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From Jason Payne, Market News Analyst …
Yesterday (Tuesday 2/25) was a fun day for real estate analysts like me. Toll Brothers – the largest U.S. luxury-home builder – reported its first quarter performance…
…and the results were very good…
…and the first quarter isn’t even finished yet!
Well, technically, the first quarter has concluded for Toll Brothers, because that company reports its quarterly earnings according to what analysts call a “fiscal year” (which is different from the typical “calendar” year).
But the corporate reporting calendar is not my point here.
My point is that one of our industry’s behemoths is doing very well right now, and that has important implications for smaller investors like you and me.
(Sincere apologies to Donald Trump, if he is reading this blog post. You are not a small investor,…
Jason Payne
is a management consultant and founder of the Groundwar Group -- a private consulting firm providing premier corporate advisory and leadership training solutions for business leaders and investors worldwide. Mr. Payne is also the Senior Market News Analyst and a featured "Mindset" advisor for more than 15,000 entrepreneurs and investors at RealEstateMogul.com -- roles he has held since 2013 and 2014, respectively. In these capacities, Jason draws from more than a decade of successful business and investment research on Wall Street to provide insightful commentaries on a wide variety of investing- and leadership-related topics.
Mr. Payne began his career as a research analyst in the award-winning Equity Research department of Morgan Keegan & Company, where at 26 years of age, he became one of the youngest published analysts on Wall Street -- with a specialized focus on real estate investment trusts (REITs). Jason also holds a degree in Finance from New York University's prestigious Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and he is currently completing his professional residency within the Global Leadership Training program of Uruguay's multinational Geronimo Center for Innovation & Leadership.