During 2018 Q4 the big money sentiment increased to 0.81. That’s change of 0.01, from 2018Q3’s 0.8. 61 investors sold all, 259 reduced holdings as DFS ratio increased. 190 increased stakes while 69 funds amassed stakes. Funds hold 277.98 million shares thus 0.83% less from 2018Q3’s 280.30 million shares. Private Ocean Ltd Limited Liability Company owns 150 shs. Nuveen Asset Mgmt Ltd, a Illinois-based fund reported 340,353 shs. Wealthtrust Fairport Limited Liability Co holds 0% or 222 shs in its capital. Rmb Cap stated it has 4,667 shs. Corsair Management Limited Partnership reported 14,292 shs or 0.27% of all its holdings. Mariner Lc invested in 20,680 shs or 0.02% of the stock. 13,724 were accumulated by Raymond James Tru Na. Palladium Ltd Liability Corporation reported 221,980 shs. Comml Bank Of Montreal Can holds 2.67 million shs. Walleye Trading Ltd Co reported 0% of its capital in Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS). F&V Cap Mgmt Ltd Liability Co has 4,677 shs. Burns J W And Com holds 0.13% or 7,691 shs. Motco invested in 156 shs. Perkins Coie Tru invested in 568 shs. Transamerica Advsrs Inc has invested 0% in Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS).

According to 2018Q4 Securities and Exchange filling the Boston Partners reduced its stake in Discover Finl Svcs (DFS) by 2.02%. By selling 255,588 shares Boston Partners made the stock sank with 0.85%. At the end of 2018Q4, the 12.42M shares of the consumer services company held by the institutional investor were priced at $732.58 million, down from 12.68M at the end of the previous reported quarter. Discover Finl Svcs has $25.09 billion MC. DFS touched $76.9 during the last trading session after $1.09 change.Discover Financial Services has volume of 1.22 million shares. Since April 16, 2018 DFS has declined 5.01% and is downtrending. DFS underperformed by 9.38% the S&P 500.

About $53.18 billion and $69.59 billion US Long portfolio Boston Partners manages. It increased its stake in United Finl Bancorp Inc New (NASDAQ:UBNK) by 372,328 shares to 965,558 shares, valued at $14.19 million in 2018Q4, according to the filing. For a total of 2.05 million shares it increased its holding in Prologis Inc (NYSE:PLD) by 52,143 shares in the quarter, and has risen its stake in Expedia Group Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE).

On April, 25. Investors wait Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) to publish its quarterly earnings, Faxor reports. Analysts forecast $2.01 earnings per share, which is $0.19 up or 10.44 % from 2018’s $1.82 earnings per share. If the current earnings per share of $2.01 is accurate, DFS’s profit could be $655.75 million. Wall Street now predicts -0.99 % negative EPS growth despite Discover Financial Services last quarter’s EPS of $2.03.

More recent Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) news were published by Businesswire.com, Seekingalpha.com and Fool.com. The first one has “Discover Extends Relationship with Global Payments to Increase Acceptance in Hong Kong and Taiwan – Business Wire” as a title and was published on April 12, 2019. The next is “All 14 financial firms pass Fed, FDIC’s “living will” evaluation – Seeking Alpha” on March 29, 2019. And last was published on April 02, 2019, called “Better Buy: PayPal vs. Discover – The Motley Fool”.

Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) Ratings Coverage

A total of 4 analysts rate Discover Financial (NYSE:DFS) as follows: 2 “Buy”, 2 “Hold” and 0 “Sell”. Тherefore 50% are bullish. (NYSE:DFS) has 4 ratings reports on Apr 16, 2019 according to StockzIntelligence. On Thursday, November 1 the stock of Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) earned “Neutral” rating by Citigroup. On Friday, October 26 the stock of Discover Financial Services (NYSE:DFS) earned “Market Perform” rating by Wells Fargo. The company rating was maintained by JMP Securities on Thursday, April 4. The company rating was maintained by Morgan Stanley on Wednesday, March 6.