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Starwood Property Trust Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, May 8
Starwood Property Trust Management Discusses Q4 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Wed, Feb 27
Starwood Property Trust Management Discusses Q3 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Thu, Nov 8, 2012
Starwood Property Trust Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Tue, Aug 7, 2012

Starwood Property Trust, Inc. Reports Results for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2013

PR Newswire (May 8, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust And Starwood Capital Group Close Acquisition Of LNR Property LLC

PR Newswire (Apr 22, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Dates for First Quarter 2013 Earnings Release and Conference Call

PR Newswire (Apr 16, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Leads Origination Of $475 Million Construction Loan To Finance Phase One Of Related Companies And Oxford Property Group's Hudson Yards Development

PR Newswire (Apr 10, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering

PR Newswire (Apr 9, 2013)
After-Hours Buzz: JCP, AA, MNST & More

at CNBC.com (Apr 8, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Public Offering of Common Stock

PR Newswire (Apr 8, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust, Inc. Reports Results for the Quarter And Year Ended December 31, 2012

PR Newswire (Feb 27, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Dates for Fourth Quarter 2012 Earnings Release and Conference Call

PR Newswire (Feb 19, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Pricing of Convertible Notes

PR Newswire (Feb 12, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Public Offering of Convertible Notes

PR Newswire (Feb 11, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Tax Reporting Information

PR Newswire (Jan 31, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust And Starwood Capital Group To Acquire LNR Property LLC

PR Newswire (Jan 24, 2013)
Starwood Property Trust Declares Fourth Quarter Extraordinary Dividend

PR Newswire (Dec 13, 2012)
Starwood Property Trust, Inc. Reports Results for the Quarter Ended September 30, 2012

PR Newswire (Nov 7, 2012)
Starwood Property Trust Announces $126 Million Loan on Class A Office Building in San Francisco

PR Newswire (Nov 1, 2012)
Starwood Property Trust Announces Dates for Third Quarter 2012 Earnings Release and Conference Call

PR Newswire (Oct 24, 2012)
Starwood Property Trust And Starwood Capital Group To Sell Interest In $475 Million First Mortgage And Mezzanine Financing On Times Square Property To Vornado Realty Trust

PR Newswire (Oct 22, 2012)
Starwood Property Trust And Starwood Capital Group Co-Originate $475 Million Loan

PR Newswire (Oct 16, 2012)
Starwood Property Trust Announces $107 Million Capital Deployment

PR Newswire (Oct 11, 2012)

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Company Description

Starwood Property Trust, Inc. is a Maryland corporation that commenced operations on August 17, 2009, upon the completion of our initial public offering. We are focused primarily on originating, investing in, financing and managing commercial mortgage loans and other commercial real estate debt... More

Sector: Financial

Industry: REIT - Diversified

Country: United States

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Thursday, May 9, 12:51 PM Yet another single-family rental offering may be on the way as Starwood Property Trust (STWD) CEO Barry Sternlicht indicates on the earnings call (transcript) the company is considering a spinoff of its home business - currently 1,644 homes and 1,318 nonperforming mortgages. Starwood would join Sliver Bay (SBY), American Residential Properties (next Wednesday), and CLNY's Colony American Homes (no date yet). 1 Comment [Financials]
Wednesday, May 8, 8:00 AM More on Starwood Property Trust (STWD) Q2 earnings: Core earnings of $58.1M up from $55M a year ago, but lower on a per share basis ($0.43 vs. $0.48) thanks to share issuance (LNR acquisition). Pro forma book value/share of $21.34 on March 31. FY13 core EPS guidance of $1.90-$2.00 does not include the impact of the LNR purchase, but company expects only upside (will revise guidance at Q2 report). Conference call at 10 ET. (PR) Comment! [Financials, Earnings]
Wednesday, May 8, 7:21 AM Starwood Property Trust (STWD): Q1 EPS of $0.43 misses by $0.03. (PR) Comment! [Earnings, Breaking News, Financials]
Wednesday, May 8, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: AOL, ARQL, CTSH, CWH, DTEGY.PK, ENB, EZCH, FSYS, FUN, KRO, LMCA, LSE, MPEL, NAVB, NICE, POZN, SODA, STWD, THI, TTI, VVUS, WEN, WMC Comment! [Earnings]
Tuesday, May 7, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: AOL, ARQL, CTSH, CWH, DTEGY.PK, ENB, EZCH, FSYS, FUN, KRO, LMCA, LSE, MPEL, NAVB, NICE, POZN, SODA, STWD, THI, TTI, VVUS, WEN, WMC Comment! [Earnings]
Wednesday, April 10, 8:07 AM Starwood Property Trust (STWD) looks to rebound after a secondary offering torpedoed the shares Tuesday. The stock will get some help from Bank of America which upgrades the shares to Buy from Neutral and raises its price target to $30.50 from $28.50. Shares +0.75% premarket. Comment! [Financials]
Monday, April 8, 5:00 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:15 p.m.: STAA +13%. JCP +12%. HIMX +2%. GLUU +1%. EBR +1%.
After-hours top losers: CWH -3%. CUZ -3%. SHLM -3%. STWD -3%. CECO -2%. 1 Comment [On the Move]
Monday, April 8, 4:21 PM Starwood Property Trust (STWD) announces a 26.5M share secondary. If the underwriters take up their 3.975M share option, it would add about 22% to the float. The stock is down 3% AH. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Wednesday, February 27, 12:36 PM Starwood Property Trust (STWD +4.2%) following its big earnings beat. The company put another $1B to work in Q4, bringing 2012's total to $2.6B. Assets held for investment sum to $3.4B with annualized levered return of 11.7%-12.2% expected over their life. "CMBS originators appear to be in a sweet spot," says Dynex (DX) CEO Tom Akin, looking forward to Walker & Dunlop's (WD) report next week. Comment! [Financials, Earnings, On the Move, Quick Ideas]
Wednesday, February 27, 6:46 AM Starwood Property Trust (STWD): Q4 EPS of $0.48 beats by $0.06. (PR) Comment! [Breaking News, Earnings, Financials]
Wednesday, February 27, 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: AES, AFAM, AH, ARCC, CBB, CNP, DLTR, FIG, GLOG, ITT, JOY, NRG, PDCE, STWD, SWC, TGT, TJX, VPHM Comment! [Earnings]
Tuesday, February 26, 5:30 PM Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: AES, AFAM, AH, ARCC, CBB, CNP, DLTR, FIG, GLOG, ITT, JOY, NRG, PDCE, STWD, SWC, TGT, TJX, VPHM Comment! [Earnings]
Thursday, January 24, 11:59 AM More stirrings in commercial real estate where Gramercy Capital (GKK +1.8%) buys 2 industrial properties in the Indianapolis area for $27.1M, or about $50/sq. ft. Earlier, Starwood Property Trust (STWD +4.8%) made a bet on distressed commercial property. SFI +3.4%. 3 Comments [Financials]
Thursday, January 24, 8:53 AM "(Commercial property) values are increasing but they're not running away," says Starwood (STWD) CEO Barry Sternlicht in an interview about the LNR purchase. He notes money is beginning to move out of fixed income into real property. This isn't news for major city centers, but Sternlicht says it's beginning to spill into "secondary cities." Comment! [Financials, U.S. Economy]
Thursday, January 24, 8:37 AM Distressed commercial real estate gets a bid, with Starwood Property (STWD) enhancing its reach in the sector with a deal to buy Cerebus' LNR Property for $1.05B in cash. Starwood expects the acquisition - slated to close in Q2 - will be immediately accretive to earnings and cash flow. (PR) Comment! [Financials]
Thursday, December 13, 2012, 7:06 AM Starwood Property Trust (STWD) declares special dividend of $0.10/share. For shareholders of record Dec. 31. Payable Jan. 15. Ex-div date Dec. 27. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]

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$AI $LGCY and $STWD are the top results of High Yield stocks with strong buy rating - http://stks.co/bRXm - 9 Shares with 6.75% Yield
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$NCT $ARCC and $STWD are the best yielding and most recommended financial stocks + http://stks.co/bIFV + $DB $SLM and $PUK are my favorites
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Out of $STWD at $22.96 for a loss of 0.4%. Original thesis 2 months ago was that it would recover from a secondary offering dip, then the
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Ocean Man: hit to high-yielders took it down and it finally came back. Now I've just lost interest and have some better alternatives.
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firstinsnow: I see STWD up to 25, but what do I know? Fundamentals look encouraging for somemore growth and a nice dividend. Still 4 weeks before ex-div.
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STWD, CPNO, MTGE all with encouraging reports.
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weed: Is it safe to get back into MTGE?
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Ocean Man: Long STWD. Agree, nice report. Beat and raise. 7.6% yield.
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Bought STWD at 23.06. 7.6% yield and down 4% from last week due to a secondary offering.
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4 Profitable REITs That Analysts Love http://bit.ly/Suxt1T $GOOD $NNN $OLP $STWD @ZetaKap
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4 Profitable REITs That Analysts Love http://bit.ly/Suxt1T $GOOD $NNN $OLP $STWD @ZetaKap
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3 REITs With Solid Earnings Trends That Analysts Love http://bit.ly/KOPX6U $NNN $OLP $STWD @ZetaKap-
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Out of $STWD at $22.96 for a loss of 0.4%. Original thesis 2 months ago was that it would recover from a secondary offering dip, then the
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Ocean Man: hit to high-yielders took it down and it finally came back. Now I've just lost interest and have some better alternatives.
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firstinsnow: I see STWD up to 25, but what do I know? Fundamentals look encouraging for somemore growth and a nice dividend. Still 4 weeks before ex-div.
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STWD, CPNO, MTGE all with encouraging reports.
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weed: Is it safe to get back into MTGE?
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Ocean Man: Long STWD. Agree, nice report. Beat and raise. 7.6% yield.
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Best Yielding Diversified REITs: http://bit.ly/tuKUAJ + $CIM $MFA $NLY $ANH $CWH $STWD $CLNY $RWT $IRETP $FUR $BDN $GTY $EXL $LXP $NNN $FPO
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Scott Molinaroli: well. performs well.
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6 High Yield REITs: Which Is Best For 2012? http://seekingalpha.com/a/6rvp $CIM, $CMO, $MFA, $NHI, $NLY, $STWD
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VOL FAN: I am going long with STWD for 2012. They are sitting on a ton of cash and will buy upscale distressed properties in Europe. Good Dividend.
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