Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (BXMT) Looks Set To Grow At A Great Clip In 2024

Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (NYSE:BXMT) has a beta value of 1.45 and has seen 1.17 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $3.26B, closed the recent trade at $18.80 per share which meant it lost -$0.73 on the day or -3.76% during that session. The BXMT stock price is -26.7% off its 52-week high price of $23.82 and 11.7% above the 52-week low of $16.60. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 1.5 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.13 million shares.

Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (NYSE:BXMT) trade information

Sporting -3.76% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, when the BXMT stock price touched $18.80 or saw a rise of 4.57%. Year-to-date, Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc shares have moved -11.64%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.67%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (NYSE:BXMT) have changed -6.82%. Short interest in the company has seen 26.81 million shares shorted with days to cover at 14.92.

Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (BXMT) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have lost -11.51% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of -27.87%, compared to -7.60% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, lowered its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are -41.80% and -39.20% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -14.00%.

4 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $148.47 million for the current quarter. 4 have an estimated revenue figure of $147.81 million for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -10.62% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest -32.98% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 2.17%.

BXMT Dividends

Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on April 24 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 2.48 at a share yield of 13.19%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.

Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (NYSE:BXMT)’s Major holders

Insiders own 1.27% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 67.46% with a share float percentage of 68.33%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc having a total of 434 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Vanguard Group Inc with over 16.17 million shares worth more than $336.56 million. As of Jun 29, 2023, Vanguard Group Inc held 9.39% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is Blackrock Inc., with the holding of over 13.65 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $284.11 million and represent 7.92% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund. As of Sep 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 6.75% shares in the company for having 11.63 million shares of worth $253.04 million while later fund manager owns 5.17 million shares of worth $107.54 million as of Jun 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 3.00% of company’s outstanding stock.