Where the Money Is 01.24.14
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
We chat with Motley Fool co-founder David Garnder. Join Motley Fool analysts Matt Koppenheffer and David Hanson as they discuss earnings from Discover and First Niagara, look ahead to next week, and answer a question on valuing asset management stocks.
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| 0:00.0 | Stocks keep going down as earnings keep rolling in, but you're in the right place because this is where the money is. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the show. It is Friday and if you've been watching stocks fall all week it's been |
| 0:17.2 | horrible it's been a bloodbath is this t.g I for what I guess so bad week I didn't |
| 0:22.3 | even realize until I saw the headline today it's |
| 0:24.4 | Friday which were almost a week out from the whole Richard Sherman thing but |
| 0:30.3 | people were still talking about this do you have anything, should people still be talking about, |
| 0:34.4 | do you have anything that you want to add |
| 0:36.2 | to the Richard Sherman debate? |
| 0:37.9 | Only the fact that I'm probably going to end |
| 0:40.3 | this podcast and video with a similar rant at you. |
| 0:44.0 | Don't try to bring a sorry analyst back up whatever. |
| 0:46.4 | That's the result you're going to get. |
| 0:48.2 | Whoa, whoa, that's brutal. |
| 0:49.8 | All right, on that note, let's get to the headlines for today. We're starting off with an earnings mash up here. |
| 0:55.4 | We've got a few earnings we're going to touch on right here. |
| 0:58.4 | Discover came out with earnings, E-Trade, in First Niagara. Let's kick it off with Discover. |
| 1:04.0 | David, the thing that jumps out at me here is that Discover is essentially a bank. |
| 1:09.0 | Most of its income, the vast vast majority is coming in through net interest income. |
| 1:15.0 | Investors don't think about this as a bank though, but when you look at the fact that it's got a 24% |
| 1:20.0 | return on equity, 3.2% return on assets over the past 12 months, |
| 1:25.0 | and a wicked low efficiency ratio, |
| 1:27.0 | if people were looking at this as a bank, |
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