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$7.63 -0.62 (-7.52%)
8/29/2008 4:00 PM

Advanta Corp. (ADVNB)

CAPS Rating:
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The Company is a credit card issuer in the small business market. It issues business purpose credit cards to small businesses and business professionals.

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Total Members

123 Outperforms
17 Underperforms
 

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7 Underperforms
 

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Ticker Tags

Micro Cap (4824), Credit Services (49), Credit Card (10)
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Advanta Corp. At A Glance

Current Price: $7.63
Last Trade Time: 8/29/2008 4:00 PM
Open: $8.19
Previous Close: $8.25
Daily Range: $7.48 - $8.19
52-Week Range: $6.01 - $29.95
Volume: 634,891
Market Cap: $258.33M
P/E Ratio: 6.50
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Top Bull Pitch

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Advanta Corp. (ADVNB)

Avatar wallypk1 (60.38) Submitted: 6/23/08 2:45 PM

Advanta is in the banking business but concentrates on Master Card for businesses rather than for individuals. The company lends to two hundred business qroups on forty sectors. The company was originally formed in 1951 as Teachers Service Organization, Inc. but changed its name to TSO and finally i...More

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Advanta Corp. (ADVNB)

Avatar OOji (100.00) Submitted: 5/17/08 4:46 PM

Shackled by the gap at $7.50

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Avatar TheSmartMoney (54.68) Submitted: 8/28/08 1:50 PM : Outperform Start Price: $8.11 ADVNB Score: -5.08

Advanta is a well run company with a focus on small business. The current P/E of 6.17 and Dividend of 10.84% makes it a value play worth looking at. The dividends have been steady and give a nice reward while waiting on the stock to appreciate.

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Avatar GS751 (89.74) Submitted: 8/13/08 11:26 AM : Underperform Start Price: $7.29 ADVNB Score: -4.00

Massive amount of credit card receivables, oh yeah their delinquency rates are going up.

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Avatar ArmChairQB (< 20) Submitted: 8/07/08 3:25 PM : Outperform Start Price: $7.46 ADVNB Score: 0.65

I like the A shares but CAPS will not let it be picked. Good company with a nice dividend.

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Avatar Dragontoad2 (93.35) Submitted: 7/06/08 7:33 PM : Outperform Start Price: $6.30 ADVNB Score: 19.54

below book, attractive P/E, doing fine

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Avatar wallypk1 (60.38) Submitted: 6/23/08 2:45 PM : Outperform Start Price: $7.30 ADVNB Score: 6.64

Advanta is in the banking business but concentrates on Master Card for businesses rather than for individuals. The company lends to two hundred business qroups on forty sectors. The company was originally formed in 1951 as Teachers Service Organization, Inc. but changed its name to TSO and finally in 1988, to Advanta. The company is headquartered in Spring House, PA.

As of Monday, June 23, 2008, the stock price was $7.55 / share. In 2007, the stock price was as high as $33.00 / share, more than four times what it is now, yet the company is doing quite well. The last reported Earnings per share was $1.00 and Advanta pays an annual dividend of $.70 / share for a dividend yield of 9%.

Although Advanta has had its stock price beaten down along with the others financials, they are actually in a slightly different business from most of them and not subject to exactly the same problems. Advanta's P/E is only 5.1! I expect the stock to rebound within the next year to about double todays price and climb from there.

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