Capital One Financial Corp. ($COF) Possible Buy to $119 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Capital One Financial Corp.
Stock ticker COF
Live stock price [stckqut]COF[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Good
Sales growth Fair
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $113.99
Target stock price (averages with growth) $179.54
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $183.55
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $83.4

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=cof

Capital One Financial Corporation is a diversified financial services holding company with banking and non-banking subsidiaries. Capital One Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries offer an array of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through branches, the Internet and other distribution channels. As of December 31, 2012, the Company’s principal subsidiaries included Capital One Bank (USA), National Association (COBN), which offers credit and debit card products, other lending products and deposit products, and Capital One, National Association (CONA), which offers a spectrum of banking products and financial services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. On February 17, 2012, the Company acquired ING Direct business in the United States (ING Direct) from ING Groep N.V., ING Bank N.V., ING Direct N.V. and ING Direct Bancorp. In November 2013, Capital One Financial Corp acquired Beech Street Capital LLC.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Capital One Financial Corp.

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How was this analysis calculated?

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

Stock price at the time of the calculation: $73.79

Growth: 0.13

Current EPS (TTM): $7.29

P/E: 10

Future EPS Calc: $13.43

Future Stock Price Calc: $134.31

Target stock price: $83.39

I hope that this makes you a better investor. [/s2If]

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