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

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E*Trade Financial (ETFC) pushed the Financial sector lower today making it today's featured Financial laggard. The sector as a whole was unchanged today. By the end of trading, E*Trade Financial fell 14 cents (-1.4%) to $9.25 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.5 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 $9.16-$9.42 after having opened the day at $9.38 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.38. Other companies within the Financial sector that declined today were: Credit Suisse (UOIL), down 12.5%, VelocityShares 3x Long Crude ETN (UWTI), down 11.8%, SP Bancorp (SPBC), down 11.2%, and Ampal-American Israel Corporation (AMPL), down 9.7%.

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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 $2.72 billion and is part of the financial services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.7, above the average financial services industry P/E ratio of 16.4 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 17.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are two analysts that rate E*Trade Financial a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight 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, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, unimpressive growth in net income and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.

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On the positive front, Income Opportunity Realty Investors (IOT), up 18.4%, Porter Bancorp (PBIB), up 15.4%, VelocityShares 3x Inverse Crude ETN (DWTI), up 12.3%, and Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN), up 11.7%, were all gainers within the financial sector with Banco Santander (SAN) being today's featured financial sector leader.

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