EdgeWater 10/21/2010 10:34:27 PM
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Financial Stock Movers after Earnings (JNS, STI, PNC)

Financial Stock Movers after Earnings

Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE:JNS) fell 5.03% to $10.95. The company said Thursday it had a third-quarter profit of $32.5 million, or 18 cents a share, compared to $8.2 million, or 5 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue at the firm was $243.8 million, up from $227.6 million.

Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research were expecting, on average, profit of 16 cents a share on revenue of $240.4 million.

Over the past 52-week, the stock had traded within the range of $8.63-$16.06 and is down more than 18% year-to-date.

SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE:STI) went up 4.32% to $26.55. The company swung to a third-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders of $84 million, or 17 cents a share, against a loss of $377 million, or 76 cents in the year-ago period.

A survey of analysts polled by FactSet Research was calling for the company to earn 17 cents per share.

The stock opened at $26.05 and has a 52-week range of $18.45-$32.02. In the past one month of trading sessions, the stock went up more than 2%.

PNC Financial Services (NYSE:PNC) added 1.93% to $53.76. The company said Thursday that its third-quarter net profit attributable to common shareholders more than doubled to $1.09 billion, or $2.07 a share, from $467 million, or $1.00 a share, a year earlier.

Analysts polled by FactSet Research had expected earnings of $1.57 a share on revenue of $3.77 billion.

The stock went up more than 1% year-to-date.

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