Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model
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Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. Class A
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), up 8.8%,
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), up 7%, and
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Discover Financial Services, a bank holding company, offers direct banking and payment services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Direct Banking and Payment Services. Discover Financial Services has a market cap of $20.11 billion and is part of the financial sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 9.2, equal to the average financial services industry P/E ratio and below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 66% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Discover Financial Services a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and five rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Discover Financial Services as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, growth in earnings per share and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full Discover Financial Services Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
Duff & Phelps Corporation Class A
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), down 8.8%,
Asset Acceptance Capital Corporation
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), down 5.5%,
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), down 5.2%, and
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), down 4.8%, were all laggards within the financial services industry with
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) being today's financial services industry laggard.
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) while those bearish on the financial services industry could consider
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).
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