Ocwen Financial Corporation (OCN): Today's Featured Banking Winner

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Ocwen Financial Corporation (OCN) pushed the Banking industry higher today making it today's featured banking winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Ocwen Financial Corporation rose $1.12 (3.1%) to $36.82 on average volume. Throughout the day, 2.3 million shares of Ocwen Financial Corporation exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of two million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $35.86-$36.83 after having opened the day at $35.88 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $35.70. Other companies within the Banking industry that increased today were: PremierWest Bancorp (PRWT), up 17.9%, VelocityShares 3x Inverse Natural Gas ETN (DGAZ), up 10.8%, Riverview Bancorp (RVSB), up 10.5%, and Jefferson (JFBI), up 9.9%.

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Ocwen Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides residential and commercial mortgage loan servicing, special servicing, and asset management services in the United States and internationally. Ocwen Financial Corporation has a market cap of $4.87 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 49.4, below the average banking industry P/E ratio of 50.1 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 146.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are four analysts that rate Ocwen Financial Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Ocwen Financial Corporation as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the stock itself is trading at a premium valuation.

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On the negative front, Village Bank and Trust Financial Corporatio (VBFC), down 11.5%, OptimumBank Holdings (OPHC), down 8%, VelocityShares 3x Long Brent Crude ETN (UOIL), down 6.3%, and Guaranty Federal (GFED), down 5.7%, were all laggards within the banking industry with SunTrust Banks (STI) being today's banking industry laggard.

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