Pagaya Reports Second Quarter and First Half 2022 Results

2Q’22 Network Volume and Total Revenue grow 79% and 83%, respectively, in the second quarter, Adjusted EBITDA of $4.9 million

1H’22 Total Revenue of $352.1 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $9.3 million

Provides full-year 2022 outlook

Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: PGY) (“Pagaya” or the “Company”), a global technology company delivering artificial intelligence infrastructure for the financial ecosystem, today announced financial results for the second quarter and the first half of 2022 and provided its full-year 2022 outlook.

“In our first quarter reporting as a public company, we are proud to report continued strong network volume and total revenue growth. These results reflect the strength of a proprietary A.I. network that drives better outcomes and a B2B2C business model that delivers consistent growth through macro cycles,” said Gal Krubiner, Chief Executive Officer of Pagaya. “Looking ahead, we will remain focused on our ambition to be the trusted A.I. partner for the banking system.”

Second Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights

All comparisons are made versus the same period in 2021 unless otherwise stated

• Network Volume increased 79% to $1.9 billion, reflecting strong growth from existing partnerships across all products
• Total revenue and other income increased 83% to $181.5 million, primarily due to increased fee revenue from Network Volume growth
• Net loss attributable to Pagaya shareholders of $146.3 million, impacted by share-based compensation of $146.0 million. Adjusted net income of $3.5 million, which excludes share-based compensation expense, change in fair value of warrant liability, and non-recurring expenses
• Adjusted EBITDA of $4.9 million, reflecting ongoing investments in the long-term growth and scalability of the business

Recent Business Highlights

• Business combination with EJF Acquisition Corp. closed on June 22, 2022, with an upsized PIPE investment of $350 million; Class A ordinary shares and public warrants began trading on Nasdaq on June 23, 2022 under the symbols “PGY” and “PGYWW,” respectively
• Onboarded large U.S. bank with over $100 billion in assets as a major partner in auto
• On July 1, 2022, former Barclays Bank UK CEO, Ashok Vaswani, joined Pagaya as President, bringing 30+ years of financial services experience to help take the Company into its next chapter of growth
• Continued strong application flow, with 63 million applications cumulatively evaluated from the beginning of 2019 through 2Q’22
• Raised approximately $1.8 billion in investor capital into financing vehicles, across new ABS issuances and privately managed funds

The following table summarizes the Company’s outlook for full-year 2022:

Webcast

The Company will hold a webcast and conference call today, August 16, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. A live webcast of the call will be available via the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at investor.pagaya.com. To listen to the live webcast, please go to the site at least five minutes prior to the scheduled start time in order to register, download and install any necessary audio software. Shortly before the call, a copy of the accompanying presentation will be made available on the Company’s website. Shortly after the call, a replay of the webcast will be available for 90 days on the Company’s website.

The conference call can also be accessed by dialing 1-877-407-9208 or 1-201-493-6784. The telephone replay can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 or 1-412-317-6671 and providing the conference ID# 13731631. The telephone replay will be available starting shortly after the call until August 30, 2022. A replay will also be available on the Investor Relations website following the call.

About Pagaya Technologies

Pagaya is a financial technology company working to reshape the lending marketplace by using machine learning, big data analytics, and sophisticated AI-driven credit and analysis technology. Pagaya was built to provide a comprehensive solution to enable the credit industry to deliver their customers a positive experience while simultaneously enhancing the broader credit ecosystem. Its proprietary API and capital solutions seamlessly integrate into its next-gen infrastructure network of partners to deliver a premium customer user experience and greater access to credit.

For more information on Pagaya's technology, services, and careers, please visit Pagaya.com.

Cautionary Note About Forward-Looking Statements

This document contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that involve risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements generally are identified by the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “continue”, “can,” “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “intend”, “may”, “opportunity”, “future”, “strategy”, “might”, “outlook”, “plan”, “possible”, “potential”, “predict”, “project”, “should”, “strive”, “would”, “will be”, “will continue”, “will likely result”, and similar expressions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding: the Company's strategy and future operations, including the Company's partnerships with certain key providers; the development, innovation, introduction and performance of, and demand for, the Company's products and services; the Company’s ability to focus on its ambition to be the trusted A.I. partner for the banking system, the Company’s ability to continue to invest in the long-term growth and scalability of its business, the Company's future growth, investments, brand awareness, financial position, gross market value, revenue, transaction costs, operating income, provision for credit losses, and cash flows; and general economic trends and trends in the Company's industry and markets, and the Company’s financial outlook for the full year of 2022. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause the Company's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include factors relating to: the Company's ability to attract new partners and to retain and grow its relationships with existing partners to support the underlying investment needs for its securitizations and funds products; the need to maintain a consistently high level of trust in its brand; the concentration of a large percentage of its investment revenue with a small number of partners and platforms; its ability to sustain its revenue growth rate or the growth rate of its related key operating metrics; its ability to improve, operate and implement its technology, its existing funding arrangements for the Company and its affiliates that may not be renewed or replaced or its existing funding sources that may be unwilling or unable to provide funding to it on terms acceptable to it, or at all; the performance of loans facilitated through its model; changes in market interest rates; its securitizations, warehouse credit facility agreements; the impact on its business of general economic conditions, including, but not limited to rising interest rates, inflation, supply chain disruptions, exchange rate fluctuations and labor shortages; the effect of and uncertainties related to the COVID-19 pandemic (including any government responses thereto); the financial performance of its partners, and fluctuations in the U.S. consumer credit and housing market; its ability to grow effectively through strategic alliances; seasonal fluctuations in our revenue as a result of consumer spending and saving patterns; pending and future litigation, regulatory actions and/or compliance issues including with respect to the merger with EJF Acquisition Corp.; and other risks that are described in and the Company’s Form 6-K filed on August 16, 2022 and subsequent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's views with respect to future events as of the date hereof and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof, reflect the Company’s current beliefs and are based on information currently available as of the date they are made, and the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

Financial Information; Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Some of the financial information and data contained in this press release and Form 6-K, such as Adjusted EBITDA, have not been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). To supplement the consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, management uses the non-GAAP financial measures Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA to provide investors with additional information about our financial performance and to enhance the overall understanding of the results of operations by highlighting the results from ongoing operations and the underlying profitability of our business. Management believes it provides an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods with the performance of other companies. However, non-GAAP financial measures have limitations in their usefulness to investors because they have no standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP and are not prepared under any comprehensive set of accounting rules or principles. In addition, non-GAAP financial measures may be calculated differently from, and therefore may not be directly comparable to, similarly titled measures used by other companies. As a result, non-GAAP financial measures should be viewed as supplementing, and not as an alternative or substitute for, our consolidated financial statements prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. To address these limitations, management provides a reconciliation of Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss) attributable to Pagaya Technologies Ltd.’s shareholders. Management encourages investors and others to review our financial information in its entirety, not to rely on any single financial measure and to view Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA in conjunction with its respective related GAAP financial measures.

Non-GAAP financial measures include the following item:

Adjusted Net Income is defined as net income (loss) attributable to Pagaya Technologies Ltd.’s shareholders excluding share-based compensation expense, change in fair value of warrant liability, and non-recurring expenses associated with the business combination with EJF Acquisition Corp. (the “Merger”).

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) attributable to Pagaya Technologies Ltd.’s shareholders excluding share-based compensation expense, change in fair value of warrant liability, non-recurring expenses associated with the Merger, interest expense, depreciation expense, and provision for income taxes.

These items are excluded from our Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA measures because they are noncash in nature, or because the amount and timing of these items is unpredictable, is not driven by core results of operations and renders comparisons with prior periods and competitors less meaningful.

We believe Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA provide useful information to investors and others in understanding and evaluating our results of operations, as well as providing a useful measure for period-to-period comparisons of our business performance. Moreover, we have included Adjusted Net Income and Adjusted EBITDA because these are key measurements used by our management internally to make operating decisions, including those related to operating expenses, evaluate performance, and perform strategic planning and annual budgeting. However, this non-GAAP financial information is presented for supplemental informational purposes only, should not be considered a substitute for or superior to financial information presented in accordance with GAAP and may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The tables below provide reconciliations of Adjusted EBITDA to their most directly comparable GAAP amounts, Net Loss Attributable to Pagaya Technologies Ltd.

In addition, outlook for the fiscal year, where adjusted, is provided on a non-GAAP basis, which Pagaya will continue to identify as it reports its future financial results. The Company cannot reconcile its expected Adjusted EBITDA to expected Net Loss Attributable to Pagaya Technologies Ltd. under “2022 Outlook” without unreasonable effort because certain items that impact net income and other reconciling metrics are out of the Company's control and/or cannot be reasonably predicted at this time, which unavailable information could have a significant impact on the Company’s GAAP financial results.

(1) The following table sets forth share-based compensation for the periods indicated below:

(2) Prior period amounts have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the 1:186.9 stock split and the conversion of preferred shares into ordinary shares, effected on June 22, 2022.

(3) See “Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures” for a reconciliation of this and adjusted EBITDA, another non-GAAP measure.

(1) Prior period amounts have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the 1:186.9 stock split and the conversion of preferred shares into ordinary shares, effected on June 22, 2022.

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