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Bullish on STU ... STU

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+0.00% in 7 minutes (closed on 01/18/08) the need for more education is on going. College is expensive, with more people going to College longer they need MORE MONEY, before each Spring and Fall semster this stock takes a large jump up, buy now and sell before Jan 1 2009 I promise u will not lose money Continue reading »

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Student Loan Corporation Steps Up Risk

Student Loan Corporation (STU) which is 80% owned by Citigroup (C) announced worsening results. Compared to the same quarter last year they dropped earnings by 40%. The press release went to great lengths to point out that they were able to successfully securitize and therefore off load much of their originations. As any lender they are looking for ways to increase their spread. Read this quote: “This increase was driven by higher average loan balances as well as an increase in net interest margin. Net interest margin for the quarter was 1.89%. This 15 basis point improvement over the se< />< />< />< />... Continue reading »

Sallie Mae - throwing themselves at the mercy of the government

Earlier in the week I wrote a post listing some of the recent events taking place in the student loan industry. The title of the post, "Student loan industry imploding?", gives a flavor of the point of view of the post. Since then, we have heard that Bank of America (BAC) will stop making private student loans and Citigroup's Student Loan Corp. (STU) has announced they are discontinuing federal loan consolidations and will scale back lending to students at schools where profitability is lacking. Finally, Sallie Mae (SLM) reported earnings and held a conference call today. The company lost $10... Continue reading »

Student loan industry imploding?

Here is a list of headlines coming from the student loan industry these days. This is just over the last six weeks or so but serves to provide a flavor for the turmoil students and especially lenders are going through. Click on the story titles for the details. Big US student loan guarantor files for bankruptcy Student Loan Stir Hits First Marblehead TERI, a guarantor that worked closely with First Marblehead, filed for bankruptcy. It has more than $1 billion of assets, and between $500,000,001 and $1 billion of liabilities. Ouch... Sallie suspends combined federal loans <> Sallie has decided to st... Continue reading »

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Wednesday's 52 Week Low's

<> WM Washington Mutual Inc 20.48 WLK Westlake Chem Corp 21.04 WLDN Willdan Group Inc 7.57 WL Wilmington Trust Corp ... 33.73 WIRE Encore Wire Corp 19.64 WFC Wells Fargo & Company 31.45 SURG Synergetics Usa Inc 3.25 SUAI Specialty Underwriter ... 6.56 STU The Student Loan Corp ... 151.93 STRZ Star Buffet Inc 6.50 SSD Simpson Manufacturing Co 27.52 SOV Sovereign Bancorp Inc 11.95 SCHS School Specialty Inc 32.04 SBUX Starbucks Corp 24.44 SBKC Security Bank Corp 9.10 SAIA Saia Inc 12.49 SAF SAFECO Corporation 54.19 RVI Retail Ventures Inc 7.45 <>RT... Continue reading »

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