Discover Financial Loans Rise 4%
July 19 2016 - 5:50PM
Dow Jones News
Discover Financial Services said total loans rose 4% to $71.9
billion in the second quarter, reflecting growth in credit-card
lending as well as other categories such as student loans.
Profit rose 3% to $616 million, a figure that included a
nonrecurring tax benefit of $44 million.
Earnings per share rose to $1.47, including a tax benefit of 11
cents, from $1.33 a year earlier. Analysts polled by Thomson
Reuters had projected $1.42. Such estimates typically exclude
nonrecurring items.
Shares rose 2 cents to $57 in after-hours trading.
In January, Chief Executive David Nelms set a target to increase
total loans by between 4% and 6% in 2016.
Shares of Discover and other card companies fell when store-card
issuer Synchrony Financial increased its credit-loss forecast on
June 14. Last Friday, Discover said its delinquency rate in June
was 1.6%, flat with a year ago.
On June 29, Discover said the Federal Reserve had no objections
to its capital plan, which includes a dividend increase to 30 cents
from 28 cents and up to $1.95 billion of stock buybacks through
June 2017.
Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 19, 2016 17:35 ET (21:35 GMT)
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