arlington, Virginia. Countrywide, which focuses on the safer, so-called prime part of the market, said March 1 that payments were late on almost 20 percent of the subprime loans it manages for clients.
'Their business is slowing down, but they're also in pretty good shape,'' Muhlenkamp, 63, said in a telephone interview yesterday. 'If we continued at that rate for another six or eight weeks, I can buy the company for nothing.'' Countrywide's stock dropped 15 percent in the past month to $37.
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