AIG: Financial Winners & Losers
NEW YORK (
) --
American International Group
(AIG) - Get American International Group, Inc. Report
was among few winners of the financial sector Friday after a report the government was planning to shed its stake in the insurer.
shares rose nearly 4% after a
Bloomberg
report the Treasury Department is considering a two-year plan to convert $47 billion of preferred stock into common shares for sale on the open market, citing a person with knowledge of the discussions.
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If AIG gives it approval to the plan and there is sufficient investor demand, the Treasury Department plan could be announced as early as the fourth quarter, the person told
Bloomberg
. Following the report, AIG shares were climbing 3.8% to $44.87.
Also on the winning side,
Dow
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component
American Express
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rose 3.7% to $48.48 after the company late Thursday posted a first-quarter profit of 73 cents a share as revenue rose 11% to $6.6 billion. That beat the Thomson Reuters average estimate for earnings of 64 cents a share on revenue of $6.34 billion.
Fellow credit-card issuer
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also notched a strong first-quarter performance as its provisions for loan losses fell sharply, and its shares were up 2.5% to $46.69.
PNC Financial Services
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also traded to the upside after FBR Capital Markets analyst Paul Miller reiterated his outperform rating on the stock and boosted his price target to $80 from $65, noting that the bank had "the cleanest beat to
earnings per shares of its peers."
Miller also added PNC Financial to FBR Capital's Top Picks list, displacing
Bank of America
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. PNC shares were up 1% to $69.47.
Elsewhere,
The Travelers Companies
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was trading in the red after the
Dow
component notched a first-quarter profit of $1.22 a share, which was below the Thomson Reuters average estimate of $1.36 a share.
Travelers
reaffirmed its full-year earnings guidance of $5.20 to $5.55 a share, although that's below the consensus target of $5.73. Travelers shares were down 1.2% to $53.17.
Most major U.S. bank stocks were also trading lower, one day after
President Obama's pitch in New York for financial reform
.
Bank of America lost 0.8% to $18.39,
Goldman Sachs
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was down 0.8% to $157.81,
Wells Fargo
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fell 0.7% to $33.36,
Morgan Stanley
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slipped 0.5% to $31.75, and
Citigroup
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dipped 0.2% to $4.86.
JPMorgan Chase
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shares, meanwhile, were flat at $44.74.
-- Written by Robert Holmes in Boston
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