Hottest Financial Stocks Now – NSM BCS AGO PL
by Portfolio Grader | May 8, 2014 12:15 pm
Financial stocks rose broadly on Wall Street on Thursday morning, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.5%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average increased 0.4%, the Nasdaq was up 0.4% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.4%.
Some of the biggest gainers among financial stocks include:
- Nationstar Mortgage Holdngs I (NSM[1]): NSM stock is up 5.0% today.
- Barclays Plc (BCS[2]): BCS stock is up 7.1% today.
- Assured Guaranty Ltd (AGO[3]): AGO stock is up 4.8% today.
- Protective Life Corp (PL[4]): PL stock is up 4.0% today.
- Prudential Financial Inflation Retail (PRU[5]): PRU stock is up 3.4% today.
- Ocwen Financial Corp (OCN[6]): OCN stock is up 2.1% today.
- Health Net Inc (HNT[7]): HNT stock is up 2.6% to a new 52-week high of $38.38.
- First Bancorp (FBP[8]): FBP stock is up 2.1% today.
- Financial Engines (FNGN[9]): FNGN stock is up 1.9% today.
- Mgic Investment Corp (MTG[10]): MTG stock is up 2.7% today.
Some of the biggest losers among financial stocks include:
- Phh Corp (PHH[11]): PHH stock is down 4.5%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Annaly Capital Management Inc (NLY[12]): NLY stock is down 4.0% today.
- Intercontinentalexchange (ICE[13]): ICE stock is down 4.1% today.
- Oaktree Capital Group Llc (OAK[14]): OAK stock is down 2.8% today.
- Bankrate Inc (RATE[15]): RATE stock is down 2.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Alliance Capital Management L.P. (AB[16]): AB stock is down 3.2%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- American Capital (ACAS[17]): ACAS stock is down 2.2% today.
- National Bank of Greece Sa (NBG[18]): NBG stock is down 2.4%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Fifth Street Finance Corp (FSC[19]): FSC stock is down 2.0% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
Endnotes:
- NSM: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NSM
- BCS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BCS
- AGO: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AGO
- PL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PL
- PRU: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PRU
- OCN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=OCN
- HNT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HNT
- FBP: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FBP
- FNGN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FNGN
- MTG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MTG
- PHH: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PHH
- NLY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NLY
- ICE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ICE
- OAK: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=OAK
- RATE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RATE
- AB: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AB
- ACAS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ACAS
- NBG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NBG
- FSC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FSC
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