Thesis is simple here, with the elimination of Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, and Lehman Bros, Schwab is becoming more attractive as a premium-service broker. Best of all, it can establish itself as a safe place to park capital. Schwab has been innovative too. Their systematic algorythm-style method for ranking/picking stocks is interesting, more interesting than the mostly horrible human picks at other firms. They should stop selling their trades to outside parties and raise commissions though-- the time is right.
Integrity Bank, Alpharetta, Georgia, with $1.1 billion in total assets and $974.0 million in total deposits as of June 30, 2008, was closed today by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was named receiver. The FDIC Board of Directors today approved the assumption of all the deposits of Integrity Bank by Regions Bank, Birmingham, Alabama. All depositors of Integrity Bank, including those with deposits in excess of the FDIC's insurance limits, will automatically become depositors of Regions Bank for the full amount of their deposits, and
"We continue to apply our value-oriented principles in selecting new growth stocks as we look for companies with superior profitability and strong balance sheets," says Jim Stack.
In his InvesTech Market Analyst, he and analyst Bruce Morison explain, "Our latest featured investment, Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW), is a prime example and stands out as a conservative way to access to opportunities in the battered financial group."
"We are increasing our equity allocation in stocks that should show strong relative performan
"We continue to apply our value-oriented principles in selecting new growth stocks as we look for companies with superior profitability and strong balance sheets," says Jim Stack.
In his InvesTech Market Analyst, he and analyst Bruce Morison explain, "Our latest featured investment, Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW), is a prime example and stands out as a conservative way to access to opportunities in the battered financial group."
"We are increasing our equity allocation in stocks that should show strong relative performance in a market upturn.
"The contributing editor to the industry-leading Money Map Reporter explains, "For Schwab, it doesn’t matter whether the market goes up or down. It’s just matters that the market keeps on chugging along."
"Investing in Schwab is like betting with the casino, and not the gambler. And those kinds of odds I’ll take any day. Fact is, all that matters is that stock and options traders keep 'plying their trade.'
"And well they have. Increased trading activity he
Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices, 7.3 million client brokerage accounts, 1.3 million corporate retirement plan participants, 355,000 banking accounts, and $1.4 trillion in client assets. The company provides a full range of securities brokerage, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. The Charles Schwab Bank provides banking and mortgage services. Pres
We all know that the brokers play an integral part in both trading and investing. Everyone who trades needs a brokerage account, and some people have multiple accounts with various brokers. These brokers make their money based upon the commissions that they receive, generally on a per trade basis. This has been a profitable model for these brokers, as the market conditions of years past have been bullish, which encourages people to put their money to work in the financial markets. The more money people put to work in the markets, the more commissions the brokers can earn.
Though fundamentals remain strong and capital restructuring provides a positive signal, the valuation based on P/E and P/B currently looks very expensive.
3/24 - "One of my smartest hedgie contacts just pinged me about the financials. According to him it seems to be getting pretty close to do or die for them:"
"Bottom line: while there are reasons to be less negative, the issues cited above suggest it's too early to put on a big upside bet in financials on a one- to two-quarter view, especially considering the 16% move we've already seen off the bottom. Expect continued volatility, although probably less than we've seen the past couple of quarters, with a decent likelihood of a near-term retrenchment after the big moves of the past few days ...
If you think May Day was bad. These guys are in for a jolt as retail brokerage commissions head to zero. Zecco is just the first of these. Now BofA. This is not the type of stocks I want to be holding. If you pull the financials you will see that the average commission per customer has been dropping. Things will get worse.
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- The online stock and options broker TradeKing (www.tradeking.com) is CORRUPT.
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