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DISCOVER FINL SVCS (NYSE)
DFS 13.03 0.27 (2.12%) Vol.  4,938,137 16:03 ET

Day Low - High 12.77 - 13.18
52wk Low - High 4.73 - 17.36
Avg Volume 7,737,459
Industry FIN-CONS LOANS
Market Cap 6.94 B
Div - Yield 0.08 - 0.63
PE (forward) 18.64
PEG Ratio 2.43
Current Year Est. .68
EPS Last Year 0.10
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BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS
Current ABR 2.17
ABR (Last Week) 2.17
# of Recs in ABR 18
Average Target Price 16.53
Industry Rank by ABR 61 out of 217
Rank in Industry 6 out of 13
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Dec 24, 2009
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Dec 18, 2009
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NEWS
SmarTrend research report available on Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS)
Feb 08, 2010
Discover Financial Services Downward Momentum Looks to Continue (DFS)
Feb 03, 2010
Critical Alerts for Apple, Continental Airlines, News Corp, Avon Products, and Discover Financial Released by Seven Summits Research
Feb 03, 2010
Discover(R) U.S. Spending Monitor(SM) Rises 2.2 Points in January
Feb 03, 2010
Visa, MasterCard: Earnings Preview - TheStreet.com
Feb 03, 2010
Discover Introduces Interactive Tool That Helps Applicants Build Their Own Card
Feb 02, 2010
American Express: Financial Winners & Losers - TheStreet.com
Feb 02, 2010
Donations Are Saving Small & Big Biz - MainStreet
Jan 28, 2010
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EARNINGS ESTIMATES
  This Quarter
02/2010
Next Quarter
05/2010
This Year
11/2010
Next Year
11/2011
Average Estimate 0.10 0.14 0.68 1.35
Number of Estimates 17 16 18 19
Low Estimates 0.03 0.06 0.26 0.85
High Estimate 0.20 0.27 1.05 1.75
Year Ago EPS -0.36 -0.18 0.08 0.68
EPS Growth 128.59% 180.21% 755.56% 96.70%

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Discover Financial Services operates the Discover Card with more than fifty million cardmembers, the Discover Network with millions of merchant and cash access locations, and the Goldfish credit card business in the United Kingdom. Discover Financial Services also operates the pulse ATM/debit network, which serves more than four thousand four hundred financial institutions and includes nearly two lakhs sixty thousand ATMs, as well as POS terminals, nationwide.

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FINANCIALS
EPS TTM .1
Sales 10378.75
Net Income 1277.78
Price/Earnings 127.6
Price/Book .95
Price/Cash Flow 42.12
Price/Sales .86


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