Capital One Financial News

What started out many, many, many years ago as a kind of small credit card company has blossomed into a full-fledged financial services company going well beyond cards, assisting like auto and retail and Commercial Banking and really accelerating its business growth over the last 2 years with a couple of acquisitions, including ING Direct U.S.A.

Capital One Bank has closed an Alexandria branch and is plotting a new NoMa location.

Citron Research says World Acceptance a 'sub-sub-sub-prime investment' A report from Citron Research highlights a piece by ProPublica that documents, "how [World Acceptance ] is engaged in systemic fraud by forcing customers to buy credit insurance." Citron's report says the CFPB has brought actions against Capital One and Discover over the same ... (more)

Studies show that stocks bought by insiders outperform the market, with a somewhat stronger effect for stocks bought by multiple insiders .

USB's shares closed at $33.49 Friday, returning just 5% this year, compared to a return of 14% for the KBW Bank Index .

Some big names taking the podium/stage/backward-facing chair this week. Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris, also managing partner at QED Investors, gives a fireside chat at Startup Grind.

Sitting in his office at Capital One Bank in Plano, it's not hard to think that Sanjiv Yajnik has it all.

The Attorney General of New Mexico has sued Capital One Financial Corp. over the sale of payment-protection and credit-monitoring products to credit-card customers, the latest in a string of suits brought by state regulators targeting lenders' marketing practices.

Citigroup Inc recently bought Best Buy Co Inc's card portfolio from Capital One Financial Corp for $7 billion dollars.

A number of other analysts have also recently weighed in on COF. Analysts at TheStreet reiterated a "buy" rating on shares of Capital One in a research note to investors on Monday, April 29th.

Dresser-Rand Group Inc. , with one of the best sales outlooks among makers of oilfield equipment, is turning into a takeover candidate for buyers such as Siemens AG , National Oilwell Varco Inc.

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's stock had its "outperform" rating reiterated by equities research analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein in a research note issued to investors on Friday, Analyst Ratings.Net reports.

Capital One declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 2nd, Analyst Ratings Network reports.

In announcing first-quarter results last week, some auto lenders struck a conservative tone, saying they would leave it to competitors to grow quickly by loosening approval standards.

As the saying goes, there are many possible reasons for an insider to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy -- they expect to make money.

The directors of a company tend to have a unique inside view into the business, so when directors make major buys, investors are wise to take notice.

's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by investment analysts at TheStreet in a note issued to investors on Monday, Stock Ratings Network reports.

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The firm currently has a $60.00 target price on the stock. Zacks' analyst wrote, "We are upgrading our recommendation on Capital One to Neutral to reflect better-than-expected first-quarter earnings.