Investopedia: Knight Capital Lives To Fight Another Day

For those who favor quick and brutal justice for market misdeeds, the travails of Knight Capital Group (NYSE:KCG) ought to offer some measure of satisfaction. While Knight's technology problem led to only about an hour of chaos in about 140 stocks, the costs to the company have been swift and severe. While Knight has secured a capital injection that will keep it in the game, the long-term viability of this business is still uncertain at best.

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Investopedia: Questions Of Success And Value At Charles Schwab

It is an unfortunate reality of investing that figuring out whether a company is top-notch is not especially helpful in figuring out whether the stock is a top candidate to buy. True, it often makes sense to own the best businesses that you can find, but the metrics that mark quality and value are not the same. 

In the case of Charles Schwab (Nasdaq:SCHW) it is not hard to argue that this is one of the best brokerage and financial service companies out there. The trick, though, is in figuring out what that quality is worth and the probable path of earnings and cash flow in the coming years. As a growth stock, it looks intriguing, but a return-to-equity valuation shows a different sort of story. 


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