NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. (Nasdaq: NYMT) (the “Company”) announced today the pricing of a public offering of 6,000,000 shares of its 7.875% Series E Fixed-to-Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock (the “Series E Preferred Stock”), liquidation preference $25.00 per share, for gross proceeds of $150,000,000 before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses. The Company has applied to list the Series E Preferred Stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “NYMTM.”
The Company has granted the underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to an additional 900,000 shares of the Series E Preferred Stock to cover over-allotments, if any. The offering is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close on October 18, 2019.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, RBC Capital Markets, LLC, UBS Securities LLC and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general business purposes, which may include, among other things, acquiring its targeted assets, including both single-family residential and multi-family credit investments, and various other types of mortgage-related and residential housing-related assets that it may target from time to time and general working capital purposes.
