5-Star Momentum Stocks Set to Keep Soaring: Nationstar Mortgage
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, mortgage servicer Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NYS: NSM) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Nationstar's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Nationstar facts
Headquarters (founded) | Lewisville, Texas (1994) |
Market Cap | $3.0 billion |
Industry | Thrifts and mortgage finance |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $452.1 million |
Management | CEO Jay Bray (since October 2011) |
Trailing-12-Month Return on Equity | 21.9% |
Cash / Debt | $115.2 million / $3.7 billion |
Competitors | DHI Mortgage |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, all of the 16 members who have rated Nationstar believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Earlier this week, one of those Fools, NYPaperman, succinctly summed up the Nationstar bull case for our community:
Housing is recovering (slowly), credit is improving (slowly), and all the while non-bank Nationstar Mortgage Holdings has continued to buy up mortgage portfolios and in turn is making great profits. Not being a bank [Nationstar] has more latitude in handling its assets. This is a very interesting sector.
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