Opinions
David Dietze
Capital One Financial Corp
COF-N
COMMENT
Mar 21, 2017
$83.650
Stock price when the opinion was issued
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The stock has run up recently after buying Discover, a major payment network that issues its own cards, but also processes payments. Visa and Mastercard don't do both. COF can scale up to a global payments platform. There's a prediction of a $7-10 billion share buyback after an internal review. Sells at a cheap 11x 2026 PE vs. AmEx's 20x PE. This has a lot more room to run.
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You have to start with a top-down analysis. Do you like financials? He can make a great case that financials will be much higher 5-10 years down the road. Remember, this is one sector that has never come back from the peaks that they held before the 2008 subprime crisis, so valuations generally are low. Also, it is one of the few groups that can benefit from higher interest rates. He feels this one has an excellent franchise. They are with the credit cards which is a growing way people pay worldwide. They also have some great individual banks.