Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NLY): Today's Featured Real Estate Laggard

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Annaly Capital Management (NLY) pushed the Real Estate industry lower today making it today's featured Real Estate laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Annaly Capital Management fell 25 cents (-1.5%) to $16.89 on average volume. Throughout the day, 12.5 million shares of Annaly Capital Management exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 9.2 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $16.84-$17.15 after having opened the day at $17.13 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $17.14. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that declined today were: American Realty Investors (ARL), down 12.6%, IFM Investments (CTC), down 12%, Optibase (OBAS), down 6.4%, and SYSWIN (SYSW), down 6.2%.

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Annaly Capital Management, Inc., a real estate investment trust, engages in the ownership, management, and financing of a portfolio of investment securities. Annaly Capital Management has a market cap of $16.37 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 113.9, above the average real estate industry P/E ratio of 52.5 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 7.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate Annaly Capital Management a buy, three analysts rate it a sell, and 10 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Annaly Capital Management as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels 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 positive front, Income Opportunity Realty Investors (IOT), up 9.9%, Alto Palermo (APSA), up 5.7%, Thomas Properties Group (TPGI), up 5.5%, and Altisource Portfolio Solutions (ASPS), up 5.5%, were all gainers within the real estate industry with American Express (AXP) being today's featured real estate industry leader.

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