Ocwen to buy Homeward Residential from WL Ross for $750 mln
Oct 3 (Reuters) - Loan servicer Ocwen Financial Corp will buy Homeward Residential Holdings Inc from private equity firm WL Ross & Co LLC in a deal valued at about $750 million.
Ocwen will pay $588 million in cash and offer $162 million convertible stock to buy the company, which services 422,000 mortgage loans, it said in a statement.
The deal is expected to immediately add to Ocwen's earnings.
Ocwen shares were up 3 percent in trading before the bell. They closed at $28.96 on Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange.
(Reporting by Aman Shah in Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian)
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