Ready Capital Corporation Announces New Share Repurchase Program

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ready Capital Corporation (“Ready Capital” or the “Company”) (NYSE: RC), a multi-strategy real estate finance company that originates, acquires, finances and services lower-to-middle-market investor- and owner-occupied commercial real estate loans, today announced that its Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the repurchase of up to $150.0 million of the Company’s common stock. Repurchases under the stock repurchase program may be made at management’s discretion from time to time on the open market, in privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, in each case subject to compliance with all Securities and Exchange Commission rules and other legal requirements, and may be made in part under one or more Rule 10b5-1 and Rule 10b-18 plans, which permit stock repurchases at times when the Company might otherwise be precluded from doing so. The timing and amount of any repurchase transactions will be determined by the Company’s management based on its evaluation of market conditions, share price, legal requirements and other factors.