Two Harbors Investment Corp (TWO): Today's Featured Real Estate Winner

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Two Harbors Investment (TWO) pushed the Real Estate industry higher today making it today's featured real estate winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Two Harbors Investment rose 17 cents (1.5%) to $11.84 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3.2 million shares of Two Harbors Investment exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $11.70-$11.85 after having opened the day at $11.71 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $11.67. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that increased today were: Elbit Imaging (EMITF), up 9.9%, ZipRealty (ZIPR), up 9.4%, Institutional Financial Markets (IFMI), up 6.5%, and Altisource Residential Corporation (RESI), up 6%.

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Two Harbors Investment Corp. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on investing in, financing, and managing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, residential real properties, and other financial assets. Two Harbors Investment has a market cap of $3.46 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 13.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 5.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate Two Harbors Investment a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Two Harbors Investment as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations and solid stock price performance. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income, disappointing return on equity and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share.

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On the negative front, IFM Investments (CTC), down 15.1%, American Realty Investors (ARL), down 4.8%, Transcontinental Realty (TCI), down 4.3%, and BRASILAGRO - CIA Bras de Prop Agricolas (LND), down 4%, were all laggards within the real estate industry with DDR (DDR) being today's real estate industry laggard.

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