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Servicing Income Weakens at Countrywide.

Mortgage Servicing News

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ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Analysts at Friedman Billings Ramsey still recommend the shares of Countrywide Financial Corp., but FBR lowered its earnings estimate and target share price in the wake of Countrywide's first-quarter financial performance.

Among the key points analysts Paul Miller, Annett Franke and Steve Stelmach made in their report was Countrywide's servicing income came in below expectations.

The servicing shortfall mainly reflected a $428 million writedown of subprime and home-equity line of credit residual interests. On the bright side, this writedown "should clear the book of higher-risk product going into next quarter," the analysts said in their report.

But they also noted that Countrywide valued its mortgage servicing asset at 1.78%, or 4.4 times the ...

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