CNBC Investing Club: Cramer’s Morning Take on Capital One 4/22/26
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jim Kramer here to share a short preview of my take on the market from today's |
| 0:06.5 | members-only CNBC Investing Club morning meeting. Join the club for full access to the morning |
| 0:11.7 | meeting every day at 10.20 a.m. Visit cnbc.com slash morning take to sign up today. That's one word morning tape. |
| 0:23.6 | Capital One, top and bottom line miss. Not something you want to see. There was a lot of noise, |
| 0:29.5 | though, if you back out some one-time items related to the Discover deal, it actually was pretty |
| 0:34.9 | okay. But elevated investment spending on their products |
| 0:40.4 | that's going to continue under CEO Richard Fairbank they have to integrate |
| 0:46.1 | Brex to that deal just closed credit mostly fine consumer solid a little bit of an |
| 0:51.4 | allowance build on the auto side just based off growth in that business, a little bit of a higher subprime mix. |
| 0:57.0 | They bought back $2.5 billion of stock. |
| 0:59.0 | So that was a good sign. Still have plenty of capacity to keep that going. |
| 1:04.0 | Candidly, we would be happier with an EPS beat. We do want to see that happen. |
| 1:10.0 | We want to see some of the elevated spend, you know, just more rational levels of spending. |
| 1:15.8 | We want to see the expense synergies from the Discovered deal really start to shine. |
| 1:21.1 | That's going to be a few quarters from now. |
| 1:24.2 | But the stock is still very, very cheap on earnings. Analysts were pretty constructive after the quarter here. |
| 1:29.3 | It's confusive. |
| 1:30.3 | And that's why you're seeing a stock that's actually up today. |
| 1:34.3 | Well, it was down 8% earlier. |
| 1:36.3 | I mentioned that. Now, I have to tell you, I mean, you think that Richard Fairbank, who's one and only, with capital one card, he's done a lot of things different. |
| 1:43.3 | I don't think he is as |
| 1:44.6 | attuned to the numbers, the estimates as most CEOs, like a Morgan Stanley might be or a Goldman |
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