With 2.51 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 2.76 million shares. During the session, the REIT – Mortgage company that operates in wider Real Estate sector, reached to the highest price of $18.855 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $18.37. The 52-week range on STWD shows that it touched its highest point at $21.07 and its lowest point at $16.59 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $21.33. With its current market cap of 6.36 billion, STWD has annualized dividend of $1.92 while the current yield stands at 10.20%. STWD paid its most recent dividend on 1743379200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1743379200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.28.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of STWD was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 2.62%, but this was down by -5.62% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.28% while six-month performance fell -7.20%. The stock lost -0.69% in the past year, while it has lost -0.69% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for STWD yields 1.10 with Next year EPS estimates of 1.97. For the next quarter, that number is 0.44. This implies an EPS growth rate of -6.51% for this year and 4.22% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 0.57% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -9.26%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 337.41 million STWD shares are outstanding with a float of 317.74 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-03-31, short shares totaled 15.41 million, which was 456.00000000000006 higher than short shares on 1740700800. In addition to Ms. Rina Paniry CPA as the firm’s CFO, Treasurer, Principal Financial Officer & Chief Accounting Officer, Mr. Barry Stuart Sternlicht serves as its CEO & Non-Independent Executive Chairman of the Board.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.51783 of STWD’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for STWD since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 1 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With STWD analysts setting a high price target of 24.0 and a low target of 19.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 21.57143. Based on these targets, STWD could surge 27.52% to reach the target high and rise by 0.96% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 14.62% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $2.04111 being high and $1.98079 being low. For STWD, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $2.01095. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0.49 and the low estimate is $0.4. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.46.
