Your Credit Card Earnings Cheat Sheet


27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) got the ball rolling on October 19 for credit card issuers' reporting season with a forecast-beating performance.

The company also raised its bottom line forecasts for the year, sending shares up by over 9 percent in the next session. However, analysts took the results with a pinch of salt and instead expressed uneasiness over its lowest quarterly revenues in over five years due to the loss of Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST).

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Are the good tidings from AmEx a pointer towards the health of the rest of the credit card companies?

When They Report?

  • Mastercard Inc (NYSE: MA) – Before the market open on Friday, October 28
  • Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) – After the close on Tuesday, October 25
  • Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) – Tuesday, October 25

What Do Analysts Expect

  • Mastercard's earnings per share are likely to have increased 6.6 percent to $0.97, with revenues estimated to be up 8.5 percent at $2.75 billion.
  • Meanwhile, Capital One Financial's bottomline is expected at $1.95 per share, down 1.51 percent from $1.95 per share. This is despite revenues estimated to have risen 8.8 percent to $6.42 billion.
  • Analysts, on average, expect Discover Financial to post 7.2 percent EPS growth to $1.48 but a slower revenue growth of 3.8 percent to $2.24 billion.

27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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