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Updated Aug 26, 2026 11:16 AM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.80%
2Buy18.13%
3Hold10.19%
4Sell5.73%
5Strong Sell3.17%
S&P50011.53%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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C Value F Growth C Momentum F VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 25% (62 out of 247)

Industry: Financial - Consumer Loans

Zacks News

Zacks Equity Research

Sallie Mae (SLM) Beats Q3 Earnings and Revenue Estimates

Sallie Mae (SLM) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 16.00% and 1.88%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2019. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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Finance Stock Q3 Earnings Roster for Oct 23: NDAQ, GL & More

A low interest rate regime, moderate economic growth, slowdown in other global economies might have dampened earnings for Finance stocks in Q3.

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Sallie Mae (SLM) Earnings Expected to Grow: What to Know Ahead of Next Week's Release

Sallie Mae (SLM) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

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Trading, Global Woes to Mar Morgan Stanley (MS) Q3 Earnings

Morgan Stanley's (MS) Q3 results are likely to reflect adverse impact from slump in trading activities, weak investment banking and lower interest rates.

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Will Low Rates, Muted Lending Hurt BB&T's (BBT) Q3 Earnings?

Decline in interest rates along with soft loan growth are likely to have negatively impacted BB&T's (BBT) interest income in the third quarter of 2019.

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Muted Lending, Low Rates to Hurt SunTrust's (STI) Q3 Earnings

Decline in interest rates along with muted loan growth are likely to have hurt SunTrust's (STI) interest income growth in the third quarter of 2019.

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Muted Lending, Lower Rates to Hurt KeyCorp (KEY) Q3 Earnings

KeyCorp's (KEY) Q3 earnings are likely to reflect dismal lending scenario, lower interest rates and higher costs. However, improvement in mortgage banking business is likely to have offered support.

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Can Modest Asset Growth Aid BNY Mellon (BK) in Q3 Earnings?

While lower rates are likely to have hurt BNY Mellon's (BK) net interest revenues in the third quarter of 2019, asset growth is likely to have positively impacted investment management and performance fees.

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Is a Beat in Store for Ally Financial (ALLY) in Q3 Earnings?

Owing to a decline in used-vehicle prices, Ally Financial's (ALLY) lease revenues are expected to have been adversely impacted in the third quarter of 2019.

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Will Lower Interest Rates Hurt Schwab (SCHW) in Q3 Earnings?

Schwab's (SCHW) interest revenues in the third quarter are likely to have been adversely impacted by the recent decline in rates.