It was just about a year ago when President Donald Trump declared on social media that he was “giving very serious consideration to bringing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac public.”
Over the summer, as a parade of Wall Street CEOs filed into the Oval Office to make their underwriting pitches for a potential initial public offering, speculation began mounting that a blockbuster Fannie-Fannie IPO might hit the New York Stock Exchange by the end of 2025.
That didn’t happen.
Now, as 2026 reaches its midpoint, doubts have begun to build that Fannie and Freddie will emerge from Pink Sheets purgatory and be relisted on the NYSE this year.
“I think they’re relatively small,” Marty Green says of the odds Fannie and Freddie shares receive a public float i...