Visa, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mastercard, and Bank of America are the five Financial stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Financial stocks are shares of companies that provide financial services, such as banks, insurers, investment firms, and payment companies. Investors often track them as a sector because their performance can be influenced by interest rates, lending activity, and the broader economy. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Financial stocks within the last several days.
Visa (V)
Visa Inc. operates as a payment technology company in the United States and internationally. The company operates VisaNet, a transaction processing network that enables authorization, clearing, and settlement of payment transactions. It also offers credit, debit, and prepaid card products; tap to pay, tokenization, and click to pay services; Visa Direct, a solution that facilitates the delivery of funds to eligible cards, deposit accounts, and digital wallets; Visa B2B Connect, a multilateral business-to-business cross-border payments network; Visa Cross-Border Solution, a cross-border consumer payments solution; and Visa DPS that provides a range of value-added services, including fraud mitigation, dispute management, data analytics, campaign management, a suite of digital solutions, and contact center services.
Shares of NYSE V traded up $0.17 during trading on Friday, reaching $422.76. 9,219,148 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 7,230,078. The company has a quick ratio of 0.99, a current ratio of 0.97 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.54. Visa has a 52-week low of $293.89 and a 52-week high of $442.23. The stock has a market capitalization of $754.39 billion, a PE ratio of 34.29, a P/E/G ratio of 1.80 and a beta of 0.80. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $385.86 and a 200-day simple moving average of $344.69.
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Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B)
Berkshire Hathaway Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the insurance, freight rail transportation, and utility businesses worldwide. The company provides property, casualty, life, accident, and health insurance and reinsurance; and operates railroad systems in North America. It also generates, transmits, stores, and distributes electricity from natural gas, coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal sources; operates natural gas distribution and storage facilities, interstate pipelines, liquefied natural gas facilities, and compressor and meter stations; and holds interest in coal mining assets.
Shares of NYSE BRK.B traded down $1.55 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $570.78. 5,411,446 shares of the company's stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 4,946,795. The firm has a fifty day moving average of $521.74 and a 200 day moving average of $497.87. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.22 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 2.18 and a beta of 0.58. Berkshire Hathaway has a 1 year low of $464.01 and a 1 year high of $586.30.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a financial holding company, which engages in the provision of financial and investment banking services. It focuses on investment banking, financial services for consumers and small businesses, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. It operates through the following segments: Consumer and Community Banking (CCB), Commercial and Investment Bank (CIB), Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), and Corporate.
Shares of JPM traded down $2.67 during mid-day trading on Friday, reaching $334.67. The stock had a trading volume of 7,818,025 shares, compared to its average volume of 7,385,424. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.31, a quick ratio of 0.85 and a current ratio of 0.85. The business has a fifty day moving average of $341.87 and a 200 day moving average of $323.78. The firm has a market cap of $888.75 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.04, a PEG ratio of 1.32 and a beta of 1.03. JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a 12 month low of $279.10 and a 12 month high of $366.50.
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Mastercard (MA)
Mastercard Incorporated, a technology company, provides transaction processing and other payment-related products and services in the United States and internationally. The company offers integrated products and value-added services for account holders, merchants, financial institutions, digital partners, businesses, governments, and other organizations, such as programs that enable issuers to provide consumers with credits to defer payments; payment products and solutions that allow its customers to access funds in deposit and other accounts; prepaid programs services; and commercial credit, debit, and prepaid payment products and solutions.
Shares of Mastercard stock traded down $2.47 on Friday, hitting $653.45. 3,293,628 shares of the company traded hands, compared to its average volume of 3,540,388. The stock has a market capitalization of $572.43 billion, a P/E ratio of 34.18, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.84 and a beta of 0.78. The business has a 50-day simple moving average of $593.15 and a 200 day simple moving average of $539.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.29, a quick ratio of 1.01 and a current ratio of 1.01. Mastercard has a 52 week low of $464.52 and a 52 week high of $681.99.
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Bank of America (BAC)
Bank of America Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and financial products and services for individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, institutional investors, large corporations, and governments worldwide. It operates in four segments: Consumer Banking, Global Wealth & Investment Management (GWIM), Global Banking, and Global Markets.
NYSE BAC traded down $0.22 during trading on Friday, hitting $49.54. 36,218,043 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 43,946,860. The company has a market capitalization of $341.82 billion, a P/E ratio of 11.77, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.87 and a beta of 1.19. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $55.24 and a 200-day simple moving average of $54.89. The company has a quick ratio of 0.82, a current ratio of 0.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.17. Bank of America has a 12-month low of $46.12 and a 12-month high of $65.22.
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