Trade-Ideas: Starwood Property (STWD) Is Today's Post-Market Leader Stock

Trade-Ideas LLC identified Starwood Property (STWD) as a post-market leader candidate
By TheStreet Wire ,

Trade-Ideas LLC identified

Starwood Property

(

STWD

) as a post-market leader candidate. In addition to specific proprietary factors, Trade-Ideas identified Starwood Property as such a stock due to the following factors:

  • STWD has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $60.4 million.
  • STWD is up 2.2% today from today's close.

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More details on STWD:

Starwood Property Trust, Inc. originates, acquires, finances, and manages commercial mortgage loans, other commercial real estate debt investments, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and other commercial real estate-related debt investments in the United States and Europe. The stock currently has a dividend yield of 9.4%. STWD has a PE ratio of 1. Currently there are 4 analysts that rate Starwood Property a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 1 rates it a hold.

The average volume for Starwood Property has been 2.3 million shares per day over the past 30 days. Starwood Property has a market cap of $4.9 billion and is part of the financial sector and real estate industry. The stock has a beta of 0.33 and a short float of 5.5% with 4.15 days to cover. Shares are down 12.2% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday.

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TheStreetRatings.com

Analysis:

TheStreet Quant Ratings

rates Starwood Property as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, attractive valuation levels, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. We feel its strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

Highlights from the ratings report include:

  • Despite its growing revenue, the company underperformed as compared with the industry average of 6.2%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 4.0%. This growth in revenue does not appear to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, displayed by a decline in earnings per share.
  • The gross profit margin for STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST INC is rather high; currently it is at 57.58%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 62.44% significantly outperformed against the industry average.
  • Net operating cash flow has increased to $180.81 million or 43.36% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST INC has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of -72.17%.
  • The return on equity has improved slightly when compared to the same quarter one year prior. This can be construed as a modest strength in the organization. When compared to other companies in the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) industry and the overall market, STARWOOD PROPERTY TRUST INC's return on equity is below that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.

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