State Street Corp (STT): Today's Featured Banking Winner
Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model
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) pushed the Banking industry higher today making it today's featured banking winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, State Street rose $1.21 (2.7%) to $45.93 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.5 million shares of State Street exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $45.05-$46.19 after having opened the day at $45.23 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $44.72. Other companies within the Banking industry that increased today were:
Credit Suisse
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SCPR
), up 15.9%,
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), up 11.1%,
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), up 8.4%, and
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), up 8.2%.
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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 $21.58 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.2, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 11.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate State Street a buy, three analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates State Street as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in stock price during the past year, impressive record of earnings per share growth, attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins and notable return on equity. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
- You can view the full State Street Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 9.4%,
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), down 8.9%,
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), down 8.6%, and
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), down 8.3%, were all laggards within the banking industry with
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) being today's banking industry laggard.
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) while those bearish on the banking industry could consider
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