Essent Group Ltd Q1 2022 Presentation

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Essent Is A Leading Mortgage Insurer

Company Overview

• •Essent Group Ltd. is a Bermuda-based holding company that went public in 2013, and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ESNT)

• •Two primary operating companies: Essent Guaranty, Inc.

  (Radnor, PA) and Essent Reinsurance Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda)

• •Serves the U.S. housing finance industry by offering mortgage insurance and reinsurance to support home ownership

• •Transformed business model from "Buy and Hold" to "Buy,

  Manage & Distribute" through use of programmatic reinsurance

• •Developed risk-based pricing engine EssentEDGE®, and the next generation of EssentEDGE®, a cloud-based AI pricing platform

• •Essent Guaranty, Inc. is rated A3 by Moody's, A (Excellent) by

  A.M. Best, and BBB+ by S&P

Capital Distribution To Shareholders

• •In April, we completed our $250 million share repurchase program authorized in May 2021, having purchased a total of 5.6 million ESNT shares. Year-to-date we purchased 2.1 million ESNT shares for $92.2 million

• •In conjunction with our 1Q22 Earnings Release, we announced

  Board approval of a new share repurchase program of $250 million and an increase of the quarterly dividend to $0.21 per common share, payable during 2Q22

IIF ($B)

1Q22$206.8

4Q21$207.2

NIW ($B)

$12.8

$16.4

New Defaults (K)

6.2

5.8

Portfolio Default Rate Net Income ($M) Combined Ratio

1.93% $274.2 (30.7%)

2.16% $181.0 17.4%

Annualized ROE

Shareholders' Equity ($B)

26.0% $4.2

17.2% $4.2

PMIERs Sufficiency Ratio174%177%

% IIF With Reinsurance Protection

90%90%

Risk-To-Capital Ratio(1)9.9:110.4:1

Recent Developments

• •In March, we executed our second quota share reinsurance program to cede 20% of 2022 NIW to a panel of highly rated third-party reinsurers. As of March 31, 2022, 90% of IIF is subject to reinsurance protection

• •Provision for Losses & LAE for the quarter was a benefit of $106.9 million, including the benefit of $101.2 million from a change in estimate on 2Q-3Q20 COVID default reserves

1The combined risk-to-capital ratio equals the net risk in force of Essent Guaranty, Inc. and Essent Guaranty of PA, Inc. divided by the combined statutory capital of these U.S. insurance companies.

Delivering Shareholder Value

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Key Milestones in Essent's Evolution

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