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Guild Holdings Company
Guild Mortgage makes home loans for American homebuyers and then collects payments on those loans over time.
Guild Mortgage is a home lender. It helps people buy houses by giving them a mortgage — the big loan that covers most of a home's price — and it also handles the paperwork of collecting monthly payments afterward. The company calls itself a "seller-servicer," which simply means it originates loans and then sticks around to service them, sending bills, collecting payments, and helping borrowers who fall behind.
Most mortgage lenders originate a loan and quickly sell it to someone else, pocketing a fee and moving on. Guild does something different: it keeps a large share of the loans it makes on its own books and earns interest on them over many years. That gives it steady, predictable income instead of a boom-and-bust fee stream, but it also means Guild carries real risk. If borrowers stop paying, Guild feels the pain directly rather than passing it along. The company makes money in a few ways. It earns fees when it originates and sells loans, it collects interest and servicing fees on loans it holds, and it sells loans to investors like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while keeping the servicing rights. Guild has grown largely through acquiring smaller lenders, buying up their loan books and customer bases rather than building everything from scratch.
As for ownership, Guild Holdings Company no longer trades on the New York Stock Exchange. The company was taken private, meaning its shares are now held by private owners rather than bought and sold on a public exchange. That matters for anyone who used to own the stock or is trying to look it up by its old ticker — there is no public market for the shares anymore.
Saved answer · last researched 15 Nov 2026