TEXT-EXTRACT 2 filename2.txt United States securities and exchange commission logo September 26, 2023 Mary Riskey Chief Financial Officer Two Harbors Investment Corp. 1601 Utica Avenue South, Suite 900 St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 Re: Two Harbors Investment Corp. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2022 Filed February 28, 2023 Form 8-K filed July 31, 2023 File No. 001-34506 Dear Mary Riskey: We have limited our review of your filing to the financial statements and related disclosures and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to these comments within ten business days by providing the requested information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing your response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations General, page 28 1. We refer you to your table on page 29 that presents average portfolio yield, average cost of financing, and net spread and the related notes to the table. Please address the following: Please tell us if you consider these measures to be non-GAAP measures and tell us how you made that determination. Your response should address, but not be limited to, your consideration of MSR estimated amortization, which you identify as a non- GAAP measure in note (1) and TBA dollar roll income, which you describe as the non-GAAP economic equivalent to holding and financing Agency RMBS using short-term repurchase agreements in notes (1) and (2). To the extent you conclude these are non-GAAP measures, please tell us how you Mary Riskey Two Harbors Investment Corp. September 26, 2023 Page 2 determined it was unnecessary to provide the information outlined in Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K. Form 8-K filed July 31, 2023 Exhibit 99.1 Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Information, page 11 2. We note you have included "Other nonrecurring expenses" as an adjustment to arrive at Income Excluding Market-Driven Value Changes and Earnings available for distribution to common stockholders. Please tell us the nature of such expenses for the quarterly periods ended December 31, 2022, March 31, 2023, and June 30, 2023. In addition, please tell us what consideration you gave to describing the significant components of this adjustment in your earnings releases. 3. We note your non-GAAP financial measure labeled Income Excluding Market-Driven Value Changes. Please address the following: Please clarify for us how you derived the adjustments for market-driven value changes to arrive at this measure. Please clarify for us what this measure represents. In closing, we remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. You may contact Babette Cooper at 202-551-3396 or Jennifer Monick at 202-551- 3295 with any questions. FirstName LastNameMary Riskey Sincerely, Comapany NameTwo Harbors Investment Corp. Division of Corporation Finance September 26, 2023 Page 2 Office of Real Estate & Construction FirstName LastName