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Nelnet Experiences 3rd Quarter 2025 Effects


LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Nelnet (NYSE: NNI) lately reported GAAP web source of revenue of $106.7 million, or $2.94 according to proportion, for the 0.33 quarter of 2025, when compared with GAAP web source of revenue of $2.4 million, or $0.07 according to proportion, for a similar era a month in the past.

Web source of revenue, apart from spinoff marketplace worth changes1, used to be $107.3 million, or $2.95 according to proportion, for the 0.33 quarter of 2025, when compared with $12.4 million, or $0.34 according to proportion, for a similar era in 2024.

The 0.33 quarter 2025 running effects integrated refer to pieces:

  • Non-recurring earnings of $32.9 million ($25.0 million next tax or $0.69 according to proportion) from the corporate’s authorities servicing pledge. Upon attaining a last word with the Branch of Training, the corporate known earnings on a pledge amendment for products and services in the past carried out.
  • A achieve of $30.2 million ($23.0 million next tax or $0.63 according to proportion) linked to a bias redemption and building up within the difference wearing worth on a undertaking capital funding.
  • The popularity of $28.9 million ($22.0 million next tax or $0.60 according to proportion) of adverse provision (that higher source of revenue) linked to the reversal of allowance for mortgage losses on a portfolio of loans offered.
  • Sure expense pieces of $20.1 million ($15.3 million next tax or $0.42 according to proportion) linked to a non-cash rate to write-off debt bargain prices linked to the repurchase of the corporate’s personal debt ($8.3 million); persisted losses within the corporate’s sun building industry ($6.0 million); and a non-cash impairment rate on a sun building undertaking ($5.8 million).

“Strong results this quarter were driven by ongoing strength across our core businesses in loan servicing, consumer lending, payments, and technology along with some one-time transactions that had a positive impact,” mentioned Jeff Noordhoek, well-known government officer of Nelnet. “We remain focused on long-term value creation and see meaningful opportunities to invest in and grow these businesses. During the quarter, we repurchased shares at an attractive price and increased our dividend. We also plan to make a significant contribution to our foundation before the end of the year. Additionally, we were excited to announce our agreement to acquire Finastra’s Canadian student loan servicing business, which builds on our legacy of serving student loan borrowers and government partners in both the U.S. and Canada. We look forward to continuing their success.”

Nelnet has 4 reportable running sections, incomes passion source of revenue on loans in its Asset Future and Control (AGM) and Nelnet Reserve sections, each a part of the corporate’s Nelnet Monetary Products and services (NFS) section, and fee-based earnings in its Mortgage Servicing and Methods (known as Nelnet Assorted Products and services (NDS)) and Training Era Products and services and Bills (known as Nelnet Trade Products and services (NBS)) sections. Alternative industry actions and running sections that aren’t reportable and now not a part of the NFS section are blended and integrated in Company Actions.

Asset Future and Control

The AGM running branch reported mortgage and funding web passion source of revenue of $44.7 million all over the 0.33 quarter of 2025, when compared with $38.4 million for a similar era a month in the past. The rise in 2025 used to be because of an building up in mortgage unfold2, which used to be partly offset by means of the anticipated runoff of the Federal People Training Mortgage Program (FFELP) mortgage portfolio. The common stability of loans remarkable reduced from $9.8 billion for the 0.33 quarter of 2024 to $8.8 billion for a similar era in 2025.

AGM known a adverse provision for mortgage losses within the 0.33 quarter of 2025 of $7.4 million ($5.6 million next tax) when compared with provision expense of $12.0 million ($9.1 million next tax) for a similar era in 2024. As mentioned above, all over the 0.33 quarter of 2025, the corporate offered $203.3 million of client loans and lowered its allowance (and known adverse provision expense) of $28.9 million linked to this mortgage sale.

As well as, all over the 0.33 quarter of 2025, AGM known a lack of $8.3 million ($6.3 million next tax) from repurchasing $377.6 million of its personal debt within the secondary marketplace. As of September 30, 2025, the corporate holds $499.5 million (par worth) of its personal FFELP asset-backed securities. For accounting functions, those notes are eradicated in consolidation and aren’t integrated within the corporate’s consolidated monetary statements. Alternatively, those securities stay legally remarkable on the believe stage and could also be offered to 3rd events or redeemed at par because the believe generates coins.

AGM known web source of revenue next tax of $27.8 million for the 3 months ended September 30, 2025, when compared with a web lack of $12.4 million for a similar era in 2024. Within the 0.33 quarter of 2024, AGM known a lack of $9.5 million ($7.2 million next tax) linked to adjustments within the honest worth of spinoff tools that don’t qualify for hedge accounting and a provision expense of $29.0 million ($22.0 million next tax) linked to sure of the corporate’s advisable passion investments.

1

Web source of revenue, apart from spinoff marketplace worth changes, is a non-GAAP measure. See “Non-GAAP Performance Measures” on the finish of this press let fall and the “Non-GAAP Disclosures” division underneath for explanatory knowledge and reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP monetary knowledge.



2

Mortgage unfold represents the unfold between the yielding earned on mortgage belongings and the prices of the liabilities old to treasure the belongings.

Nelnet Reserve

As of September 30, 2025, Nelnet Reserve had general belongings of $2.00 billion that consisted of a $974.9 million and $1.01 billion mortgage and funding portfolio, respectively, and general deposits, together with intercompany deposits, of $1.73 billion. Nelnet Reserve reported mortgage and funding web passion source of revenue of $15.4 million all over the 0.33 quarter of 2025, when compared with $10.6 million for a similar era a month in the past. The rise in 2025 used to be because of an building up within the mortgage and funding portfolio, partly offset by means of a snip in web passion margin.

Nelnet Reserve known a provision for mortgage losses within the 0.33 quarter of 2025 of $3.8 million ($2.9 million next tax), when compared with $6.1 million ($4.6 million next tax) within the 0.33 quarter of 2024.

Nelnet Reserve known web source of revenue next tax for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 of $4.6 million, when compared with a web lack of $3.6 million for a similar era in 2024. Within the 0.33 quarter of 2024, Nelnet Reserve known a lack of $3.6 million  ($2.7 million next tax) linked to adjustments within the honest worth of spinoff tools that don’t qualify for hedge accounting

Mortgage Servicing and Methods

Earnings from the Mortgage Servicing and Methods branch used to be $151.1 million for the 0.33 quarter of 2025, when compared with $108.2 million for a similar era in 2024. The rise in earnings used to be because of the $32.9 million of non-recurring earnings from the federal government servicing pledge as mentioned above and an building up of personal schooling mortgage servicing quantity because of the conversion of Uncover Monetary Products and services and SoFi Lending Corp. mortgage portfolios all over the fourth quarter of 2024 and primary quarter of 2025. As of September 30, 2025, the corporate used to be servicing $508.7 billion in government-owned, FFELP, non-public schooling, and client loans for 14.2 million debtors.

The Mortgage Servicing and Methods branch reported web source of revenue next tax of $35.2 million for the 3 months ended September 30, 2025, when compared with a lack of $3.5 million for a similar era in 2024. Web source of revenue in 2025 has been undoubtedly impacted in 2025 when compared with 2024 because of an building up in earnings and a snip in bills got from strategic value control actions together with efficiencies accomplished with era and automation.

On October 23, 2025, the corporate introduced that it entered into an word with DH Company, an entirely owned subsidiary of Finastra Holdings Restricted (Finastra), to procure Finastra’s Canadian scholar mortgage servicing industry for about $93 million in coins. The transaction is anticipated to similar within the first quarter of 2026, topic to normal endmost statuses. Finastra’s Canadian scholar mortgage servicing industry is the chief supplier of scholar mortgage servicing answers to governments and monetary establishments in Canada offering era enabled controlled products and services around the mortgage lifecycle. The industry lately products and services loans for two.4 million debtors on proprietary era platforms.

Training Era Products and services and Bills

For the 0.33 quarter of 2025, earnings from the Training Era Products and services and Bills running branch used to be $129.3 million, an building up from $118.2 million for a similar era in 2024. Earnings much less direct prices to grant products and services for the 0.33 quarter of 2025 used to be $79.0 million, when compared with $72.9 million for a similar era in 2024. Working margin has reduced in 2025 when compared with 2024 as the corporate continues to assemble investments to aid the expansion within the buyer bottom and building of untouched applied sciences.

Web source of revenue next tax for the Training Era Products and services and Bills branch used to be $19.0 million for the 3 months ended September 30, 2025, when compared with $20.4 million for a similar era in 2024.

Company Actions

The corporate has an funding in an unaffiliated third-party era corporate. In August 2025, this era corporate finished an fairness carry and permitted gentle trade in to redeem present fairness holders with a portion of the proceeds. The corporate redeemed a portion of its funding and altered its wearing worth of its difference funding to mirror the August 2025 transaction worth. Because of this transaction, the corporate known a pre-tax achieve of $30.2 million.

For the 0.33 quarter of 2025, the corporate reported a lack of $6.0 million ($4.6 million next tax) in its sun engineering, procurement, and building (EPC) industry. Because the acquisition of this industry in 2022, it has incurred low and, in lots of circumstances, adverse margins on legacy tasks. The corporate continues to acknowledge loss reserves that constitute its estimate of prices it is going to incur to finish the difference legacy oaths.

Proportion Repurchases

All the way through the primary 9 months of 2025, the corporate has repurchased 439,895 Magnificence A ordinary stocks for $53.1 million (moderate value of $120.69 according to proportion), together with a complete of 217,850 Magnificence A ordinary stocks for $27.3 million (moderate value of $125.19 according to proportion) all over the 0.33 quarter.

Board of Administrators Broadcasts Fourth Quarter Dividend

The Nelnet Board of Administrators declared a fourth-quarter coins dividend at the corporate’s remarkable stocks of Magnificence A ordinary hold and Magnificence B ordinary hold of $0.33 according to proportion. The dividend might be paid on December 15, 2025, to shareholders of report on the similar of commercial on December 1, 2025.

The Nelnet Underpinning used to be established to aid us satisfy our core worth of giving again to the communities the place we are living and paintings. Traditionally, Nelnet has contributed every year to the Underpinning to aid this challenge. Because of contemporary tax legislation adjustments and powerful running efficiency in 2025, our Board of Administrators has licensed a contribution of as much as $35 million to the Underpinning. We predict this quantity will guard our 2025 annual contribution in addition to contributions for the foreseeable day. The whole contribution might be expensed within the fourth quarter of 2025.

Ahead-Taking a look and Cautionary Statements

This press let fall accommodates forward-looking statements throughout the which means of federal securities rules. The phrases “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “ensure,” “estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “scheduled,” “should,” “will,” “would,” and related expressions, in addition to statements in day nerve-racking, are supposed to spot forward-looking statements. Those statements are in response to control’s flow expectancies as of the age of this let fall and are topic to identified and unknown dangers, uncertainties, suppositions, and alternative components that can motive the untouched effects and function to be materially other from any day effects or efficiency expressed or implied by means of such forward-looking statements. Such dangers and uncertainties come with, however aren’t restricted to: dangers linked to the facility to effectively guard and building up allotted volumes of scholar loans serviced by means of the corporate beneath present and day servicing oaths with the Branch of Training, dangers linked to detrimental pledge adjustments or interpretations, dangers linked to persistently assembly carrier necessities to steer clear of the review of efficiency consequences, and dangers linked to the corporate’s talent to conform to commitments with third-party shoppers for the servicing of Federal Direct Mortgage Program, FFEL Program, non-public schooling, and client loans; mortgage portfolio dangers reminiscent of credit score possibility, prepayment possibility, rate of interest foundation and repricing possibility, dangers linked to the usefulness of derivatives to supremacy publicity to rate of interest fluctuations, uncertainties in regards to the anticipated advantages from bought securitized and unsecuritized FFELP, non-public schooling, client, and alternative loans, or funding pursuits therein, and projects to buy alternative FFELP, non-public schooling, client, and alternative loans; financing and liquidity dangers, together with dangers of adjustments within the rate of interest climate; dangers from adjustments within the phrases of schooling loans and within the tutorial credit score and products and services markets on account of adjustments in appropriate rules, laws, and authorities methods and budgets; dangers linked to a breach of or failure within the corporate’s operational or knowledge methods or infrastructure, or the ones of third-party distributors, together with disclosure of unrevealed or non-public knowledge and/or harm to recognition on account of cyber breaches; dangers linked to usefulness of synthetic knowledge; uncertainties inherent in forecasting day coins flows from scholar mortgage belongings, together with funding pursuits therein, and linked asset-backed securitizations; dangers linked to the facility of Nelnet Reserve to reach its industry targets and successfully deploy mortgage and storehouse methods and reach anticipated marketplace penetration; dangers linked to the anticipated advantages to the corporate from its proceeding funding in Hudl; dangers linked to the corporate’s sun tax fairness investments and sun building industry, together with dangers of now not with the ability to understand tax credit which stay topic to recapture by means of taxing government and dangers from the affect of the enactment of the One Fat Stunning Invoice that speeds up the expiration and section out of solar power credit; dangers and uncertainties linked to alternative projects to pursue alternative strategic investments (and expected source of revenue therefrom) together with undertaking capital and actual property investments, reinsurance, acquisitions, and alternative actions (together with dangers related to mistakes that once in a while happen in changing mortgage servicing portfolios to a untouched servicing platform), together with actions which are supposed to diversify the corporate each inside and out of doors of its ancient core education-related companies; dangers and uncertainties related to order alternate; dangers from adjustments in financial statuses and client conduct; dangers linked to the corporate’s talent to evolve to technological alternate; dangers linked to the unique discussion board provisions within the corporate’s articles of incorporation; dangers linked to the corporate’s government chairman’s talent to regulate issues linked to the corporate thru balloting rights; dangers linked to linked get together transactions; dangers linked to herbal failures, terrorist actions, or world hostilities; and dangers and uncertainties related to litigation issues and keeping up compliance with the in depth regulatory necessities appropriate to the corporate’s companies, together with contemporary adjustments to the regulatory climate in the US, and uncertainties inherent within the estimates and suppositions about day occasions that control is needed to assemble within the preparation of the corporate’s consolidated monetary statements.

For more info, see the “Risk Factors” divisions and alternative cautionary discussions of dangers and uncertainties integrated in paperwork filed or furnished by means of the corporate with the Securities and Alternate Fee. All forward-looking statements on this let fall are as of the age of this let fall. Even supposing the corporate might spontaneously replace or revise its forward-looking statements from presen to presen to mirror untouched effects or adjustments within the corporate’s expectancies, the corporate disclaims any loyalty to take action with the exception of as required by means of legislation.

Non-GAAP Efficiency Measures

The corporate prepares its monetary statements and gifts its monetary ends up in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Alternatively, it additionally supplies alternative non-GAAP monetary knowledge linked to express pieces control believes to be notable within the analysis of its running effects and function. Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP monetary knowledge, and a dialogue of why the corporate believes offering this alternative knowledge comes in handy to buyers, is supplied within the “Non-GAAP Disclosures” division underneath.

Consolidated Statements of Source of revenue

(Greenbacks in hundreds, with the exception of proportion knowledge)

(unaudited)



3 months ended


9 months ended


September
30, 2025


June
30, 2025


September
30, 2024


September
30, 2025


September
30, 2024

Passion source of revenue:










Mortgage passion

$         162,717


172,104


190,211


501,260


609,064

Funding passion

43,241


40,185


50,272


124,815


143,086

Overall passion source of revenue

205,958


212,289


240,483


626,075


752,150

Passion expense on bonds and notes payable and attic deposits

120,708


132,854


168,328


378,677


539,367

Web passion source of revenue

85,250


79,435


72,155


247,398


212,783

Much less (adverse provision) provision for mortgage losses

(3,563)


17,930


18,111


29,704


32,551

Web passion source of revenue next provision for mortgage losses

88,813


61,505


54,044


217,694


180,232

Alternative source of revenue (expense):










Mortgage servicing and methods earnings

151,052


120,724


108,175


392,517


344,428

Training era products and services and bills earnings

129,321


118,184


118,179


394,836


378,627

Reinsurance premiums earned

23,165


26,112


16,619


73,964


44,250

Sun building earnings

5,738


1,259


19,321


10,992


42,741

Alternative, web

35,730


22,976


15,706


82,401


33,807

Loss on sale of loans, web

(2,472)



(107)


(1,562)


(1,685)

Achieve on bias redemption of ALLO funding


175,044



175,044


By-product marketplace worth changes and spinoff settlements, web

(27)


(3,122)


(11,525)


(8,728)


1,378

Overall alternative source of revenue (expense), web

342,507


461,177


266,368


1,119,464


843,546

Price of products and services and bills:










Mortgage servicing pledge achievement and acquisition prices

2,021


1,845


196


5,500


392

Price to grant schooling era products and services and bills

50,363


39,844


45,273


138,254


134,106

Price to grant sun building products and services

7,607


14,050


26,815


29,485


49,115

Overall value of products and services

59,991


55,739


72,284


173,239


183,613

Salaries and advantages

144,778


134,699


146,192


417,700


429,701

Depreciation and amortization

7,327


7,624


13,661


24,206


45,572

Reinsurance losses and underwriting bills

19,962


25,662


16,761


67,836


39,066

Alternative bills

53,669


51,306


44,685


153,200


138,820

Overall running bills

225,736


219,291


221,299


662,942


653,159

Impairment expense and provision for advisable pursuits

9,145


10,288


29,052


21,024


36,865

Overall bills

294,872


285,318


322,635


857,205


873,637

Source of revenue (loss) ahead of source of revenue taxes

136,448


237,364


(2,223)


479,953


150,141

Source of revenue tax (expense) get advantages

(35,773)


(59,510)


282


(120,294)


(37,653)

Web source of revenue (loss)

100,675


177,854


(1,941)


359,659


112,488

Web loss as a consequence of noncontrolling pursuits

6,009


3,605


4,329


11,044


8,398

Web source of revenue as a consequence of Nelnet, Inc.

$         106,684


181,459


2,388


370,703


120,886

Income according to ordinary proportion:










Web source of revenue as a consequence of Nelnet, Inc. shareholders – ordinary and diluted

$               2.94


4.97


0.07


10.18


3.29

Weighted moderate ordinary stocks remarkable – ordinary and diluted

36,316,315


36,485,605


36,430,485


36,426,188


36,703,314

Condensed Consolidated Steadiness Sheets

(Greenbacks in hundreds)

(unaudited)



As of


As of


As of


September 30, 2025


December 31, 2024


September 30, 2024

Property:






Loans and gathered passion receivable, web

$               10,227,261


9,992,744


10,572,881

Money, coins equivalents, and investments

2,455,950


2,395,214


2,173,000

Limited coins

550,371


736,502


679,334

Favor and intangible belongings, web

189,783


194,357


196,400

Alternative belongings

453,317


458,936


462,513

Overall belongings

$               13,876,682


13,777,753


14,084,128

Liabilities:






Bonds and notes payable

$                 7,822,531


8,309,797


8,938,446

Reserve deposits

1,476,765


1,186,131


1,070,758

Alternative liabilities

990,691


982,708


864,786

Overall liabilities

10,289,987


10,478,636


10,873,990

Fairness:






Overall Nelnet, Inc. shareholders’ fairness

3,653,290


3,349,762


3,290,652

Noncontrolling pursuits

(66,595)


(50,645)


(80,514)

Overall fairness

3,586,695


3,299,117


3,210,138

Overall liabilities and fairness

$               13,876,682


13,777,753


14,084,128

Non-GAAP Disclosures
(Greenbacks in hundreds, with the exception of proportion knowledge)
(unaudited)

Non-GAAP monetary measures disclosed by means of control are supposed to grant alternative knowledge and perception relative to industry developments to buyers and, in sure circumstances, to provide monetary knowledge as deliberate by means of ranking companies and alternative customers of monetary knowledge. Those measures aren’t in keeping with, or an alternative to, GAAP and could also be other from, or inconsistent with, non-GAAP monetary measures old by means of alternative firms. The corporate experiences this non-GAAP knowledge since the corporate believes that it supplies alternative knowledge relating to operational and function signs which are intently assessed by means of control. There’s no complete, authoritative steerage for the presentation of such non-GAAP knowledge, which is handiest intended to complement GAAP effects by means of offering alternative knowledge that control makes use of to evaluate efficiency.

Web source of revenue, apart from spinoff marketplace worth changes


3 months ended September 30,


2025


2024

GAAP web source of revenue as a consequence of Nelnet, Inc.

$              106,684


2,388

Discovered and unrealized spinoff marketplace worth changes (a)

788


13,165

Tax impact (b)

(189)


(3,160)

Non-GAAP web source of revenue as a consequence of Nelnet, Inc., apart from spinoff marketplace
worth changes

$              107,283


12,393

Income according to proportion:




GAAP web source of revenue as a consequence of Nelnet, Inc.

$                    2.94


0.07

Discovered and unrealized spinoff marketplace worth changes (a)

0.02


0.36

Tax impact (b)

(0.01)


(0.09)

Non-GAAP web source of revenue as a consequence of Nelnet, Inc., apart from spinoff marketplace
worth changes

$                    2.95


0.34



(a)

“Derivative market value adjustments” comprises each the discovered portion of beneficial properties and losses (akin to variation margin won or paid on spinoff tools which are settled day-to-day at a central clearinghouse) and the unrealized portion of beneficial properties and losses which are brought about by means of adjustments in honest values of derivatives which don’t qualify for “hedge treatment” beneath GAAP. “Derivative market value adjustments” does now not come with “derivative settlements” that constitute the money paid or won all over the respective era to determine with spinoff software counterparties the industrial impact of the corporate’s spinoff tools in response to their contractual phrases.




The accounting for derivatives calls for that adjustments within the honest worth of spinoff tools be known lately in income, without a honest worth adjustment of the hedged merchandise, until explicit hedge accounting standards are met. Control has structured all the corporate’s spinoff transactions with the intent that every is economically efficient; alternatively, nearly all of the corporate’s spinoff tools don’t qualify for hedge accounting within the consolidated monetary statements. Consequently, the alternate in honest worth for the spinoff tools that don’t qualify for hedge accounting is reported in flow era income as a right for the corresponding alternate in honest worth of the hedged merchandise. Beneath GAAP, the cumulative web discovered and unrealized achieve or loss brought about by means of adjustments in honest values of derivatives during which the corporate plans to conserve to adulthood will most often equivalent 0 over the occasion of the pledge. Alternatively, the online discovered and unrealized achieve or loss all over any given reporting era fluctuates considerably from era to era.




The corporate believes those point-in-time estimates of asset and legal responsibility values linked to its spinoff tools which are topic to rate of interest fluctuations are topic to volatility most commonly because of timing and marketplace components past the regulate of control, and have an effect on the period-to-period comparison of the result of operations. Accordingly, the corporate’s control makes use of running effects apart from this stuff for comparison functions when making selections in regards to the corporate’s efficiency and in shows with credit standing companies, lenders, and buyers



(b)

The tax results are calculated by means of multiplying the discovered and unrealized spinoff marketplace worth changes by means of the appropriate statutory source of revenue tax price.

SOURCE Nelnet, Inc.



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