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Discover Financial Services(DFS)

Description: Discover Financial Services, a bank holding company, provides direct banking and payment services in the United States. It operates in two segments, Direct Banking and Payment Services. The Direct Banking segment offers Discover card-branded credit cards to individuals and small businesses on the Discover Network. This segment also provides other consumer banking products and services, including private student loans, personal loans, home loans, and prepaid cards; and other consumer lending and deposit products, such as certificates of deposit, money market accounts, online savings accounts, and individual retirement account certificates of deposit. The Payment Services segment operates PULSE, an automated teller machine, debit, and electronic funds transfer network; and Diners Club, a global payments network, as well as a network partners business, which includes credit, debit, and prepaid cards issued on the Discover Network by third parties. Discover Financial Services has a strategic alliance Network International LLC that will allow acceptance of Mercury Network Cards on Discover, Diners Club International, and PULSE networks for international purchases and cash access outside of the United Arab Emirates. The company was incorporated in 1960 and is based in Riverwoods, Illinois.


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Home Page: www.discover.com

DFS Technical Analysis

2500 Lake Cook Road
Riverwoods, IL 60015
United States
Phone: 224 405 0900


Officers

Name Title
Mr. Roger Crosby Hochschild CEO, Pres & Director
Mr. John Thomas Greene Exec. VP & CFO
Mr. Carlos M. Minetti Exec. VP & Pres of Consumer Banking
Ms. Diane E. Offereins Exec. VP & Pres of Payment Services
Mr. Daniel Peter Capozzi Exec. VP & Pres of US Cards
Ms. Shifra Kolsky Chief Accounting Officer, Sr. VP & Controller
Mr. Amir S. Arooni Exec. VP & Chief Information Officer
Mr. R. Andrew Eichfeld Exec. VP and Chief HR & Admin. Officer
Mr. Eric Edmund Wasserstrom Head of Investor Relations
Ms. Leslie Sutton VP of Corp. Communications

Exchange: NYSE

Country: US : United States of America

Currency: US Dollar ($)

GIC Sector: Financials
GIC Group: Diversified Financials
GIC Industry: Consumer Finance
GIC Sub-Industry: Consumer Finance
Forward PE: 7.2464
Trailing PE: 6.8029
Price-to-Book MRQ: 2.1364
Price-to-Sales TTM: 2.5011
IPO Date: 2007-07-02
Fiscal Year End: December
Full Time Employees: 16700
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