CBRE Group Inc (CBG): Today's Featured Real Estate Winner

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CBRE Group (CBG) pushed the Real Estate industry higher today making it today's featured real estate winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, CBRE Group rose 21 cents (1.1%) to $19.50 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.5 million shares of CBRE Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.9 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $19.36-$19.77 after having opened the day at $19.42 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $19.29. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that increased today were: Income Opportunity Realty Investors (IOT), up 18.4%, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NSM), up 5.3%, HMG/Courtland Properties (HMG), up 5.3%, and Alto Palermo (APSA), up 4.8%.

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CBRE Group, Inc. operates as a commercial real estate services company worldwide. CBRE Group has a market cap of $6.5 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 26.8, above the average real estate industry P/E ratio of 26.1 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 26.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are five analysts that rate CBRE Group a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and none rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates CBRE Group as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

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On the negative front, American Spectrum Realty (AQQ), down 8.1%, New England Realty Associates (NEN), down 5.7%, Roberts Realty Investors (RPI), down 4.6%, and Maui Land & Pineapple Company (MLP), down 4.5%, were all laggards within the real estate industry with Digital Realty (DLR) being today's real estate industry laggard.

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