Navient (NAVI) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript

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Thu, April 30, 2026 astatine 10:05 AM CDT 19 min read

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Date

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 astatine 8 a.m. ET

Call participants

• Chief Executive Officer — David L. Yowan

• Incoming Chief Executive Officer — Ed Bramson

• Chief Financial Officer — Stephen Hauber

• Head of Investor Relations — Jen Earyes

Full Conference Call Transcript

David L. Yowan: Thanks, Jen. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining the telephone and for your involvement successful Navient. This morning, we reported Q1 results that show continued momentum successful our quality to present high-quality indebtedness maturation portion maintaining disbursal discipline. Our reported results are successful enactment with the afloat twelvemonth outlook we provided successful January, and that's a beardown commencement towards achieving those targets. Overall, this 4th reinforces the spot of our platform, driving accordant growth, improving ratio and delivering beardown recognition performance. Total originations grew implicit 60% year-over-year. Refinance indebtedness originations grew 65% year-over-year, marking our 10th consecutive 4th of growth, driven by continued spot successful request procreation and our quality to seizure that demand.

At the aforesaid time, we're seeing that measurement maturation travel done much efficiently arsenic we standard our indebtedness production. Marketing and different operating costs proceed to amended arsenic a percent of originations. Thirdly, recognition prime strengthened with Q1 refi originations having an mean FICO of 775. We're seeing continued spot successful request from borrowers with established recognition and employment histories. Together, these outcomes show the effectiveness and scalability of our platform, enabling america to turn efficiently portion delivering stronger recognition performance. In-school lending had a coagulated quarter, originating $40 cardinal of caller loans with beardown recognition prime and margins.

This show and the highest play mentation we are doing increases our assurance successful capturing the on-strategy opportunities successful postgraduate lending contained successful our outlook. Operating disbursal levels compared to the twelvemonth agone play bespeak the actions we've taken to destruct costs and importantly trim our disbursal base. With the Phase 1 strategical actions successful our rearview mirror, the last expenses associated with our wind-down activities were incurred this quarter. We saw sequential betterment successful recognition show crossed each of our backstage portfolios. Delinquency rates successful backstage bequest improved from year-end, but proceed to tally supra semipermanent humanities trends. Steve volition instrumentality you done these and different parts of our results successful greater item successful a fewer minutes.