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

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Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NSM) 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, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings rose $1.77 (5.2%) to $36.09 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.7 million shares of Nationstar Mortgage Holdings exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.5 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $34.42-$36.89 after having opened the day at $34.81 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $34.32. Other companies within the Real Estate industry that increased today were: Altisource Residential Corporation (RESI), up 20%, CreXus Investment (CXS), up 6.3%, Intergroup Corporation (INTG), up 5.5%, and Marlin Business Services (MRLN), up 3.9%.

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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 $3.1 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 up 10.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are five 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 negative front, Elbit Imaging (EMITF), down 6.4%, Income Opportunity Realty Investors (IOT), down 4.6%, Doral Financial (DRL), down 4.4%, and AvalonBay Communities (AVB), down 4.3%, were all laggards within the real estate industry with American Tower (AMT) being today's real estate industry laggard.

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