E*Trade Financial Corp (ETFC): Today's Featured Financial Laggard

E*Trade Financial (ETFC) pushed the Financial sector lower today making it today's featured Financial laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, E*Trade Financial fell 15 cents (-1.8%) to $8.42 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.1 million shares of E*Trade Financial exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.4 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $8.32-$8.53 after having opened the day at $8.53 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $8.57. Other companies within the Financial sector that declined today were: Ampal-American Israel Corporation (AMPL), down 16.4%, American Realty Investors (ARL), down 11%, American Spectrum Realty (AQQ), down 10.9%, and Crescent Financial (CRFN), down 10.1%.

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E*TRADE Financial Corporation, a financial services company, provides online brokerage and related products and services primarily to individual retail investors under the E*TRADE Financial brand in the United States. E*Trade Financial has a market cap of $2.29 billion and is part of the financial services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.1, above the average financial services industry P/E ratio of 13.8 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 0.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are two analysts that rate E*Trade Financial a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and nine rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates E*Trade Financial as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its attractive valuation levels and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including generally poor debt management, unimpressive growth in net income and a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself.

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