Downey Financial Corp. (DSL)

olenoides (98.70) Submitted: 10/08/07 1:05 AM : Start Price: $58.73 DSL Score: 76.81

Investment portfolio loaded with Option ARMS 85%+ of which are in California, on the the epicenters of the real estate meltdown. In August their non performing assets on their portfolio was 1.96% up from .32% only a year ago. The current trend over...

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EMG114 (96.41) Submitted: 5/18/08 7:17 PM : Start Price: $10.20 DSL Score: 64.37

This company provides financial services and it's also related to real estate industry. Because of this, it is expected this stock to go down since there were directly affected by the economic slowdown. They also reported losses on loans as of April ...

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DemonDoug (99.98) Submitted: 2/18/07 12:26 PM : Start Price: $69.31 DSL Score: 82.98

How many subprime lenders are there in this country? Yeesh.

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anchak (84.84) Submitted: 6/17/08 11:03 PM : Start Price: $4.33 DSL Score: 33.15

Additions today 6/18/2008
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Downey as I estimated ( based on their recent 8K filings - showing growth in NPAs) will probably end up at around 20% of assets. That about 2.5BN+ in NPAs..... about $500 MM short fron Net tangible Capi...

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CubsBearsBulls43 (99.47) Submitted: 3/14/07 10:52 AM : Start Price: $60.84 DSL Score: 87.15

On the face of it, this is a strong company and a nice value stock. Nice sales and profit growth trends. Price/value at only 1.22. P/E of about 8. However, those last two statistics also may foretell of ominous things about to happen to the mortgage...

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iamamartin (98.71) Submitted: 6/18/07 3:51 PM : Start Price: $69.20 DSL Score: 78.81

Hung by their own words





(taken from their public statements)





$8.6 Billion in Neg Am loans (with negative amortization as of 31 March 2007)





May 31 2006 = 0.23% non performing ...

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hansthered0 (28.09) Submitted: 6/22/08 10:28 PM : Start Price: $4.43 DSL Score: 36.26

everyday...I cant argue with his logic and research

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locosuerte (97.33) Submitted: 10/10/06 4:56 PM : Start Price: $67.39 DSL Score: 89.77

Downey is over-exposed to high risk mortgages. If real estate goes down and interest rates go up, expect this stock to suffer.

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moodyszero (89.86) Submitted: 1/31/08 11:42 PM : Start Price: $34.29 DSL Score: 83.90

Only reason it ever goes up is short selling -- what kind of bank is that?

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Scholes40 (74.26) Submitted: 5/28/08 4:51 PM : Start Price: $8.21 DSL Score: 59.63

Investment portfolio loaded with Option ARMS 85%+ of which are in California, on the the epicenters of the real estate meltdown. Oh, and most of their retained loans are Option-ARMs - the worst possible kind. With real estate's major crash...people ...

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