Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Fannie Mae is a leading source of financing for residential mortgages in the United States. We are a government-sponsored, stockholder-owned corporation, chartered by Congress to provide liquidity and stability to the U.S. housing market and to promote access to mortgage credit. We primarily do this by buying residential mortgage loans that are originated by lenders. We place these loans into trusts and issue guaranteed mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”) that global investors buy from us. We do not originate mortgage loans or lend money directly to borrowers.

We are currently operating under conservatorship, with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (“FHFA”) acting as conservator. See “Note 2, Conservatorship, Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement and Related Matters” below and in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 (“2023 Form 10-K”) for information on our conservatorship, the senior preferred stock purchase agreement, the impact of U.S. government support of our business, and related party relationships.

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and note disclosures required by GAAP for complete consolidated financial statements and therefore should be read in conjunction with our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included in our 2023 Form 10-K. In the opinion of management, our unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of our results. The nature of our business is such that the results of any interim period are not necessarily indicative of results for a full year. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include our accounts as well as the accounts of other entities in which we have a controlling financial interest. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated. To conform to our current-period presentation, we have reclassified certain amounts reported in our prior period consolidated financial statements.

Use of Estimates

Preparing condensed consolidated financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect our reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the dates of our condensed consolidated financial statements, as well as our reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Management has made significant estimates in a variety of areas including, but not limited to, the allowance for loan losses. Actual results could be different from these estimates.

Earnings per Share

Earnings per share (“EPS”) is presented for basic and diluted EPS. We include the shares of common stock that would be issuable upon full exercise of the common stock warrant in the weighted average shares outstanding for the computation of both basic and diluted earnings per share. Weighted average common shares include 4.7 billion shares for the periods ended June 30, 2024 and 2023 that would have been issued upon the full exercise of the warrant issued to Treasury from the date the warrant was issued through June 30, 2024 and 2023.

For the calculation of diluted EPS, the weighted average shares outstanding is increased to include the number of additional common shares that would have been outstanding if the dilutive potential common shares had been issued. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, our diluted EPS weighted-average shares outstanding includes 26 million shares issuable upon the conversion of convertible preferred stock. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2023, convertible preferred stock is not included in the calculation because it would have an anti-dilutive effect due to the net losses attributable to common stockholders recognized in those periods.

Foreclosed Property

We present foreclosed property in “Other assets” in our condensed consolidated balance sheets. We held $1.8 billion of acquired property as of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023.

New Accounting Guidance

Segment Reporting

On November 27, 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280), Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. The ASU enhances disclosure of an entity’s reportable segments by requiring additional information about significant segment expenses, interim disclosures of certain segment information that previously were only required on an annual basis and other detailed segment-related disclosures. The ASU applies to all public entities that are required to report segment information and is effective starting in annual periods beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2024. The ASU is required to be adopted retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements. The adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on our financial statements.

Income Taxes

On December 14, 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740): Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures, which enhances the required disclosures primarily related to the income tax rate reconciliation and income taxes paid. The ASU requires an entity’s income tax rate reconciliation to provide additional information for reconciling items meeting a quantitative threshold, and to disclose certain selected categories within the income tax rate reconciliation. The ASU also requires entities to disclose the amount of income taxes paid, disaggregated by federal, state and foreign taxes. The ASU is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024, though early adoption is permitted. The adoption of this guidance is not expected to have a material impact on our financial statements.