Capital One Financial Corp (COF): Today's Featured Financial Winner

Capital One Financial (COF) pushed the Financial sector higher today making it today's featured financial winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 2%. By the end of trading, Capital One Financial rose $2.41 (4.4%) to $57.58 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4.6 million shares of Capital One Financial exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.2 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $56.09-$57.94 after having opened the day at $56.13 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $55.17. Other companies within the Financial sector that increased today were: Knight Capital Group (KCG), up 57%, Community Financial (CFFC), up 41%, United Security (USBI), up 19.9%, and Monarch Community Bancorp (MCBF), up 18.1%.

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Capital One Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for the Capital One Bank (USA), National Association (COBNA), and Capital One, National Association (CONA), which provide various financial products and services in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Capital One Financial has a market cap of $32.29 billion and is part of the financial services industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.5, below the average financial services industry P/E ratio of 10.1 and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 31.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 16 analysts that rate Capital One Financial a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and three rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Capital One Financial as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, reasonable valuation levels and solid stock price performance. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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On the negative front, Jacksonville Bancorp Inc (FL (JAXB), down 17.8%, Credit Suisse (DWTI), down 13.7%, Stewardship Financial Corporation (SSFN), down 8.9%, and Central Federal (CFBK), down 8.8%, were all laggards within the financial sector with American Capital Agency (AGNC) being today's financial sector laggard.

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