U.S. Bancorp (USB): Today's Featured Financial Winner
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) pushed the Financial sector higher today making it today's featured financial winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.6%. By the end of trading, U.S. Bancorp rose 45 cents (1.4%) to $33.66 on average volume. Throughout the day, 7.1 million shares of U.S. Bancorp exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.4 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $33.11-$33.73 after having opened the day at $33.23 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $33.21. Other companies within the Financial sector that increased today were:
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), up 21.3%, and
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U.S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company, provides various banking and financial services in the United States. The company offers depository services, such as checking accounts, savings accounts, and time certificate contracts. U.S. Bancorp has a market cap of $62.83 billion and is part of the banking industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 11.8, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 22.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate U.S. Bancorp a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and 13 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates U.S. Bancorp as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, expanding profit margins and solid stock price performance. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
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On the negative front,
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), down 21.8%,
Millennium India Acquisition Corporation
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), down 14.3%,
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), down 11.4%, and
First Financial Service Corporation
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), down 9.4%, were all laggards within the financial sector with
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) being today's financial sector laggard.
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