2-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: JPMorgan Chase?

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Based on the aggregated intelligence of 140,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, banking giant JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at JPMorgan's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

JPMorgan facts

Headquarters (Founded)	New York City (1823)
Market Cap	$168.1 billion
Industry	Diversified financial services
Trailing-12-Month Revenue	$62.9 billion
Management	Chairman/CEO Jamie Dimon (since 2005) CFO Michael Cavanagh (since 2004)
Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years)	6.83%
Year-to-Date Return	37.6%
Competitors	Citigroup (NYSE: C) Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) Barclays (NYSE: BCS)
CAPS Members Bearish on JPM Also Bearish on	Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS)
CAPS Members Bullish on JPM Also Bullish on	Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 17.5% of the 3,488 members who have rated JPMorgan Chase believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include texastar1 and All-Star TMFmrquakeroats, who is ranked in the top 20% of our community.

Late last week, texastar1 warned Fools that JPMorgan "is a stock that is running way ahead of itself." Our CAPS member concludes: "As the market retracts over the next few weeks and a major correction takes place, I look at JPMorgan to trade between $40 and $42 before December. A good shorting opportunity."

In a pitch from last month, TMFmrquakeroats expands on JPMorgan as an expensive bet to bank on:

CEO Jamie Dimon wrote in his letter to shareholders for 2008 that [JPMorgan] can earn $15 billion in a "normal" environment. Based on [JPMorgan's] current market cap, I'd say this stock is fairly priced based on Dimon's own estimate of normal earning power. After the huge, unsustainable parabolic run, I think this is a good point to make an under-perform call on [JPMorgan].

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