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Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: Protective Life Corporation(PL)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By David Sterman]
My favorite insurers: AIG (NYSE: AIG) (which I discussed a few months ago), Protective Life (NYSE: PL) and Reinsurance Group of America (NYSE: RGA).
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: Aon Corporation(AON)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By WWW.THESTREET.COM]
We’re seeing the exact same price pattern playing out in shares of $29 billion risk and insurance consultancy firm Aon plc (AON) . Aon has been a strong performer for all of 2016, up 20% since the calendar flipped to January. But don’t worry if you’ve missed the move – an ascending triangle pattern is signaling a second leg higher here. For Aon, the breakout level to watch is resistance up at $113.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: eHealth Inc.(EHTH)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lisa Levin]
eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) was down, falling around 32 percent to $9.53. eHealth reported a Q2 net loss of $0.5 million, versus a year-ago net income of $5.8 million. The company also reported weak quarterly revenue.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: CBOE Holdings Inc.(CBOE)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By CNNMoney Staff]
Stocks continued to rally despite the fact that options trading was temporarily halted Monday afternoon at exchanges run by CBOE Holdings (CBOE), Nasdaq OMX (NDAQ), BATS Global Markets and Miami International Holdings due to issues at the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA), which provides trading data and price quotes.
- [By David Zeiler]
Bats Global Markets was acquired on Feb. 28 by the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Nasdaq: CBOE).
But the Bats BZX Exchange has had a bigger role than just serving as the place where the Winklevoss ETF will be listed…
- [By Saumya Vaishampayan
var popups = $(“.socialByline .popC”); ]Those who dabble in derivatives tied to the CBOE (CBOE) Volatility Index are placing bets that pay out if the stock market keeps swinging, and especially if it drops.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: SL Green Realty Corporation(SLG)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Nelson Hem]
“Manhattan on Sale? That’s the Case With Two Cheap REITS” by Andrew Bary discusses whether Manhattan-focused real estate investment trusts Vornado Realty Trust (NYSE: VNO) and SL Green Realty Corp (NYSE: SLG) could rally as the New York market firms. Both trade at a discount to the value of private-market property deals, says the article.
Best Financial Stocks To Buy Right Now: Wells Fargo & Company(WFC)
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Big banks like JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Bank of America (BAC) have surged more than 20% during the past three months–causing many investors to doubt the possibility for further gains. I’m note one of them–after my disastrous financials call last year, I’m bullish on them in 2017–and neither is Morgan Stanley’s Betsy Graseck, who remains Overweight the big banks, despite their big gains. She explains why:
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Bank stocks have rallied since Donald Trump’s election victory–even Wells Fargo (WFC), which had been hit hard by its cross selling scandal. It’s not hard to see why: Higher rates and better economic growth should be good news for ones that have been in the penalty box. And yes, Wells Fargo is still in the penalty box, say Instinet’s Bill Carcache and Yuman Lui, but that shouldn’t stop the bank from outperforming. They explain why:
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Wells Fargo. The company remains in the penalty box near term (e.g., possible legal accruals add to 4Q16 risk), but we view Wells Fargos reputational risk as manageable and expect the rollout of new retail banking sales incentives and the redeployment of its ~$224bn of excess liquidity (held at the Fed as of 3Q16) into higher-yielding loans to serve as positive catalysts later in the year. By our math, each $5bn redeployed into 5-year USTs yielding ~2% would drive incremental EPS of $0.01, with the upside from redeploying into higher-yielding loans even more meaningful.
Shares of Wells Fargo have gained 1.1% to $54.84 at 2:22 p.m. today, while the SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE) has risen 0.8% to $43.73.
- [By Lisa Levin] Related WFC Why Bank ETFs Fell On Friday Despite Decent Earnings Phil's Stock World: Funtime Friday Earnings Season Starts Today Rising Book Values and Margins of Safety (GuruFocus)
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Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE: WFC) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $1.02 per share on revenue of $22.51 billion.
Citigroup Inc (NYSE: C) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $1.26 per share on revenue of $17.71 billion.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is expected to report quarterly earnings at $1.65 per share on revenue of $25.61 billion.
PNC Financial Services Group Inc (NYSE: PNC) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $2.02 per share on revenue of $4.00 billion.
First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $1.1 per share on revenue of $675.70 million.
First Horizon National Corp (NYSE: FHN) is projected to report quarterly earnings at $0.28 per share on revenue of $337.89 million.
