Friday, October 25, 2013

U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB)

U.S. Bancorp, a financial services holding company, provides a range of financial services in the United States. Its services include lending and depository services, cash management, capital market, and trust and investment management services. The company also engages in credit card services, merchant and ATM processing, mortgage banking, insurance, brokerage, and leasing. Its lending services include traditional credit products, as well as credit card services, leasing, financing and import/export trade, asset-backed lending, agricultural finance, and other products. The company's depository services comprise checking accounts, savings accounts, and time certificate contracts. It also offers ancillary services, such as capital market, treasury management, and receivable lock-box collection services to corporate customers; and a range of asset management and fiduciary services for individuals, estates, foundations, business corporations, and charitable organizations. In addition, the company provides Visa corporate and purchasing card services, and corporate trust services.
To review Bancorp's stock, please take a look at the 1-year chart of USB (U.S. Bancorp) below with my added notations:
1-year chart of USB (U.S. Bancorp) USB has been trading mostly sideways for the last 3 or 4 months. Over that period of time, the stock has formed a resistance area around $37.50 (red), In addition, the stock has also created a strong level of support at $35.50 (blue). At some point the stock will have to break one of those two levels.

The Tale of the Tape: USB has identifiable levels of support and resistance. The possible long positions on the stock would be either on a pullback to $35.50, or on a solid close above $37.50. The ideal short opportunities would be on a break below $35.50.
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