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Capital One (COF) Sees Q1 Operating GAAP EPS of $2.50, Inclusive of $1.15 Gain

March 14, 2012 4:54 PM EDT
Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF) issued an updated outlook for Q112, seeing operating EPS of at least $2.50 on a GAAP basis.

Excluding a $600 million gain on the item listed below, that EPS should be about $1.35.

The Street sees $1.37.

n March 13, 2012, the Company was informed that the Federal Reserve had no objection to the capital actions contained in the Company’s capital plan submitted under CCAR. The Company announced two strategic acquisitions in 2011 and the expectation that it would raise common equity capital in support of each acquisition. As a result, as part of its capital plan for CCAR, the Company included a $1.25 billion common equity raise by the end of the second quarter of 2012. On March 14, 2012, the Company issued a press release announcing an underwritten public offering of $1.25 billion of its common stock. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC are acting as book-running managers for the offering. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to fund a portion of its previously announced acquisition of the HSBC U.S. credit card business.


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