Is State Street Corporation A Value Play or Value Trap?
State Street(STT) Gurufocus·2024-10-03 21:01
Shares of State Street Corporation (STT, Financial) have proved an excellent investment of late. The stock has delivered a total return of roughly 33% over the past year. Despite this move higher, the stock trades at just 10.8x consensus full year 2024 earnings per share and offers a dividend yield of 3.4%. Comparably, the S&P 500 trades at roughly 23x forward earnings while the financial sector, proxied by the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) trades at roughly 17x forward earnings. While a low valuat ...