E*TRADE Marches Past Estimates; Shareholders March Away

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E*Trade (ETFC) posted record fourth-quarter Net Income of $177 million, or $0.40 per share; Estimate was $0.39; it posted a record fourth-quarter Total Net Revenue of $629 million; Estimate was just under $627 million.  Operating Margins were 43 percent; and it posted a record quarterly growth in Total Customer Cash and Deposits of $2.0 billion.

Its record full-year earnings were $1.44 EPS, or $1.49 excluding previously announced acquisition-related integration expenses and posted record full-year net Revenue of $2.4 billion.  It also had a record Total Retail Client Assets of $195 billion  Unfortunately the company hasn’t offered any guidance, but for a trading firm to offer guidance at the beginning of a quarter is difficult since so much of the trading and decisions are out of their control and so much is depending on the stock market.

Wall Street isn’t happy enough with these numbers either.  Shares closed down 1.25% at $24.71 in regular trading, and shares are down 1.5% to $24.35.  Its 52-week trading range is $18.81 to $27.76.

Jon C. Ogg
January 18, 2007

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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