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Is Cap One really good in analytics and Target Marketing? COF

76%

-66.55% in 138 days (closed on 11/05/09) Credit card issuers and specialist providers have to live with reduced incomes per card account. A very simple way to control the related company level portfolio would be to manage defaults and thus manage the card application process so that the same results in a significant reduction in operational losses. Today COF defaults worldwide are increasing and those in the US are well in Double digits. This signifies that there has been a short term deterioration in credit quality because of the market and there is a residual weakness in credit issuance that needs to be addressed. The new CARD ... Continue reading »

Is Cap One really good in analytics and Target Marketing? COF

76%

-66.55% in 138 days (closed on 11/05/09) Credit card issuers and specialist providers have to live with reduced incomes per card account. A very simple way to control the related company level portfolio would be to manage defaults and thus manage the card application process so that the same results in a significant reduction in operational losses. Today COF defaults worldwide are increasing and those in the US are well in Double digits. This signifies that there has been a short term deterioration in credit quality because of the market and there is a residual weakness in credit issuance that needs to be addressed. The new CARD ... Continue reading »

COF has nothing in the portfolio COF

67%

-62.51% in 147 days (closed on 10/14/09) After surviving a year in the most spectacular struggle with the impending crisis, the stock finally gave in today as this is a specialist provider in Cards alone and yesterday's new restrictions on account profitability as well as the disruption caused to 'smooth' CRM processes that take advantage of customer's 'citi' moments .. Delinquencies on their intl accounts are smaller than in the US accounts but are fast catching up unlike others like MBNA (now HSBC :: HBC) and others . $BAC and $JPM have already confessed to gaps in their profitability charts from Cards Providers are also likely ... Continue reading »

What a breakdown in value COF

67%

-0.26% in 1 minute (closed on 05/20/09) After surviving a year in the most spectacular struggle with the impending crisis, the stock finally gave in today as this is a specialist provider in Cards alone and yesterday's new restrictions on account profitability as well as the disruption caused to 'smooth' CRM processes that take advantage of customer's 'citi' moments .. Delinquencies on their intl accounts are smaller than in the US accounts but are fast catching up unlike others like MBNA (now HSBC :: HBC) and others . $BAC and $JPM have already confessed to gaps in their profitability charts from Cards Providers are also lik... Continue reading »

Credit Card Delinquencies Skyrocket COF

46%

+14.55% in 21 days (closed on 03/10/09) Continue reading »

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Earnings highlights: Boeing, Coca-Cola, eBay, Microsoft, Pfizer, UAL, Yahoo! ...

Filed under: Earnings reports, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), eBay (EBAY), Pfizer (PFE), Coca-Cola (KO), AT and T (T), Altria Group (MO), BB and T (BBT), Boeing Co (BA), duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD), Hasbro Inc (HAS), AMR Corp (AMR), UAL Corp (UAUA), Wells Fargo (WFC) Here are some highlights from last week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: <> Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) Q3 earnings beat by a penny but sales fell short of expectations; shares fell. AMR Corp. (NYSE: AMR) reported a Q3 net loss and plunging revenue but also raised $4 billion in cash. <><><>BB&T Corp... Continue reading »

Capital One (COF) soars on Q3 earnings surprise

Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Good news, Options, Technical Analysis Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF - option chain) shares are rising today after the company reported a third-quarter profit of $425.6 million, or 94 cents per share, on revenue of $4.63 billion. Analysts had forecast a profit of 14 cents per share on revenue of $4.11 billion. If you think that the stock won't fall by too much in the coming months, then now could be a good time to look at a bullish hedged trade on COF. COF opened this morning at $41.89. So far today the stock has hit a high of $42.90, but as o... Continue reading »

Fund Performance Period 10

34%

As a reminder, if you are interested in this type of fund as a worthwhile consideration for future investment, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 7, 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 26, 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund Manager] Or if you are just here for daily market / economic commentary or stock trades to follow on your own, consider supporting the blog via donation (paypal buttons can be found on the upper right margin of the blog) For those who read the content of the website via email or RSS reader, you can com... Continue reading »

Bookkeeping: Closing Capital One Financial (COF) Short

34%

I am still eyeing that gap at $24 in Capital One (COF) but at this point it appears it will take an act of God to get the stock market down ;) I am going to scurry off with my 16% loss on the last 1.1% of this position (suffered similar losses on other parts of the position along the way). If you notice I am posting the exact same chart in many stocks today - companies have pulled back to 20 or 50 day moving averages but have been bouncing. Essentially almost all stocks move with the greater markets nowadays - so as the indexes bounce, almost everything runs up with it. The stock has ... Continue reading »

Discover Financial: Quite Solid Results, All Things Considered

<>I have a long Discover Financial (DFS) position married against a short Capital One (COF) position; but in this day and age such hedging strategies are moot points. Every stock in a sector goes up (or more rarely nowadays, down) as based on HFT algorithms. Differentiating between companies within a sector is moot as all go in the same direction. Our term for this has been "monolithic trading". We're slowly adjusting to this reality even though we've been pointing it out for over 2 years. Discover reported earnings today, and considering the economic situation, it's pretty solid, with such lo... Continue reading »

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