State Street Corp (STT): Today's Featured Financial Winner

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State Street (STT) pushed the Financial sector higher today making it today's featured financial winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, State Street rose 71 cents (1.3%) to $56.36 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3.9 million shares of State Street exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.4 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $55.91-$56.59 after having opened the day at $56.10 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $55.65. Other companies within the Financial sector that increased today were: Altisource Residential Corporation (RESI), up 23.7%, Bank VA Chesterfield (BOVA), up 15.7%, Carver Bancorp (CARV), up 11.9%, and Plumas Bancorp (PLBC), up 11.7%.

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State Street Corporation, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to institutional investors worldwide. State Street has a market cap of $25.99 billion and is part of the banking industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 19% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate State Street a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and seven rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates State Street as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share, revenue growth, attractive valuation levels and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.

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