OneMain Holdings, Inc. (OMF) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
September 12, 2023
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Terry Ma
analystAll right. So we're going to get started. Welcome, everybody, and good morning. Thanks for joining us. My name is Terry Ma, I'm the Consumer Finance Analyst at Barclays. I'm pleased to have Micah Conrad, the CFO of OneMain with us. So welcome, Micah.
Micah Conrad
executiveThanks, Terry. Appreciate it. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for being here.
Terry Ma
analystYes. I think we'll just jump right into it. So, I just wanted to start off on an update on the overall environment. Can you just comment on the competitive landscape, demand for credit and the overall health of the consumer?
Micah Conrad
executiveSure. So I think throughout 2023, we've seen strong demand for loans. The competitive environment has been pretty constructive all year. We're very proud of our balance sheet. We think it's a unique differentiator. Our ability to access funding. Some of our competitors have pulled back -- I think everyone's pulled back for credit reasons, but some have pulled back because they just don't have the access to funding that a company like ours has. And that's enabled us to really fund the balance sheet and be able to pick and choose our credits and sort of throughout the year, we've been seeing a better a better mix or a higher mix of better credit quality credits as a result. So that's been very, very helpful. As we've continued to tighten balance sheet and tightened credit, we've still been able to see some nice growth and a lot of that funded because of our ability to fund the balance sheet. And I think in terms of the consumer and the consumer health, the consumer is kind of facing -- there's tailwinds and some headwinds. I think we've seen low unemployment, which has been great. Wage inflation certainly has been a positive factor for this consumer, but they are definitely still struggling with inflation. We've seen electricity costs up something in the neighborhood of 30% since the pandemic began. We're seeing average rents higher for our average customer. Average rent -- about 60% of our customers are renters and the average rent was about $600 in 2019, and that's now today about $900. So we've seen a pretty significant impact there.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. So helpful color. So you increased your receivables guide last quarter. It appeared to be influenced by a combination of better-than-expected demand and lower payment rates from borrowers -- has that dynamic continued?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes, it has. We've seen a couple of things going on. One, I just talked about the demand for product and our continued growth there. But we have also seen a slowdown in early payoffs. This tells us a little bit more also about the environment. Customers who would pay off their entire OneMain loan presumably being refinanced elsewhere has slowed down this year below certainly the 2020 levels. 2021, we saw stimulus created a lot of cash flow for consumers. And we saw that sort of early payoff dynamic pick up. But those 2 things have definitely contributed to our increased guide. When we started the year, we thought we'd probably grow in the low single digits. I think our original guidance was 3% to 5%. But due to that payment dynamic, due to the competitive situation, we've been able to see some nice growth. We're seeing some good performance and growth opportunities in our ancillary products, some of the different initiatives that we've been building over the last couple of years, but also in our core loan growth. Those two things have caused us now to say, "Well, I think it might be a little bit higher". I think our guide is 5% to 8% from the last earnings call. I think in the third quarter, we're probably going to see something in the upper range in the 7% to 8% context and some of that due to our accelerated growth in our card product.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. That's helpful. So I just want to turn to credit. Your second quarter net charge upgrade came in at 7.6%. You maintained your full year guidance of 7% to 7.5%. You [indiscernible] the seasonal decline in the back half. So can you just maybe update us on third quarter credit trending?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So generally, in this business, what you will see is that your first quarter charge-offs are always the highest, and it just has to do with the early-stage delinquency trends and the charge-off to follow. Third quarter tends to be our lowest charge-off rate quarter of the year. That follows 30 to 89 delinquency, which is our early-stage delinquency metric -- follows that 2 quarters prior. And of course, 2 quarters prior to third was first quarter tax season. So we typically see a very significant dip in our 30 to 89, which leads to that lower charge-off in third. We think probably in the range of mid-6s is probably a good charge-off rate for the third quarter at this point, again, following that low 30 to 89 from the first quarter, which will end up with first -- with second half being a bit lower than the first. We do think because of that seasonal trend, we'll see an uptick in fourth quarter charge-offs, probably something similar to what you saw in the first half. Those are simple seasonal dynamics. We followed the early-stage delinquency really closely in terms of where things are heading. And third quarter, we've seen pretty similar seasonal patterns in our 30 to 89 to what we've seen over the last year.
Terry Ma
analystOkay. Very helpful. So student loan forbearance is ending soon. Just any color you can provide on how many of your borrowers are impacted by that?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So I think it's -- this is a relatively small portion of our book. Historically speaking, loans that have -- our loans that have student only trade lines have performed very consistent. You [indiscernible] loans that do not have a student trade line. So overall we're not really concerned about it. We're going to be monitoring it closely, obviously, in the fourth quarter, but many of our student loans are paying -- have been paying over the last year or so. That being said, we took some precautions starting in mid-2020 when forbearance began really in more earnest, with more volume. We had -- in our underwriting, we do an ability to pay underwriting, so we credit score, but we also make sure that our customer has the ability to pay. We do non-disposable income -- the net disposable income calculation. For a student loan trade line, if that customer was not making a payment, we would impute that into our ability to pay underwriting. We've also made over the last couple of years some adjustments to risk scoring and risk rates with our borrowers where it might be a thin-file credit for us that's 3 trade lines to become thick-file if one of those trade lines was a student loan. We were seeing those were not performing as well. So we've made some adjustments around that as well to manage our book going forward. But we understand our population really well. We have done a little bit of work on customer eligibility for some of the federal savings programs, the SAFE program in particular. We think a majority of our borrowers would qualify for significant payment relief under those programs. We feel we're pretty high in the payment priority hierarchy as well, particularly in the security loans. And through our financial wellness efforts with our customer. We'll certainly be helping them understand what's available to them.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. Helpful. So you implemented some underwriting changes last August. Can you maybe just remind investors what you saw that necessitated these changes?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So last second quarter, second quarter of 2022, we saw a pretty meaningful uptick in delinquency, thought, in particular with our lower income, lower credit quality or lower FICO score borrowers. And presumably, at the time, and I think it's probably still very much true, that was a function of persistent inflation. I mean we had -- everyone knows what the level of inflation was in the last couple of years. And for a lower income borrower with a little bit less cushion, I think that caught up with them starting middle of last year. And the federal stimulus that they had been supported by over the last couple of years also, we think, dried up a bit faster for the non-prime consumer that may have hurt some prime. So we took immediate action in July and August of last year to really tighten our credit box significantly within our customer lifetime value model, which generates the returns that we would expect to see in a particular cohort of borrower. We imputed a higher level of delinquency, which leads to a higher level of loss, consistent with what we are seeing. We also out in abundance of caution, put in what we refer to as an '01, '02 overlay. So this is an overlay on losses. It turns out to be about a 30% increase in losses. That is -- that we have found would be associated with an '01, '02 type of downturn, which I think about 5% to 6% unemployment in that scenario. So effectively, what we're doing in our underwriting and have since last August, is underwriting to an expected loss at the 1.6x normal. Think about normal is 6% to 7% for our portfolio. So you've got a 9% range in terms of what we're building into our models. If you still pass our return hurdles under that increased stress, we'll still write that loan. And that's generally speaking, a 20% return on [indiscernible] with our current leverage levels. And so that was kind of what I would call a big macro overlay that we put into our underwriting that we think cut out probably $1 billion of annual originations. And we've been very pleased with what we're seeing. Really the result of this underwriting tightening is that we went from about 35% of our originations being in our top 2 tier risk grades and now 65% and that's continued throughout this year. And so we've been pleased with what we've seen. We measure the expected performance on those vintages against pre-pandemic levels. And no period is ever perfect, but we have a lot of data. So we can see -- are things performing with increase in where our expectations are? We've been very pleased with the front book. And of course, in this business, also your [indiscernible] of value. And so we continue -- every month, we're looking at performance data, where can we tighten, where were we wrong on the positive side. So there's always some puts and takes and opens and closings within our credit box. But I would say net-net over the last year, we've been net tightening the credit box. And coming back to some of the demand benefits we've seen in our originations, we've been able to really tighten that down, pick the loans we want to underwrite and it's still growing quite nicely.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. Got it. Okay. So at the end of last quarter, you mentioned about 50% of your book is post tightening of the front book. You've guided to about 70% by the end of the year. Is that still on track? And maybe can you just touch on what 2024 looks like if this mix shift continues?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. I would expect it was 50% this front book. So when I talk about front book, so everyone understands the term, it's everything we've originated since August of 2022. And right now, in our receivables, our $21 billion or so of receivables, half of that is from this front book which is performing in line, as I mentioned, with our expectations. That will grow by about 7%, 8% this quarter, and then it will grow by another 7% or 8% in fourth quarter. So we anticipate about 65%. We had anticipated about 70% at the beginning of the year. That early payoff behavior has caused us to revise that down to about 65%. But it is growing. It continues to perform well. And the good news is the older book that is performing with delinquency levels above expectations is rolling off. So hard for me to get into 2024 guidance quite yet, but I think it stands to reason that as the front book continues to grow with that good performance, hopefully, knock on wood, we get a little bit of inflationary pressure relief and the macro economy -- macro environment really continues to improve. We should see yield improve and also credit performance. We do reverse income on loans when they become 90 days past due, so that impacts our yield. But we're also taking a proactive approach with our pricing. We've made some significant recent increases in certain segments of our book in aggregate from a total portfolio origination APR. So this is for our originations in totality, we've increased pricing by about 100 basis points since early June. And so with $2 billion to $4 billion of quarterly originations, that will take some time to flow through our $21 million book, but we feel there are some headwinds there and -- excuse me, some tailwinds for 2024 that assuming a stable macro environment, we're going to start to see.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. That's helpful. So let's just turn to funding. Can you just talk about the overall liquidity profile and the funding needs over the next several years?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So as I mentioned earlier, I think we feel really good about our balance sheet. It is definitely a strategic differentiator for us to use a mix of different funding sources. We rely on very heavily the ABS market and the efficiency of that market. We've been doing a lot of ABS issuance this year. We also do a good amount of issuance in the unsecured high-yield market. That's been a little bit more disrupted over the last couple of years, but we also have introduced our whole loans sale program, which has been a nice add-on for our existing -- our core programs of unsecured and secured. And then, of course, we also have $7.5 billion of undrawn warehouse lines with a number of banks across the globe. And so all of those things create a very positive situation for us, where we can pick our spots on issuance and really manage our balance sheet closely.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. And you guys did a bond deal back in June. Can you maybe just talk about that? What did demand look like, execution?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. We did -- end of June, we did an unsecured deal. We raised $500 million. It was a 2029 bond. I would say a very positive execution. It was a tricky week, high yield spreads increased 50 basis points from Monday to Friday that week that we were at market. But we thought we got good execution. We priced where we [indiscernible] burden. So that was a positive for us. And I think we saw 20 or so new investors to the platform, and we continue to be out there and talking to debt investors all the time. We do all the conferences, et cetera, and make sure to build good relationships with all of our investors, and that proves to be very, very helpful when times get a little bit perkier in the unsecured market, but we were very happy with that execution. And then I'll add to that, we followed on in August, $1.4 billion ABS deal. So that was actually the largest market deal we've done in the history of the company. We had 3 large anchor orders from very important investors and one new investor actually from overseas, which was nice to see also. So we continue to move positively in the markets. We signed another whole loan sale -- renewed one of our whole loan sale partners in August. So we feel pretty good about where we are.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. Okay. So just turning to the credit reserve. Can you just remind investors what's actually embedded in the credit reserve and how that ratio should trend over time?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So CECL -- there's a lot goes into CECL models. Things like the current book, and I think people often forget that -- we always focus on delinquency, but the nondelinquent portion of our book is 94%, 95% of our receivables. So we have to impute under CECL a loss expectation on those loans. Of course, we also factor in our delinquency levels. What is the expectation on roll rates for the various delinquency buckets? What are we thinking in terms of lifetime recoveries on our charge-offs and of course, the macro environment. So there's a lot that goes into that process. In terms of the macro, we use a variety of macroeconomic sources. We use the Wall Street Journal survey of economists. We kind of use Moody's as our baseline for what we anchor to, but we end up taking judgment calls on where we think that should sit relative to our expectations. Right now, we have about a 4.5% to 5% unemployment rate factored into our future loss expectations. And we have obviously a lot of [indiscernible] in our company. So we were lucky to go through [indiscernible] I guess if you can say it that way. And so we have a lot of history on how unemployment changes our expectations on losses that we use within those laws. But we've not experienced the kind of inflation that we've seen in this country for a long, long time. And so we do use that macro factor of unemployment to also consider continued and persistent levels of inflation, if we don't necessarily see the unemployment levels increase. And so we will look at that quarterly. We continue to also just look at observed performance and adjust our expectations accordingly. And we'll see how that goes. But that's an ongoing process. And I think I tend to be a little bit on the conservative side, just where we are on those reserves.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. Helpful. So I wanted to switch gears and maybe just talk about strategic initiatives. You guys have the BrightWay credit card. Can you maybe just give an update on that product?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So this has been a 2- to 3-year journey for us. Hard to believe it's been that long already, but we look at the BrightWay card as a very, very big opportunity. This is a market for nonprime that is 5x the size of the install in the loan market. So about $500 billion of total address in the market. And our first objective with the card was to build a great product that had very, very -- had a lot of use for our target customer and was very much designed around our target customer. The core of our credit card is a concept of reciprocity. And what that means is we're sharing in the good behaviors and positive performance of our customers as they exhibit those behaviors. So to be a little bit more tangible on it, every time a customer makes 6 months of on-time payments, they get to choose digitally through our app, whether they want to reduce their APR or increase their credit line. And so we think that's very unique in the nonprime space, and we believe this will -- this kind of product, when executed on correctly, will allow us to be a really serious player in the market in the coming years. We've seen very positive trends in our card. We've been at this a couple of years. We are really monitoring utilization rates, revolve rates on the card, what are customers spending on. We see them using the card for gas, groceries everyday usage, which is a very positive attribute. One customer taking the card out of a wallet every day and using it and getting an association with OneMain, but also you don't want someone putting a wallet and a card in the drawer and pulling it out when all their other cards are maxed out. So we really focus on that very, very carefully, and we've seen good trends there. We've seen good digital engagement. Most customers are making payments directly on the app. And we've seen positive credit performance. It hasn't been perfect, but we've been able to now identify pockets of segments and channels and areas where we think we can effectively expand with a good degree of confidence there. And even after a couple of years, we only have $200-or-so million of balances. And so we've been very disciplined and very cautious on this rollout given the macro environment. But I think we're at the point where we're now ready to scale. We've been building out our operational capabilities, our collections capabilities, and we're now actually using some of our own experiential data with this card and our underwriting. So I think you'll start to see us ramp up some of that, of course, in a very risk cautious way, but start to ramp up our growth in the card. And I think over time, you'll start to see some of the benefits also of a multiproduct strategy. We actually had our first card customer in July who went into a OneMain loan. And so -- we like that because it's a nice credit positive way for us to bring a customer in with a lower balance card, get to know them, learn along with them at a very low acquisition cost. And then when they move into the loan, of course, the acquisition cost is virtually zero. So we feel very, very good about it. Again, very cautious about the rollout of any particular growth aspirations in mind, but we're trying to build a card for the future, and I think something will be a big differentiator for us in a couple of years.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. And in the longer term, are there any other ancillary products that made sense?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. The one that comes to mind is not really an ancillary product, I guess, but it's an expansion of our existing product. You've probably heard us talk a lot about our new distribution channels, which is really finding ways for us to acquire new loans that aren't coming through the traditional branch channel. We have -- we view it as an extension of our secured lending capabilities. There's a lot of things we do really well, making sure we get lean perfection on our loans. We have 99% lean perfection rates with collateral management. We know how to run a book of secured lending. And so this area has been very, very successful for us. We're basically operating through places like Dealertrack or RouteOne DealerCenter through powersports dealers and connecting with our consumer at the point of purchase. These loans are still underwritten directly by us. Most of them include a conversation with the customer. But I think the growth here has been really nice, and I think it's a nice ancillary add-on to our existing distribution channels. We now have close to $600 million in receivables from these channels. We've been doing it since May 2020. So again, cautious and a proven approach, but it's starting to grow quite nicely and the credit performance has been really outstanding.
Terry Ma
analystGreat. Maybe just touch on capital returns on the dividend and buyback.
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. I mean I think dividend, we continue to have the dollar quarterly or $4 dividend. We -- the dividend we say is sacrosanct to us. So, outside of growing our book and investing in the business, that's our first priority in terms of capital returns. We've been a bit more cautious this year, giving ourselves some strategic flexibility around with share repurchases. We continue to be in the market there, but at a lesser level than what we were doing in 2022, just out of an abundance of caution. I think we create that optionality on our balance sheet. No major changes to our philosophy or our strategy there.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. All right. I'm going to pause here, and I'll open it up to Q&A. Anyone have any questions? We have one up here.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeMicah, in the front book, does [indiscernible] your ratio, does that improve?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes, it shifted a little bit. I mean renters tend to be a little bit riskier, if you will, than homeowners just in terms of our scoring. So we've moved about 10 percentage points on the mix. But I think, as you probably know, in this country there's a lot more renters now than there were 5 years ago. And so we continue to feel good but our renter population has shifted a little bit more towards homeowners. Our tightening also tends to move our originations a little bit more to present customers than our new customers. Then of course, the risk rate changes. Those are the larger sort of differences when we do tighten in terms of the macro picture.
Terry Ma
analystWe have one back there with a microphone first.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeHi, Micah. How are you? Question in and around your auto secured book. Have you made any changes to your models based on a different perspective on what that auto collateral will be worth. Do you still find it to be as attractive as a channel?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. Let me touch on the core business first. The new distribution channel is a little bit different in that we're doing purchased auto there as opposed to our personal loans. So first, no one comes into our branch who's really looking for an auto loan. So generally speaking, where a customer will end up with an auto loan is either we require collateral to be able to offer a loan to that customer or we have what we call a multi offer where you're of a good enough credit, you qualify for an unsecured loan, but you also qualify for a direct auto loan. This is generally speaking, auto-loan, where the auto value -- the auto age is less than 10 years. And so we'll go through a process with the customer of understanding their balance sheet, their bureau data and very often, the direct auto loan is becoming -- it's a debt consolidation loan as a result of that conversation, and so we can get them better pricing on it. The reason I bring this up is because it's a little bit different dynamic in terms of LTVs and the way we think about risk because we were willing to give that customer an unsecured loan to start with out of the gate. And so we generally have seen historically that frequency loss is really the driver of performance in our secured book. So if you look at our cumulative loss curves on a unit basis and also on a dollar basis, they're almost on top of one another, which tells you that it's that collateral that puts us higher in the payment hierarchy with the customer. Our customer needs their car to get to work. They're not living in Manhattan usually and taking public transportation. And so they prioritize that secured loan. That's what has historically driven the performance that we see in our business in our core loans. That said, we do watch collateral values. We will remarket cars about 14,000 a year on 900,000 secured loans. So it's not a lot, but we will do it, and we are sensitive to auto prices. So out of an abundance of caution, we've put in on 3 different occasions over the last couple of years, reductions in the amount of collateral value we will give the customer credit for the -- with the LTV calculation. And so we've put in that caution there. Auto loans, obviously, auto values have started to come down a bit, and we're watching closely, but we feel pretty well protected there.
Terry Ma
analystGot it. I think we had a question up here can someone get him the mic. You go first.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeThank you. In terms of the overlay, you mentioned earlier the '01, '02 overlay -- triggered a question for me. What -- how do you arrive at your economic forecast. Is that internal? Is it external? And then what would cause you to put an '08, '09 overlay on? Is that your call? Or is that some external party's call about the outlook?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. I think all this stuff is our call. I mean it is our business and we make these decisions. I've gotten questions before about maybe reserving. being a bit different than how we're thinking about underwriting, and that's okay. We have -- there's a lot of specificity in our reserving models. And again, we use a number of different forecasting sources for our unemployment rate assumptions. I would call the 0102, not a projection of what we think is going to happen, but simply a conservative approach to our underwriting, particularly in an environment where you're going to have a lot of opportunity to write good loans. And this was our mechanism and our method for tightening down the credit box in a very methodical way, where we can then shift our mix up to a higher credit quality instrument. I mean we could have just said, "We're going to cut off risk grade at the lowest level." But because we have a state-based model, we can underwrite up to 36% in California. In Maryland, we can only underwrite up to 22%. And so those different states require you to think about risk in different ways because of the APR dynamics there. And so the best way for us to employ those strategies is to increase loss expectations in our models. That produces a different outcome in California than it does in Maryland. And it's much more effective than us just saying, come off [indiscernible] or whatever want to decide there. And so again, those are all our decisions. I think '08, '09 was pretty rough as some of us in this room remember. I personally don't see that. I think the way we're underwriting today, though, is almost pretty spot on what we saw in '08, '09. So when I mentioned the 1.6x loss expectation earlier, that was 30% higher delinquency today from persistent information plus 30% unemployment stress from '01, '02. When you put those 2 together, it looks like what '08, '09 looked like, We topped out about 10% annual loss rate in '08, '09 with teams unemployment. And so we feel good about where our underwriting is today. And keep in mind, when -- we have that cut-off of 20% return on tangible, so even in an '08, '09 downturn or in the current construct with '01, '02 plus inflation, we're still making a 20% return on [indiscernible]. And so that gives us a nice bit of cushion to feel comfortable about where we are.
Terry Ma
analystOne question back there.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeHello. So, I'm not familiar with the OneMain the story, but you said something about your front book being 50% of the receivables, and it was originated just last year. So does -- I mean that implies that the average life of loans is about 2 years, which given that you also hire auto loans, which, in recent years, has only increased. So if you can just explain a little bit better?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. So our average loan is about 18 to 20 months. And I think the thing you have to remember about OneMain is we -- our customer is there, and we have -- about 50% of our originations end up as it being a renewal. And our average --about half -- and said another way, half of our new customers will end up renewing their loan at some point in the future. That whole life of loan is probably a little different from our purchased auto, those distribution channels I talked about, which are a smaller part of the book. But for our core loan book, it's about 18 to 20 months on the loan. The customer relationships book. But once we re-underwrite that customer, we're pulling in the bureau, we're doing a full incremental underwriting, and we do that incremental underwriting with our new tighter credit box. And so that's why our book does turn over as quickly as we're talking about here. It's a more conservative thing. So it has shifted our origination mix to a higher credit quality of borrower with about 65% of our originations now in our top 2 risk grade, which you can think about as a good proxy as [indiscernible] prime.
Terry Ma
analystAny other questions from the audience? I'm going to go to one audience response question that I have. Can you queue it up, operator. Over the next year, would you expect to position in OneMain (1) increase, (2) decrease or (3) stay the same?
Micah Conrad
executiveI'll not take this as a personal reflection on my performance today.
Terry Ma
analystSo pretty bullish. Okay. So maybe just to follow-up on the mix shift and front book back book. You spoke about 65% of your originations are in the top 2 risk grades, I think that compares about 40% pre-pandemic. I guess, maybe talk a little bit more about what you need to see to change that and what's the overall impact on, I guess, credit and yields are?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes. I mean I think the truth is across the FICO spectrum, we see consumer stress. If you -- we tranche our originate -- we don't underwrite to FICO, but it's a helpful tool to understand general degrees of risk for the consumer and everyone understands it. We've tranched our originations into FICO buckets, call it, 580 to 600, 6 to 620, 620 to 640, et cetera. And you see, if you look at a like-for-like customer against pre-pandemic 2018, 2019, delinquency levels are higher across the spectrum. And so we've been able to tighten our underwriting and shift our mix to that higher credit quality better performing customer, and therefore, we've seen our front book performance more like 2019, 2018, but on a [indiscernible] customer, that wouldn't be the case. And so I think what we need to see to start to get more comfortable with credit is that, that starts to roll down a bit and that like-for-like credit score starts to perform more like pre-pandemic levels. And I think you have to think about that -- the drive of that has to be inflation and consumer behavior. This consumer's been pretty resilient historically and found ways to match incoming revenue and outgoing expense. As we've always said, our customer's very, very stable. They've had a couple of dents in their credit along the way, but are good performing consumers and I think just with all the federal stimulus that occurred and then you kind of pull all of that away and then you replace it with everything costing more, there's been a bit of a disruption in the nonprime consumer market. We feel like we're helping them navigate through, and I expect that will moderate over time and the consumer gets used to whatever environment they're in.
Terry Ma
analystGreat. Looks like we have one last question up there.
Unknown Attendee
attendeeHey, Micah. Thanks again. Not to take this question personally, but your company -- and I haven't looked at the valuation multiples as of today or as of last month. But for a long time, it's traded in around 6x PE for a market leader with great returns on capital. Why do you think that is? And are there catalysts in your mind that can take the valuation up to maybe the longer-term averages for the sector, which would be high single digits to even low double digits?
Micah Conrad
executiveYes, I'm watching the timer tick down here. I don't think I have enough time to answer that question. It is one that I've spent a lot of time thinking about. I think being a wholesale funded balance sheet in the nonprime sector tends to be something that people shy away from for what reason. I've been with this business for 10 years. I've known it from when Citi owned it, and I don't really understand that mentality. I think our returns are second to none. We feel really, really confident that in any type of environment we can be successful. I talked about our funding programs and our access to funding is second to none. I wish I knew the answer to that question. We certainly don't get credit in our -- for our return on tangible. We sort of sit off regression lines there. And I think for us, as a management team, we can't be too focused on that. We've got to -- we're trying to run a great business, deliver great returns for our shareholders and fit in a very, very important segment in this United States. About half of the United States is not prime. So -- and we are the biggest player. And I think as long as we continue to execute, we get through this strange low market that we've been in for sad to say 3 years, I think that will improve over time. We're working on multiproduct strategy such that we aren't sort of pigeonholed into our historic just branch-based network. We've got the cards. We've done a lot of acquisition opportunity in the public -- in the general market for cards and we're working on distribution channels with purchased auto. So I can see our business continuing and that's all we can do as a management team to try to continue to look at for all of our shareholders. Thanks for the question. I don't take it personally.
Terry Ma
analystGreat. I think we're just about -- times up. So thank you.
Micah Conrad
executiveThanks, Terry. Thank you all. Appreciate it.
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