Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.

All currency figures expressed herein are expressed in thousands, except share or per share amounts. GENERAL Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. is a corporation that has elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes and primarily originates, acquires, invests in and manages performing commercial first mortgage loans, subordinate financings and other commercial real estate-related debt investments. These asset classes are referred to as our target assets. We are externally managed and advised by the Manager, an indirect subsidiary of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, "Apollo"), a global, high-growth alternative asset manager with assets under management of approximately $938.4 billion as of December 31, 2025. The Manager is led by an experienced team of senior real estate professionals who have significant experience in underwriting and structuring commercial real estate financing transactions. We benefit from Apollo's global infrastructure and operating platform, through which we are able to source, evaluate and manage potential investments in our target assets. Our principal business objective is to acquire our target assets in order to provide attractive risk adjusted returns to our stockholders over the long term, primarily through dividends and secondarily through capital appreciation. As of December 31, 2025, we held a diversified portfolio comprised of approximately $8.7 billion of commercial mortgage loans and $62.2 million of subordinate loans and other lending assets.