GAAP Comparison of Six Months Ended June 30, 2025 Results with Six Months Ended June 30, 2024
For the six months ended June 30, 2025, net income was $11 million, or $0.11 diluted earnings per common share, compared with net income of $109 million, or $0.97 diluted earnings per common share, for the year-ago period.
The primary contributors to the change in net income are as follows:
• Net interest income decreased by $24 million primarily as a result of the paydown of the FFELP and Private Education Loan portfolios, the impact of decreasing interest rates on the different index resets for the FFELP Loan and Private Education Loan assets and debt, as well as a $7 million decrease in mark-to-market gains on fair value hedges recorded in interest expense. This decrease was partially offset by a $40 million decline in premium amortization on the FFELP Loan portfolio due to the significant decrease in prepayments from $4.1 billion in the year-ago period to $485 million in the current period.
• Provisions for loan losses increased $41 million, from $26 million to $67 million:
○ The provision for FFELP Loan losses increased $17 million from $(1) million to $16 million.
○ The provision for Private Education Loan losses increased $24 million from $27 million to $51 million.
The provision for FFELP Loan losses of $16 million in the current period was primarily the result of an increase in delinquency balances. The provision of $(1) million in the year-ago period was the result of stable credit trends.
The provision for Private Education Loan losses of $51 million in the current period included $14 million in connection with loan originations and $37 million related to a general reserve build (primarily as a result of an increase in delinquency balances as well as a weakening in the forecasted macroeconomic metrics used to estimate expected losses). The provision of $27 million in the year-ago period included $11 million in connection with loan originations and $16 million related to a general reserve build.
• Asset recovery and business processing revenue decreased $135 million as a result of the sale of our healthcare services business in the third quarter of 2024 ($61 million of the decrease), and our government services business in February 2025 ($74 million of the decrease). With the sale of our government services business, Navient no longer provides business processing segment services.
• Other income increased $20 million primarily related to the transition services we provide related to our various strategic initiatives. The transition services related to the outsourcing of servicing and the sale of our healthcare services business ended in May 2025. We expect the transition services related to the sale of our government services business to be mostly completed by the end of 2025.
• Net gains on derivative and hedging activities decreased $76 million. The primary factor affecting the change was interest rate fluctuations. Valuations of derivative instruments fluctuate based upon many factors including changes in interest rates and other market factors. As a result, net gains and losses on derivative and hedging activities may vary significantly in future periods.
• Operating expenses decreased $123 million, $132 million of which was due to a decline in business processing expenses as a result of the sale of our government services business in February 2025 and our healthcare services business in the third quarter of 2024 ($111 million of the reduction is in the Business Processing segment and $21 million of the reduction is in the Other segment). In addition, regulatory-related expenses decreased $23 million due to a $32 million contingency loss accrual recorded in the year-ago period related to the September 2024 CFPB settlement agreement. Current period expense includes $23 million incurred in connection with providing transition services related to our various strategic initiatives. We expect these services to be mostly completed by the end of 2025. There is $25 million of revenue recognized in Other revenue related to these services.
• Restructuring and other reorganization expenses decreased $14 million primarily due to a decrease in severance-related costs in connection with the various strategic initiatives being implemented to simplify the company, reduce our expense base and enhance our flexibility.
• The effective income tax rates for the current and year-ago periods were 9% and 20%, respectively. The movement in the effective income tax rate was primarily driven by state tax expense in connection with uncertain tax positions as well as changes in the valuation allowance attributed to disallowed interest expense carryovers.
We repurchased 4.5 million and 5.0 million shares of our common stock during the six months ended of June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. As a result of repurchases, our average outstanding diluted shares decreased by 11 million common shares (or 10%) from the year-ago period.