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By Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA October 19, 2006 - The Motley Fool.comOne nice thing about owning US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) is that you know you won't blow up when it reports earnings. Unlike other money-center banks such as JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Citigroup (NYSE: C), it won't make dumb loans to a risky country, nor will it be involved in a hedge-fund trade that went bad, nor will it grow
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA 1154 days ago
By Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA September 12, 2006 - The Motley Fool Jos. A. Bank (Nasdaq: JOSB) has reported its second-quarter numbers, and they aren't good -- they're great! To start with, sales were up 20.8%, and gross and operating margins improved, mainly driven by maturation of the company's fairly new store base. But the Jos. A. Bank story is not about growth -- it always had plenty of
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA 1158 days ago
Walgreens (WAG) comments on Wal-Mart (WMT) "will put them out of business strategy" on the company conference call: For the 291 drugs that Wal-Mart will sell for $4, the average co-pay at Walgreens is $5.30 and for Medicare Part D patients it’s only $3.18. Wal-Mart’s program covers less than 300 generic medications while Walgreens pharmacies’ stock has about 1800 different generics. Over the
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson, CFA 1158 days ago
By Vitaliy Katsenelson September 22, 2006 - Financial Times Are low oil prices good for the US economy? Of course. But are they good for retail stocks? That depends on the retailer, and on the mental account that consumer spending is coming from. A “mental account” is not a new form of a cheque or savings account. Rather, the term comes from behavioural finance – a relatively new science that
