Ladder Capital Corp (LADR)

[pete807]

Do they ever buy back shares? Probably not today but who knows. Seems like they would be wise to use a few of these cheap shares to pay that stock option in a month? However... The company surely has head room between A/S and O/S so a little dilution is not a problem and baked into the plan I suspect....

Insiders already own 70.5 mm of the 109.6 mm shares in the float. Yield is up with the increase in dividend to 1.20 from the 17.2% listed when they paid 1.10 (not including special D's).
Eyes should be on this prize imo.

There are likely many other options to explore with a new president coming that happens to be a very successful top client. They have a new pipeline to the most powerful human on the planet come January. Their conference call is going to be on my calendar for sure, it will be good to tap their general tone in light of changes coming in the RE market and REIT world as interest rates rise. I never understood the negative interest in Europe... My bank pays a whopping .1% , couple pennies a month :0(