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What: Shares of prepaid bank card issuer NetSpend Holdings
So what: Chalk it up the volatile nature of banking to the unbanked. Last month, both NetSpend and peer Green Dot
Now what: But that vision is getting blurrier by the day. NetSpend's revenue rose 16% to $80.8 million, while adjusted profit increased a penny to $0.11 a share. Analysts were expecting $81 million and $0.12 a share, respectively.
Most of the per-share gains were lost to dilution as NetSpend's share count ballooned 8% from last year's Q1. Cash from operations declined over the same period. Both are bad signs -- more than enough to keep me away from this stock.
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