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DFS: Bull or Bear?

Is Credit Card Debt the Next Financial Disaster? Graphic_rating_sell DFS
Mikerun
73%
 -33.61%
in 481 days

Is Credit Card Debt the Next Financial Disaster?

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<> With the economic downturn, rising unemployment, decline in house prices, and limited ability for consumers to continue using their homes as an ATM; credit card debt is poised to be the next disaster in the financial sector with bearish outlooks for credit lenders Capital One (COF), Discover (DFS), and American Express (AXP). Credit card processors such as Visa (V) and MasterCard (MA) have also declined with the overall market, but are leveraged to the volume of transactions with debit and credit cards rather than...
By  Mike Havrilla   (+1.04%  risk: conservative)  10/16/08 1 comment


Playing the Market as Delinquencies Continue to Rise Graphic_rating_sell DFS
+22.29%
in 526 days
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I'll let the picture do the talking here. Taken from Calculated Risk, we see continued rising delinquencies across the board in Residential Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, and Consumer Credit cards.

How to play it:
By  Market Folly   (-47.45%  risk: conservative)  09/01/08 Comment


Five Great Businesses Currently on Sale Graphic_rating_buy DFS
-15.89%
in 552 days

The best time to buy is when we have a negativity bubble. This great nation of ours is in a deep pessimism. We have not seen consumer sentiment this low for decades (see following chart).

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By  Frank Rong   (-13.03%  risk: conservative)  08/06/08 Comment


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Discover Financial Services (DFS) Graphic_rating_buy DFS
Foto
62%
 -9.57%
in 563 days
Discover Financial Services operates as a credit card issuer and electronic payment services company primarily in the United States. The company offers Discover Card-branded credit cards to individuals and small businesses over Discover’s signature card network; and other consumer products and services, including prepaid and other consumer lending and deposit products through the Discover Bank subsidiary. Its payments businesses consist of Discover Network, a comprehensive payments network that supports multiple card products, issuers, and processors; PULSE, an ATM/debit network; and Diners< /><><><><><><>< /><><><><><><><><><><>< /><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< />< />...
By  Marian Filo   (-24.55%  risk: aggressive)  07/26/08 Comment


Discover Yo! Graphic_rating_buy DFS
N/A
 -16.93%
in 601 days
Discover Financial Services has been gaining market share, most recently though its purchase of Diners Club. They are also sueing Visa and MC for blocking their marketshare. I think that Discover will grow by leaps and bounds in the coming couple years... Maybe we could see $100 a share in a couple years!
By  fstaal33   (-51.12%  risk: moderate)  06/18/08 Comment


Love Affair With Credit Cards Is On The Rocks Graphic_rating_sell DFS
+19.39%
in 692 days
The Discover U.S. Spending Monitor recorded its third consecutive monthly decline in January, falling more than four points to 86.1 as economic concern continued to grow and post holiday spending intentions moderated. Both the economic and spending components of the index reached new lows in January as just over 70 percent of consumers now think the economy is in decline and 48 percent feel the same way about their personal finances.
By  Michael Shedlock   (+51.85%  risk: moderate)  03/19/08 Comment


Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS): Solid call from MSCO Graphic_rating_buy DFS
-19.39%
in 692 days
They are upgrading DFS to Overweight from Underweight as they think it will beat consensus estimates in 2008, thanks to more prudent underwriting (lower credit losses), more leverage in the net interest margin to Fed rate cuts, and limited vulnerability to gapping spreads in the unsecured funding markets. It now looks like more aggressive peers, such as AXP and COF, may have taken on more credit and funding risk than they should have, and the firm expects those companies to disappoint consensus estimates. They regard COF as exposed to subprime card and auto loans. AXP may be in for further ...
By  Noteable Calls   (-22.39%  risk: moderate)  03/19/08 Comment


A sound Finacial? Graphic_rating_buy DFS
Barbaro
69%
 -1.16%
in 1 day
(closed on 12/21/07)

Lower late payments for last year

Higher domestic profits

Higher revenues

Low PE ratio

Growth into 2008

Sounds great!!!!! But it is a finacial. If it wasn't for England this stock would be flying right now. But the problem with the British has been corner andis being dealt with.

<> As God awful leverage the American are the British are far worse with the totally bloated home values. Our came down and we dealt with the problem to minimize the fall out. Sure if your a bank that loaned out money at 6% in piles of 500,000 against an asset that depreciated you got scr...
By  dogcrap   (+3.23%  risk: aggressive)  12/20/07 Comment


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Buffett Buffett Buffett - What is that low life snake up to now? Graphic_rating_sell DFS
Barbaro
69%
 +14.42%
in 22 days
(closed on 10/30/07)
<> The king of the pump and dump scumbags/insurance salesmen - Warren Buffett owns over 12% of American Express. Now if you don't believe me when I say Warren Buffet IS NOTHING BUT A PUMP AND DUMP SCUMBAG, ask the folks at Level 3 (symbol LVLT). Level 3 was spwan from Peter Kiewit Inc -a construction company that leases an office space to Warren Buffett at Kiewit's corporate office. When LVLT was strapped for cash the chairmen of LVLT who also a member of Berkshire's board of directors helped work out a deal with Warren Buffett's Berkshire fund to where for less than 5% of the total funding L<><><><><><>...
By  dogcrap   (+3.23%  risk: aggressive)  10/08/07 Comment


Discover: An Ugly Ducking among Credit Card Companies Graphic_rating_buy DFS
13%
 -43.54%
in 915 days
Mastercard's been much loved stock, though it has lost some of its momentum recently. American Express is best-of-breed that's much more attractive to us value investors due to reasons I don't want to go into here. If markets turn favorable to IPO's, we should the largest of them all, Visa, make its debut in the capital markets as well.

Discover was spun out of Morgan Stanley recently. It's down approx. 23% since it started trading and looks spinoff effect has made it quite attractive for us to jump in at this $22-23 range. There hasn't been much love felt towards financials recently...
By  Aggressiveconservativeinvestor   (-24.70%  risk: aggressive)  08/09/07 Comment


Sears Graphic_rating_sell DFS
57%
 +48.09%
in 368 days
(closed on 07/08/08)
not even Mack can make a loser noting but a loser!  it ain't gonna be the #01 in China next year at the games......it ain't gonna never be no more then a piece of plastic for someone to use after they have max out their Visa and Mastercard.
oh! and American Express lets not forget.
MS is in the same boat...........Mack the knife is now..........on the losing side........that will teach him that hindsight don't pay a dime!
By  mad milker   (-13.69%  risk: aggressive)  07/06/07 Comment





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