SWS

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.swsgroupinc.com
Employees: 1,170
Employee growth: (1.9%)

Southwest Securities hopes stock prices go northeast. The primary subsidiary of SWS Group provides securities clearing and brokerage services to retail and institutional clients in more than 30 states, Canada, and Europe. Accounting for nearly three-quarters of SWS Group's revenues, the unit offers private client brokerage services, as well as retail managed accounts and insurance, through more than 20 offices in Texas, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. It also performs securities underwriting, securities lending, and public finance activities for institutional customers. In addition, SWS Group owns a bank, which is called Southwest Securities FSB.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending June, 2009:
Sales: $381.6M
One year growth: 26.5%
Net income: $23.6M
Income growth: (23.5%)

Officers:
Chairman: Don A. Buchholz
President, CEO, and Director: Donald W. (Don) Hultgren
EVP, CFO, and Treasurer: Kenneth R. Hanks

Competitors:
Morgan Keegan
Raymond James Financial
Wells Fargo Advisors

The abbreviation SWS represents, among other things,

• Si-Ware Systems
• Safety Warning System
• As "sWS", the Schwere Wehrmachtschlepper German late World War II "replacement" half-track vehicle.
• Semantic Web Services are Semantic Web software resources that can be published, discovered, composed and executed across the Web.
• Semesterwochenstunden an obsolete German standard for comparing the study attainment of students of higher education, replaced by the ECTS
• Shaun White Snowboarding, a 2008 video game.
• Sick Worker Syndrome, a form of clinical depression which can be caused by Repetitive Strain Injury
• Silly window syndrome, a problem in TCP flow control
• Sine wave speech
• Social Weather Stations, a social research institution in the Philippines
• Society of Wetland Scientists
• Southern Water Services
• SouthWest Service, a Metra route to Manhattan, Illinois
• Super World of Sports, a Japanese professional wrestling promotion
• The IATA airport code for Swansea Airport
• Slow-wave sleep: a term used to describe stage 3 sleep (known as 3 and 4 before 2007)
• The M24 Sniper Weapon System or M21 Sniper Weapon System sniper rifles
• Love the show, the real meaning of the oft-used compliment "SW's" on the Sarah Kennedy breakfast show on BBC Radio 2
• Sunil Withdrawal Symptoms Not as hard to endure as FWS (Frances Withdrawal Symptoms)
• Son of Waves Studios (musician)
• Seann William Scott, US actor
• Sour Water Stri pper, Power Refinery Unit
• Software Sources

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