Hottest Financial Stocks Now – PFG HMN SIGI FBP
by Portfolio Grader | April 25, 2014 1:00 pm
Financial stocks fell broadly on Wall Street on Friday morning, with the sector seeing an overall decline of 0.6%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5%, the Nasdaq was down 0.7% and the S&P 500 declined 0.5%.
Some of the biggest gainers among financial stocks include:
- Principal Financial Group Inc (PFG[1]): PFG stock is up 3.7% today.
- Horace Mann Educators Corp (HMN[2]): HMN stock is up 2.3% today.
- Selective Insurance Group (SIGI[3]): SIGI stock is up 2.9% today.
- First Bancorp (FBP[4]): FBP stock is up 1.4% today.
- Bbva Banco Frances S.A. (BFR[5]): BFR stock is up 0.5%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
- General Electric Company (GE[6]): GE stock is up 0.8% today.
- First Midwest Bancorp (FMBI[7]): FMBI stock is up 0.7%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Old Republic International Corp (ORI[8]): ORI stock is up 0.7% today.
- Central Fund of Canada (CEF[9]): CEF stock is up 0.6% today.
Some of the biggest losers among financial stocks include:
- Federated Investors (FII[10]): FII stock is down 4.5% today.
- Reinsurance Group of America Inc (RGA[11]): RGA stock is down 4.0% today.
- Shinhan Financial Group Co Ltd (SHG[12]): SHG stock is down 4.0%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Visa Inc (V[13]): V stock is down 3.8% today.
- Mastercard Inc (MA[14]): MA stock is down 3.2% today.
- Chubb Corp (CB[15]): CB stock is down 3.0% today.
- National Bank of Greece Sa (NBG[16]): NBG stock is down 2.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Flagstar Bancorp (FBC[17]): FBC stock is down 2.4%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Wisdomtree Invstmnts (WETF[18]): WETF stock is down 2.0% today.
- The Blackstone Group L.P. (BX[19]): BX stock is down 2.5%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
Endnotes:
- PFG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PFG
- HMN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMN
- SIGI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SIGI
- FBP: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FBP
- BFR: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BFR
- GE: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=GE
- FMBI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FMBI
- ORI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ORI
- CEF: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CEF
- FII: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FII
- RGA: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RGA
- SHG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=SHG
- V: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=V
- MA: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MA
- CB: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CB
- NBG: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=NBG
- FBC: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=FBC
- WETF: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=WETF
- BX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=BX
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