Showing posts with label rebound play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rebound play. Show all posts

Monday, June 30, 2008

ETrade Announces Debt Reduction

ETrade announced it reduced debt in the second quarter by 95.8 million $, brining its year-to-date total debt reduction to 155.8 million $. They expect risk based capital to be near 1 billion $ by years end (MarketWatch link here). I feel strongly about this stock for the following reasons:
1. Back to Basics (retail unit) and sale of retail mortgage unit
2. Strong insider buying
3. improving financials/reduction in losses
4. current price.
5. Victim of a selling frenzy

I feel Etrade is a good rebound play when the market recovers in the next year or so. I think it was caught in the selling frenzy of the subprime crisis and is undervalued. Insider buying is always a strong indicator of price momentum, as an insider only buys stock when he/she believes the price will INCREASE. Plus who better to value the company than the people on the inside.