Starwood Property Trust - STWD Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Starwood Property Trust in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating, 4 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" STWD shares.
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6 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Starwood Property Trust's shares. Their STWD share price forecasts range from $22.00 to $32.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $25.07 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 48.8% from the stock's current price.
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Starwood Property Trust's stock was trading at $18.33 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, STWD shares have decreased by 8.1% and is now trading at $16.85.
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Starwood Property Trust saw a increase in short interest during the month of February. As of February 28th, there was short interest totaling 7,040,000 shares, an increase of 21.2% from the February 13th total of 5,810,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 2,540,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 3rd 2023.
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Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE:STWD) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, May, 4th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.76 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.50 by $0.26. The real estate investment trust earned $293.99 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $298.30 million. Starwood Property Trust had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.23% and a net margin of 59.50%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 2.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $0.47 EPS.

Starwood Property Trust declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, March 16th. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 31st will be paid a dividend of $0.48 per share on Friday, April 14th. This represents a $1.92 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 11.39%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, March 30th.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) stock in their portfolio include iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF (REM), VanEck Mortgage REIT Income ETF (MORT), First Trust Dorsey Wright Momentum & Dividend ETF (DDIV), Global X SuperDividend REIT ETF (SRET), WisdomTree Alternative Income Fund (HYIN), Hoya Capital High Dividend Yield ETF (RIET), First Trust Financial AlphaDEX Fund (FXO) and First Trust Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund (MDIV).

Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) pays an annual dividend of $1.92 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 11.20%. STWD has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 70.07%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on EPS estimates, STWD will have a dividend payout ratio of 98.46% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
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5 employees have rated Starwood Property Trust Chief Executive Officer Barry S. Sternlicht on Glassdoor.com. Barry S. Sternlicht has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Barry S. Sternlicht in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Starwood Property Trust trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "STWD."

Starwood Property Trust's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Cardinal Capital Management LLC CT (1.61%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.34%), 1832 Asset Management L.P. (1.04%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (0.79%), First Republic Investment Management Inc. (0.78%) and Clearbridge Investments LLC (0.62%). Insiders that own company stock include Andrew Jay Sossen, Barry S Sternlicht, Jeffrey F Dimodica and Kevin M Murai.
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Shares of STWD stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of STWD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $16.85.

Starwood Property Trust (NYSE:STWD) has a market capitalization of $5.23 billion and generates $1.46 billion in revenue each year. The real estate investment trust earns $871.47 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.74 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 277 workers across the globe.

Starwood Property Trust's mailing address is 591 WEST PUTNAM AVENUE, GREENWICH CT, 06830. The official website for the company is www.starwoodpropertytrust.com. The real estate investment trust can be reached via phone at (203) 422-7700, via email at ztanenbaum@starwood.com, or via fax at 203-422-7784.