NEW YORK, Jul 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. (NYSE: CYS) ("CYS" or the "Company") today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010.

Second Quarter 2010 Highlights

• Raised approximately $129.4 million of net proceeds through a public offering of common stock that closed on June 30, 2010.
• Net asset value of $13.15 per share after declaring a $0.60 dividend per share on June 14, 2010 and taking into account the impact of the new shares issued during the public offering completed on June 30, 2010 (the "New Shares").
• GAAP net income of $27.6 million or $1.46 per diluted share.
• Core Earnings of $11.0 million or $0.58 per diluted share.
• Received $1.8 million of distributions from collateralized loan obligations ("CLOs") of which $1.1 million were accounted for as a reduction of their cost basis and thereby excluded from our interest income and Core Earnings.
• Interest rate spread net of hedge of 2.83%.
• Weighted average amortized cost of Agency RMBS of $101.7.
• Non-investment expenses as a percentage of net assets of 3.21%.

During the quarter ended June 30, 2010 the Company rebalanced its hedges. It extended the hedges' weighted average maturity to 3.4 years at June 30, 2010 from 2.4 years at March 31, 2010. In addition, this rebalancing reduced the weighted average interest rate strike to 1.7% at June 30, 2010 from 2.0% at March 31, 2010. The Company realized $17.2 million of swap losses during the quarter ended June 30, 2010. These losses will be amortized over three to four years for tax purposes, in line with the remaining lives of the swaps that were terminated.

Public Offering

On June 30, 2010, the Company successfully completed a public offering of 10,925,000 shares of common stock, raising approximately $129.4 million of net proceeds, bringing the total number of shares of common stock outstanding to 29,692,654 at June 30, 2010. As part of the Company's plan to invest the net proceeds of the offering, the Company entered into several forward settling purchases. As of June 30, 2010 the Company had the following forward settling purchases:

Since June 30, 2010 through July 16, 2010, the Company has made additional forward settling purchases of $965.6 million comprised of $470.5 million of Agency RMBS collateralized by fixed rate mortgages and $495.1 million Agency RMBS collateralized by hybrid ARMS. In addition since June 30, 2010 to July 16, 2010 the Company entered into additional interest rate swaps of $550.0 million of notional amount.

Second Quarter 2010 Results

The Company had net income of $27.6 million during the second quarter of 2010, or $1.46 per diluted share, compared to $10.1 million or $0.54 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2010. During the second quarter of 2010, the Company had Core Earnings of $11.0 million, or $0.58 per diluted share, compared to $10.4 million, or $0.56 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2010. Core Earnings represents a non-GAAP financial measure and is defined as net income (loss) excluding (i) net realized gain (loss) on investments and termination of swap contracts and (ii) net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments and swap contracts. The quarter-over-quarter increase in Core Earnings was generally the result of the increase in interest income from CLOs as well as the smaller impact from prepayments. During the second quarter of 2010 the interest income from CLOs was $0.7 million compared to $0.4 million during the first quarter of 2010. The effect of prepayments is discussed below under the caption "Prepayments."

The Company received $1.8 million of distributions from CLOs of which $1.1 million were accounted for as a reduction of their cost basis and thereby excluded from our interest income and Core Earnings. This compared to distributions from CLOs of $0.9 million of which $0.5 million were accounted for as a reduction of their cost basis for the first quarter of 2010.

The Company's interest rate spread net of hedge increased to 2.83% for the second quarter of 2010 from 2.72% in the first quarter of 2010. This increase was largely due to an increase in the yield on Agency RMBS. Our average yield on Agency RMBS increased to 3.98% during the second quarter of 2010 compared to 3.86% during the first quarter of 2010.

The Company's net asset value per share on June 30, 2010 was $13.15 after declaring a $0.60 dividend per share on June 14, 2010 and taking into account the impact of the New Shares, compared with $13.03 at March 31, 2010.

The Company's non-investment expenses as a percentage of net assets was 3.21% for the quarter, compared to 3.63% in the first quarter of 2010. This change was primarily the result of the increase in net assets. During the second quarter of 2010 average net assets were $260.7 million compared to $249.4 million for the first quarter of 2010.

Prepayments

The portfolio recorded $118.5 million in scheduled and unscheduled principal repayments and prepayments and net amortization of premium (including paydown losses) of $1.2 million for the three months ended June 30, 2010. This compared to $144.7 million in scheduled and unscheduled principal repayments and prepayments and net amortization of premium (including paydown losses) of $2.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010.

In early March 2010, both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae announced they would purchase from the pools of mortgage loans underlying their mortgagepass-through certificates all mortgage loans that are more than 120 days delinquent. Freddie Mac implemented its purchase program in February 2010 with actual purchases beginning in March 2010. Fannie Mae began its process in March 2010 and announced it would implement the initial purchases over a period of three months, beginning in April 2010. Further, both agencies announced that on an ongoing basis they would purchase loans from the pools of mortgage loans underlying their mortgage pass-through certificates that become 120 days delinquent. The impact of these programs thus far is reflected in the constant prepayment rate, or CPR, of the Company's portfolio. Our holdings of Agency RMBS backed by 15 year mortgages protect us to a large degree from these prepayments as the delinquency rate of 15 year mortgages is very low, according to data released by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The effect of these purchase programs on our portfolio has been lower than expected and the CPR of our overall portfolio was only 17.4% for the second quarter of 2010 compared to 22.0% for the first quarter of 2010.

Dividend

The Company declared a common dividend of $0.60 per share with respect to the three months ended June 30, 2010, up from $0.55 per share for the three months ended March 31, 2010. Using the closing share price of $12.66 on June 30, 2010, the second quarter dividend equates to an annualized dividend yield of 19.0%.

Portfolio

At June 30, 2010, the Company's $2.3 billion portfolio of Agency RMBS was backed by: hybrid adjustable-rate mortgages ("ARMs") with 24 or fewer months to reset ("Short Reset ARMs") (8.2%), hybrid ARMs with 25 to 84 months to reset ("Hybrid ARMs") (45.1%) and fixed-rate mortgages (46.7%). Additional information about our Agency RMBS portfolio at June 30, 2010 is summarized below:

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⁽¹⁾ "Months to Reset" is the number of months remaining before the fixed rate on a hybrid ARM becomes a variable rate. At the end of the fixed period, the variable rate will be determined by the margin and the pre-specified caps of the ARM.

⁽²⁾ "Constant Prepayment Rate" is a method of expressing the prepayment rate for a mortgage pool that assumes that a constant fraction of the remaining principal is prepaid each month or year. Specifically, the constant prepayment rate is an annualized version of the prior three month prepayment rate. Securities with no prepayment history are excluded from this calculation.

⁽³⁾ Weighted average months to reset of our Short Reset ARM and Hybrid ARM portfolio.

Financing, Leverage & Liquidity

At June 30, 2010, the Company had financed its portfolio with approximately $1.4 billion of borrowings under repurchase agreements with a weighted average interest rate of 0.32% and a weighted average maturity of approximately 41.82 days. In addition, the Company had payable for securities purchased of $583.8 million. The Company's leverage ratio at June 30, 2010 was 5.3 to 1, which is lower than the 6.5 to 1 at March 31, 2010 because the Company was still investing the net proceeds from the public offering completed on June 30, 2010. At June 30, 2010, the Company's liquidity position was approximately $276.0 million, consisting of unpledged Agency RMBS, cash and cash equivalents. Below is a list of outstanding repurchase agreements at June 30, 2010.

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⁽¹⁾Equal to the fair value of pledged securities plus accrued interest income, minus the sum of repurchase agreement liabilities and accrued interest expense.

Hedging

The Company utilizes interest rate swap contracts to hedge the interest rate risk associated with the financed portion of its Agency RMBS portfolio. At June 30, 2010, the Company had entered into six interest rate swap contracts with an aggregate notional amount of $1.1 billion. During the quarter ended June 30, 2010 the Company rebalanced its hedges. It extended the hedges' weighted average maturity to 3.4 years at June 30, 2010 from 2.4 years at March 31, 2010. In addition, this rebalancing reduced the weighted average interest rate strike to 1.7% at June 30, 2010 from 2.0% at March 31, 2010. The Company realized $17.2 million of swap losses during the quarter. These losses will be amortized over three to four years for tax purposes, in line with the remaining lives of the swaps that were terminated.

Below is a summary of our interest rate swaps open at June 30, 2010:

As of June 30, 2010

Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call at 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Thursday, July 22, 2010, to discuss its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. To participate in the event by telephone, please dial 866.788.0538 at least 10 minutes prior to the start time and reference the conference passcode 89253223. International callers should dial 857.350.1676 and reference the same passcode. The conference call will also be webcast live over the Internet and can be accessed at the Company's Web site at www.cysinv.com. To listen to the live webcast, please visit www.cysinv.com at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to register, download, and install necessary audio software. A dial-in replay will be available on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at approximately 12:00 PM Eastern Time through Thursday, July 29, 2010 at approximately 11:00 AM Eastern Time. To access this replay, please dial 888.286.8010 and enter the conference ID number 85013008. International callers should dial 617.801.6888 and enter the same conference ID number. A replay of the conference call will also be archived on the Company's website at www.cysinv.com.

About Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc.

Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. is a specialty finance company that invests on a leveraged basis in residential mortgage pass-through certificates for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or Ginnie Mae. The Company refers to these securities as Agency RMBS. Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc. has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes.

Core Earnings:

Core Earnings represents a non-GAAP financial measure and is defined as net income (loss) excluding net realized gain (loss) on investments, net unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on investments, net realized gain (loss) on termination of swap contracts and unrealized appreciation (depreciation) on swap contracts. In order to evaluate the effective yield of the portfolio, management uses Core Earnings to reflect the net investment income of our portfolio as adjusted to include the net swap interest income (expense). Core Earnings allows management to isolate the interest income (expense) associated with our swaps in order to monitor and project our borrowing costs and interest rate spread. In addition, management utilizes Core Earnings as a key metric in conjunction with other portfolio and market factors to determine the appropriate leverage and hedging ratios, as well as the overall structure of the portfolio.

The Company adopted Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 946, Clarification of the Scope of Audit and Accounting Guide Investment Companies ("ASC 946"), prior to its deferral in February 2008, while most, if not all, other public companies that invest only in Agency RMBS have not adopted ASC 946. Under ASC 946, the Company uses financial reporting specified for investment companies, and accordingly, its investments are carried at fair value with changes in fair value included in earnings. Most other public companies that invest only in Agency RMBS include most changes in the fair value of their investments within shareholders' equity, not in earnings. As a result, investors are not able to readily compare the Company's results of operations to those of most of its competitors. The Company believes that the presentation of its Core Earnings is useful to investors because it provides a means of comparing its Core Earnings to those of its competitors. In addition, because Core Earnings isolates the net swap interest income (expense) it provides investors with an additional metric to identify trends in the Company's portfolio as they relate to the interest rate environment.

The primary limitation associated with Core Earnings as a measure of the Company's financial performance over any period is that it excludes the effects of net realized gain (loss) from investments. In addition, the Company's presentation of Core Earnings may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures of other companies, who may use different calculations. As a result, Core Earnings should not be considered as a substitute for the Company's GAAP net income (loss) as a measure of our financial performance or any measure of our liquidity under GAAP.

SOURCE: Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc.

Cypress Sharpridge Investments, Inc.
Richard E. Cleary, 212-612-3210
Chief Operating Officer