iStar Financial, Inc. (NYSE:SFI)

Weak and Deteriorating Cashflow

No brainer really. Under a hige pile of debt. Negative revenues. Bleeding money.

its gonna go up!!!

Overpriced. Company losing money and projected to lose money for 2011.

Book value is very attractive. Debt to equity ratios suggest that a time frame for holding this asset could be longer than 5 years. Good debt to asset ratios, although asset value is questionable.

Seems to be a good buy in a distressed industry. Interesting contradiction: Credit is listed as a negative watch and is in junk status, while equity ratings have been upgraded to a hold.

iStar Financial, Inc. (SFI)
A publicly-traded finance company focused on the commercial real estate industry which provides custom-tailored financing to end private and corporate owners of real estate.

SFI is down 43% from its 52W high, but still up approx. 250% from its MArch 2009 low.
Love the way SFI's chart looks like.
Definitely, my kind of value play.

Survived likely the worst SFI will experience. Deals are starting to happen. SFI should be a serious money maker longer term, stock should start reflecting this shorter term.

interesting stock
but ps is low
no data for return on equity

I believe this stock will bounce back because of great position in the market and sound leadership.very under valued

sfi

company got beaten down from 40 on BK concerns, however company made bid for CORUS assets which tells me things are not as dire as some might think. If company can survive it's a five bagger!

I purchased iStar initially at $23.25 per share (2/11/08) because it looked with a high dividend (yes, I'm a dividend chaser). The NAV came down a little after they made an $0.87 p/share dividend so I was enticed to purchase more shares (sucker), [5/19/08]. Of course, since then, I've seen it go below $1.00. Recently there has been a rally and a lot of talk on the market scene. I beleive that buyers will not get burned now but also think it will not see the $20.00+ for many months if not years. The short-term traders are capitalizing on this stock (short, long, etc), so I don't see much gain AND NO MORE DIVIDENDS FOR AWHILE!

Edwin Thoma

this stock was a top dog in my list. When this financial crap is over it will rise again.

Speculative indeed. The little grower that could. The recession almost conquered this little fellow but it still didn't tap out and now it has nowhere to go but up now that the real estate and banking sectors have both bottomed. Come on $5.00

Looming Bankruptcy, this is a very speculative play.

Wish I had jumped into this one a little sooner, but as things pick up and dividend returns, I think SFI is going to move up nicely.

In the second or third Q, the Non Perfoming Loans, will peak and CRE market will stop falling. After that the only way for this stock is up. With Book value around $20 x stock, it could easily reach that price, especially the moment dividend is restored. ( I guess in 2010 second Quarter)
I only wish I had Bought more prefereds at ridiculous low prices so i could be retiring by next year.

until real estate means something again i doubt this will see any significant improvement

Hard market and this company is having a hard time managing its income. Its projected sales growth for next few quarters is looking more and more like a black hole. I the the mortgage industry picking up very slowly. The survivors in this industry are the ones who manage their liabilities the best, and also the ones who produce the most income as quickly as possible. A company like this needs to make wise choices.