Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD): Today's Featured Financial Winner

Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) pushed the Financial sector higher today making it today's featured financial winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Toronto-Dominion Bank rose 47 cents (0.6%) to $79.05 on light volume. Throughout the day, 215,036 shares of Toronto-Dominion Bank exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 581,400 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $78.42-$79.24 after having opened the day at $79.01 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $78.58. Other companies within the Financial sector that increased today were: HMN Financial (HMNF), up 14.7%, Radian Group (RDN), up 12.1%, HMG/Courtland Properties (HMG), up 9.2%, and Triple-S Management Corporation (GTS), up 9.2%.

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The Toronto-Dominion Bank, together with its subsidiaries, provides financial and banking services in North America and internationally. The company's Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking segment offers various financial products and services to personal and small business customers. Toronto-Dominion Bank has a market cap of $71.76 billion and is part of the banking industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.8, below the average banking industry P/E ratio of 12.1 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate Toronto-Dominion Bank a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Toronto-Dominion Bank as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, notable return on equity and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.

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On the negative front, Knight Capital Group (KCG), down 23.2%, Direct Markets Holdings (MKTS), down 15.8%, Phoenix Companies (PNX), down 13.5%, and Mackinac Financial Corporation (MFNC), down 11.1%, were all laggards within the financial sector with CME Group (CME) being today's financial sector laggard.

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