With the Financial Select Sector SPDR
With that in mind, I used our new CAPS screening tool to find the most attractive stocks in the financial sector.
They also have:
- Market capitalizations greater than $1 billion.
- At least 300 active picks.
- Five-star ratings, the highest possible, from our CAPS community.
Remember, in the first year for which we have data, CAPS' five-star companies outperformed the market with an average gain of nearly 28%.
Company |
Share Price |
Market Cap (in billions) |
---|---|---|
AFLAC |
$66.23 |
$31.5 |
Banco Bradesco |
$23.00 |
$70.6 |
Banco Itau |
$27.96 |
$67.0 |
CapitalSource |
$14.94 |
$3.5 |
E-House |
$16.27 |
$1.3 |
ICICI Bank |
$42.45 |
$23.6 |
Lloyds TSB |
$32.67 |
$46.0 |
Markel |
$405.99 |
$4.0 |
National Bank of Greece |
$10.57 |
$25.2 |
NYSE Euronext |
$70.61 |
$18.7 |
Data from Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance as of May 13.
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