In Brief: Profits Surge 51% For IndyMac's Owner

INMC Mortgage Holdings Inc., a real estate investment trust, said fourth-quarter net income rose 51%, to $29.2 million. Earnings per share rose 20%, to 48 cents.

INMC owns the conduit IndyMac and is seeking shareholder approval to change its name to IndyMac Mortgage Holdings Inc.

For the year, INMC's net income increased 45%, to $100.3 million, and earnings per share rose 19%, to $1.79. These earnings did not include a nonrecurring charge of $76 million that INMC took to account for a merger with Countrywide Asset Management Corp., the subsidiary of Countrywide Credit Industries that had managed INMC. Countrywide Credit owns about 10% of INMC.

During the fourth quarter, IndyMac bought $2 billion of jumbo and nonconforming mortgage loans, an increase of 100% over the comparable period of 1996. The fourth-quarter 1997 purchase included $52 million of subprime mortgage loans from its third-party lending operations.

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