Rocket Delivers Best Quarter in Four Years, Topping Guidance on AI and Servicing Strength
Management now targets faster cost savings from the Mr. Cooper deal with more assets already moved to one platform.
Overview
- Rocket reported Q1 net revenue of $2.94 billion, adjusted revenue of $2.82 billion, adjusted net income of $422 million, adjusted EBITDA of $738 million, and diluted EPS of $0.10, marking its strongest profit since 2022.
- Executives said AI prospecting added about $1 billion in monthly volume and lifted conversion by taking over outreach that used to take about two hours per day for each loan officer.
- The servicing portfolio reached $2.1 trillion across 9.4 million loans and produced more than $1 billion in fee income, with 54% of refinance closings coming from existing servicing clients.
- Integration of Mr. Cooper is ahead of plan with more than half the servicing book migrated, and Rocket now targets $400 million in expense synergies by the end of 2026, a year earlier than first projected.
- Rocket guided Q2 adjusted revenue to $2.7 billion to $2.9 billion and said origination capacity has doubled to as much as $300 billion while using several hundred fewer production staff than in 2024.