Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc (NSM): Today's Featured Real Estate Laggard

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Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NSM) pushed the Real Estate industry lower today making it today's featured Real Estate laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings fell $1.29 (-3.6%) to $34.08 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.5 million shares of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of one million shares. The stock ranged in price between $34-$35.87 after having opened the day at $35.40 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $35.37. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that declined today were: Vestin Realty Mortgage I (VRTA), down 8.3%, American Spectrum Realty (AQQ), down 5.9%, Arbor Realty (ABR), down 5.8%, and ZipRealty (ZIPR), down 4.4%.

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National Semiconductor Corporation, a semiconductor company, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and sub-systems. Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has a market cap of $3.05 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are unchanged year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Nationstar Mortgage Holdings a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and one rates it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Nationstar Mortgage Holdings as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the positive front, Power REIT (PW), up 6.3%, HMG/Courtland Properties (HMG), up 6%, Elbit Imaging (EMITF), up 5.9%, and China Housing & Land Development (CHLN), up 4.3%, were all gainers within the real estate industry with CBRE Group (CBG) being today's featured real estate industry leader.

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